WRESTLING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 9, 21 December 1911, Page 5

WRESTLING.

TUSSLE FOR TARANAKI CHAMPIONSHIP. URQUHART BEATS HI NIC Tiro following description is given by the “News” of the meeting or Urquhart and Hine in a match for the championship of Taranaki which took place at New Plymouth last night;— M. Urquhart (Stratford), 10,rO, v. E. Hine (New Plymouth) 11.3—-after sparring for holds, Hine attempted to buttock, but failed. Urnqlrart thou got a dying fall, but was unable to follow up the advantage. Hine got in the scissors hold, but Urquhart countered with the footlock and saved. Some active work on • the mat saw Hine get a flying fall from an arm roll. A little later Urquhart almost had the half-Nelson. Hine was next! prominent with a leg and shoulder nokl, but Urquhart was too clever, and after thirteen minutes won the fall with the cradle hold. The second bout was very fast. Bine’s strength enabling him to pick his opponent up and throw him about, hut Urquhart’s trickiness and cleverness on the mat stood him in good stead, as he wriggled out of seemingly impossible positions. At the end of 20 minutes’ strenuous work, Urquhart, following up a cross buttock, got a strong neck hold that his opponent could not combat, and ,won the bout amidst applause.