WRESTLING
WOODS AND MARSHALL. WELLINGTON, October 11. Trading willing elbow-jolts in a stand-up battle, Joe Woods and Floyd: Marshall gave a display at the Town Hall, last night, rather reminiscent of a prize-ring than orthodox wrestling technique. Woods won by two falls to one. Marshall, in the third round, took an absurdly easy fall from Woods with a flying body scissors. Woods reciprocated in the fifth when he saved himself from being dumped by striking Marshall a smart rap in the stomach, after which he dumped Marshall instead. Finally, in the sixth round, after four and a-half hectic minutes of belabouring one another with jolts, the wrestlers paused for a second, both half dazed. Woods let fly a blow that sent Marshall to the mat. where he pinned him. Marshall complained that the blow was a punch and the referee had to come to grips with Marshall while the attendants restrained Woods or the bout would have been unofficially continued after the decision had been given.
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Grey River Argus, 13 October 1937, Page 8
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166WRESTLING Grey River Argus, 13 October 1937, Page 8
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