WRESTLING
A TORRID BOUT. LOPEZ BEATS RAINES. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Vincent Lopez, Mexican professional wrestler, won his first match at the Town Hall last night, by beating Dick Raines on points. Two hurricane rounds, providing the most vigorous grappling of the season, ended in Raines obtaining a fall with his “backbreaker” hold. The third round was the most torrid of the bout and left the wrestlers showing signs of the strain of so fast a pace. In the sixth round Lopez dumped Raines and pressed him, setting the score even. The final rounds were wild, the two wrestlers, dazed with interchanging elbowjolts, staggering about the ring and rolling through the ropes into the crowd. The referee, Mr Alf. Jenkins, was kept even busier than usual, the two big men showing at times a complete disregard for his presence in the ring. There was a large crowd.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 2
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