WRESTLING MATCHES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8963, 30 January 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)

WRESTLING MATCHES.

A wkestling match for the five atylea championship took place at Dunedin cn Jan. 21 between George Robertson, half-caste, and Harry Dunn, before a large audience. In the collar and elbow style .Robertson gained a fall after an obstinate struggle. In the Lancashire eatch-as-catch-can, Dunn, after a lot of ground wrestling, got a hammerlock, and turned his big opponent fairly over. In the Cumberland style, which followed, it was thought Dunn would have all the advantage, bat, endeavouring to cross buttock, ho was unable to get away, and Robertson bore him down, throwing him fairly on hia side. Dunn was awarded a fall, a very doubtful one, in the Lancashire side hold, "and points were even. Tho deciding fall, in the Giajno-Roman style, was hotly contested. There was aorao dissatisfaction with the judging, many averring tint Kobertsou had secured a fall, but it was disallowed, and Dunn secured an undeniable fall and won the match.

There was a bitter contest during the evening for the prizs for Grajco-lioman wrestling between J. Dunn, the champion's brother, aud Hudson, and a good deal of ill» feeling waa shown, tach man working to get ou a strangling hold with such determination that tho referee had to interfere, and at the finish of tho big match they rushed at each other and began fighting in real earnest, but the curtain was promptly lowered and the tueu separated. '