SPECTACULAR WRESTLING

Wairarapa Age, 3 October 1935, Page 4

SPECTACULAR WRESTLING

ANDRESEN AND KING ELLIOTT DRAW. NEW ZEALANDER GIVES GREAT DISPLAY. CROWD ON FEET DURING LAST ROUND. In what was easily the most entertaining and spectacular match of the season King Elliott, -the exWanganui policeman, drew with Ole Andresen, the SwedishAmerican ■wrestler with the doublejointed legs, before a packed house in the Municipal Hall last night. Andresen let Elliott do all the hard work over the early rounds, but when the New Zealander was a fall to the good the Swede came to life with a vengeance and the last four rounds were packed with colour snd incident. Both men gave splendid displays of fast, spectacular wrestling, particularly Elliott, who revealed remarkable ■endurance in face of Andresen’s painful holds, applied with uncanny accur'aey with his supple legs. Andresen ■was a most unorthodox wrestler. He ■ worked in bare feet and disdained the- ' customary chair in his corner, but itr was noticeable that when Elliott’s aggressive tactics had begun to tell their tale, the Swede abandoned his guardlike stance for a more restful and less dignified 1 ‘ squat. ” At 15st. 81b., Andresen held an advavntage of 61b iin weight over his opponent, who quickly settled down to solid wrestling. Ellifttt worked hard on a short arm scissors early in the first round, but the Swede used his legs to advantage in breaking clear. After being held in something approaching the famous Swedish ‘ ‘ clam, ’ ’ Elliott secured a head: scissors, which he later relinquished for a reverse arm bar. Andresen was; more or less on the defensive and the, gong sounded with the Swede held im the splits. Andresen opened the second, round with a dangerous-looking headlock, but the New Zealander picked hissn up and

bundled him over the top of the ropes. The Swede came back looking more than a trifle annoyed, only to be caught in a short arm scissors. Andresen worked clear, but Elliott clamped on a beautiful crucifix. The Swede had a trying time of it till his legs came to his rescue and Ke kicked his way dear. After almost tying his opponent into a knot with his legs, Andresen secured tfie cradle splits and had: Elliott well held at the gong. Elliott nearly got a fall early in the next roond when he held Andresen in a keylock, from which the Swede escaped only after suffering a lot of punishment. Andresen brought his supple legs into play; to secure a headlock,, hot the New Zea» lander broke clear, only to be trapped 1 in a painful body scissors. The gong brought Elliott welcome relief. Elliott ■ tied Andresen up. in the ropes in the fourth round and then secured the crucifix, just missing a fall. Andresen countered a headlock with the roßtng splits and thftNew Zealander was.badly shaken before he succeeded in breaking clear. At the gong Elliott had Andresen in & hummerlock.

Elliott escaped from a reverse toe hold at the opening of the fifth round and he then proceeded to unleash a series of flying tackles that sent Andresen hurtling all round the ring. With his opponent groggy,, Elliott jumped in and secured a fain with a

top body press with the round in progress one and a half minutes. With tfie gong for the sixth round; Andresen started to work in real earnest and held his opponent in a serins of damaging holds. Punches, slape and elbow jolts were featured by both men for a period until Andresen secured a novel looking arm scissors. HBiott countered with a headlock and held .the Swede at the gong.

Elliott again tied hia opponent up in the ropes early in the seventh, but lost a great chance of winning the match when he stopped and helped Andresen, who had an injured leg, clear of the ropes His reward, for his action was a nasty elbow jolt. Concentrating on Elliott's hair, Andresen was successful in applying his famous full leg Nelson. Elliott wisely submitted at four minutes. The last round' was a ease of’ “all in” and the crowd was on its feet for the whole of the ten minutes. Andresen worked hard for his leg Nelson, but Elliott defended in great style and the gong sounded with both men thoroughly exhausted and honours easy. The first round of the Wairarapa amateur championships, which were featured as the preliminaries, resulted as follow:—

Feather-weight: K. Burt (Featherston) 9.0 beat fc. Tozer (Masterton) 9.0 by two falls to nil. Welter-weight: Benton (Featherston) 10.2 beat K. Page (Masterton) 10.0 by one fall; Tilyard (Featherston) 10.6 beat Searancke (Eketahuna) 10.6, on pointe. Middle-weight: A. Rasmussen (Masterton) 11.3 beat T. Nielsen (Eketahuna) 11.1 by two faDs to nil; H. Chappell (Masterton) 11.0 defeated W. Tweedie (Eketahuna) 11.2, on a technical knock-out. Mr. j. Fearon controlled the amateurs and also the main bout.