WRESTLING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 233, 1 October 1936, Page 24

WRESTLING.

BLOMFIELD BEATS PENCHEFF. GISBORNE, Wednesday. In a wrestling match Lofty Blomfield, IC.C, beat George Penchelf, 15.5, by two straight falls. Blomfield scored first in the fifth round with an octopus clamp, and in the sixth round Pencheff was dumped over the top rope. He was unable to resume on the count of 20. BLOMFIELD DISQUALIFIED. MARTON', Wednesday. In a wrestling match in which showmanship predominated last evening Blomfield was disqualified in the seventh round for using his feet on his opponent, Joe Woods, when the latter was outside the ropes. Blomfield, who was a fall to the good, had been previously warned for the same offence. He was clearly superior throughout. SAVOLDI TOO GOOD FOR WOODS. NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday. A cleverer and faster wrestler, Joe Savoldi defeated Joe Woods on points in | a contest at Hawera this evening. Each man gained a fall. Woods gained the first fall in the fourth round with elbow jolts and a crutch hold. Savoldi secured an equalising fall in the seventh round with a drop kick that dazed Woods and left him an easy victim. |

DON GEORGE IN AUCKLAND. Eel Don George, former heavy-weight wrestling champion of the world, whose services could be secured for New Zealand only on the payment of a substantial guarantee, will open his Dominion tour at the Auckland Town liall next Monday night against Joe Kopach Woods, the tough and hard-hitting ex-boxer from Chicago. George has had a most interesting ring career. As an amateur he quickly reached a high standard and won the American national heavy-weight championship, being chosen as a result to represent his country at the Olympic Games at Amsterdam in 1928. There he came up against Earl McCready, the Canadian representative in the heavy-weight division, for the first time. The pair proved to be exceptionally well matched and it was not until after they had wrestled extra time that George secured the winning fall. A little oyer a year later he commenced to make his mark in the professional ranks and at the end of 1030 he won the heavyweight title off Gus Sonnenberg. George is one of the greatest drawing cards in the game, mingling "colour" with science. Woods is the right man to make the newcomer give of his best, and there is certain to be a thrilling encounter. I