WRESTLING.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1931, Page 4

WRESTLING.

ALLEY BEATS PASHA. ' (By Telegraph —Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 28. With a fall against him and his rifeht arm temporarily crippled, Kara Pasha came out gamely to meet Tom Alley at the beginning of the sixth round of their professional wrestling match at the Town Hall to-night. Alley had won the fall in the preceding round with a drastic hammerlock—so severe that Pasha had been lifted to his corner, and spent the interval in considerable pain. He came out nursing his arm at the beginning of the sixth, but Alley went straight for it, and caught a wristlock. Pasha turned frantically to the referee and called, “Give it to him! Give it to him!” Referee Lack then jumped in, separated them, and declared Alley the winner. The match was probably the best of the season, from the opening round both menGvere right out to win, and their work was splendidly received by a packed hall. PINTO V. McDQUGALL. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 28. Stan Pinto defeated Scotty McDougall by two falls to one, ; in a thrilling bout here to-night. Pinto secured the first fall in the second round, McDougall being in a bad way. Scotty recovered well, and evened in the fifth round, when he got Pinto in the middle with his head, following it with a succession of head locks and a body press. The bout ended- in the sixth round Scotty threw. Pinto with a succession of four head locks, but was slow with the fifth, Pinto then dumping him and getting the deciding fall with a body press. a