KATAN DEMANDS EMPIRE TITLE
WELLINGTON, May 30. - Demancling that he be announced_ as British Empire heavvweight champiom as the result of the defeat of Earl klcCready at Auckland 011 Wednesday, John Katan drew with Jack Ulavbourne, coloured wrestling cliampion of the world, in the Wellington Town Hall toniglit. Each secured a -fall, Katan with an insidq frgure four-barred toe hold iu the fifth round and Claybourne with a dropkiclc ait'd body press in the seventh.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 May 1946, Page 8
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75KATAN DEMANDS EMPIRE TITLE Chronicle (Levin), 31 May 1946, Page 8
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