WANTED SOME MORE

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20259, 30 July 1937, Page 10

WANTED SOME MORE

GONG NO CURB TO COX. BREAKS EVEN WITH KIRILINKO. CROWD ROUSED .AT WRESTLING. At the end of the last of eight lively ■ rounds the American wrestle'r, “King Kong" Cox (17.6) had evidently not had enough in the professional wrestling '.boat ‘against Maitiros Klcll'lnko, the Cossack champion (16.0), in the Theatre Roval last evening, for after evening up the falls to make the contest a drawn one he aired a little feeling by rushing at his adversary, and, with the referee endeavouring to untangle them, the pair engaged In some vicious scrapping in the corner until the police sergeant waved a warning finger at the American, who l then walked off. Meanwhile the customers were airing displeasure, too, hooting Cox In no undecisive manner. The bout was a hard one throughout, with both men working hard all the time. The holds were not as varied as in many matches but the crowd were well entertained, especially when slaps, rabbit punches and elbow .lolts were exchanged in lively succession. At times, especially towards the end, Cox wrestled against the booing of the ‘crowd, which again | constituted a capacity house. Kirilinko took the first fall in the fourth with a body press, following a string of flying headlocks. After that Cox made most of the fighting with the Russian countering well. Cox evened the falls in the last round and made the bout a draw. Lively From Start. When the bout opened both contestants broke several times from the referee’s hold, then fell to the mat together, Cox -clamping on a headlock. Kirilinko broke but fell into the trap again to suffer with his head pinned to the mat. A series of elbow dolts culminated in the Cossack applying a head scissors. Then Cox jumped out of the ring to esoape further jolts before returning to -clamp on a reverse Japanese arm bar. A couple of stomach throws by Kirilinko and a head scissors to the advantage of Cox kept the round bright. When Cox attacked with a reverse arm bar in the second round Kirilinko provoked a snarl from the Yankee with pressure to a nerve centre. Kirilinko sprung clear from a reverse arm bar and tried for a standing splits but let go in favour of a headlock which was converted to a short arm scissors. In a reverse double wristlock, Cox crashed to the canvas once more but in a flash had the advantage over the panting Cossack. Both were giving and taking and the gong Interrupted Cox’s repartee to the crowd. Out of the ropes shot Kirilinko at the outset of the third round, and he returned to be caught in a tight headlock, Cox staving offcounters with the use of sharp teeth, to stir the' crowd to hooting. Kirilinko soon had I Cox groaning under a hammer lock., then a short-arm scissors. Cox rose, twisted and was sitting on a double toe hold. While snarling at the ningside patrons, -Cox had he Russian in trouble with a bar toe hold. Five Jolts and a Fall. With a head scissors, Cox made up 1 points early in the fourth but he slipped into an arm-stretch to suffer under the Cossack’s pressure. Kirilinko I pushed Cox to the corner, lifted ills arm for one elbow jolt, then two, three, four, and five, before Cox fell to the ring. Tearing in, Kirilinko snapped on three flying headlocks before taking a fall with a body press. Cox went into the fifth round with a will to succeed with a headlock, then later bit his way out of a headscissors to anger the crowd again. Cox then groaned in a full Nelson, which was well maintained by Kirilinko. Then the Russian found difficulty in escaping from a body press and subsequently a head-scissors, but he got frc’e and countered with a toe hold. The Russian slithered out, but soon fell in a flying mare, which culminated in a hammer lock as the round ended in Cox’s favour. Working Up to Evens. They were sparring a while for an opening in the sixth round, then Kirilinko was trapped into a hard head- . lbck, then later a hammerlock, which the Cossack broke with a smart roll. In return for a slap across the cheek the Russian elbow-jolted his arversary before crashing In another headlock. Cox was trapped in a sitting splits, but he was pushing up on a I 1 hammer lock on Kirilinko as the round cn.lcl. I At tlie outset of the seventh ses- • i sion the referee sent Cox back to dry water off his hair. Kirilinko had I j the first headlock on but was soon j moaning under pressure from a ham--1 i merloc-k. The Cossack bounced to i | catch his opponent in a head scissors, > j but look punishment, from elbow jolts. j Both mat men pursued tlie light outi ; side the ropes just before the gong. • | Elbow .jolts flew early in 1 tic final . j round. Kirilinko taking a battery from - i Cox before being dumped in a crutch i bold and pinned in a body press to • make the falls even. Although vir- ■; 1 11 all y ended, tlie lighting continued until tlie police warned Cox to be < | quiet. , | Mr \Y. Shattock was the referee, r the amateur preliminaries Parker Hun My) beat Kirkbride (Tauwhare); , Whatu Kawhia) beat Harris (Frank- . ton ; Parker (Iluntly; beat Maxton , Hamilton and Kisha Banna (And- ! r 1:111(1 drew with Haines (Hamilton). 1 _ j The latter was a clever bout.

DRAW AT NEW PLYMOUTH. (Hy Tplcaranh - v NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday. Proving himself a master of shownanship, Wostcoalt drew with Floyd Marshall at llawera in a wrestling natoll to-night. Marshall secured a rail ifi the fourth round. NVestcoatt equalised in the last round after Hying tackles and a dropkick. WALKER BEATS BRONOWITZ. (Hy IT.-U \ssnrlailon NY ELL IN 0 TON. Thursday. P.y a penalty fall George Walker heat Frank Bmnowitz in to-night’s professional wrestling bout at Wellington. Hronowitz in the third round knocked Walker down repeatedly with iwarded a fall to Walker. Mtimugh Walker showed much of his old-time cunning, and Hronowilz twice made use of impressive toeholds, tin' hout was remarkable more for its vigour than for its science.