ROUGH WRESTLING

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1930, Page 6

ROUGH WRESTLING

POLICE STOP CONTEST,

(Australian Press Association)

SYDNEY, Aug. 11

.In a professional wrestling match at the Sydney Stadium before 10,000 people this evening, between Billy Edwards (13st) and Ted Thye (13.8), some exciting times were experienced by ring-siders, and on one occasion the press reporters, through the contestants hurling and throwing each other about the ring. They resorted to kicking, punching and biting, and 'Edwards, who was the worst offender, waq cautioned by the referee on the more numerous occasions. The contest came to a sudden ending in the early stage of the sixth round, when the police intervened and. .stopped it. At this stage no fall had been gained by either wrestler and no decision was. given to-night.; At this announcement the large crowd who, paid for admission were in an upheaval. They did not favour this unexpected ending. They hooted and howled and two different sections of the crowd, consecutively counted the police out for intruding and stopping the contest.

FIGHTING WRESTLERS

THE POLICE, INTERVENE,

SYDNEY, August 12.

The wrestlers Tliye and Edwards were again the principals-in a bout at the stadium. After four rounds of biting, kicking, punching, and spitting, the police stopped the contest in the fifth. A crowd of 10 thousand roundly hooted, and the referee left the ring without giving a decision as to the winner.