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1939 QUIRKY / USA: Wrestlers in free-for-all in ring filled with fish
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0:32Now PlayingDate: 27th April 1939
Location: MARINETTE, WIS., U.S.A.
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
USA: Wisconsin: Marinette:
General view filling ring with smelts / start of free-for-all wrestling match / men wrestling among smelts / man throwing handful of smelts in audience / General view bout..wrestlers throwing smelts / men wrestling & putting fish in each other's face / crowning winner with fish.
United States of America; Bizarre Items; Sport
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