HARRY MAMOS WINS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20367, 26 July 1934, Page 18

HARRY MAMOS WINS.

Shikina Submits Twice in Bout. NEW WRESTLING STYLE SEEN. Two rounds of jacket wrestling in the Japanese style introduced in the bout between Harry Mamos and Oki Shikina last night did not find much favour with the American, who had to submit to a strangle hold whei> his jacket was twisted round his nec-K, and was made to look rather foolish by the nimble Japanese. But tho tables were turned with a vengeance when the bout was continued under catch-as-catch-can rubles. Mamos showed that he was quite at home in this type of wrestling, and finished in whirlwind fashion, gaining submission falls with a Japanese leg roll and a Boston crab in successive rounds. The bout opened with three rounds of catch-as-catch-can wrestling, in which Mamos did most of the attacking, but suffered most punishment, Shikina giving him a gruelling time with painful head scissors holds, a sitting splits, Japanese leg bars and the crucifix. The Japanese also showed amazing speed in the first and second rounds, tossing 'Mamos over and over with one-handed forward head locks. Mamos did some good work with toe holds and an arm stretch, and also showed strength in breaking Shikina’s holds, but he did not seem to be exerting himself, and the first three rounds were tame in consequence. “Take this thing off and let’s wrestle,” grumbled the American half-way through the first round of jacket wrestling, after Shikina had shown how easy it is to toss a man about when there is something to grip. But the referee retied the belt which Mamos had undone and the bout went on. Shikina having the best of it. The Japanese twisted the American’s jacket almost off his back, and once tried to make him wear it as a sun bonnet. Mamos forgot jiu-jitsu and jackets for a time in favour of good old-fashioned forward head locks, but lie was having the worst of things, and the interlude ended when he submitted, lying fiat on his back while Shikina twisted his jacket round his neck. There were three rounds of catch-as-catch-can wrestling left, but Mamos needed only two rounds to show his paces. Shikina broke loose from a Japanese leg bar in the first, but the American secured ' another which was not so easy to escape, rolled his man. and Shikina had to tap the mat, and hobble to his corner with a very sore leg. Mamos was tossed over and over by another cyclonic burst of one-handed forward head looks in the next round, but he lasted just long enough to grab Sbikina’s legs, and roll him over for the dreaded Boston crab, the third submission fall of the evening, and the bout. My J. Shaw refereed the bout. Both wrestlers weighed 14st 71b. The foung amateur preliminary bouts resulted:— T. E. Galder (10.3) beat 11. S. Batchelor (10.6). F. Brooks (9.12) beat N. Lunzevic (9.5) J. Genet (9.4) beat R. Todd (9.4). D. Lloyd (12.0) beat D. Simpson (13.5)