WRESTLING
RUMBERG BEATS VARGA (Tor Press Association.) ROTORUA, last night. In a professional wrestling match on Saturday night, Hal Rumberg defeated Count Varga by two falls to one. Although Varga secured the. first fall in the'third round, Rumberg appeared to have matters well under control throughout. Varga introduced unnecessary showmanship and rough tactics, with the result that, after repeated warnings, the referee awarded Rumberg a penalty fall iu the fifth round, after Varga, had used a rabbit punch in a melee on the mat. Rumberg clinched matters in the sixth round, when ho catapulted off the ropes and secured the decisive fall with a living scissors.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18208, 2 October 1933, Page 7
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106WRESTLING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18208, 2 October 1933, Page 7
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