WRESTLING
CONTESTS NEXT MONDAY TWO PROFESSIONAL BOUTS The big wrestling programme to be staged by the New Century Sports Club at the Town Hall next Monday night is creating considerable interest among enthusiasts of tho sport. This will be the first occasion in which two heavy-weight bouts, each of eight rounds, will have been presented on the same programme. The American Jack Clarke will be making a reappearanco after four years, and that ins form is still as good as formerly is evidenced by the fact that while in Australia he had 03 contests, winning GO. Following Ins pleasing and spectacular bouts in Wellington, "Tiger" Atkins should prove a fine opponent In^the V< other bout "Irish" George O'Brien will meet Balros Pasha, and if O Brien can reproduce the form shown in previous bouts an interesting and spectacular strugglo should result. Two professional preliminary bouts will also be held.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23507, 18 November 1939, Page 17
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149WRESTLING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23507, 18 November 1939, Page 17
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