WRESTLING
OPENING OF SEASON HA.MM OX RETAINS AUSTRALIAN MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE (United Pros* Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, 2nd May. The wrestling season opened at Sydney Stadium with an exciting and rough bout for the middleweight title of "Australia between .lack Ilnmnum (l«st 131 b) the defender, and dim Weak in (list lib) challenger. Each man secured a fall hut Hamilton won on ] joints, though Deakin displayed marked cleverness.
A WIN FOR LONDON IX EXCITING MATCH NEW YORK. Ist. May. London (20011)) bent Steele (2141 b) with a reverse headloek and body scissors in an hour and 22 minutes of a. wrestling inateb. There was an exciting finish to the match in which the challenger gave the champion a desperate argument throughout, losing only after he had been tossed over the top ot the ropes to the floor. Cold Prevented by putting few drops of Brodie’s Kanatov in nostrils 4 Nees, Chemist, Hardy st.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 May 1931, Page 3
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152WRESTLING Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 May 1931, Page 3
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