BATTLE OF DROP KICKS
PENCHEFF KNOCKED OUT BOUT WITH JOE SAVOLDI (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last, night. Meeting a drop kick in mid-air, George Pencheff landed on the hack of his head and knocked himself out, thus losing his professional heavyweight match against Joe Savoldi at the Town Hall to-night. The opening stages of the bout were relatively quiet, and at times comic. In the fourth round, however, Pencheff created a sensation bv taking a fall from Savoldi with the latter’s own speciality, the drop.' kick. Savoldi, who had been keeping 'this resource in reserve himself, unleashed a drop kick in the sixtli round, sending PcnchelT to the mat for a fall. The seventh round was a drop kick battle, honours being more or less even. When the two met on (lie wing, Peireheff was counted out, while the winner knelt on the mat beside him dhzed and helpless.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 7
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