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Turner Hall Mat Card Draws WellBaneck, Panther Give Good Showw *IIIcIrMonroe mat fans last night were treated to the best show yet of the current wrestling season in the main event of last night’s card at Turner hall be- lt;tweet', the iunior heavyweight jchi mpion of the country, JoeBanet k. and the Black Panther, ;The usual boos and cut-ca!ls 1 attendant on some of the more gaudy matches were absent as ! the crowd of over 400 personswatched an exhibition of topflight professional wrestling.Baneck who won his crown recently, had his champion’s belt on display. He defeated the agile panther, rugged Texas Ne-but not without putting onreal wrestling. jA1 Stecher, the ‘‘Bad Boy” wrestler who has been on each of the American Legion sponsored bouts since their s t a r t here, applying his usual “vil-lian” tactics, defeated BillyHanson, Duluth lumberjack, intheir opening bout, Hanson is aprotege of Bronko Nagurski.The attraction of Miss DonnaDeLon against Miss Mae Olson..expert woman wrestlers, wentto Miss Olson who won two out of three falls.The Legion committee sponsoring the matches announced alter last night’s card that another is planned for Nov. 27 at Turner hall with the main feature of the four-match card being an “Australian Tag match”with four wrestlers in the ring tit once.
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Monroe Evening Times
Monroe, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Nov 18, 1950
Page 5
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