THROWN FROM RING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 248, 19 October 1943, Page 5

THROWN FROM RING

DING INCAPACITATED BUT WINS-ON A FOUL Lofty Blomfield won and lost a wrassle au in the same breath, as it were, at the Town Hall last night. He and Charlie ■uing had gone through four rounds spiced hon^ a ?. itUe excite ment, and maybe the spwm,= t as u ex P e cting something really sertous to happen about the fifth The houes^ 10 ," ° f thci , r Uioughts-or was it ™ e ?, ? — cam l with dramatic suddenness fh- t,„ V Ce cha "S e of tactics, the variety Afw kes w restli "g fans come again. U-ick nf Oll t e ■ by -P, la > r ' in which the old tlel^ g !egs in the r °Pes 'was exploited while the referee — Bill Wil■m?i i-, g y, , 5^ ng sot a deadlock on Lofty and hurled him to the canvas. Twice more he repeated the throw, and there was more than a suspicion that Lofty's grogciness was feigned so obligingly did he drop his shoulders for Ding's embrace Ding came in for a fourth? and, in a ,™T', waii lifted clear of the floor and muled over the ropes. A couple of rolls fmrw° t (v °Pp Gd another four feet nearly under the ieet of the front row stall pat ions. There Ding writhed apparently with agonising pains in his back. His t%? n vr t VV ?* hed rOUIKI and tried to P" 11 nut I lY m to his feetl but mn S was out for the evening. There was mild upionr as the referee disappeared from the ring and left bad-man Lofty in sole charge presumably the victor. An official stepped through the ropes with the loudspeaker and announced that Ding (thoujrh down and out) was the winner, his opponent s weight-lifting feat having incurred disqualification. Lofty donned his gown, curtsied gracefully in 'the direction where Ding: was still writhing with a gesture which might have meant: "Ladies and gentlemen. I have given him the works, and withdrew before a thunder ot mixed hooting and applause.