WRESTLING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1938, Page 2

WRESTLING

A TORRID BOUT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, August 21. Pat Fraley and Dick Raines wrestled a torrid bout on Saturday night, providing the crowd with a thrilling climax. The pleasantries of these two strong men came to a head in the sixth round. Up-to that stage Fraley was a fall to the good, but when he attempted to throw Raines out of the ring the referee intervened, only to be ignored. It seemed that a penalty fall to Raines would be the outcome, but Fraley was really annoyed by this time and the pair slogged away at each other all over and around the unfortunate referee. Then Raines seized a chair which gyrated between the two until the majesty of the law, in the shape of a sergeant and two constables, decided that matters had gone far enough and put ah end to the bout. Before escaping from the ring, the referee gave the decision to Raines — at least that appeared to be the upshot of the whole affair.

MOEN DISQUALIFIED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, August 21. Leo Numa beat Andy Moen before a packed house on Saturday night, Moen was disqualified in the seventh round for failing to observe a ruling of the referee, who ordered him to desist from elbow-jolting his opponent outside the ring. Moen gained a fall from a body-press and elbow-jolts in the fourth round, Numa equalising in the seventh with a hammer-throw and body-press.