WRESTLING
BOESCH BEATS CLARKE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The most willing and determined wrestling bout seen at the Wellington Town Hall this season ended with Boesch boating Jim Clarke last night on points, falls being even. Clarke, who introduced an element of lawnessness. bent Boesch backward over his knee in a backbreaker during the third round, and obtained a submission fall. Boesch in the seventh dropkicked, dumped and pinned Clarke. In the last round he attacked Clarke vigorously with dropkicks, but was unable to pin him. The Town Hall was packed, and the large crowd, its sympathies alienated by Clarke's repeated infringements, barracked one-sidedly for Boesch, whose success was received with frenzied acclamation. No previous bout this season has so excited the onlookers.
The two men were well matched; Clarke, at I6st 71b, was 31b the heavier. Mr Alf Jenkins was referee.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1939, Page 2
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