WRESTLING.
TOURNEY AT TOWN HALL. GOOD CONTESTS PROMISED. Arrangements have been practically completed for the wrestling tournament to be held in the Town Hall on Monday evening. Tho most notable wrestlers in Australia and New Zealand will compete for prize money to the extent of £l5O. Miller, Robin and .Tawala are all fit. MeesKe and Karasick will arrive by the Aorangi on Monday. The draw for the matches will be mado at the ringside and each match will consist of three ten-minnto bouts with two-minute intervals. Decisions must be obtained in all matches, either by falls or by points, so fast wrestling should be the result. Tho competition will bo run on the "knock-out" lines, losers of bouts being eliminated until there are only two men left to contest the final. IKE BOBBIN BEATS MILLER. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] HASTINGS, Thursday. Ik© Robin (Hawke's Bay) beat Walter Miller (America) for the Australian and New Zealand heavy-weight wrestling championship and a purse o£ £ 500, on poir.t3 after six ten-minute rounds at ISolson Park this morning, before a good crowd.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19156, 23 October 1925, Page 8
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