WRESTLING

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23043, 11 June 1940, Page 9

WRESTLING

O’CONNOR BEATS BLOMFIEJEP (press association telegram.) WELLINQTON, (Tune 10. A hard and hectic wrestling bout ended in Dan O’Connor beating Sergeant-Major “Lofty” Blomfield on a penalty fall in the Wellington Town Hall to-night. The score was one fall each, Blomfield having suet cessfully applied ah octopus-clamp and O’Connor having pinned , Blomfield after dating him with tackles and drop-kicks, when, in a vigorous hurly-burly, Blomficjd drove his fist into O’Connor’s face and midriff, instead of the customary forearm or elbow. For this the referee- declared O’Connor the winner.' Blomfield weighed 16st 81b and’O'Connor 16st 101b. M’CREADY V. CORBETT The wrestling match, which is to be staged at the Theatre Royal, Christchurch’, to-morow night, will feature t\vo of the most skilful wrestlers in the country. SatV McCteady, the British Empire champion, and Joe Corbet, of Boston, who h3§ needed only a short time to make himself a warm favourite from one' end of the Dominion to the other. Corbett has not only won support fpr his sparkling and versatile wrestling. but has also* done exceptionally well against strong rivals. Even McCready, who has lost only cine, of the 160-odd matches he has had in New Zealand during the last five "years.: cannot face Corhett with confidence, and has already had to be content with a draw, besides dropping a’ : fall fo the aggressive Bostonian, frothing has meant njoxe tg the

present season than the fact that McCready Is once again at the top'of his form, and when he ig in that condition a better Wrestler fo watch coqld not be found anywhere. . ...