WRESTLING MATCH.
ROBERTSON BEATS PENNY. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) Stratford, Last Night. Great interest was attached to the wrestling, match which eventuated in the Theatre Royal this evening between Robertson and Penny. There was a very large attendance. Both men received a cordial reception. The match was cateh-as-eatch-can style, double Nelson, strangle, and twisting toes and fingers barred. Robertson's weight was 10.7, whilst Penny weighed a stone less, 9.7. Robertson won the two first falls outright, the first with a scissors hold in eleven minutes, and the second with the cradle hold after wrestling forty minutes. Mr. I'. Skoglund was referee.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 134, 28 November 1911, Page 5
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100WRESTLING MATCH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 134, 28 November 1911, Page 5
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