WILD WRESTLING
DISGRACEFUL EXHIBITION IN BRISBANE REFEREE KNOCKED OUT Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, November 30. (Received November 30, at 11 a.m.) The wildest spectacle ever associated with wrestling in Brisbane marked the contest between Lurich and Pencheff. Both were disqualified in the third round, after which they flew at each other, and a fierce encounter took place outside the ropes. The bloodbespattered wrestlers were completely out of control. After the police stopped the bout among the spectators Lurich returned to the ring and floored the referee. The latter was rising when he was struck on the head by a chair thrown by a spectator. The referee dropped to the floor, bloody gushing from a bad scalp wound. The police then escorted the wrestlers from the stadium.
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Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 9
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126WILD WRESTLING Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 9
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