HACK once said to me that probably his Favourite Era in the Golden Years of BRITISH
Wrestling was the Decade of the 1930's!
So I thought I would Assemble a Handful of Items from The VAULT for his Delectation!!
Enjoy MR. HACK and Everyone!-Just a Snapshot!!
We'll start with a Cool Flyer- Featuring JACK DALE-Wonder if he ever Considered going
into Promoting!!-AND the Incomparable HAROLD ANGUS!!
From 1937!!
MAIN MASK
Ruslan, I have more information for you. A couple of weeks ago Ron posted a poster that not only named him butalso linked him to "The famous portrait arttist." Really? Well, yes, really.
So I got rummaging around, as you do.
The Bearded Wrestler of the 1930s was Patrick O'Connor an artist born in Paris on 7th May 1909. This would place him in his mid twenties when he started wrestling the likes of Jack Pye, Douglas Clark and Francis St Clair Gregory. The family moved to the United States when war broke out, returning to Paris in 1926. He was indeed an internationally acclaimed artist with exhibitions around the world. Wrestling must have been very much a sideline, but biographical details of the artist do confirm he was indeed a wrestler in Britain, Ireland, Europe and the U.S.A. Having lived most of his adult life in the United States he settled in Britain following the death of his first wife. Patrick O'Connor died on 27th April, 1997.