WRESTLING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23953, 31 October 1939, Page 10

WRESTLING

McGINTY BEATS ATKINS CPeb United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct 30. Two Australian wrestlers, “ I r 9 n " man” McGinty and " Tiger .Atkins made their debut here to-night. The contest ended in the fifth round when Atkins was unable to continue after submitting to a Boston crab. The loser had previously gained a fall in the third round. A WILD ROUND POLICE STOP BOUT fPER United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct. 30. A somewhat uninteresting wrestling contest had an unexpected denouement in the Town Hall to-night when a police officer stepped into the ring a few minutes before the finish of the last round and ordered the contest to stop. The wrestlers were Batros Pasha, of Turkey, 15.7, and George O’Brien, known as the “wild Irishman,” 15.0. and the bout, which attracted only a small crowd, was the first held by the newly-formed New Century Sports Club. Up to the last round there was nothing to excite the crowd, which, however, was hostile to Pasha’s caveman tactics, but in the last round O’Brien, who. up to then, had conducted himself with the utmost decorum, went completely berserk. He tossed his opponent out of the ring several times, and even went to the length of throwing the referee out after him. This sudden outburst was appreciated by the crowd, which up to then had seen a comparatively tame display with nothing new in the way of holds, but was frowned on by the police. Pasha, who had scored a fall in the sixth round with a press when O’Brien’s legs were hooked up in the ropes, got the decision.