WRESTLING
WORLD’S CHAMPION. UNIVERSITY ATHLETE. DEFEATS “STRANGLER” LEWIS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COI'V RIGHT. Received -lan. 10, 10.35 a.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 9. At Kansas City, W ayne Munn, a former University of Nebraska athlete,' worn the heavyweight wrestling championship ofi the world, defeating ltd (“Strangler”) Lewis in two tails out of three. Munn won the first and third fall, but lost the second on a foul, when he lifted Lewis out of the ropes and threw him out of the ring.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 January 1925, Page 5
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