Professional Wrestling Season Opens
ILLEGALITIES MAR BOUT AT AUCKLAND Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. An American heavy-weight, Cy Williams, ushered in the 1935 wrestling season in somewhat spectacular manner at the Town Hall when, three seconds from the commencement of a professional bout with Sam Burmister, lie feigned the shake-hands, but dropped his opponent with a heavy' jolt to the jaw to take the first fall with a press. It was a fitting prelude to a lively and boisterous bout which, falling sho'rt of what was desired from the point of wrestling, lacked little in illegalities and showmanship. Burmister took the equalising fall by submission in the third round and the bout ended in tho fourth, when Williams was disqualified for repeatedly kicking his opponent on the face and body and other illegal tactics. There was a poor attendance.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 99, 30 April 1935, Page 7
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140Professional Wrestling Season Opens Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 99, 30 April 1935, Page 7
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