WRESTLING MATCH FOR £25 A SIDE.
—.——■— The wrestling match between Hudson, of Dunedin, and Slade, of Temuka, for £25 a side, came off last night at Lea and Whitley’s boxing saloon, in the presence of [about 200 persons. The match was for the boat three falls out of five, and the betting slightly favoured Slade, wliQse commanding stature and splendid physique give him the appearance of a very awkward customer in encounters of this kind. Hudson is a much smaller man, but well formed, an 1 with tho muscles on his arms standing out like cords. After some preliminary skirmishing Hudson got a good grip and threw his antagonist in firstrate style amidst the applause of all present; but now Slade’s superior strength began to tell, to say nothing of his tremendously long reach, and in the three following rounds he sent Hudson down by. sheer strength rather than skill. The defeated man was utterly' “ cooked,” indeed, as the professional gentlemen present put it ; but, let it be repeated, he was overmatched, not in skill but in strength, and so had to cave in. With a man at all approaching his own weight Hudson would bo able to hold his own any day.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2551, 25 May 1881, Page 2
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203WRESTLING MATCH FOR £25 A SIDE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2551, 25 May 1881, Page 2
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