WRESTLING.
VARGA INCAPACITATED.
CHRISTCHURCH, September 1,1
With a back loop slam in the fifth round George Walker incapacitated Varga in a professional wrestling match to-night. A moderate house ivitnessed the contest. Varga took a fall in the second round, but at all the other stages Walker appeared to have the bout in hand. He trapped Vargo in the fifth for a terrific slam and rendered him unconscious.
RUMBERG v. PEREIRA.
AUCKLAND. September 11
There avp„s plenty of action in a Avrestling contest between Hal Rumberg and Al Pereira, Rumberg Avon, by two falls to one. Several spectacular flying tackles aroused the onlookers, two of the falls obtained following a series of these attacks. Rumberg gained a fall in the third round .with a press after a partjal slam. Pereira evened in the fifth with a press after a series.of flying •tackles. Rumberg clinched the match in the succeeding round with a fall by a flying scissors.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 284, 12 September 1933, Page 2
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