WALKER DISQUALIFIED

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 25 August 1933, Page 4

WALKER DISQUALIFIED

BARRED DUMP REPEATED FIRST REVERSE OF SEASON (By Telegraph—Frees Association). WELLINGTON, Aug 24. A crowd of record dimensions in the Winter Show Stadium to-night witnessed George Walker’s first reverse of the present wrestling season. In the fifth round of his contest with Count Josef Varga, when honours were even with a fall apiece, Walker dumped the Hungarian over the ropes. lie was warned by the referee, but a few seconds later repeated the barred dump and was disqualified. The preceding rounds were evenly contested but contained little to remove them from the commonplace. Walker’s showing was disappointing and neither man seemed disposed to force tlie pace. The New Zealand champion’s wrist was bandaged, and in the fourth and fifth rounds the tender spot appeared to be causing him discomfort. Both falls were taken with surprising ease. In the second round after a series of elianc-ery throws Varga pinned Walker with a simple headloek and press. In the third round Varga submitted to a hammerlock within 25 seconds of the bell. Tlie final decision met with a mixed reception, the crowd demonstrating noisily for some minutes.

RUMBERG DEFEATS PEREIRA.

TWO' FALLS TO' ONE. NELSON, Aug. 25. In a wrestling match last night Hal Rumberg defeated Pereira- by two falls to one Rumberg obtained a fall in the third round with a body press following a living body scissors. Pereira evened in the fifth with a- press after a series of flying tackles. The bout came to ail end in the sixth, when Rumberg sprang back off the ropes and crushed his opponent beneath him for the deciding fall.