WRESTLING
WALKER DEFEATS BURMISTER. A PENALTY FALL. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, January 28. There was an unexpected ending to the professional heavyweight wrestling contest at the Town Hall to-night, when George Walker (the holder) defeated Sam Burmister in a special challenge match for the British Empire title. Leading by one fall secured in the fourth round by means of an aeroplane spin and a dump Burmister ran into trouble in the next round when he was looped over the ropes by Walker and fell heavily to injure his back. When Burmister failed to return to the ring at the completion of the count of 20 the referee awarded a penalty fall to Walker. The injured wrestler was examined between rounds by a doctor, but when the bell went for the commencement of the sixth round Burmister was still outside the ropes doubled up with pain and the referee had no option but to award the bout to Walker. A doctor declared subsequently that Burmister had strained the muscles of his back.
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Southland Times, Issue 22492, 29 January 1935, Page 6
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172WRESTLING Southland Times, Issue 22492, 29 January 1935, Page 6
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