Wrestling

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7193, 27 June 1933, Page 8

Wrestling

LOW PRICES FOR 1933. BEST PROFESSIONAL BOUT By all indications the coming wrestling contest between A 1 Periera, recognised as tho heavyweight champion of Portugal, and Jack Patterson, the giant Irish-Amcrican, set down for the Opera House on Friday night next should prove about the best professional fixture to be staged in the Dominion. Periera stands 6ft. 2in. high, weighs nearly 16 stone, is only 23 years of age and is recognised as ono of the most adept and one of the quickest in the game. His speed and abnormal strength have put him in tho enviable position he holds to-day in the wrestling world. Big Jake Patterson, another 16 stone grapplcr, has already established himself as a favourite with New Zealand audiences as lie thoroughly understands that the people want to sec good straight wrestling and not too maun "padding," and has been quick to recognise that the better the exhibition given by him and his opponents, the better it is for his profession, so as the local governing body has made deep cuts into the prices for admission, and the match is ono of the best, there should bo as big a crowd to witness it as camo to sec tho Turk two years ago. The Palmerston North amateurs arc equal to the Dominion’s best and four or five preliminary bouts will be staged as curtain raisers. The box plans open to-morrow at the Central Booking Office. Count Varga Beats "Whiskers” Blake Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Last Night. A crowded house to-night saw Count Varga (14.5) defeat "Whiskers’ ’ Blake (15.0) in the fifth round. The bout was not so spectacular as was antioi pated. Amiga secured a fall in the third round after a series of headlocks. In the next round it appeared as if the same thing was going to happen, but Blake wrapped his legs round Varga and, using the figure-four scissors, obtained a submission fall. About half-way through the fifth round Blake sent Amiga to the mat with a couple of reverse hcadlocks, but Varga slipped in as Blake was coming for the third, and retaliated with three hcadlocks of an unusual type, holding to the last one to secure a fall.

A 1 Pereira Gives Spectacular Display BUT KNOCKS HIMSELF OUT IN FLYING ri-KLE Per Press Association AUCKLAND, Last Night. With one fall to his credit and a wide margin of points in his favour, A 1 Pereira, heavyweight wrestling champion of Portugal (who wrestles in Palmerston North on Friday) lost his match with Harry Mamos when he hurtled head first through the ropes in the sixth round landing first on tho staging and then on tho floor in front of tho stalls, partially knocking himself out and being unable to climb back into the ring. Pereida made his first appearance and his flying tackles excited the crowd. They paved the way for the fall he secured in the fourth round by means of a flying body scissors and press.