UNIMPRESSIVE BOUT

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 260, 1 August 1939, Page 3

UNIMPRESSIVE BOUT

Wrestler McCready OffColour ONE-FALL WIN AGAINST FORSTER An unimpressive wrestling bout at the Wellington Town Hall last night ended in a win for Earl McCready against the South African Frank Forster. McCready s wrestling throughout the bout was colourless ; he appeared in poor condition and his left elbow, injured a fortnight ago in a bout with Ted Cox, was still of little ■use to him. Forster had the better of every round except the seventh, when McCready dumped and pinned him for the only fall of the evening. The bout was the poorest seen in the Town Hall this season. „ Forster weighed 16.8, McCready 17.2. The latter entered the ring with an elastic bandage over his left elbow. Forster took the initiative in the opening phases and at no stage of the early rounds permitted McCready to hold a long advantage. He set to work, by jolting McCready and dumping him in businesslike style. A second dump was not so successful, but Forster tossed McCready over the ropes and when he returned ran him up against the barrier and pummuelled him vigorously. He embarked early on a systematic campaign to make the most of McCreadys weakened arm, playing on it with armbars hammer and wrietlocks. From time to time he backed McCready on to the ropes and thumped him till McCready knocked him headlong out of the ring with a well-timed jolt. . . □ Forster took McCready by the wrist and applying a powerful armbar with the other's arm over Forster's shouk.er led him round the ring: McCready, with Ins whole weight depending on the prisoned member, had- no choice but go where he was led. grimacing and groaning, till he mustered strength to push Forster oS. Forster’s Droplocks. In the third round Forster flattened McCready with a shoulder tackle, followed up with well-aimed dropkicks. He again drove McCready into the ropes and belaboured him. McCready’s return jolts seemed to have lost their punch. He roiled Forster about the ring with a short-arm scissors, but was trapped by a full nelson. Forster frogmarched him round the ring, doubled him over the ropes, and held him on the mat with a standing toe-hold, till McCready countered with another toehold and succeeded in tipping him off. Forster threw McCready three times with stomach throws; took him by the head, planted both feet in the pit of McCready's stomach, and rolled backward, dragging -McCready after him, and catapulting him head over heals with his feet. McCready landed heavily. The fourth time he met Forster with a shoulder tackle that (brought him up fhort. _ Soon, however, the South African launched a further tackle, sending McCready crashing to the mat. He took him in a crotch-hold bo dump him but it wv-s McCready who did the dumping. He proved unable to pin Forster, though, and the latter was up again like indiarubber. Hammerlocks and Armbars. After an exchange of jolts Forster spent the greater part of the fifth round working on McCready’s arm with hammerlocks and arm-bars, renewing his hold as often as McCready countered or escaped. McCready seemed to be .flagging, and to be making hard work of it. . Forster had the better of an elbow-jolt duel He drove a knee into McCready's stomach, but was reproved by the referee, Mr. AJf Jenkins. He knocked McCready over with a flying tackle, but when he tried a second cannoiiballed clean through the ropes into the second row of spectators. Forster was warned for punching McCready in the wind at the start of the seventh round. He fell a victim to McCready's vice-like body scissors; McCready discomforted him considerably, lifting him and bumping. him about the king. Forster lodged a jolt, took McCready in a crotch-hold, and dumped him, McCready countered crotch-bold with icrotch-hold, but failed to hoist Forster; he (bore him bodily td the mat. Forster wriggled free, but McCready caught him again, and dumped him —neither hard nor high. He flopped on top of him and ipinned him. Forster shook his head sadly as he returned to his corner. This was‘the sole fall. The last round Iwent in Pollster's favour for the most part, but he was unable to take a fall. Professional Preliminary. Middleweight: C. Croskery (11.0) beat 18. Monastra (11.3). by one fall. He gave ■Monnstra a giant’s swing in the third round, subsequently pinning him. Amateur Bouts. Featherweight: H. Wales (Petone, 0.0), boat R. McColl (Kilbirnie, 9.1), by one fall. Featherweight: L. Nolan (Koolmans. 9.1), beat L. Drew (Johnsonville, 9.0), by a jack-knife fall in the last round. The bout was hard and interesting. Mr. R. Allen refereed the preliminaries.