WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP
TITLE LOST THROUGH BITE
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] '(Rec. May 6, 8 a.m.) MONTREAL, May 5. Strangler Lewis lost the world’s wrestling championship because he bit his French opponent, Henri 1 Deglane. . A huge crowd saw- Lewis apply three crushing headlocks. The Frenchman turned the tables and applied a flying mare and secured a fall. Lewis, later, secured a fall, but Deglane displaying a bleeding arm and teeth marks, was awarded the match and the title on a foul.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 May 1931, Page 5
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