McCready beats FORSGREN

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 2

McCready beats FORSGREN

Challenger is Disabled EMPIRE WRESTLING TITLE BOUT With two terrific dumps and a boil}’ press, Earl AlcCready. of Canada, effectively repulsed the challenge of Jack Forsgren. also o£ Canada, for what was announced as the British Empire wrestling championship, in the professional match at the Wellington Town Hall last night. Forsgren was so badly jarred by the impact of his spine on the mat that he was unable to come out for the next, the seventh, round, and was prone for some minutes afterward. Forsgren won a fall iu the fourth round, with a boston crab, and did his best to finish the bout in the same way, but AlcCready was too clever for him and was actually wrestling to the peak of his form only in the sixth round. The Town Hall was packed to the doors, and the largest crowd the Wellington YVrestling Association has had for several years went almost delirious with excitement when AlcCready dashed Forsgren to the mat. The Hon. R. Semple, Alinister of Public YVorks, presented AlcCready with a silver cup given by' the New Zealand Wrestling Union as a British Empire heavyweight championship trophy. Forsgren was obviously quite unable to continue the bout. After a brief subconscious struggle with the referee, he lay where he had been dumped, and even when lie was helped to his corner his arm and head movements were uncontrolled. He had given several tastes of his ability to be nasty during the bout, but at the end shook hands with McCready pleasantly-. He bad wrestled very calmly until he was caught with the dumps. Both men started very carefully, but as they' warmed up they gave the best display of hard and clever wrestling seen at YVellington this season. AtcCready’s timing was perfect, and his ring tactics superb. Injured by the boston crab, he nursed himself until he was better, and then surprised the crowd and disappointed Forsgren by breaking easily from several more attempts at the same hold. A motion picture was taken of the match—for the first time since wrestling was introduced in New Zealand. The Start of the Bout. AVith the referee the two contestants went into committee about elbow jolts. They circled for an opening and came back quickly to the watchful upright as soon as they went to the mat. Forsgren held AlcCready in a headlock and then banged his jaw with a very thick elbow. AlcCready brought him down in a.n arm scissors and Forsgren was ejected forcibly from a flurry of arms and legs. Forsgren kneed AlcCready in a headlock and then bad his arm muscle bounced on by an angry challenger. He came out with a head scissors and bounced the other’s bead on the mat with determination and admirable wisdom every time the other tried to jerk out. Forsgren shot, out like a wild jack-in-the-box and then got a headlock which be held until AlcCready swung bis arm up in a bamnierloek. Forsgren forced a groan from AlcCready with a leg trip and step-over toehold. Screwing his face up. Forsgren started to grind AlcCready’s foot around. AlcCready jerked out and hobbled backwards out of danger. Forsgren grabbed both his compatriot's ears and pushed them back. H’e kicked AlcCready in the stomach and cracked him on the jaw. Thoroughly roused, AlcCready hurtled off the ropes and dropped the other heavily. Forsgren was very disturbed. Tie betrayed even more anxiety in a body scissors and was kievked away as soon as he stood up for a boston crab. Forsgren vented some of his d'sappointment on the mat and then looked about for something to help him out of a hammerlock. He used a knee to the ribs and (hen applied a short-arm scissors. His forehead steamed when he tried to stop a standing splits and every pore exu'ded sweat when McCready crashed him backward and forward in the hold Forsgren went back to liis kick in the stomach to get out of trouble. AlcCready dropped the other twice with a flying mare, and was then dropped himself in a dump. But AlcCready obviously derived much brim satisfaction from a rocking-chair splits and pile-driver. Forsgren dragged himself frantically along to the ropes. He tried for a boston crab, but. AlcCready got a toehold and then a lying splits. Out of that Forsgren landed two heavy elbow jolts. Forsgren kicked him in the nose and then elbowjolted him. The moment for which the crowd had been waiting came. McCready hit Forsgren. Holding his head with one hand McCready hit him with the other, and it seemed the boll saved Forsgren from some dirty moments. Forsgren’s Fall. AlcCready rubbed Forsgren’s muscle and held him in a head-scissors after stopping n boston crab, AlcCready’s nose was bleeding. Forsgren went in and dazed the champion with elbow jolts before turning him over and getting a boston crab and a fall. He bounced on AlcCready’s back thrice, and then stood up and looked with deep satisfaction at AlcCready as he struggled to his corner. The round was 3min. lOsec. old. AlcCready sat up against the ropes in a corner and defended madly. Forsgren went all out for another boston. He was stopped once with a headlock and again with a toehold. He got out of an armbar and got an arm stretch from a flying mare. Forsgren tried again for a boston but AlcCready twisted out. of it. He got a flying body-scissors as though be was a trapeze artist instead of 17st. of wrestler. He shook Forsgren and then kicked away from a boston. Forsgren climbed through the ropes. He did it again after three heavy flying mares, and finished the round fastened in a head-scissors. McCready Finishes It. Forsgren bit McCready. He did it again and then missed with a Boston, AlcCready timing his twist very cleverly. McCready picked Forsgren up. swung him high and dumped him. lie did it again, fell on top of the prostrate challenger, and won the fall with a body press in 2niin. 58sec. Forsgren lay helpkvis on his face in the centre of the ring. He was still there when the bell for the seventh round went and lay for several minutes alter ward with his consciousness badly nnnibeil. The crash of the dumps bud shaken the ring to its four corners. Air, A. Jenkins was referee. AMATEUR BOUTS. Bantamweight. L. Ruby, Sst. 61b.. beat J. Lockwood. Sst. -lib. by the only fall of the bout. Ruby got a fall in the second round with an arm strangle and headlock and could not be pinned in the next. Welterweight. II King 10st. 21b., beat W. Culling, 10st. 21b., 'oti points, neither securing a fall in a hard contest. Lightweight. L. Boe, Ost. 81b., drew with R. Greeks. 9st. 91b., on points, A bout of fast and clever wrestling, with each exploiting a variety ol Holds and giving the crowd goou cntertainntenl. . , , Cat eh weight. L. Steel, 125(., drew with E. Steel, list. 71b., one tall each. L. Steel left E. Steel prone at Hie end of the second round after a body press following some elbow jolts and flying mares and E Steel evened with some thing 1 tackles and a cross buttock throw and body press. Air, J. H. Thompson was referee.