WRESTLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 119, 21 May 1936, Page 21

WRESTLING.

UNP OPXriiAR DECISION. BLOMFIELD BEATS WOODS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Wednesday. Blomfield and Woods wrestled before a capacity house and Blomfield was given a points decision after each had secured a fall. The decision was not approved by the majority of the spectators, because Woods, conceding over a stone, was the aggressor most of the time. Woods pinned the New Zealander .07 seconds after the start of the third round, following a series; of flying tackles, and Blomfield evened in the seventh with a barred toehold. RUSSELL TOO GOOD FOR FORSGREN ' (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCII, Wednesday. Russell (America), 15.8, beat Forsgren (Canada), 16.11, on points in a professional wrestling match to-night. . The bout was disappointing. Eorsgren gained a submission fall with a Boston crab in the third round, both wrestlers and most of the crowcj claiming that the decision of the referee -was wrong, because Russell had not submitted. Russell evened in the sixth round, gaining a submission fall with an Indian deathloek.

McCREADY TO MEET SAVAGE. So far as it is possible for a wrestling "battle of a century" to be staged in New Zealand, such a match will be offered to its patrons by the Auckland Association on Monday night, when Earl McCready and Steve Savage will be the principals 1 in a professional heavy-weight match, j This contest is by far the most important! that' has yet been promoted in the j Dominion, bringing together as it does two men who are definitely in world championship class. Indeed, it would be difficult to find two men who have left behind them a greater trail of defeated champions. In .his comparatively short professional career in America before leaving for New Zealand, McCready disposed of four former title-holders— "Strangler" Lewis, "Jumping Joe Savoldi, Jim Browning and Gus Sonnenberg, while Savage's record against recognised champions reads as follows: 19-4, beat Waldeck Zbyszko at Chicago; 1920 beat Londos at Sioux Falls; 1926, beat Dick Shikat. In addition, he made short work of Dan Kolofi when the latter returned to America after liis visit to New Zealand in 1933, and he has also beaten Martin Plestina, another wrestler with a big reputation. _ , Savage's visit to New Zealand has been the subject of endless speculation, but those who have seen him m action can now understand why rival promoting bodies were so anxious to secure his services. The Auckland Association was quick to realise that in Savage there was an -unequalled drawing card, and, after one match, booked him for another without delay. The association was particularly fortunate, however, in being able to secure McCready as Savages opponent, for, on Savage's opening display, it 'was apparent that only the best men available would be a suitable match for him. It will be McCready's biggest test m Mew Zealand, and if he can carry it off, lie •will have a prize feather in his cap when . lie returns to battle for the woild. title i in America.