WRESTLING.
ALLEY ' BEATS COLEMAN. ' vßy Telegraph—Press Association). AUC&LAND, November 17. The Auckland branch of the ExServicemen’s Wrestling Union staged tile last series of its contests for the 19.30 season at the Town Hall to-night, when two professional contests ended most disappointingly. In each case one of the contestants retired injured. The first bout was between Alex Lundyn (Champion of Finland) and Tom Rav (billed as the wrestler with a thousand holds.) The first round had been in progress but a minute or two,when Ray dived at his opponent, and Lundyn, who was caught off his guard, had to he assisted from the ring with a dislocated knee.
In the second match Tom Alley, (the light-heavyweight champion of the world) was pitted against Abe Coleman, the Jewish hercules, whom Alley defeated when the pair met previously. Coleman won an easy fall in the third round, hut in the sixth round Coleman wa-s incapacitated with a hammerlock and an armhold.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1930, Page 6
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158WRESTLING. Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1930, Page 6
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