So This Is Wrestling!
“WILDEST SPECTACLE EVER.” LURICH AND PENCHEFF. DISGRACEFUL SCENE AT BRISBANE. (A. and N.Z. Cable). BRISBANE, Nov. 30. The wildest spectacle ever associated with wrestling in Brisbane marked a contest between Lurich and Peneheff. Both were disqualified in the third round, after which they flew at each other) And a 1 fierce encounter took place Outside the ropes, the blood-bespattered: wrestlers / being completely out ! ‘of‘cOntfol.' After police had‘stopped'the bout among the spectators, Lurich returned to the ring and .floored 1 the referee. The latter was 'firing when he was strqck on the head by a chair thrown' by a spectator, and dropped again to the floor with blood gushing from a bad scalp wound. Police then escorted the wrestlers from the stadium.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18972, 1 December 1933, Page 3
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125So This Is Wrestling! Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18972, 1 December 1933, Page 3
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