WRESTLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 194, 18 August 1933, Page 11

WRESTLING.

WALKER BEATS PEREIRA. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. A packed house witnessed a fast and strenuous wrestling bout at Napier last night when George Walker defeated Al l'ereira by two falls to one. Pereira secured the first fall in the fifth round, clapping on a flying body scissors and adding an arm-bar and body press. Walker evened in the seventh round, throwing Pereira six times with headlocks, then dumping him after an aeroplane spin. Pereira was groggy in the eighth round, Walker clapping a headlock on him for a" easy fall. TOURNAMENT AT ONEHUNGA. A wrestling tournament organised by the Onehunga Relief Workers' Club was held at Onehunga last evening. Results:— T. Kenneth (Y.M.C.A.), 12.2, drew with T. Shanahan (Bayview), 12.0, no falls;'C. Anderson (Leys), 9.4, beat N. French (Leys), 0.4, by one fall with a body press; J. Young (Brighton), 10.8, won on points from A. Weaver (Bnyview), 10.12; B. Thomas (Bayview), 10.5, drew with G. Ivey (Bayview), 10.6, each obtaining a fall; C. Jones (Grafton), won on points from Kisha Bana (Grafton); F. Murphy (Sunshine), 9.12, drew with 11. Waugh (Sunshine). 9.12, each obtaining a fall; E. Bone (Broadway), 11.0, beat G. Paget (Broadway), 11.5, by a fall with a body press: F. Booth (Bavview). 9.8, drew witli H. Green (Bayview*. 9st 01b. no falls;

R, Hobbs, 9st Sib, beat L. Murphy, 9st Gib, by one fall.