BRIGHT WRESTLING

Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3211, 2 August 1932, Page 4

BRIGHT WRESTLING

WALKER DEFEATS DEMETRAL.

BOUT ENDS UNSATISFACTORILY.

AUCKLAND, This Day.

The professional wrestling contest at the Town Hall last evening between George Walker and Harry Demetral ended in the sixth round in favour of Walker. Up till then each man had secured a fall. Walker being successful in the third round with a jack-knife hold, while Demetral evened in the fifth with a Boston crab submission fall.

Matters then became fairly lively and eachjman was thrown through the ropes. Demetral hurled his opponent through four times, causing the inspector of to have a word with the referee. While this consultation was'going ,on Demetral caught hold of Walker’s head and brought him over the ropes back into the ring with a flying mare. Walker regained his feet and threw Demetral, securing the deciding fall with a body press. Demetral at once jumped to his feet and, gesticulating wildly, commenced to argue with the referee. It was some seconds before he could be pacified by his seconds and members of the Auckland Wrestling Association, the spectators hooting the while. Demetral Stated in his dressing room subsequently that he was under the impression that the referee, Mr C. Pollard, had awarded him a fail when he hurled Walker back into the ring, and consequently offered no resistance to Walker. _ The referee, on the other hand, denied having tapped Demetral on the back. At all events it was an unsatisfactory ending.