WRESTLING
M’CREADY BEATS BOESCH . DUNEDIN, June 9. Called upon at the last moment to substitute for Otto Kuss in a professional wrestling match in the Town Hall tonight, Paul Boesch had- a race against time as the. aeroplane which brought him from Wellington could not proceed beyond Christchurch. Leaving Christchurch by taxi at 3.5 p.m., he reached Dunedin 54 hours later, and went into the ring against Earl McCready a few minutes after his arrival. » A big attendance saw easily the brightest match of the season. McCready won by one fall, secured in the seventh round with a rocking-chair splits, after Boesch had brought him down with two dropkicks.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25206, 10 June 1947, Page 8
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