GLENN WADE WINS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 217, 11 June 1935, Page 3

GLENN WADE WINS

Pereira Knocked Out In Fourth Round

LAST NIGHT’S WRESTLING

Wrestling his second bout in Wellington in the Town Hall last night, Glenn Wade, after having had slightly the worst of three rounds of excellent straight wrestling with Al Pereira, brought the contest quickly to an end. Inside the first minute of the fourth round, at the end of a spectacular exchange, he brought Pereira heavily to the mat with a neat back-loop slam. Pereira landed on the back of his head, and he recovered consciousness about three minutes later as the crowd was filing out. The three 1 rounds were filled with clever, hard wrestling. Although the exchanges of holds were fairly fast and. in point of time, evenly divided, Pereira shaded his opponent, but Wade seemed to know when Pereira was beginning to tire, and his finishing fall was no fluke. So far as it went the bout was most strenuous and greatly pleased the crowd. On both sides it was refreshingly free of the common irritation of wrestlers crnwling through the ropes when in a dangerous position. Wade’s weight was 15st. 101 b. and Pereira’s 16st. lib. Pereira Comes to Grips. Pereira was the first to come to grips, and he pulled his man to the mat with a wristlock. Wade broke, failed to hold a full nelson, nnd Pereira caught him again with a headloek. which he held for a couple of minutes. When free Wade started fireworks by lifting Pereira quickly into the air three times with halches. There was an exchange of wristlocks and headlocks and a half-developed crucifix by Wade, who about evened up the round by holding Pereira in a body-scissors before the gong. Pereira opened the second round by making a reverse flip in the air and catching Wade in a head-scissors. Wade, when he escaped, held Pereira in a spectacular leg-lock. .The wrestlers kept up the even exchange, Wade indulging in headlocks, a body-scissors and a couple of halches. and Pereira working with a wristlock, a butt or two and an armscissors. See-Saw Advantages. Pereira drew a howl from the usually quiet worker Wade when in the next round he again took the initiative with a butt in the stomach; Wade rushed back anil throw three halches. and Pereira added some more running butts. Then they settled down to wrestling again, Pereira with a head-scissors and Wade with a leg-lock and a peculiar new type of legsplits. For a time half the crowd was

kept guessing in one of the most curious of limb tangles, in which actually Pereira was sorely troubling hie man with a leglock. The fourth round ended quickly at 59 sec. Wade came out looking like business and halched Pereira- several times. Pereira then threw Wade, who came back like a rubber ball, so quickly, in fact, that Pereira walked right into the slam that ended the bout. Amateur Bouts. Four amateur preliminary bouts were held. C. McDonald (8.12) beat L. Drew (9.2) with two straight falls. L. Spalding (1O.S) drew with A. Eagle (11.1). L. Short (12.0) retired in the first round of his bout against R. Sutherland (11.6) with an injured rib. T. Anderson (13. i) beat H. R, Godfrey (12.3) with a fall in the last round.