WRESTLING

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25249, 30 July 1947, Page 8

WRESTLING

MCCREADY BEATS BOESCH, Earl McCready, of Canada, gained another professional wrestling success in the Civic Theatre last evening, when he disposed of Paul Boesch, of the United States, by two falls to one. It was their seventh encounter of the season, and when they met iq the centre of the ring they must almost have felt like old friends. A much smaller crowd than usual watched proceedings, but some system of Parliamentary pairs must have been in use, for McCready still held a majority of votes among the spectators. The bout was a fast and colourful one, both men working hard to achieve their effects. Boesch gave a particularly lively display for a man who has already had at least 35 bouts this season.

The men appeared unwilling to come to holds at the start of the bout. Perhaps some idle thought about the record for non-belligerency on the 49th parallel deterred them. Soon after the battle was joined, however, Boesch obtained a full nelson. He asked McCready to submit, and showed it was not mere temerity by taking a fall in the second round. As soon as the gong sounded, Boesch let go three drop-kicks, McCready obligingly rising to meet them. Boesch then obtained a commando unconscious hold, a rather more than usually lethal weapon, and obtained a fall. There was a shocked silence, and then the inevitable uproar. There was plenty of action in the third round, and Boesch forgot who he was wrestling and applied a rocking-chair splits This almost amounted to larceny, but McCready retaliated with an Indian deathlock, and followed this with some running headlocks. In the next round Boesch rolled McCready round the ring in a short-arm scissors, but McCready applied a standing splits. Forearm jolts followed, and Boesch drop-kicked. Both men had to retire to opposite sides of the ring to lick their wounds. Boesch ended the round with a series of rabbit punches, and started the next on, the' s?me McCready retaliated twice with some success, but on the third attempt hit Boesch’s head and retired quite discomfited. The crowd roared, but there was a regal “We are not amused” look from the victim.

Boesch continued his rabbit punches at the start of the sixth round. McCready who had fought on Saturday nieht and Monday night, looked understandably distressed. and when he applied h»s rocking chair splits it went through the ropes. Boesch returned with a drop-kick.* but missed and landed heavily. McCready thereupon obtained a fall with the rock-ing-chair splits. This meant that Boesch could not hope to equal the- record established by McCready, of being the only victor in about 100 bouts held this winter to emerge with a two-fall margin.

The seventh round opened with a welter of rabbit nunches and forearm jolts, and twice McCready obtained a rocking-chair splits, ajthc®gh by this time the rocking chair was beginning to creak a little After Boesch bad escaped for the second time, he was knocked out by a forearm jolt and McCready won the deciding fall. Boesch had to be assisted frnm the ring. In a professional light heavy-weight contest. _L. J. Coughlan, 13st lib, beat L. V. McEwan, 12st, on points, after each man had obtained a fall.

BLOMFIELD BEATS BELL (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH. July 29. “Lofty” Blomfield beat Kay Bell by a penalty fall after each had gained a fall at Hawera this evening. Bell took a fall with a body press after a series of tackles in the fourth round. Blomfield obtained a fall in the sixth round with the octopus clamp.