WRESTLING

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1933, Page 6

WRESTLING

PEREIRA AND VARCA DRAW

(By Telegraph.—Piess Association,)

MASTEEIOK, July 20

Lively wrestling was seen. at. Masterton tronigiit, when! 41, P,ereirg. '.drew, f wjtn ■Count iYarga". before a ■ capacity: '-Jsiouse. Each gi-appler seaurod.' one fall. Although the : bout ..was..' not without a. -certain amount of showmanship, both men provided the ..crowd -with thrill after" thrill, Varga. with his headlocks and back-slams, and Pereira with his flying tackles, for . which he is.' rioted. • Pereira's ■ ■ attacks came, from all angles, but his, opponent jn nipst'.casesi managed,, to counteract .theni'with headlQelcs.. .-■ ;■. . ... ■"..'■.■.•.-.

The .contest ..opened. ..fairly, quietly, but jh the second, rqu'nd ..th'a'.^.wrgst|.ers,. ..gut ihor.e;.iif;a.'iuitl action into, tjieir AvoirkVkee^-. ing tUjK'icViS^^ &p -a liigli : ..pUchN'of-. scxcipJ; nient'. "' It-was 'mot until the.rapening '<.pf tho- :fift]i;;.Tq.ahfl;that Poreira,; secured a fiilU^piii^iii.gV.Varga tp tjie'-niijt with a body-pre^stMTowing a series':-of flying tn;e]<|eßi'v: Yarga strove hard during the next.:tw6" l-q.unds to even matters, -but his attempts' wei'e fruitless. .-. ■ ..; ■": Early in the concluding: round Pereira knocked'Yarga to the mat,several times with- flying" tackles. Varga, however, withs.tqpd the assalijts well and retaliated with" a''series of headlockSj -finally;:.^ecuving a fall'to make a draw. .■' ?.•■'. :'.'">"*. ■'■ Mr- Gr. Bennett, Wellington,;* was!' the referee.- . .. ■ ■ ' "•'- -•- ,'■ ■ -

vln the amateur pitlinuriiiie.s, con trolled b.v Mi'- J- Feii on Bentnn, Featherstoni lOst 4Jb, be it X Page, M-\steiton, |Ost, by two falls to nil