WRESTLING
McCREADY BEATS CLAYBOURNE (P A ) WELLINGTON, July 5. In one of the brightest professional heavy-weight wrestling contests seen in Wellington this season, Earl McCready beat Jack Claybourne by a fall in the sixth round before a crowded audience at the Town Hall to-night. McCready, who scaled 17.1 to the negro’s 16.8, also had the advantage in height and reach, but Claybourne made up for this by his speed and nimbleness McCready secured the only fall of the match with a rolling
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26197, 6 July 1946, Page 8
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