SEASON'S BEST

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1000, 17 June 1930, Page 14

SEASON'S BEST

WALKER DEFEATS LUNDYN HARD, FAST WRESTLING The best, hardest and fastest wrestling match of the season was seen by the largest attendance of the year at the Town Hall last evening when George Walker defeated Alex Lo'ndyn by two falls to one. The hall constantly echoed and reechoed with cheers and applause as the men broke difficult holds or showed cleverness in execution. And the women, of whom there was a large sprinkling, were by no means the more silent. All the falls were scored following heavy throws. Walker scored in the second round, Lundyn equalised in the fourth and Walker took the decision in the sixth. Lundyn weighed in at 13st and Walker was four pounds heavier. Both men looked in the pink of condition as they stripped for action. There was more action in the first round than in two rounds of some other bouts, both men wrestling with a will in fast exchanges on the mat. Lundyn brought his opponent down and into trouble with an armbar. Walker twisting out after a struggle to run into an armscissors and armlock. He escaped to secure a reverse wristlock, but Lundyn broke and applied a cradle hold, Walker lifting him clean over and forcing him to bridge. With a body scissors Lundyn made the Canadian grunt before he broke to get a shortarm scissors. Lundyn escaped after 30 seconds. Walker then essayed a throw, but Lundyn clung to him and refused to be parted. WALKER’S FIRST FALL Throwing Walker with a wristlock in the second round Lundyn added a head scissors, Walker bridging and breaking. Lundyn then tied on some weird combinations on the mat finishing with a splits. The house rocked with cheers as Walker broke free after a grim fight. The Canadian missed with a flying tackle and as he tried to recover Lundyn leapt at him, only to be picked up and dumped on his shoulders for the first fall.

Walker had to fight hard to escape a fall in the third round, Lundyn going all out to equalise. After an exceptionally fast bout on the mat Walker found himself in an arm scissors and armbar, but after about three minutes twisted free and missed with a shortarm scissors. Lundyn applied a body scissors, followed by a head scissors Walker releasing with a wristlock. Opening the fourth round. Walker missed with a flying tackle and the pair came to the referee hold again. Lundyn with one hand over Walker’s face hammered it with his other fist and was booed by the crowd. He jumped back and demonstrated to the crowd that he had hit his own hand and not Walker’s face. Nevertheless, the Canadian must have got a good jar. Walker secured a full Nelson, the Finn locking his arms and throwing over his head, but Walker hung on. Twice more this occurred, Lundyn finishing up atop of Walker with the latter’s arms locked to score the equalising fall. In the fifth round, Lundyn applied a toehold, but Walker got busy with a head scissors and wristlock. When Lundyn twisted out, Walker tried for a Boston crab, but the Finn lifted him off with one foot and secured a fullNelson with his legs. The crowd applauded wildly as Walker forced out. The gong interrupted a fast rally on the mat. Walker was all round for a win in the sixth session and after three throws picked Lundyn up and dumped him to the canvas for the final fall. AMATEUR PRELIMINARIES C. Anderson, Bst 91b, and W. Williamson, 9st 21b, wrestled a threeround draw in the best amateur contest seen for many moons. The first round was falless, but bright, Williamson applying a splits and Anderson a short-arm scissors. After throwing Williamson with a series of reverse headlocks in the next, Anderson scored a fall with a body-scissors and armbar. Williamson equalised in the last session with a submission fall from a step-over toehold. D. Smith. 9st 61b, beat L. Pickering. 9st 71b, by one fall scored in the last round with a body scissors and wristlock. J McComish, lOst 51b, beat B. Smith by two straight falls, the first with a body press and headlock and the second with a body scissors and armbar. F. Cliffe, lOst 81b, beat J. Beasley. lOst 101 b In the first round Beasley was unlucky, a fall that was not a far being given against him. In the second Cfiffe scored with a body press and armbar. C. Jones, Bst, beat D. Skelton, Bst, by two falls. In the first Jones scored with a body press and armlock and in the second upended Skelton square on to his shoulders for the second fall. Mr. L. Wilson was the referee. McDOUGALL BEATS EBERT BOUT AT PALMERSTON NORTH Press Association PALMERSTON N., Monday. In the professional wrestling contest this evening, Scotty McDougall (Canada) beat Fred Ebert (Austria) in the sixth round. Ebert won the first fall with a body press, but McDougall later crippled his man with a stepover toehold, and Ebert, after conceding the fall, could not leave his corner for the seventh round.