WRESTLING.
L. ROBKIITSOX BEATS PENNY. PF.K rXITF.n PIfKSS S^-iOCtATrON STRATFORD, Nov. L>S. A wrestling match hetwecn Louis Robertson, light-weight professional champion of New Zealand, and Stoker Penny, of the warship Powerful, tool; place hist night, the Town Hall being filled. The match was in cateh-as-eatch-can style. The double Nelson, strangle and twisting toos and finders were barred. Robertson's weight was 10.7 and Penny weighed a stone less. Robertson won the first two falls outright, the first with the scissors .bold in 11 minutes, and the second with the cradle hold after wrestling AD minutes.
[ CHAMPION'S CHALLENGE. B7 ELECTRIC TELEOItAI'IJ. Cni'YEIGHT. vr.n :;xrn:r> ntiiss association. Received November '29, 10 a.m. XEW YORK. Nov. 2S. Frank Gotch {the world's champion) offers to wrestle Mimro cny time Ik !<.;■«• January, when ho will leave for a European tour.
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Mataura Ensign, 29 November 1911, Page 5
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134WRESTLING. Mataura Ensign, 29 November 1911, Page 5
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