UNSATISFACTORY BOUT

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 28, 2 August 1932, Page 12

UNSATISFACTORY BOUT

WALKER BEATS DEMETRAL

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, Ist August. A professional wrestling contest between George Walker and Harry Demetral endeel in the sixth round in favour of Walker Up till then each man had secured a fall Walker being successful in the"' third with a jack-knife hold, while Demetral evened in the fifth with a .Boston crab submission fall.

Matters then became fairly lively, each man being thrown :through the ropes. Demetral1 hurled Walker, through four tiniesj causing the Inspector of Police to have a word with the referee. While this consultation was going on Demetral caught hold of Walker's head and brought him over the ropes back into the ring with a flying mare.' Walker regained his feet and threw Demetral, gaining the deciding fall with a body press. ' ~ Demetral at once jumped to his feet, gesticulating wildly,: and commenced to argue with the referee.. It was some seconds before he could-be pacified, the spectators hooting. Demetral stated in the dressing-room subsequently that he was under the impression that the referee'had awarded him,a.fall when he hauled Walker'back into the ring and consequently offered do resistance to Walker. The referee denied, jtapping Demetral on the back. At all events, it was an unsatisfactory ending." '"-"' : " ''. ""'.