WRESTLING
M’CREADY BEATS MEfi&B ' (P.A.) WEIJuINGTON, September After one of the most rousiftg wrtsusjl matches of the season, Earl McCHWfr British Empire heavy-weight CMTO® inflicted the first defeat he has in New Zealand, on Herb Melter (vAW. in the Wellington Town Hail Mellef gained the first fall with ialty hold, the atomic drop, 4 JW&iS back slam following a headlock. Alw this, with all-in tactics, Meller to 5°' a S McCready that the latter picked and dumped his opponent heavily,? times in the fifth round for « OH? g? iqg him prostrate, and unable to con®» McCready was awarded the maten. BLOMFIELD DISQUALIFIED ' J (P.A.) AUCKLAND, September, & Fred Atkins (17st 21b), of beat "Lofty” Blomfield in a wr? s"* 5 "* match, the latter being disquaWiW > the fifth round for refusing to Atkins from an octopus
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24985, 20 September 1946, Page 8
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