WRESTLING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22609, 28 June 1935, Page 11

WRESTLING

GLENN WADE v. AL PEREIRA A contest which should prove to be one of the best wrestling attractions of the present season will take place in the Town Hall next Monday evening, when Glenn Wade will meet the popular Al Pereira. This will be the second occasion upon which this pair will have met, their former meeting having occurred in Wellington some three weeks ago, when Wade was successful in defeating Pereira by one fall. It must be remembered, however, that on the occasion when they met in the capital city, .Pereira was a long way from being at his best as he had scarcely recovered from a sickness which had kept him from training for two weeks, a considerable portion of which time he was confined to his room. He is now fully recovered, arid according to northern sporting writers , who saw him wrestle with M'Cready in Wellington at the beginning, of this present week, he is exhibiting much better form than has previously been shown by him this season. As he is .; p taller and heavier than the clever and ; redoubtable Wade, it is quite possible that on Monday he may succeed in turning the tables upon the previous victor. Glenn Wade made a very favourable impression when he' met Williams here some four weeks ago, and it will be a moot question as to which man will be the favourite. The usual four amateur preliminaries will precede the professional bout, which i is timed to start at 9 p.m. The box plan is now open at the D.1.C., where reserva- I tions may be made. PEREIRA DEFEATS NARBARES \ (Per United Press Association) MASTERTON, June 27. % In a first-class professional wrestling I contest to-night Al Pereira defeated Leo. e Narbares by two falls to nil. Narbares i submitted to a Boston crab in the third ~) round, and, though he was very aggres- ■■. sive during the fourth round and the f. early stages of the fifth round, he could is not make much headway against Pereira's >S superior strength. The match finished « halfway through the fifth round, when, :%■ Pereira forced a fall with a press.