McCREADY AND GEORGE DRAW

Northern Advocate, 30 November 1936, Page 10

McCREADY AND GEORGE DRAW

Wrestling

[Per Press Association. Copyrights WELLINGTON This Day.

In a thrilling wrestling match on Saturday night, Earl McCready, British Empire champion,- drew with the former world champion, Ed Don George, each obtaining a fall, after a brilliant display of science in the early stages. George indulged in increasingly rough and aggressive tactics during the latter rounds. After escaping from an Indian death-lock, 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, making the falls even.

The match was to have taken place in the open air during the afternoon, but, owing to a southerly gale and driving rain, it was held, instead, in the Wellington Show Stadium in the presence of about 4000 spectators many being from the country districts. The sympathy of the crowd was whole-heartedly with McCready and in the tense moments of the last round, it rose to its feet as one man, shouting and waving. Just before the bout began, Geo. Walker, McCready’s rival claimant for the British Empire title, tried in vain to obtain silence to address the crowd. He walked out of the stadium at the end of the third round.