LIVELY WRESTLING
Walker Beats Higgins HEAVY FALL ENDS MATCH By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, February 2. The first professional wrestling contest of the season was staged to-night at the Town Hall, when George. Walker, heavyweight champion of the British Empire, defeated Jack Higgins, Australian "heavyweight. ' . . . Higgins gained a submission fall m the third round with a figure-four leg-hold. In the sixth round Walker dumped his opponent, who was unable to continue. It was a good lively contest, and an auspicious opening to the New Zealand Wrestling Association’s season.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 110, 3 February 1931, Page 11
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87LIVELY WRESTLING Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 110, 3 February 1931, Page 11
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