WRESTLING.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1932, Page 6

WRESTLING.

TWO PROFESSIONAL BOUTS

A LIVELY CONCLUSION

CHRTSTCHUPCH. December 7. In the third round of a professional middle-weight wrest Png bout last night Jim Musson, of Christchurch, the middle-weight, champion of New Zealand, throw " his opponent, Harold Price, of Australia, over the ropes, and although warned dashed out of the ring to re-engage amid the rums of a smashed press table. and Wrestlers were embroiled, an< police aid was sought by the referee. Mr A. Craig, before Musson was per«muled to release a punishing headlock he had applied on tV officia 1 announcer, Mr A. Macdonald Smith. Musson was disqualified, ,ami.d general uproar. The extraordinary ending wa* net th© first “incident”. Tn the second room’ Price, with a demonstration of illnature lat) having been thrown with on© leg in a pail of water, rose and with a flying kick at the pail, souse, the officials seated nearby.

The second bout was a good match T.en Naylor, of Auckland, wrestling r drrtw with jock McLaughlin, of Australia. Naylor secured a , subnPs'ior fall with a cr’wifix in the fonr + h ro©'“’ and 'McLamrlil’n ©finalised w’th a fa 1 in the sixth, following a weH-P':ernt,f A aeroplane spin and slam. This bout was r©rv strenuous but ff©e f rnm untoward incident, and for reality o f wr-.stline wans the be-?t. ©f this reason Both wrestlers had a variety of holds and th© work on th© mat was brilliant at times.