REFEREE DUMPED OUT OF RING
NAPIER, August 10. Uproar marked tlie end of a professional wrestling bout at Napier on Saturday evening when Kay Bell was disqualified in the seventh round of the contest with Tom Rice for striking the referee. Following the disqualification Bell brushed the referee aside, then picked liim up and dumped bim .out of the ring on top of Rice who liad gone over the ropes only seeonds before. The falls wrere even at this stage. Rice gained tlie- lirst fall in the second round with a body press following a series of liead throws ahd dumps. Bell evened in the fourth round with dropkicks and flying tackles followed by a body press. The police liad to stop Bell threatening tlie referee after he nwarded Ihe boufc to Eicet, c
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 August 1947, Page 7
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