WALKER’S BACK=LOOP SLAM

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 12 September 1933, Page 3

WALKER’S BACK=LOOP SLAM

——- VARGA PUT OUT OF ACTION. LOSER SECURES EARLY FALL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 11. With a ’ back-loop slain in the fifth round Walker incapacitated Varga in a wrestling bout to-higlit'. A iribderate house witnessed the match. Varga took a. fall in the second round but at all other stages Walker appeared to have the bout in hand. He trapped Varga in the fifth;for a terrific slam and rendered liiih unconscious; PENNIES IN THE RING. ■ OTAGO GALLERY CRITICAL. DUNEDIN, Sept. 10. George Walker defeated Count Varga by two falls to one in 'a'wrestling match at the Town Hall last' night. .Varga obtained the first fall in the third round with a body press following a series of headlocks. Walker evened in the sixth round with’ a submission fall from a Boston crab and secured the deciding fall m the following round with a step-over toehold and leglock. The bout was slow and . produced little in the way of thrills. For the first time in a- wrestling contest at Dunedin pennies were thrown into, the ring by the' spectators. RUM BERG BEATS PEREIR A. TWO FALLS TO ONE;. AUCKLAND, Sept. 11. There was plenty of action in the wrestling contest between Hal Rumberg and Al. Pereira to-night. Rumberg won bv two falls to one. Several spectacular flying t a aides roused the onlookers and two of the falls were obtained following a series of these atRmhberg gained a fall in the third round with a press after a partialslam. Pereira evened in the fifth with a press after a series of flying' tackles, and Ruinberg clinched the match m the .succeeding round with a fall icsulting from flying scissors.