ROUGH-HOUSE WRESTLING
MAMOS DISQUALIFIED. (By Telegraph.—l'ress Association.) NAPIER, this day. Rough-house tactics featured a professional wrestling uout at Napier last night in which Wong Buck Cheung (China) gained a decision over Harry Mamos (Greece). Hair-pulling, nosepulling, punching, kicking, and elbow and knee jolting were methods adopted during the contest, in which the Greek was often loudly booed, in tho seventh round Mamos came out looking for trouble, and commenced to swing punches to Wong's face and jaw, KnocKing the Chinese out. The referee then awarded the bout to Wong. Mamos in the fourth round gained a fall following a series of headlocks, but Wong equalised in the fifth with a flying body scissors.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 129, 2 June 1934, Page 17
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