WRESTLING
KIRILINKO v. FORSGREN
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
DUNEDIN, June 6.
In a fast, spectacular wrestling contest, Jack Forsgren beat Matros Kirilinko in the Town Hall last night, gaining the decision in the seventh round with a Boston crab which made the RusSian incapable of continuing. Kirilinko secured a fall in the fifth round with a body press following a suplex hold. '
SPELLMAN V. RUMBERG.
GISBORNE, June 7.
Providing plenty of excitement for a packed house, Spellman and Rumberg wrestled a draw on Saturday. Spellman pinned his opponent in the third round, after a series of dumps, and in the sixth, appeared likely to get another, but the gong saved Rumberg. The latter came out strong in the, seventh, and when Spellman hurled him against tho ropes, he came off with a flying body scissors, driving the lighter man to the mat, and registering an equalising fall.
WOODS v. McKENZIE
[BY CABLE —rnESS ASSN. —COPYRTOHT.]
SYDNEY, June 6
Tn a wrestling contest, at Leichhardt Stadium, the American medico, Dr. Gordon McKenzie, wrestled a draw with Joe Koepack Woods, each securing a fall.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 June 1937, Page 11
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