GOOD WRESTLING
MoCREADY BEATS LEATHERS
[.MY TELECRAI'H—PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Monday
Good orthodox wrestling was seen in a match to-night, when Earl McCready beat Sam Leathers by two falls to one. Leathers obtained the first fall in the third round with a powerful head scissors, but McCreadv, who gave the impression of great reserves of strength, pinned the American in the fifth. In the next round Leathers landed an elbow jolt that drew blood and McCready dropped him to tho mat with a return jolt to the head. When McCready went to pin Leathers the referee Air. A. Jenkins, becamo involved and came off the worst of the three for two 16-stone men rolled on top of him. On rising McCready dumped Leathers hard and secured an easy fall.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22464, 7 July 1936, Page 11
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