WRESTLING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 311, 30 November 1936, Page 5

WRESTLING.

McCREADY AND GEORGE DRAW. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Nov. 29. In a thrilling wrestling match last night Earl McCready, British Empire champion, drew with the former world champion, Ed Don George, each of them securing a fall. After a brilliant display of science in the early phases George indulged in increasingly rough and aggressive tactics during the latter rounds. After escaping from an Indian deathlock he knocked McCready . down with terrific elbow jolts and dumped him, leaving him unconscious on the mat. McCready, however, made a wonderful recovery and in the last round punished George with jolts and dumped him repeatedly, setting the scores level-. The match was to have taken place in the open air during the afternoon, but owing to the southerly gale and driving rain it was held instead in the Wellington show stadium in the presence of about 4000 spectators, many from the country districts. The sympathy of the crowd was wholeheartedly .with McCready and in the tense moments of the last round it rose to its feet ns one man shouting and waving. Just before the bout began George Walker, McCready’s rival claimant for the British Empire title, tried in vain to obtain silence to address the crowd. He walked out at the end of the third round. WIN FOR LURICH. SYDNEY. Nov. 29. In a wrestling match Tom Luricli beat Lundyn.