THRILLS IN WRESTLING
PROSPECT FOR GISBORNE Tom Rice, a football coach lor Lie University of San Francisco, and a leal sportsman, will meet a tougn wresLer Jim Wright in Gisborne's first wrestling match of the season on Tuesday next. Rice who once played a gan.a ot American football with a bioke.i, arm strapped to his side, is a diseipm of the drop kick and Hying tackle, r. -■ does not tavour the shoulder charge, which passes in some quarters as a flying tackle but prefers the dive across the ring with his head and shoulders making contact in the sty-e used by Gus Sonnenberg. Rice's first match in New Zealand,, at-gins'. Ka v Bell in Wellington, was, one of the most sensational seen in, years. At Gisborne Rice and Wright wi.l; be meeting lor the first time. There, should be olenty of thrills when Jim Wright, who belted Lofy Blomfield jnio 2—l defeat in AucVland's openirg match gets Going against the non-stop-attack launched by Rice.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22313, 24 April 1947, Page 6
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164THRILLS IN WRESTLING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22313, 24 April 1947, Page 6
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