George Walker Beats “Whiskers” Blake

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 May 1933, Page 8

George Walker Beats “Whiskers” Blake

entertaining visitor injures SPINE AUCKLAND, Last Night. The wrestling season opened in Auckland to-night, when George Walker, the New, Zealand and British Empire champion defeated “Whiskers” Blake, a recent arrival from America. The visitor injured his spine when he jumped over his opponent and landed on his back early in the fourth round. He was an easy prey then for a lightly applied Boston crab. Blake was obviously unfit to continue and the referee separated the, contestants as Walker Blake won the first fall in the second round by a figure four on the arm and a reverse bar. The American is 6ft 6in in height. Tall and slender and wearing a flowing red beard “Whiskers” Blake is one of the most entertaining wrestlers who have come to the Dominion. i

Rough and Slow giants annoy wrestling CROWD WELLINGTON, Last Night. Pressing Jack Patterson’s neck hard on the ropes and then heaving him over and dumping him half conscious on the edge of the ring, big Bill Beth won his first Wellington bout in the Town Hall this evening, , He had previously been awarded a penalty fall in the second round which Patterson equalised with a press in the fifth round. The contest was bitter but slow, both men earning the disapproval of the crowd with ponderously rough tactics, slapping, punching and jabbing with the knee and elbow. The bout went seven rounds. Patterson is 16st. and Beth 16st. 21bs.