BLOMFIELD WINS ROUGH BOUT
MARSHALL DISQUALIFIED. WELLINGTON", Monday. Rough, gruelling wrestling at the Wellington Town Hall to-night resulted in Blomfield beating Marshall by a penalty when the acore etood at one fafl each. There were constant outbreaks of knockdown fisticuffs and the referee had to warn both wrestlers for repeated infringements. Marshall took a pin fall in the third round following a dump. BlomficM in the seventh turned the tables on J.m-shall's body eciesore, which he converted to a Boston crab, Marshall submitting _In the last round Marshall elbow-jolted Blomfield out of the ring and before he could clamber back sent him flying into the crowd with a shoulder-tackle. The referee promptly awarded the bout to xJloc.field.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 17
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