LOFTY WINS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 209, 5 September 1939, Page 13

LOFTY WINS.

DEFEAT OF BOESCH.

THE CRY WAS " NO QUARTER."

REFEREE AGAIN LOSES HIS SHIRT. Another little spot of international bother was settled at the Auckland Town Hall last evening, when Lofty Blomfield, of Xew Zealand, went "over the top'' against Paul "Bombshell" Boesoh, of America—conquering t'o the time of two falls to. one in six rounds. It was the type of scrap to delight the heart of the spectators, and they fully appreciated it. One way anil another the contestants made things fairly warm for each other, and for the referee, who, poor man, again lost most of hie shirt. Bombs For Bombs. From the opening gong until the close there was no let-up in the fireworks, and though Blomfield churned a decisive win he suffered severely in the process. Boesch gave "bombs for bombs and poison gas tor poison gas." At the start Lofty went in with a wristlock, to follow with a hair pull, but he was taken down by Paul with a wristlock. Jolts by Lofty brought a drop-kick in response and Boesch took a head-scissors, which had Lofty worried. Hair-pulling by Blomfield had its reward when Paul took a handful also and flung Lofty out.' through the ropes. Boesch was forcing the pace. He followed jolts with a drop-kick, and took a toehold following a leg-trip. io the second Blomfield took a head scissors and a full nelson with the legs, but Paul made it a standing splits. Lofty looked for a way out and found it—in MrJ. McLean. He grabbed the referee's leg to pull himself clear —upsetting Mr. McLean s status quo in the process. A dropkick by Boesch again gave him the advantage and he applied a short-arm scissors. Lofty cleared that, but four times was hurtled in stomach throws. A minute later Lofty was going in hard with uppercutting jolts, and headlocks—crowding the American in an attack that lasted to the gong. Falls and Falls. "Bombshell' Boesch justified his name an the third as he dropped Lofty with ,a dropkick, applied a head scissors, slammed in jolts to the back of bis neck, and clapped Lotty s.. head between his knees. : A strangle claim won Lofty freedom and a moment later he had swung on his octopus clamp to take a fall.

Lofty seemed in a hurry to finish things, as lie twice caugtit Boescu in loeuolds auu strung him up 111 tile ropes. j.hat causeu Mr. McLean trouble, too. He got his hand caught as he need Paul the first time and on the second occasion Paul grabbed him by the hair to maintain his own balance. lliat started things tor Lofty. Boetch rushed him to the ropes, tied him thoroughly and resisted the referee's efforts to nee him. When Mr. McLean insisted, Paul took his recompense by ripping the referee's shirt halt from his back. Lofty was cleared, but only to stop two cracking dropkicks. He was pulled to his feet by the hair, swung aloft for a dump, and pressed for a fall. "Have you seen the crowd. Lofty?'' asked Paul 111 the tilth. "So' Well, have a look!'' and took Blomfield on a somersaulting tour of the ring in a short armscissors. Lofty cleared that to collect an Indian death-lock, was tumbled out of that, and a splits applied, but toak a figure-four head-scissors that was broken as a strangle. That earned him a strangle in return. A donnybrook developed as Lofty swung in jolts, stopped a straight right to the jaw then another to the body. Blomfield was in a toe-hold at the goug. Shock tactics continued in the sixth with Boescli .proffering a butt and a dropkick in return for jolts. Lofty went in with rope-work, but was tipped out of tlie ropes. Each' in turn used his knee, and Boesch looked the winner as he threw a drop-kick and tried for a press. He missed that, but grabbed Lofty s legs. The crowd roared as it was seen he had Lofty s own octopus applied on the inventor of it. They struggled for minutes, but Lofty was too strong. He came to his feet and pressed Boesch's shoulders to the mat to gain the victory. The Preliminaries. In the professional preliminary Fred Baric beat F. Irvine on points in an exciting encounter. Mr. F. Murphy refereed the amateur bouts, with Messrs. G. Heakl and C. O. Browne as judges. L. Cronin, 11.12, beat A. Gregg, U.S. on points. J. Pearson, 12.8, beat D. Brewer, 12.6. by one fall. W. Mc Williams, 9.6, beat H. Barnaoy, 9.8, by one fall.