A TERRIBLE FALL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 465, 21 September 1928, Page 10

A TERRIBLE FALL

WRESTLER GOES BERSERK UPROAR IN SYDNEY CHALLENGER ATTACKS SECOND There was an extraordinary ending to the so-called world’s light-heavy- ! weight wrestling championship at Sydney a week or two ago. In the sixth round the challenger, Nicholls, appeared to have the contest ; won, Thye being in a bad way. To save himself the champion grabbed ; the ropes. Nicholls applied a deadly headlock and pulled back on Thye i with all his force. Without 'warning, the champion suddenly let go his hold on the ropes and flung himself back- . wards, with Nicholls underxieath. The ; challenger went to the floor with a tre- j mendous crash and was rendered un- j conscious, Thye gaining a fall. SECOND SKIES TOWEL This, however, was only a mild prelude to what followed. Nicholls was dragged back to his corner and apparently revived. But just as he was coming out of his corner at the start of the seventh round to make a savage \ attack on Thye, his second flung in j the towel. Nicholls promptly went berserk. He flung himself on his luckless second and the pair grappled fiercely. The referee and Thye vainly tried to separate the pair, but it was only after several others joined in that the maddened Texan was forced back to his corner. The referee then gave the decision to Thye. amid an uproar. Up-and- Down An American welter-weight boxer.

Larry Avera, had a bad time with Tommy Fairhall at the Sydney Stadium the other day. He spent the best part of two rounds on the floor. At the beginning of the third round, when Avera was down for the seventh time, the referee stopped the slaughter.