WRESTLING

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 August 1936, Page 11

WRESTLING

LEATHERS v. BOESCH. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DANNEVIRKE, August 7. Leathers and Boesch,, meeting for the first time, wrestled eight solid rounds for a draw, the former getting a fall in the seventh, with a submarine body scissors, and Boesch in the eighth, after a couple of devastating drop kicks. BOESCH v. RUSSELL Paul “Bombshell” Boesch and Cowboy “Rebel” Russell, will meet in a professional heavyweight wrestling contest in the Greymouth Town Hall, to-morrow night. The Boxing Association can rest assured that their efforts to secure a first-class contest for their supporters w’ill be rewarded with a packed house, for the contest arranged is a splendid draw. Boesch is one of the most popular and spectacular matmen New Zealand has seen, a clever, interesting wrestler, with complete mastery of a dangerous dropkick and in delivering this, he does not take a run as have other exponents of this form of attack previously seen in New Zealand, but when standing in close to his man, launches himself high in the air, and shoots his (feet straight out at his opponent. In addition, Boesch is master of a rolling short-arm scissors. Russell earned the name “Rebel ’ in the States for his rough-house tactics, and he has fully lived up to it since he has been in New Zealand. A tough y.nd rough grappler, he has won many bouts in New Zealand, and has proved a great draw-card. He is strong and fast, with a sound knowledge of the game, and is recognised as one of the hardest of the present batch of imported men to pin, always liable to turn the tables on his opponent. His specialty is the “suplex” hold, a variation of the back-loop slam, but his powerful forearms and elbows have proved more than enough for many of his opponents.