WRESTLING
BOESCH-FQSTER RETURN BOUT The long-awaited return match between Paul Boesch and Frank Foster is to be held in the Town Hall next Monday night, and a fast and spectacular bout .is anticipated. Boesch had trouble' with injuries at the start of the season, but ne soon struck form, and in recent weeks has compiled a formidable record. He has always been a favourite in Dunedin, where followers of the sport will not have it that he has any superior as an exponent of the "dropkick." Foster, however, beat Poesch in a strenuous match at Hamilton. . Foster is a rough matman when it- comes .to his Variation of. the dropkick, known as the " mule kick," but with this he is fast for a big man, and besides wrestling ability, has a large repertoire of tactics which makes him one of the most difficult men in the Dominion at present to cope with. The match will be preceded by the usual attractive preliminaries.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23882, 9 August 1939, Page 12
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162WRESTLING Otago Daily Times, Issue 23882, 9 August 1939, Page 12
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