McCREADY BEATS ATKINS
AUSTRALIAN'S ROUGH TACTICS (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 17.. The rough tactics adopted by Fred Atkins, 17st lib, in a professional wrestling contest against Earl McCready, 17st, kept the large attendance excited, and led to Atkins’s defeat. He paid little heed to the referee’s orders from the first round and had a penalty fall awarded against him in the fourth for knocking the referee down when the latter was trying to separate the contestants on the ropes. • i ; In the sixth round McCready tossed liis opponent in a series of head throws, after which Atkins went out througli the ropes. He stood .up and was walking about still outside the ropes when McCready reached over, and threw him back into the ring with a flying mare. McCready. then connected with a series of elbow jolts,, and secured his second fall with the rocking chair splits. /
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Evening Star, Issue 25926, 18 October 1946, Page 8
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146McCREADY BEATS ATKINS Evening Star, Issue 25926, 18 October 1946, Page 8
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