Palestine suffered reverses to-day in both the wrestling and boxing finals held at Haifa, in connection with the Maccabiade.
Kusland, of the Danish Maccabee, defeated Schmerling, the Palestine representative, in the lightweight wrestling match, and Silverman, also of Denmark, defeated the Palestine champion Elkind in the middleweight wrestling match.
Bukovitz, Anders, and Bednzw###s all three of the Polish Maccabee, defeated three Palestinians, Neiman, Davidescu and Wohlhandler, in the flyweight, featherweight and lightweight boxing matches respectively.
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