WRESTLING.
CONTESTS AT AUCKLAND. (PBMB ASSOCIATION TEhSGBMt.) AUCKLAND. August 6. Two professional wrestling matches were decided at the Town Hall to-night. Tom Alley (Canada) defeated Walter Johansson (Finland) in four rounds by two falls to one. The large crowd took strong exeep tion to the fall awarded to Johansson in the first round and counted out the ieferee. A three-round contest between Naranjan Singh and Charlie Pollard (Auckland) was won easily by the Indian, who scored a fall in the first round, and was awarded a penalty fall in the third round because Pollard kept climbing through the ropes to escape holds.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19690, 6 August 1929, Page 12
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