WRESTLING.
i ED. LEWIS DISQUALIFIED. (B.v Telegraph.— Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Sunday, j Five times world champion, and i perhaps the most formidable wrestler ! ever semi in Wellington, Ihe mat : veteran, Ed. ‘Strangler'’ Lewis, met , Karl MeCrrad> last night. Lewis lost, iby disqualification. He took the first ■j fall Willi a series of heavy headlocks land a body press in the third round. In the fifth round McCrcady lifted Lewis and dumped him heavily, then i pounced on him and pinned him. | In Ihe sixth and last round MeI Cready htinled Lewis round llio ring, | punishing him with elbow Jolts unill at. lasi, Ihe big man turned al hay and knocked McCrcady to flic mat. with a : si "S' lo smashing Mow of Ids clenched i II"' rcierco, Mr A. Jenkins. { raised McCready's limp arm in token I MARSHALL AND WESTCOATT. DUNEDIN, Sunday. ! With a fall each, Floyd Marshall "and Norman Wcslcait wrestled to a draw ; lasi evening a bunt characterised by a 1 good deal of showmanship and a litflo | good wrestling. The last round devcljor not, and the crowd o.unled both BLOMFIELD AND WADE. N FAY I’LY Mi 11 "Il |. d,nd,y. Wade secured a la!! with a ,h"k knife GOOD RIDDANCE TO ASTHMA. J !h>imil packet, only 2/0 from iiallltu's, I Ltd., Chemists. Jd i)
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20273, 16 August 1937, Page 13
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216WRESTLING. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20273, 16 August 1937, Page 13
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