ROUGH AND UNSCIENTIFIC
By Telegraph— Pres* Association WELLINGTON, August 10. To-night Jack Forsgren’s title, “the bad man of the wrestling mat,” was wrested from him by the American gipnt “Wee” Willie Davis, who was making his first appearance in New Zealand. The bout, which was remarkable for rough tactics and an utter lack of science, went to the eighth round. Davis took the first fall half way through when he threw Forsgren repeatedly in sustained headlocks and finally pinned him. Forsgren, however, clapped on a back cracking Boston Crab to which Davis submitted. Honours were even when, after a stand up battle of elbows, Davis pitched Forsgren clean out of the ring and on his return dumped him. For once the crowd’s sympathies were with Forsgren, and it must have been a new sensation for him to have Wellington patrons cheering him while the boos were for the other fellow.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20493, 11 August 1936, Page 12
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