WRESTLING
DAVIS v. FORSGREN.
[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
WELLINGTON, August 10
To-night Jack Forsgren’s title to the name of “the bad man of the wrestling mat” Avas wrested from him by the American giant, “Wee” Willie Davis, making his first appearance m a New Zealand bout that was remarkable for rough tactics and utter lack of science. It Avent to* the eighth round. Davis took the first fall haltway through, when he threw Forsgren repeatedly in sustained headlocks, and finally pinned him. Forsgren, however, clapped on a back-cracking Boston Crab, to which Davis submitted. Honours Avere even when, after a stand-up battle of elbows, DaA r is pitched Forsgren clean out of the ring, and on his return, dumped him. For once, the croAvd’s sympathies were Avith Forsgren, and it must have been a neAV sensation for him to have Wellington fans cheering him, Avhile “boos” Avere for the other fellow.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1936, Page 11
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