WRESTLING
— A STRENUOUS BOUT NUMA BEATS RAINES (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In one of the most strenuous wrestling bouts seen in a Wellington ring since the encounter between Hardy Kruskamp and King Kong Cox some two years ago, Leo Numa (15.8) beat Dick Raines (16.1) at the Wellington Town Hall last night by two falls to one. Although marked by much scientific wrestling, there were flying tackles, elbow jolts and drop-kicks in plentiful supply, and so willing were the pair that they staged a further free exchange of elbow jolts after the battle was over. The referee had to separate the men and restrain Raines from pursuing Numa from the ring. Numa took the first fall in the third round with his specialty hammer throw, and Raines evened in the fifth round by twice picking his man up for a body-breaker and obtaining a fall With a forward body press. The end came in the seventh round, when they stood toe to toe and dealt out unmerciful elbow jolts. This ended in Numa knocking his man completely out and pinning him for the winning fall in the seventh round.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 9
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