WALKER-SAVAGE CONTEST
-Presa Association.)
(By Telegraph-
" AUCKLAND, Last Night. At' no stage of the prof essional wrestling contest between George Walker and Steve Savage, staged at the. Town Hall on Saturday night, was the large lattendance of spectators given cause ffor real enthusiasm as the bout was one !of the most disappoxnting of the season'. 'Although both contestant.s are noted jmore for their solid methods than for ,spectacular displays, thCy even failed to igive a convincing" exhibition of rueged ■wrestling and both men were counted 'out on several occasions by the crowd. .The decision went to Savage by one fall, which he gained in the seventlx *round when Walker submitted to a jfcompiieated forward toe-hold.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 155, 19 July 1937, Page 10
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115WALKER-SAVAGE CONTEST Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 155, 19 July 1937, Page 10
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