WRESTLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 186, 7 August 1936, Page 13

WRESTLING.

TO-MORROW'S BOUT. Wrestling enthusiasts like plenty, Of action to be infused into the bouts offeredto them, and tastes in this direction should be well catered for at the Auckland Town Hall on Saturday night. The professional bout on the programme will be between "Lofty" Blomfield (Auckland) and Joe Kopaeh Woods (Chicago), two men whose performances have made them popular from the North Cape to the Bluff during the present season. Both men are well equipped with wrestling holds, and are adepts at getting themselves out of tight corners, but it is the use they make of their elbows and forearms that has made them the popular favourites that they are. Blomfield has proved that this I method of attack, when properly employed, is almost certaip to bring results. His great size enables him to get the better of practically any opponent by this means. He has had considerable difficulty, I however, in mastering Woods, who also ! specialises in the elbow jolt as a means to achieving success. Woods showed Aucklanders when he first appeared here that he is a rugged and aggressive wrestler who is very difficult to beat, and is capable ofwearing down the strongest of opponents. He keeps going untiringly right throughVi contest, and never seems to be beaten, while his constant striving provides 'unlimited thrills for the spectators.