STRENUOUS WRESTLING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20990, 29 September 1931, Page 10

STRENUOUS WRESTLING.

ALLEY DEFEATS PASHA.

ARM OF LOSER INJURED

[RV TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Monday.

With a fall against him and his right arm tempojaiily crippled, Kara Pasha came out gamely to meet 'loin Alley at the beginning of the sixth round of a professional wrestling match in the Town Hail this evening.

Alley liad won a fall in tlie preceding round with a drastic hammerlock so severe that Pasha had been lifted to his corner and 'spent liio interval in considerable pain. Jle came out nursing his arm at the beginning of the sixth round, but- Alley went straight for it and caught a wristlock". Pasha turned frantically to the referee and called out "Give it to him, give it. to him." The referee jumped in, separated the men, arid declared Alley the winner. The match was the best of the season. From the opening round both men were right out to win, and their work was splendidly received by the packed hall. BOUT AT PALMERSTON NORTH. A VJCTOI'Y FOIt IMXTO. [DY TEbKGIUt'JI. —I'UESS ASSOCIATION.] I'ALMEIJSTON NORTH, Monday. (Slan Pinto defeated Scotty MacDougall by two falls to one in a thrilling wrestling bout this evening. Pinto secured ilie first fall ill the second round, MacDougall being in a bad way. He recovered well and evened matters in the fifth when he secured a succession of head locks and a body press. The bout ended in the sixth round. MacDougall threw Pinto with a succession of four head locks, but was slow with the fifth. Pinto dumped him and obtained the deciding fall with a body press.