WRESTLING
~- --»•• ••■■ v ; > . < i;- . ' —• ‘_ COX 1 I SQUAIIIFtED' _’, ~ u REFEREE KNOCKED . DOWN; iH JOLT. ‘. t TiTIO* TKtXOKAJt.) j, biCLAND, AugUst ji.TK> contest, ‘‘King >. Kaajtt Ledger j striking i fists, ;l and for , McLeaSp : .with, a irere not leedmgs, but th W Ic tussle at the starf^rfound. w he n each ottipr with poww the referee official in a. headlotic, rt i tered the ring -wife «*. , t >mg the - hont. hht-'tfie^ i his fMt,, and -dtequaU-rj. fled Cox. . . .fro constables - the ring; and I ranged ■ one on- either sioe ■. of Cox. -'■... . Vt;:Each man 1 id previously, secured a faUi. Cox took on in the fourth round with , jolts and a ! uody . press, and BlpmHeift.., . evened in th i sixth, with a stcp~over ward toehold and preas.;,' ' -
M»CR* WY Vi MARTINEZ ~ This, s'easol Earl McCready,: the; British Empire * wrefUng charnpipn. is maKJPfr. • his fourth thir ofthe-Domlffitm. anff W , is safe to-isiy that Inno previous jye»jhas he metfwlth ’ such strong opppanemHis match flth IgnacU) Mirtinez the. . "Ebeitse Rriid to-moTtow night to WL . no Martinez 1* heavier thaf the Canadian, and her tquowsr an aggre&N style of -wrestling-,;MW makel. himfa real problem tq am^opJv £ ponent. - I point about McCresOya , matches Is fiat. ‘ although his record in tf Dominion-only one loss gr;, nearly 150 patches—should enable; him W;-; face any Sntest with. confidence,- they.... Have their pngerous side. It means every . txmefhe entersthe , ring- his ■ oPj.-J ponent canlgo in with the mere to. be .lost everything’-p be gained in idctp^~-jCcgS;:-sequently #e ‘latter can take as maoy;-,-chancta asbe .likes, and a ‘Avrestler who . is prepareffito stake all on a particuU?thrpw is alleys liable, to upset calcul? ] tlons. 1 -Jl.':'-
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22795, 22 August 1939, Page 10
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