WRESTLING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11951, 23 May 1933, Page 5

WRESTLING

WALKER. BEATS “WHISKERS” BLAKE. VISITOR MEETS WITH INJURY. (Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 22. Tho wrestling season opened at Auckland when George Walker, the New Zealand and British Empire champion, defeated “Whiskers” Blake, a recent arrival from America. Tffe visitor injured his spine when he jumped over his opponent and landed on his hack early in the fourth round. He was an easy prey then for a. lightly applied Boston crab. Blake obviously was unfit to continue and the referee separted the men, as Walker lowered liis man to the floor. Blake won the first fall in the second round by a figure four on the arm and reverse bar. The American is 6ft. 6in. in height and slender, and wears a flowing beard of red whiskers. Blake is one of the most entertaining wrestlers who have come to the Dominion.

A BITTER CONTEST. BETH BEATS PATTERSON. DUMPED OX EDGE OF RING. (Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 22. Pressing Jack Paterson's neck hard on the ropes and then heaving him over and .dumping him half conscious on the edge of the ring, “Big Bill” Beth won his first ' Wellington bout in the Town Hall this evening, lie had previously been awarded a penalty fall in the second round, which Patterson equalised with a press in the fifth round. The contest was bitter but slow, both men earning the disapproval of the crowd with ponderously rough tactics, slapping and punching and jabbing with knee and elbow. The bout went seven rounds. Patterson weighed 16 stone and Beth 16st. 21b.