WRESTLING
WIN FOR ATKINS
CORBETT INCAPACITATED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND. August 3
Fred Atkins, Australian heavyweight wrestler, made his first appearance in New Zealand when he met Joe Corbett, of America, on Saturday night. Corbett obtained a fall in the fifth round with a press, following a succession of jolts and flying tackles. In the following round Corbett was heavily jolted, and then picked up and thrown over’ the ropes. He lay on the staging outside the ring for the regulation count of twenty, and so a fall was awarded to Atkins. In spite of receiving attention from his second, Corbett was still outside the ring when the gong sounded for the seventh round, and as he was obviously unfit to continue, the contest was awarded to Atkins.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1941, Page 3
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