WRESTLING.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20920, 29 July 1933, Page 15

WRESTLING.

I HANK OSWALD V. COUNT VARGA ON WEDNESDAY. At St. James' Theatre on Wednesday evening next. Hank Oswald, of California, will meet Count Varga, of Hungary, in the next professional wrestling match of the season. Oswald is a recent arrival in the Dominion, and has already created a very favourable impression with patrons of the sport. Qnly a young man, his style of wrestling is very similar to that of Dean Detton and Al Pereira. He is always on the attack, and his flying ♦ackles are a spectacular feature of his bouts. Varga has had years of experience, but will require to be at his best to gain the verdict over his worthy opponent. The professional match of eight ten~ minute rounds will be preceded by the following heats of the Canterbury amateur championships:— Heavy-weight—D. Lloyd v. C. Martin; D. G. Simpson v. A. K. Asher. Welter-weight—J. H. Savage v. E. Borton. Light-weight—T. Borland v. K. Fooid. An innovation on this occasion is ♦he engagement of an orchestra to provide items for an hour before the contests : As the house was sold out .some days before the last match, patrons are advised to purchase their tickets without delay at Lange's, tobacconists, United Service Buildings, Colombo street, where all tickets, including reserves, are now available. PEREIRA BEATS CLARK. i i ! (I'UES.-j \SHOCIAIIUN 'ltl.«JGU.V.'i ) PALMERSTON NORTH, July 28. In a professional wrestling contest , to-night Al Pereira beat Jack Clark : by two falls to one. Clark secured j the first I'all with a body press. Following a slow third round, Pereira I was all over him in the fifth, and after I a succession of headlocks, forward I chanceric:;, and bunts, picked Clark's ] legs up, stepped over, and applied the I Boston crab. Clark took some time i to submit, and his back muscles were | injured, Pereira easily securing the j deciding fall 13 seconds after the sixth round started. i : UI.MHEKG HEATS PATTERSON. ' 'llli-1.-is \ HSU rl.mo:; 'IELKOiI.UI.I , GISBORNE, July 23. Before a packed house to-night, Hal ! Rumberg defeated Jack Patterson in a • professional wrestling bout. Patter- ; son was disqualified in the sixth round I for using the rabbit punch. Rumberg j secured the first fall in the third j round with a merry-go-round, catch- ' ing his opponent by the legs and I swinging him round several times, j and then dumping him. Patterson I evened in the fifth round with a thunI derbolt hold.

NAI'IER MAOUI DRAWS WITH MAMOS. ".TIEjJ .»SSCCUIJOST ■[KLKCn.iI.) NAPIER, July 28. Jn the first professional wrestling bout held in Napier for many years Ike Robin, the local Maori wrestler 118st llbl drew with Harry Mamos H4st 51b) before a big house this evening. Mamos secured a fall in the fifth round with a figure four arm bar and a head scissors. Robin equalised in the seventh round with a headlock and body press. It was a strenuous but unexciting bout. Robin gave n slow motion display, and relied on headlocks, weight, and brute strength. Mamos gave a pleasing display, but was greatly handicapped by the weight and size of the Maori.