FIFTH ROUND FINALE.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20277, 20 August 1937, Page 3

FIFTH ROUND FINALE.

“STRANGLER” LEWIS WINS. DEADLOCKS ON WESTCOATT. WRESTLING OF LITTLE VARIETY. Ex-world champion wrestler. Ed "Strangler” Lewis (18.10), who If to contest the Idle again shortly, die not give the Hamilton wrestling patrons a wide variety of holds in the professional heavy-weight contest li tlie Theatre Royal last evening when with his celebrated headlocks am superior weight, he overpoweret ‘ Rusty” Westcoatt (17.2), the Honolulu inatman, to win by two falls tc one. The crowd was never very enthusiastic and at one stage pennies were thrown into the ring. The bout ended in the fifth round. Westcoatt was trying more holds but had difficulty in combating the big American whose size made him a dillleult opponent. He took the first fall, however, with a body press following a series of flying tackles, but lie was partially knocked out when pinned by Lewis in the fourth round and was no match for the ex-cham-pion when he returned for the fifth, when he was soon a victim to a body press, following a powerful headloek. The match .did not reach a very Ills'' standard but. at Jimcs roused the house to applause. Often the contestants were urged to “ wrestle on.” Westcoatt rushed into a flying tackle at the opening of the bout but soon Lewis was forcing pressure into one of his celebrated headlocks. A cleverly applied reverse .lapnne.se arm bar enabled Westcoatt to drop Lewis and cause the ex-champion considerable pain by bouncing on his biceps. Amusement was caused when Westcoatt. aiming for a body scissors, failed to encircle the other’s big girth. Westcoatt added points with a bar toe hold, hut at the end of the round was pinned to Hie mat In a headloek. Westcoatt One Up. The big man hit the mat first, In the second round when lie was trapped in a. head scissors. A couple of smart elbow jolts were exchanged to brighten the hitherto fairly dull bout. Lewis was specialising In headlneks, which the Honolulu wrestler countered easily. A neat Japanese leg throw, which was followed with a toe hold had Westcoatt in trouble, hut an escape was made through (lie ropes. He came back to he thrown in headlocks. Westcoatt bounced out, jerked a couple of elbow jolts, then flew off the ropes into two Hying tackles before clamping on a body press and taking the first fall. [ Under the pressure of a reverse [ arm bar Westcoatt fell into a head scissors early in the third session, but I countered with a Japanese leg bar, which was soon broken by Lewis! ; Then came a penny Hying into the ring. Lewis continued to concentrate on headlocks and objected to a hold ! hei'.ig broken by the referee followj ing a flying headloek. As the round ended Westcoatt had Lewis tangled !up in au arm stretch, j Side chanceries were the medium employed |iv Lewis to crash his op- , poiieut early in the fourth round. then in a flash Westeoalt bounced i out and darted Into a Hying tackle. Using the ropes he shaped up for another. Mew, lull Lewis ducked and his adversary crashed into the ropes, dropped, and was caught in a body press to give a fall to Lewis. Westcoatt was almost winded and recovered just, in lime |<> return for the fifth round. At the outset, Westeoalt, was ill' trouble and his shoulders were almost on the mat due to (he pressure or Lewis headlocks. ” Rusty” broke will: a bounce but. became groggy when made the target for two crisp p lb"W jolts, and Lewis rustled in willi a headloek to roll Westcoatt o\cr for a body press, which resulted in a fall and a victory to Lewis. Mr W. Shat lork was the referee. With the Amateurs. Amateur preliminaries resulted as

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