WRESTLING
CLARK AND WALKER TO-NIGHT The Town Hull is likely to bo filled. io overflowing this evening when George Walker and Jack Clark will meet in a return match arranged specially by the Auckland Wrestling Association. The booking has been exceptionally heavy, and early attendance will be necessary for patrons to Bp curo of her seats. Clark made his New Zealand <lebut at the Town Hall last Saturday week when he wrestled three very strenuous rounds with Walker. He gained a fall m the opening round and was ahead on when he was heavily back-slammed in the third round and was unable to continue. After the bout he was very dissatisfied wit.li the result, nnd freely expressed the °Pini° n tliat lie was confident he could beat Walker. Tho Auckland Association had arranged for 1 his evening a contest between JacK Patterson and Walker, but Clark wns so insistent with his demand for a return natch with the champion that the controlling body put the Patterson-Walker match back a wffelc /ind acceded to Clark s ™q'>cs . Thcro is every imlicntion of another thrilling encounter. MAMOS AND PEREIRA fBY .TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION] WANGANUI, Sunday A good clean display of wrestling was given Inst night by Mamos, 14st. 51b., .and Pereria. 15st. 101b. The contest ended in a drew. In the fifth round Pereira secured the first fall with a body scissors, but Mamos evened with a body slam after a reverse aeroplane spin.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21515, 12 June 1933, Page 13
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