WRESTLING MATCH.
tTHOBfILEYt THOBfILEY v. POU.
(»ROM ODE U&NAIA OOEBESPONDENT.) On Satu^ay' afternoon there were aboafc 200 preeenl in Mr Moßae's paddock to witnep? the obampipnßhip matoh between Tbornley and Px>n for JB2O a«side and shue of gate money. Mr. Seslop aoted as rtferee and 'ACasa^B J. B. Stewart ana G. ftatde'as seoonds.' It bad been arranged kbit' tbero^shonia be five /alls Onmberlabd 1 style, and the winner of three should be the ohampion. It was about twenty minutes before (ihs>tw,p, got, b.oM. WDen TJhpiDley, easily threw, his opponent. Hold 2'Jg mqbh more easify obtained for the rion'a '»nc! tbkd iilets, and in each obbo Thornley pVoved that he was. by four tbo Rood 'for our local man who, in the 'fitßt throw: eeemed to have lost bis usual lelHpoesesßiQQi and w^ntidown as; if he were a ninepiD, but in both P^he, other throws he made ,a. game fight before falling, although -so ,ooEapletely overmatched, that everyone' oould .see , that he HWa^ no°ohance" of winning. Thornley is maoh taller than Pou, and immediately on olflfiing in the^eoond and third rounds made, nie. r pf -to superior, height to lift Pou'ojean,,off big feet. The Maoris. lob* pVetty tieaviiy, ' as" they baoked YoU to a man. '
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2755, 25 June 1894, Page 3
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204WRESTLING MATCH. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2755, 25 June 1894, Page 3
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