WRESTLING.
McCready beats boesch,
Per Press Association
DUNEDIN, July 12. After a fast and willing contest, Earl McCready, Hist. 121 b., beat Paul Boeseh, lost. 101 b., by tho only fall of an eight-round wrestling bout last night. Boescli was ahead on points in the first five rounds, but McCread.v’s superior weight and strength then began to tell, and within a minute of the last round McCready sidestepped the fourth of a succession of dropkicks and administered the coup de grace with two devasting dumps. LEATHERS BEATS KENT. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, July 12. Making clever use of his legs, Sam Leathers ‘heat Harry Kent by two falls to one in a professional wrestling bout last night. Leathers took a submission fall in the fourth round with a head scissors. Kent evened with a body-press after flying tackles and dumps, hut submitted in the sixth after being rocked in a bodyscissors.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 12
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152WRESTLING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 12
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