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Shirley Crabtree (‘Big Daddy’) at Baths Hall

November 1959

South Yorkshire Times, November 7, 1959

Shirley Crabtree  at Baths Hall

 

Wrestling at Wombwell Baths Hall on Wednesday in the first of a series of regular promotions there by Twentieth Century Promotions Halifax, is Shirley Crabtree, Halifax (above), whose 59 ins. chest is the biggest in Europe.

Crabtree, 6ft. 2ins. In height and weighing 19 stones 8 lbs., is the British and European heavyweight wrestling champion He opposes Jim Armstrong (Leeds).