WRESTLING CONTEST
COX DEFEATS SPELLMAN DECISION ON POINTS IBy Telegraph Brent* Association I Dunedin, This Day. “King Kong” Cox (17st), defeated Jack Spellman (16st) on points. Spellman secured a fall in the fifth round with a body press. Cox equalised in the seventh with a dump after rendering his. opponent groggy with elbow jolts. In the last round Cox battered Spellman all over the ring with jolts, and the latter was almost done when the gong sounded. WIN FOR BLOMFIELD KIRILINKO PENALISED NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. Blomfield defeated Kirilinko by two falls to one in a clever and exciting bout. With the falls even in the last round, excitement was running high when Kirilinko held Blomfield in a strangle and the New Zealander was awarded a penalty fall. WALKER’S COME-BACK HUNGARIAN DEFEATED AUCKLAND, This Day. After an absence from Auckland of over two years, George Walker made an appearance in a wrestling contest promoted by the New Zealand Wrestling and Athletic Club. He defeated the voung Hungarian Lou Szabo bv two falls to one, ending the match in the fifth round with a back loop slam. SAVAGE WINS AT WELLINGTON WELLINGTON, This Day. Wrestling before a large crowd Steve Savage scored a decisive two-fall win over Tony Felice. Savage dumped Felice three times in sucession at the beginning of the fifth round and sat on him, applying an excruciating toe-hold, to which Felice submitted. His seconds carried him to his corner and when he limped out again, Savage had no difficulty in Securing another toe-hold and another submission fall. FORSGREN AND STEIN DRAW DANNEVIRKE, This Day. ; Early in the sixth round of a wrestling bout, Forsgren tok a fall from Stein, whose third flying tackle was 1 successfully countered by Forsgrei l , who felled him and clapped on a Boston crab. Stein eVened in the eighth ' with three (lying tackles, followed by a body press, the verdict being a draw. • The match was characterised by hard ; wrestling and was full of incident J throughout. \
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 21 June 1937, Page 2
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334WRESTLING CONTEST Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 21 June 1937, Page 2
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