WRESTLING
heavy-weeght wrestlers, quest FOR a CHAMPION. - 'l'lie world’s heavy-weight wrestling championship has become mislaid, and there is now a movement on foot to recover it. Jlunn heat Strangler Lewis, Stan Zybszko, and Lewis, still claiming to he champion. The other day, in California, Lewcliallcnged Steelier for the title, is forfeited £IOOO to Steelier, because Stetclier accepted a match with him and Lewis failed to go through with it. In the meantime John Pesek had thrown Steelier, only to lose the decision when - the referee explained that his ta pon Pesek’s shoulders, as Pesek sat over Steelier, pinning him to the mat, was merely an admonition to stop doing something wrong, and not notification of victory.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10312, 22 January 1927, Page 3
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116WRESTLING Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10312, 22 January 1927, Page 3
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