With a mighty effort Bobby Bruns succeeds in clamping a pick-a-back stranglehold on his opponent, Harry Jacobs, who, groaning loudly enough for customers in the fifth row to hear, and gesturing vainly to the referee, Willie Clark, for help, topples backward to the canvas to give a perfect exhibition of the art of grunt and groan. After twentythree minutes Bruns threw Jacobs with a body press, the bout taking place at the Philadelphia Arena:
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 55, 20 March 1937, Page 17
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74With a mighty effort Bobby Bruns succeeds in clamping a pick-a-back stranglehold on his opponent, Harry Jacobs, who, groaning loudly enough for customers in the fifth row to hear, and gesturing vainly to the referee, Willie Clark, for help, topples backward to the canvas to give a perfect exhibition of the art of grunt and groan. After twentythree minutes Bruns threw Jacobs with a body press, the bout taking place at the Philadelphia Arena: Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 55, 20 March 1937, Page 17
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