WALKER DISQUALIFIED

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1933, Page 14

WALKER DISQUALIFIED

VARGA OVER THE ROPES

Wrestling i'onn whs upset in the Winter Show Stadium last night when the Xew Zealand champion, George Walker, met Ms first reverse o£ this season by being disqualified in the fifth round of his bout with Count Viivga. At that stage each man had won :i fall and Walker had been 'warned for throwing his opponent over the ropes. The caution, however, seemingly had no ell'ccl, for a wcond or so afterwards Walker again picked up his opponent and deliberately tipped him over the-ropes, whereupon he was promptly disqualified by the referee (-Mr. George Bennett). The decision met with a mixed reception. Space was ,at a premium in the big stadium, close on 4000 people seeing the ■two heavyweights wrestle for the second time this.season. .Although not particularly spectacular, the contest was keenly contested, solid rather than eventful wrestling being the order. Vnrga got the first fall in the second round with Ins favourite hold, a hcadlock, but Walker quickly evened things up, compelling Ins opponent to submit to a punishing hammerlock in the next session. There was little between the pair throughout the bout until the fifth round, which was definitely ■in Walker's favour until lie flagrantly-, disregarded the rules, yargab weight was announced at last ivw. Walker..did not weigh. ROUND BY ROUND. Targa attacked from the outset, taking Walker to the mat with a series ot headlocks, and then throwing the 2\ew Zealand champion around the ring witli halches. Varga assumed an air ot dignified disapproval when Walker stamped on his bare feet; and he was further discomforted when Walker kicked him in the stomach. Varga was doing well with headlocks, but Walker's turn came when he imprisoned his opponent tor some 'minutes in a head-scissors, from wnicli^ Varga. neatly escaped by clapping on a similar hold. . Varga again worked with ueadlocUs in the second round, but he was troubled with various wristlocks which Walker applied. He came back and threw Walker twice into the ropes, treatment which he • himself received a minute later. A section of the audience hooted Walker for bringing his knee up sharply into Varga's stomach, but despite ms pained expression Varga was apparently not badly hurt, for he quickly came back to work with his favourite headlocks, and after throwing Walker around the ring several times got the first fall, of the match with this hold two minutes before the end of the round. There was no doubt that the fall was popular with the house. , There was a further roar from tlie crowd early in the third round when Walker broke a headlock by applying his knee to the seat of Varga's shorts, the Count retaliating immediately, afterwards with the same dodge. Walker then held his opponent in an armlock and body scissors/ .Varga replying with ii toe-hold. Walker then had his turn, and, in addition to holding ii reverse toe-hold, proceeded to play a tune on the bottom of Varga's foot. After some sparring about the ring, Walker' finally had the Count squirming under a haminerloek, the hold with which Walker twice beat jack Patterson. With less than half a. minute of the round to go, Varga . signalled that he had had enough and the men were all square. Walker rushed his opponent into a corner when the fourth round started, but when the pair got out into the middle of the ring Varga caught the Canadian in a body scissors to which the latter replied by applying, first a splits, and then a "stopper," a similar hold to the short-arm scissors, only applied to the legs. Varga worked clear and then held Walker in a short-arm scissors, from which the latter freed himself, only to bo caught again in the ■ same hold. The round ended with the pair throwing each other round the ring- with halches, which Varga varied with attempted wristlocks. The tactics were the same at the start of the fifth round, when A'arga was the aggressor, Walker being twice thrown outside the ropes. With Varga holding a headlock, Walker went for a crutch hold and Varga quickly, let go.' immediately afterwards Walker got the hold and threw Varga over the ropes on to the Press table. Walker was warned, but picked Vnrga up and again dropped him over the ropes. He was thereupon disqualified, but Varga was apparently anxious to continue the bout, being held off by the referee. AMATEUR BOUTS. AY. Cutting (lOst 81b) was too good for 'L. I-lumpherson (lOst 121b). and won _in straight falls, in the second and "third rounds. ' W. Mollicr (7st 121b). .'t young brother of the -well-known footballer, proved a real terrier and ga-ve It. Loekwood (Sst olb) little peace. He won cleverly with .straight falls'in the first and second rounds. S. Lack (lOst -Jib) and V. Spaulding HOst olb) were an evenly-matched pair, Lack getting the decision on points after three closely-contested rounds. After an-'uneventful bout P. Rozos (list T2\h) was given the decision, on points over R. Allen (list Olb). Mr.' J. C'recke .was ihe referee for the preliminaries. The president of the AVellington AVrestling Association, Mr. H. B. Bennett, states that the association is under an obligation to.George Walker for having kept his engagement at Wellington despite the fact.that he was suffering from a bad arm,and against the advice of his doctor.