ALL-IN WRESTLING

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1933, Page 2

ALL-IN WRESTLING

BOUTS IN IRELAND

NEW ZEALAND < PARTICIPANT (From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON 29th November. A series.of international all-in, wrestling contests is "being held in.' Dublin. In the second of the series Reg. Thorne, of New Zealand, met Harold Angus, of England. In this match the Englishman was much quicker than his, opponent to follo^v up an advantage, and by his cleverness in tossing shook Thorne.repeat* edly. After three minutes of the second round he-got a scissors on the head and an arm-lock from which he secured a count. The contest is amusingly described by a special correspondent of th«" "Irish Tiracs," who says that ''Leagua of Nations gone native" is tho best de-> "scriptiou to apply to the meeting. Bng» land, South Africa, Now Zoalana, Ger«" many, and Japan were *h.ll represented, somewhere in the whirling mass of arm» and legs on tho. mat.. He continues:— . "Tho announcer, having removed hi« ' leather; coat and revealed bis invmacu*lato shirt front—it was cold i» tha tent—informed the audience that Harold Angus, of England.-would moefc a gentleman from New Zealand, Beg. Thorrie, in a contest of four teiwainuta rofihds. ■•: This unpleasantness between" these two people lasted only one and a half rounds, and was chiefly remarkr able for the ■ sudden appearance of several muscular legs: waving • wildly over the Press table. By tho energotW work of the referee and the'two man, whoso duty appeared to bo the pushing' back of competitors on to the mat, the ' .'legs';wero pushed away to a reasonably safe distanco. ~ . .-..•■.. • • • "At the opening of the second round Angus arrived in. Thofno'* corner before his second had removed th»-chair, and for some moments the chair was badly in the mix-up. The referee resort-, cd to a strange crawl on his hands and knees around the combatants before pJungiug his hand, under the shoulders of Thoi-ne and declaring Angus tho ■winner.'.'' ■ . • - ■ .; • '.-' • , Tho writer adds to his report: "To those who intend to sco these bouts I. would quote the words of the . ilji« critics on certain occasions:'.'fDo JJO4 take the children.' It is not an edifj'ing spectacle for youth.'? • ' .. \ J