WRESTLING

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1940, Page 6

WRESTLING

O’CONNOR AND CORBETT

(Per Press Association—Copyright). WELLINGTON, Mky 20. Daii O’Connor bejat Jbe Corbett • ori points, in a brisk wrestling bout ■ at tlie Wellington Town HaK to-night. They secured a fall each! Corbett obtained the initial fall, with a cradle hold, after preliminary jolts and tosses, in tlie fifth rourid. He tried to do it again in the next' round; but he ran into a flying.'tackle and a drop kick, after which O’Conribr took a fall with a reverse octopus clamp; and surfboard —an ingenious hold that' has .not' hitherto been seen in Wellington; KATAN AND RATNES AUCKLAND, May 20. John Ivatan, the American professional heavyweight wrestler, made his first appearance in iii Auckland to-night, when lie favourably ‘ impressed a fairly large croud' by defeating Dick Raines. also of America. Ivatan obtained the only ’fall of the match in the fifth round. KATAN TO MEET McCREADY. WELLINGTON, May 20. The British Empire championship for professional heavy-weight wrestling' will be contested in Wellington next Monday, when John Ivatan (Canada) will challenge the holder of the title, Earl AfeCroadv. The bout is likely to he a highlight of the 1940 wrestling season.