FIERCE WRESTLING TACTICS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 13

FIERCE WRESTLING TACTICS

kilonis v. McCarthy AN ANGRY DEMONSTRATION By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, December 17. A return wrestling match between John Kilonis (Greece) and I’at McCarthy (Canada) to-night resulted in a win for Kilonis by two falls to one. The Town Hall was crowded. Kilonis again made himself very unpopular by adopting rough and illegal tactics, frequently necessitating the intervention of the referee. There was an angry demonstration in the sixth round when Kilonis thumped McCarthy's head several times heavily on the boards outside the ropes. The referee ordered Kilonis back into the ring. Kilonis replied by catching the referee, Mr. L. Wilson, by the shirtfront and ripping it right down the front. The crowd surged round the ring and when McCarthy re-entered the referee held up McCarthy’s hand and the crowd cheered wildly, thinking Kilonis had been disqualified. However, the referee merely awarded a penalty fall to McCarthy. Kilonis had previously obtained a Boston crab bold in the fifth round and secured the deciding fall in the eighth round with an arm lock. There ■was a prolonged outburst of hooting nt the close wheen Kilonis was declared the winner, ' and McCarthy was cheered to the echo.