SAVAGE WRESTLING
COX BEATS CLARKE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, This Day
Ted Cox, known to wrestling enthusiasts as King Kong Cox, brought jungle law into the ring last night, when he beat Jim Clarke by two falls to o'ne, in a brisk, rough, tooth-and-nail encounter. The Town Hall. Wellington, was crowded. Clarke was first to take a fall, which he did in the third round with a boston crab. In the fifth round Cox battered Clarke with jolts to the head, and side-arm blows to the small of the back, dumping him and thumping him alternately and finally pinning him. The last round was brief. Cox took a second fall in the same manner before the round had been in progress a minute.
Savagery rather than science was the keynote of the contest. Cox weighed 17st.. Clarke IGst. 81b. Mi' Alf. Jenkins refereed.
A DRAWN BOUT.
AUCKLAND, This Day
Blomlield and Kirschmeyer drew in a wrestling bout tonight—one fall each.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1939, Page 2
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