WRESTLING
WOODS AND BOESCII DRAW. (Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 1. lu easily the best bout of the present wrestling season, Joe Kopack Woods (15.3) and Paul Roesch (15.5; drew, one fall each, in a contest beiore a record crowd to-night. Woods gained the first fall after lie had lolled Boeseh in the sixth round with a number of vicious elbow jolts, which lio followed up with a dump, clinching the advantage "ith a body press. Bocscli seemed hurt. and,, at .the beginning of the next round, looked as though lie might not by aide io continue. As Woods carne towards him, Boesch gave a. solid dropkick and fallowed with another, so that, a lew seconds after the seventh round had begun, it was an easy matter for him to get a full with a body press from tlo dazed Woods. The bout was a good exhibition of clever wrestling.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12903, 2 July 1936, Page 6
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