WRESTLING.

Wairarapa Age, 13 June 1933, Page 5

WRESTLING.

WALKER DEFEATS CLARK AT AUCKLAND. LOSE® UNDE® SEVERE HANDICAP. AUCKLAND, June 12. George Walker and Jack Clark met in a return wrestling match to-night. Walker won by two falls to one. Clark secured the first fall in the second round, pinning his opponent after lifting him and slamming him hard to the mat. Walker evened in the third round with a fall gained by a reverse wristlock and head scissors. The contest ended in the fourth round, Walker obtaining an easy fall after making his opponent groggy with a series of side headlock throws. Clark was labouring under a severe handicap. He had been treated by doctors this afternoon for blood poisoning in the main finger of the left hand, an urgent operation, being imperative. Clark entered the ring with the finger heavily bandaged and deadened against pain. The hand was swollen and he could make little use of it—(P.A)

DIVE OUT OF RING. TACKLE! THAT WENT AMISS. WELLINGTON, June 12. A flying tackle that missed spelt defeat for the Portuguese wrestler. Al Pereira, lost. 101 b., when he met CountJoseph Varga (Hungary), lost., before a full house in the Town Hall this evening. Early in the sixth round Pereira Charged with his head down and Varga stepped aside like a toreador. Pereira passed 'between the two top ropes at a corner, hardly making the strands quiver and landed head first on the floor, among the front row seats. He was unable to enter the ring within the stipulated time and Varga was declared the winner. Varga had a fall to his credit in the third round and Pereira had evened it in the fifth with a press -(P.A.)