WRESTLING
ARTAN DAS BEATS FELIX MIQUET
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 7. In a heavy-weight professional wrestling match m Wellington between two of the biggest men seen in the New Zealand ring, Artan Das (18st 121 b), champion of India, beat Felix Miqilet (19st 21b), champion of France and Europe, by a fall and a penalty fall to one fall to-night. Both men moved at a surprising pace, and gave a crowded house one of the best displays of scientific wrestling seen this season. Miquet took the first fall with a series of elbow jabs and a heavy dump. The Indian took a fall in the sixth round with a slumber hold. In the last round, the referee awarded a penalty fall against Miquet.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26212, 8 September 1950, Page 3
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