DISQUALIFIED!

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 114, 17 May 1938, Page 15

DISQUALIFIED!

LOFTY FALLS FOUL.

SEVEN HECTIC ROUNDS

ONE PAUL EACH, AND . . .

We were all surprised—even Lofty! Seven hectic rounds ot biff-bash wrestling, with blood (ligiiratively speaking) in the eyes of Lofty Blomfield ami Andy .Mom.

■ . . One fall each, and only Lofty's octopus needed to complete the picture and then? VVliy, Fate stepped in. in the person of the referee, Mr. Jack McLean. U was a straw that broke tliu camel's back, and it was a blow that bloke Lolly's run of vii-toi-it'H for tiie second time this season. There is one place you cant hit a man when you are wrestling, and that is over the ropes! Lofty tried it. and was disqualified. ISut then Mr. McLean had had a very busy and a very trying evening. I hose wrestlers will be bad boys.

Interviewed before it left the ring the ghost of Lofty'a octopus declared, "You can beat some of the wrestlers all of the time; you can beat all of the wrestlers some ot the time; but you can't beat all the wrestlers, nil of the time." .Even if Abo (Lincoln, not Yourist) thought of that first, it is not a bad line.

Pot and Kettie-ish. Giving the matter due and earnest consideration it was a bit hard on Lofty. Blomlield is not exactly lily-white when it comes to illegality in the ring, and it would have been lather pot and kettle-ish if he had complained vigorously last night but compared with Moen in the matter of. venomous hostility he was as innocent as a modern dictator. In the splashes of real wrestling they were about on a par, but from the start Moen appeared tq be asking for a disqualification. He was warned every other minute, and the referee worked as hard as the wrestlers separating them from strangles, and other things that conventionally aren't done. Lot did a good deal of repaying in Moen's own coinage, and (in the picturesque gnngsteresque) he "took the rap." It was a dogfight from the bpening gong, with Moon taking strangles on Blomlield over the rop«w three times. He was himself taken down in a headlock. let Lofty have two rights to the stomach, and then again gave JSlnmh'eld the ropes in the neck. Blomlield took more punches in a hammerloek. got back with a barred toehold, but wan again over the ropes in a strangle. Lofty pulled Andy's ears and again stopped a right. That started a war-dance, with Lofty whipping in five, jolts, and taking Moen over the ropes, first in a headlock and then a wristlock. Moen was on top with a headlock at the gong, but earned a further warning for holding on.

Mole et raffing in the second, -with Blomfield in a toehold twice, but repaying it by standing on a toehold. Repaid, too (with interest ill a jolt), was .sonic fun ilocn liitd with Lofty 's left arm and the top lopo, anil thru Moen divod for a toehold, upending Lofty. It was not for long. Blomiield broke with a wristloek and worked nil" some steam with knee work, one-finger holds and eye-knu<>klinjr.

In Head-on Collision. The third was hectic, with fists flying, strangles and hair-pulling. Under chrce jolts l>y Moen, Lofty went to the ropes and swept in two flying tackles, but the third time they met head-on and both went to the mat. Apparently dazed, they swung wildly at one another, and as they recovered it developed into a dunnybrook of cracking elbows, with Moen taking the worst of it. He recovered (and was warned atrain) when he head-tossed Lofty, and applied a haminerlock, using his knee on Lofty's thivuat. The war . on, with Lofty 'e arm bashed over the ropes again, and a strangle applied, but Lofty went up in an air raid, and under five jolts Moen hit the canvas twice. Three times lie was picked up and dumped, and Lofty went down on him for a fall. Moen carried on a one-tnan stay-in strike in several corners at the start of the fifth; but lie wae pulled out at last in a headlock and thrown through the rones. He repaid with a strangle, and then with a full-nelson, but was hcad-tossod. In the niixup both men had a turn on top, and then Moen came in flying tackles. One, two, three connected, but he missed tlie fourth and Lofty dived on top.

Temperature Rises. Ho niisserl the press, and Moon was in the ascendancy anain when he rushed Blonifield to a. corner, tied his lei; in the ropes and aimed a kick as lie was pulled off. For that ho stopped a jolt, was headttwsed out the ropes, jumped on and jolted out. again an he returned. lie "foxed" hie way back, again did things to Lofty's arm on the ropes, aimed a swipe, but was jolted and jumped on. Moen said things —and turned it on again with a head lock, and then a head-toes, Lofty going out the ropes. He returned swinging jolts, twice picked up Moen and dumped him, but reeled back from a third attempt complaining that he had been uppcrciit in the stomach. Blomtield went in with fists Hying, but he wae pulled off as the gong sounded.

Moen swopped a headlock for a hammerlock, and then dived in a^ain—met a jolt, ami a second, but smashed through a third. to hend-toss Blomfiekl twice. Quickly swinging round he slammed Blonifield three times in reverse headlocks and took a tall. . . . One all. The end

came quickly after that. Three punches at Blomh'eld opened the seventh; he was head-tossed ami again slammed, but that was broken as a strangle, and Blomiield carried the war into Moen's camp with a strangle over the ropes and then a rain ofjolts. Twice Moen went through them and Blomfield was held back, but as Moen tried to return he met another jolt over the ropes and went down. The rilitf wae left to Lofty—Mr. McLean had joined Moen outside, to raise his hand in victory. Lofty protested; Moen wanted to go on —but they shook hands on it and called it a day.

Kenneth Wins. In the professional preliminary K. Kenneth, 14.8, beat P. Boric, 13.8, by one fall, with a toehold fallowing a stomach throw in the third round. The crowd applauded a- fast-moving tussle, with Boric working hardest, but not as effectively as Kenneth. The amateurs gave a good exhibition, refereed by Mr. -Tim Browne, with Messrs. 11 Ashby and C. Browne as judges. W. Whitßombe. 9.10, beat J. O'Connor, 9.10, on points in a hard and moderately well-fought bout. Whitcombe had the lead all the way. F. Aspin, 11.3, beat J. Sycenham, 11.6, on points. Sycenham fought a hard losing battle, but lacked experience.