GEORGE MAKES BOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1936, Page 17

GEORGE MAKES BOW.

EASY TWO-FALL WIN.

THE WAY OF THE STRONG.

JOE WOODS IS FIRST VICTIM,

If you should chance to meet Ed. Don George, the man who beat McCready," be very civil to .him. He's a nice fellow, and you will like him a lot, but, take a tip, and keep your hands in your pockets. Don t, at any rate, try to show him what constitutes an elbow jolt. He knows, and it makes him. .wild. So "Kopak" Joe Woods found out at the Town Hall last night. See this, said Kopak, or deeds to that ?T^ eC j' a ?i i °. ne So —a good one. oods didn t have time to admire the return, he was too much engaged in hitting the mat, hard, with the back of his head Woods went back for more, and he did get one fall; but George is in the world title class, and he could have written ''finis at practically any stage of the contest. He expanded a short story into a short novel, with dump climaxes to the third and sixth chapters. Woods can take a palm for gameness, but he isn't the same class for skill. Don George may or may not be the best wrestler who has visited this Dominion, but he is certainly the finest looking, and, judging by the samples lie produced last night, the best equipped. Woods, expugilist, and tough man when it comes to the wrestling equivalent of a punch, was fast, but lie wasn't fast enough on his feet to dodge the medicine George handed out. He stood up a lot, but in the end he knew what it is like to be the mouse, in an encounter with a cat. George On Top. When George removed his dressing gown with the All-American badge on the pocket he was revealed as a magnificent figure of a a tremendous pair of shoulders- and a body that matched them. Beside his 16.6, Woods' well-built 15.4 looked small. At the start he took Woods in a yice-like reverse headlock and held him down for quite, a while. Woods broke eventually, was held again, but at last managed to throw him off and hold "a." barred rwristloclc :on "George. He was twice dumped, but held on until with a sudden, twist .George was . on •. top, holding ?a" wristlock that had' Woods groaning: Woods tried to pick George up, but had. a- head scissors applied. Woods broke with a toehold—and, oh my, oh my!" was George being hurt? And was he groaning and slapping the floor! Woods now took nip the .running with a jolt to George— ft mild one—and a headlock that was applied at the gong. . . Matters.livened in the second, and why? Well, Woods went to the mat in a Wristlock and tried to break by. pulling George's 1 hair. Then he jolted him—took a return I 4-and thenfollowed on "with a -beauty that staggered, the bigger., man. That was where George started.. ..He went, in, hard, and for a , period of minutes jolts were flying in all directions. . Woods was fighting back and the crowd were on their toes. : Twice the referee went in ■between them and twice ' they continued 1 to hand them/out,:-with' George scoring with right and left. With. Woods retreating, George followed in to toss Woods ,in a headlock, pick "him up and toss him twice more. Woods broke with a rocking chair splits, but. in a moment that was broken with a wristlook and George added a body scissors. Woods tried for a Boston, missed, and was held in a stopper that was broken under- the ropes, and Woods handed out a -further jolt. He was thrown and was in a wristlock at the gong. Four Rounds—Three Falls. The third brought real action. Woods again tried a ,:jolt. .. "All right, me lad/ 5 - says Ed. to himself, and took Woods in a head scissors. He screwed out of that and jolted again. ...Again he went down, broke with a head - Scissors and wristlock. but lost it, aricPTSey came up. Woods tried another jolt, but George came in with a flying, tackle, tumbled Woods, added a real jolt, picked him, up and knocked him down again. Again Woods was elevated to be dumped hard and a fall taken with a press. Woods' seconds went in to help him up, but he shook them- off. "It's hard enough to attempt to wrestle without getting .mauled about/; lie snapped. So they let him look after himself.

The fourth brought more action. George went down in a head ( scissors and wrist*, lock, but took a wristlock on WoocLs, arid when Woods tried for a toe-hold, used his effort to make it a rocking-chair splits on Woods. Then the crowd rose again; as Woods suddenly emerged with George' in an Indian death-lock. For a moment he strained, but George stood it, and broke with a.lying splits. He kicked clear of that, was taken in a barred toe-hold, and pulled on George's hair to open the door to trouble. George came in, stopped a jolt, but with a mighty shoulder to the face sent Woods to the ropes. He followed in, and Woods, held against the ropes, stopped three jolts to the head. Woods was head-thrown, and looked a tempting object for a press, but George applied a hammer lock, anil Woods went under the ropesv ' '» " It was not long continued, and. there was a surprise in the fifth. Twice Woods was tumblecj as he tried for wristlocks, and an.exchange of jolts. George staggered and.fell on the ropes. As he came' in again Woods attacked him on the ropes, . got underneath, and. in a'moment George was, numbered among the fallen, under a .dump anil press. He had a word to say to the refefee aboilt that, but did not argue. He did not need, to, for the next was the sixth—and the, end,. From the they were at it hard in a jolting match. "Take that," says Georgr, and under a mighty crack Woods went, down; up _ lie was brought, only to go down again under another, "and 'that . . Woods hit the floor under a head-throw . . . "and that. A dump that shook the stage . . . and that." Another jolt, and another dump, a press, and the end.. The Amateurs. F. Boric (12.4) beat R. Jugum (11.10) on points, in a turgid bout. Two sailors from H.M.S. Achilles, D. Dobbyn (10;4) and M. Mrfficol (10-6), provided a fair exhibition of wrestling, Dobbvn winning on points. R.,Day (7.12) and-P. Hill (7.12) fought an excellent 'draw, one fall each. It was clever and interesting all the way, with Dav scoring with a partial Boston Cl *ab, and Hill evening with a well-applied Indian deathlock in the third. It was tae best amateur bout of the night. _ . K. Kenneth (13.0) beat J. Priestley (13.0) in a special three-round bout, lvenneth took his fall with an octopus clamp in the second, and was taking a dump that would have given him a.'second at the gong in the third.