CLEVER WRESTLING.

Wairarapa Age, 19 May 1936, Page 4

CLEVER WRESTLING.

McCready defeats forsgren.

BRITISH EMPIRE TITLE.

WELLINGTON, May 18. With two terrific dumps and a body press, Earl McCready (Canada) effectively repulsed the challenge of Jack Forsgren, also of Canada, for the British Empire wrestling championship in a professional match at the Wellington lown Hall to-night. Forsgren was so badly jarred by the impact of his spine on the mat that he was unable to come out for the seventh round and was prone for some minutes afterwards. Forsgren won a fall in the fourth round with a Boston crab and did his best to finish the bout in the same way but McCready was too clever for him and was actually wrestling to the peak of his form only in the sixth round. The Town Hall was packed to the doors and the largest crowd the Wellington Wrestling Association has had for several years went almost delirious with excitement when McCready crashed Forsgren to the mat. f £h. e Hon - R- Semple, Minister of Public Works, presented McCready with a silver cup given by the New Zealand Wrestling Union as the British Empire heavyweight championship trophy. Both men started very carefully but as they warmed up they gave the best display of hard and clever wrestling seen at Wellington this season. McCready’s timing was perfect and his ring taeties superb.—(P.A.)