WILD WRESTLING
CONTESTANTS OUT OF CONTROL.
referee floored with chair (Australian Press Association). (Received this day at 12 noon). BRISBANE, November 30. The wildest spectacle ever associated with wrestling in Brisbane marked tlm contest between Luricli and Peneheff, both being disqualified (in the third round, after which they flew at each other. A tierce encounter took place outside the ropes. The blood-bespattered wrestlers were completely out of control. After the police had stopped the bout among spectators, Luricli returned t° the ring and floured the referee. The latter was rising when lie was struct on t-lie head by a chair tin own lij spectator. The referee dropped to the floor, blood gushing from a had scalp wouiu The police then escorted tlie wrest lei s from the stadium.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1933, Page 6
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128WILD WRESTLING Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1933, Page 6
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