WRESTLING
BELL BEATS RICE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. The wrestling season in Wellington ended this evening. Kay Bell beat Tom Rice by two falls to one. MCCREADY BEATS O’TOOLE (PA.) DUNEDIN, September 25. In the final match of the wrestling season, Earl McCready (17st 41b) defeated Tommy O’Toole (17st) by two falls to cue. O’Toole took the first fall in the fourth round with a body press following, a series of forward chanceries. McCready equalised in the sixth round, O’Toole missing with a forward chancery and falling back for McCready to pin him with a body press. McCready gained the deciding fall in the seventh round with a rocking chair splits.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25299, 26 September 1947, Page 8
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