WRESTLING.
CONTEST AT NEW YORK. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, June 9. In tbo inaugural programme of the Madison Square Garden Corporation's now outdoor arena, “Strangler” Lewis won the»so-called eatch-as-catcih can world's heavyweight wresting championship, throwing Dick Shikat, tho German, with a hend’.ock, after the contest had gone one hour and six minutes. Twenty-live thousand witnessed the contest. The arena has been built to accommodate eighty thousand people, and it will be used for Jack Sharkey v. Max Scbmeling heavyweight championship prize fight on June 91.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1932, Page 4
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