WRESTLING AT AUCKLAND
JACK DONOVAN’S DEBUT DISQUALIFIED FOR DELIBERATE PUNCH. [ Per Press Association ) AUCKLAND, May 21. Jack Donovan made bis first appearance in Auckland on Saturday night when he wrestled *iollend Kirchmeyer and was disqualified in the seventh round for what the referee held to be a deliberate punch. Kirchmeyer h'id previously obtained a submission fall in the third round with the application of a “python" clutch. Donovan evened the falls in the sixth round, when, after a succession of jolts, he picked up his opponent and twice slammed him to the mat before finalising with a body press.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 8
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