AUSTRALIAN DEFEATED

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 13, 16 July 1934, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN DEFEATED

TACTICS DISLIKED BY CROWD

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

GLSBORNE, July 15.

Walter Browning (Australia), 16s"t 51b, made an unpromising start in his professional wrestling tour of :Sew Zealand when he met Rene Michot (France), lost, in a scheduled eight-round bout. The proceedings terminated in the fifth round amid hooting.for the Australian, iliehot won by two falls to one. 'The contest was distinguished by rou"h tactics on the part of the Australian, who had a very hostile reception after repeated attempts at gouging. In the second round Michot scored with a body press. Browning equalised'in the fourth round with a Boston crab. [After this fall had been awarded the Australian roused . the ire o£ the crowd by stamping on the Frenchman's back after the referee, Mr. T. Smale, had awarded a fall.

The climax came in the fifth round Both men were .struggling outeideMhe ropes, and the referee separated them, Michot coming bade into the ring.-.: Then Browning apparently lost his temper and struck the referee, who in self-defence retaliated. Amid uproar further blows passed between Browning and the referee.' The Australian then picked-up-a-chair"-and ■'threw it at -Mr. female, the chair passing over the latter s head into the rinp:, and as Mr. Smale closed in Browning threw a second chair, this also passing over Mr. Smale's' head into the ring:. Mr. Smale then stopped trie contest, awarding a penalty fall to Michot. ■.'■-.

Browning "was repeatedly hooted as he lett the stage, while prolonged applause was accorded Miehot, who gave a clean display throughout. :■■■'. ~