GRUELLING WRESTLING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 976, 20 May 1930, Page 13

GRUELLING WRESTLING

DOUBTFUL LONE FALL WALKER DEFEATS McDOUGALL Hard-fought and gruelling are the words which best describe the wrestling contest between George Walker and “Scotty” McDougail, which took place in the Town Hall last evening. Walker was the winner on a very doubtful and solitary fall in eight rounds. From the first gong until the last the men spared neither themselves nor each other. McDougail demonstrated conclusively that he was a real wrestler, tough, strong and clever, and he displayed a surprising talent in the uso of his feet. Walker gave another of his wonderful displays of strength and endurance and of his ability to break seemingly unbreakable holds. Occasionally there were flashes of roughness, but for the most part these served to stir an already excited crowd to a wild pitch of enthusiasm. The best house this season attended the match. Pat McGill and H. Canton wine, two overseas wrestlers bound for Australia, were introduced. McGill also refereed one amateur bout and delighted the crowd by urging the boys to do better, clapping his hands and talking the while. Mr. Len Wilson refereed the other bouts and also the main event. Walker weighed in at 13st 71b and McDougail at 14st 51b. Walker was wearing a bandage on his leg and McDougall had his left hand, injured in his previous bout, wrapped in plaster. No time was wasted in getting down business. McDougail up-ended Walker, who escaped only to run into a wristlook and head scissors. Mao broke a facelock with a flying mare, but "Walker turned quickly and took the Scot to the mat, where he damped on a head scissors coupled with an arm-bar. Escaping. McDougail seenred a half-crucifix, from which Walker won free, to make his opponent fight desperately to break a dcublewristlock on the mat. Walker was trying for a Bostoif crab at the gong. LUCKY FALL Opening the second, Walker broke a cradle and applied a double-wristlock, which Mac broke to get a toe-hold, from which the former turned to break. With a wristlock Walker forced his opponent to the mat and although McDougail had one shoulder clear, a fall was awarded against him. He grinned more or less cheerfully as he walked to his corner holding his hands apart to show how far his shoulder had been from the canvas. The crowd filled in the interval by hooting steadily Walker picked his opponent up, but Mac hung on grimly to save beinsdumped in the third round. Surviving a series of headlocks and flying mares Walker tossed McDougail over his shoulder. On the mat Walker escaped from the splits and a reverse Nelson, the latter giving him trouble. Mac tried a rabbit punch and while the referee was saying a little.. piece Walker walked in and carried on. He pulled the Scot off the ropes, and following a tussle on the mat. forced himself up and tossed McDougail with a flying mare just as the gong clanged. In the fourth McDougail, by cleverl3 r using his feet, brought Walker to the mat, but the latter turned and tried on a formidable looking combination followed by an arm scissors and armbar. Both secured reverse headlocKs in turn, McDougail then forcing Walker to the canvas to get a double arm scissors. A merry melee Drought the crowd to its feet and Mac had. a cradle at the gong. After being tossed through the ropes with a reverse headlock, McDougail vaulted back and tried a crucifix, but failed. Walker broke a reverse headlock by dumping Mac on the mat, where the latter secured a toe-hold, improving the shining hour by butting Walked in the stomach, but got kicked in exchange. "With a minute to go

' Mac secured a short-arm scissors, J which he held to the gong. WALKER’S SHORT-ARM SCISSORS t McDougall got rough in the sixth j round. lie tossed Walker here and i there, and then through the ropes. : But Walker brought him down with a ( flying tackle and applied a short-arm I scissors, which McDougall was still ! fighting when the gong went, seven minutes ten seconds later, lie fought gamely and deserved to see out the ' round. Walker’s aim in the seventh session | was the short-arm scissors, but he was , not successful in securing it properly, j and was twice tossed with headloeks. A half-Boston crab looked like giving McDougall a fall, but Walker waited for him moving to improve it. and as he did shot him off his balance. Walker broke a short-arm scissors but fell into another, finally breaking by turning. He picked up McDougall, spun him and then dumped him. McDougali getting up in fighting trim. ! It was just as well there were no : bagpipes in the vicinity or there might i have been something doing. Cleverly tripping Walker to the mat. MeDougall secured a body scissors which he converted into a crucifix, without getting the accompanying wristlock. He incensed the crowd by needlessly rubbing Walker’s face with his hand and knuckles. Walker was fighting hard at corners. From the gong Walker forced the pace in the last round, and picking up his opponent, dumped him to the carpet. He tried the move again, but McDougall foiled him and brought him to the canvas, where he got a body scissors, followed by a crucifix, again without the wristlock. Walker rolled round and round the ring in an effort to break, which he ultimately did with some difficulty. After a spell on the mat, both took heavy throws, and, the final gong found them apparently reluctant to finish. AMATEUR PRELIMINARIES J. McComish, lOst 61b. beat D. Pearce, lOst 81b, by two falls, both with body scissors and arm bar. D. Smith, flst 101 b. beat W. Williamson, 9st 41b, by two falls to one. Smith scored with a head lock and a cradle, and Williamson with a reverse headlock. Babii, 9st 61b, beat A. McCowatt, 9st. on points, no falls being scored. C. Anderson. Bst 101 b. beat K. Brewer. Anderson took the first fall with a body scissors and armbar. Brewer getting a doubtful fall with a body press. Anderson took the decision with a submission fall from a head scissors and armbar. S. Brewer, 7st 211), beat Kisha Bana, 7st 21b, by two falls, both with body presses.