WRESTLING SEASON
ROUGH OPENING CONTEST MICHOT TAKEN TO HOSPITAL. (Pee United Peess Association.) WELLINGTON, May 7. The wrestling season was opened here somewhat dramatically to-night when Dr Fred Meyer incapacitated Rene Michot, the French champion, in the seventh round of a medium pace, rough contest. Michot was removed to hospital in an ambulance for an X-ray of a badlystrained neck, received when Meyer applied a sudden headlock in an attempt to remove the Frenchman from a posture on the mat resembling that of a squatting Oriental. Michot gained a fall in the fourth round with a dump. Jolting and slapping, chiefly from Meyer, marred the contest. WIN FOR JAPANESE (Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 7. The wrestling season was opened when two recent overseas arrivals were matched at the Town Hall. They were Charlie Santen (lost 121 b) and Oki Shikina (lost 21b). The last-named, a Japanese, secured the only fall in the seventh round by means of an armbar and press following a heavy buttock throw.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22256, 8 May 1934, Page 11
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