WRESTLING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18234, 1 November 1933, Page 12

WRESTLING

JACK CLARK WINS BACK LOOPS TOM LTJBICH BIG SYDNEY CONTEST The wrestler, Jack Clarke, who earlier in the season >inently in the New 'Zealand ringffcrd registered some very fine perforUmces, lately has been active in the Australian rings. The game over there is well patronised by the public, and though the scale of admission charges is much lower than in New Zealand; successful matmen are able to make a good living. Tom Lurieh has been “king” of the Australian wrestling game for a long time, his position paralleling that of George Walker in New Zealand; and i visiting wrestlers who secure matches with him are lucky, whatever the actual result of their bouts may be. If a visitor happens to beat Lurieh, his : reputation is made with the Australian public, and he can look forward to a period of considerable prosperity. For this reason, the following extract from the sporting columns of the Sydney Bulletin, of October 21, will be of interest to all followers of wrestling .ip. New Zealand, by whom ClaTk was looked on as -a sound wrestler and a good fellow:— * “'Lurieh took on a real wrestler, Jack Clarke, an American,' at Leichhardt Stadium, on - Saturday anJ was licked. Headloeks and short-arm scissors holds 'placed him in danger many times during the first couple of rounds, and a perfectly executed back slam outed him in the third. The Russian still lay spread-eagled when the bell rang for the' fourth, so Clarke was crowned. An ambulance was requesitioned to take Lurieh to the hospital, but it was not as bad as that.”