TWO FALLS TO ONE
SAVOLDI BEATS DAVIS DROP KICKS AND BUTTS (Per Press Association.) WANG AN UI, last night. In a wrestling bout charncterisi by a go/nl deal of action and punctuii ed with showmanship, "Jumpii Joe" Savoldi beat Wee Willie Dav hero to-night by two falls to one. Tl contest went to the seventh round.
Davis gained a fall in the fourtl round, Savoldi, following a series o drop kicks and flying butts, equalising in the sixth. In the seventh round Davis came n>j: apparently groggy and lasted IS seconds, Savoldi drop kicking him twice, and then driving home a body press.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 7
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