WRESTLING.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18354, 27 August 1929, Page 9

WRESTLING.

By Telegraph—Pra*a Association. AUCKLAND, August 26.

A return professional wrestling match between Tom Alley (13st 21b), the Utah Mormon champion, and “Farmer” Vance (12st 71b), light-heavy champion of Canada, drew a record house to the Town Hall to-night. It concluded in the fourth round, Alley winning two falls to one. From the start there was no beg pardons, and the exhibition, if torrid, was easily the best seen in Auckland during the past two years. Alley obtained a submission fall in the second round with a reserve toe-hold. Vance evened in the following round with a winglock, Alley having to be assisted to his corner. Vance was too eager to finish the match, missing with an aeroplane spin and falling with Alley on top of him. and the latter was able to pin his opponent. ANOTHER WHIRLWIND CONTEST. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received August 27. 12.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 26. At the Stadium to-night, John Pesek defeated Jim Browning, both Americans, in the seventh round, getting out of a body scissors, and securing a backslam. Browning was unable to continue. Several times during a whirlwind contest. Browning had Pesek in trouble and looked a certain winner on points, until disabled. The match was the outcome of a challenge issued by Browning, who has been wrestling in Australia for about a year, but was not on the Stadium’s list. Pesek had deposited £SOO to be paid to the first man who pins him in Australia. Browning alleged that this was a bluff, as Pesek could not wrestle any man not imported by the Stadium Company. He challenged Pesek to wrestle In private for £SOO a side, and Pesek accepted. The Stadium management then arranged to have the contest decided in the Rushcutter’s Bay arena. According to the announcer at 2BL, Browning and Pesek’s shoulders on the mat for the necessary two seconds, but did not receive the fall, because the referee was too slow In gettin. -ound. In the next session, when Browning was apparently punishing his lighter opponent, Pesek ended the matter in his customary fashion, securing a fall by a back-slam and rendering Browning Incapable of continuing. Pesek’s back-slam Is secured by grasping his opponent’s legs low down and lifting his man, who Is compelled to bend over Pesek’s shoulders. Then Pesek releases his leg hold, and by levering his adversary’s elbows, throws him further back. He completes the throw by letting his weight fall on the other man, who is nearly always badly winded and unable to resume in time. Theer is no brutality about the back slam, but it is the most effective legal manoeuvre seen in Australia.