DRAWN BATTLE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 July 1933, Page 2

DRAWN BATTLE

Patterson and Pereira Each Secure Fall

SPECTACULAR WRESTLING AT PALMERSTON.

There was a capacity house to witness the big professional wrestling bout, staged by the Palmerston North Wrestling Association at the Opera House last evening. The bout started quietly, but the grapplers—Jack Patterson, of America, and Al Pereira, of Portugal, warmed to. their, work after the second round and they treated the spectators to some spectacular wrestling, the result, at the end of eight 10-minute rounds, being a draw, Pereira securing a fall in the third round and Patterson, who lasted the journey out better than his opponent, equalising in the eighth after a succession of punishing heaulocks. / Patterson turned the scales at lGst. and Pereira at lost. lOlbs., and they moved fast for such heavy men. Alex Anderson was the referee, Mr. J. A. Pearson the announcer, Messrs. G. Watchorn and J. Purves the stage managers, Messrs. A. E. Ekstedt and Weston J. Smith, time-keepers. The Big Bout. Patterson and Pereira wasted no time in getting into the ring. Patterson soon lowered his man with a wristlock, but Pereira had no difficulty in getting clear. The Portuguese then applied a headlock, but fell for a leg hold. Later Pereira secured i, painful head hold, but Patterson rooted him over the ropes and repeated the effort before the gong. There was plenty' of solid work iu the second round but little fireworks. But it was a different story for the rest of the way and Pereira's rushing tactics kept Patterson and the spectators on tenterhooks for the next four rounds.

In the third session Patterson jolted nis man with a forward chancery, but Pereira got him in the mid riff with his head and Patterson stayed down for some time. When they got to work again they went through the ropes and the referee had to follow to separate them. When they came back to the ring Patterson threw Pereira and ap plied a head scissors and held it fo.quite a while and.when Pereira eventually broke away. Patterson applied a headlock. He then proceeded to tie Pereira up in the ropes and when the referee ordered them back into the ring, Pereira bumped Patterson to the corner and proceeded to tie him up. Patterson then secured a side chancery, but the Portuguese ran back with him and bumped his head into a corner postWhen they got to work again Patterson held his opponent with a toe hold till the end of the round.

At the beginning of the third session Pereira threw Patterson with a side chancery but fell for a head scissors. Pereira got out of it and he dropped the Yank with a bunt in the middle. Patterson stayed put for a while, but when they started again Pereira carno back off the ropes with a flying body scissors and after dumping Patterson hard, secured the first fall with a body press.

Patterson was the aggressor in the fourth round, but when he tried for a standing splits he forgot to watch for his opponent's foot which whipped up and dropped him on his back. Pereira waited for the tavget and dropped hiru again when he got to his knees. Patterson dodged the third rush and dumped his man with a side chancery. He applied a body scissors, but Pereira, with a toe ( hold, turned it against him and Patterson wriggled to the ropes. When they resumed hostilities Patterson grabbed both Pereira's toes and was developing it with a view to a Boston crab when Pereira rolled clear. The Yank then threw him through the ropes with a headlock. Ho did it again, but the next one was credited to the Portuguese' just before the gong.

At the beginning of the sixth round Patterson headlocked Pereira and then dumped him with a wristlock which he changed to reverse crucifix. Pereira flapped about the ring, but eventually got clear, but Patterson then got him with a painful body scissors. They roughed it for a bit before Patterson put on a full Nelson. They came to their feet again and Pereira brought Patterson to the mat with a side chancery. The latter swung his feet up and secured a head scissors in which he had his man at the gong.

Patterson, with a fall to make good, went for headlocks in the seventh round and after throwing his opponent several times he applied a short arm scissors, Percira going through the ropes. The Yank then got him with a spreadeagle splits. He tried hard to got Poreira's shoulders to the mat, but he rolled over too far and had to go for a bar toe hold and Pereira withstood everything till the end of the round, being applauded as he went to his corner.

Patterson was in better fettle than Pereira when they started the eighth round and it was only a moment before the Portuguese was flying through the ropes and nearly into the orchestra from a headlock. Pereira staggered back into the ring and went flyin-z from another headlock. A forward phancory was next and then a headlock: nnd Pereira was ripe for the kill. Patterton bringing him down with a wrist-

lock and securing the equalising fall with a body prGss. Pulling Blake's Whiskers VARGA SCORES UNPOPULAR WIN TIMAEU. Last Night. In a wrestling- eoiifest to.nig'.t. Count Vnr.u'a defeated "Whi.-dcers " Blake by two falls to one. Great interest was evinced in the contet, the house being crowded. Varga secured a fall in the third round with a full headlock and body-press, brought about by a succession of headlccks. Blake equalised in the fifth, bringing Varga down heavily with a (lying tackle and securing an easy fall. Varga / again got a series of heail'.ock •• 1:1 t:w% sixth, throwing Blake and pinnine; inni with a body-pre-s. Varga annoyed the crowd by pulling Blake's whiskers .-ml punching, and the win was not" altogether popular. Blake caused Varga a good deal of concern by successive short-arm, scissors and a Japanese leg'iar, which took a good deal of breaking.