WRESTLING
ROUGH BOUT AT WELLINGTON (PBBSB ASSOCIATION T*LloßAit.> WELLINGTON, August 10. To-night Jack Forsgren’s title to fame as the bad man of the wrestling mat was taken from him by the American giant, “Wee” Willie Davis, making his first appearance in New Zealand. The bout, which was remarkable for rough tactics and- utter lack of science, went to the eighth round. Davis took the first fall half way through, when he threw Forsgren repeatedly in sustained headlocks, and finally pinned him Forsgren. however, clapped on a Boston crab to ‘which Davis submitted. Honours were even when, after a stand-up battle of cibow jolts, Davis pitched Forsgren cut of the ring, and on his return riiimnprt him
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21858, 11 August 1936, Page 12
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