WRESTLING
BRIGHT EXHIBITION MELLER BEATS CLAYBOURNE / (P.A.) DUNEDINi, August 26.In the brightest and most lively wrestling match of the season, Herb Meller defeated Jack Claybourne by two falls to one before a large audience in the Town Hall to-night. Claybourne gained an unexpected fall in the third round when, after being lifted for an aeroplane spin, he came down on top of Meller to take a fail with a body press. Meller evened in the fifth round With a fall from a double toehold. The deciding fall was gained in the seventh round with Melthe atomic drop, a variation of the chancery and bar.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 270, 27 August 1946, Page 5
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