WRESTLING.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1932, Page 3

WRESTLING.

(Australian Press Association.) .SYDNEY, J.uly 17. Wrestling .at the Leichardt Stadium Tom Lurich and Walter Browning drew with • one fall each, after an extr seventh round (had ended without score.LIMUTKIN BEATEN. WELLINGTON, July 18. ]7 In a. slow-moving and not v ,liighljs eventful wrestling bout, Ike„;-Rpbiij,, the heavy Maori wrestler, made a successful “come-back” in a tussle:;with Peter Limutkin. .-V ■ ,c' Robin, who still claims the,- -Aais-,; tralia-n and New Zealand heavyweight, wrestling title, took the ring at 17yt 121bs. He was heavier by 3 stone 9)11)8. than his opponent.. His first fall came in the third round, and in the-next round when a dislocated thumb made it impossible- for .Limutkin to continue. .... The big bout was by no means the h .st of the evening. It was. preceded by a- professional contest 1 between Anton Koolman, of, Wellington and Tzen Naylor of Auckland, which Avas the brightest piece of, wrestling seen here for a long time. Both men Wiest’ed excellently, but Koolman was too clever for Naylor, From the effects of a fall in the third round, Koolman -was too dazed to continue in the fourth.