WRESTLING
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 24. Dick Raines failed to get revengeagainst Joe Corbett in a professional wrestling match tonight. Corbett delighted the crowd by outdoing Raines at his own rough tactics, winning by two falls to one. The bout was marked by unusual holds. Corbett escaped from an Indian death lock in the third round, and in the fourth took a fall from Raines with flying tackles and a press. Raines, took a fall with a Boston crab in the sixth, and. Corbett got the deciding fall in the seventh with a baefc-loop slam.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 22, 25 July 1940, Page 8
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