FORSGREN KNOCKED OUT

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 216, 9 June 1936, Page 2

FORSGREN KNOCKED OUT

Blomfield Wins Wrestling

SENSATIONAL ENDING TO ROUGH BOUT

What was to all appearances a right swing to the point of the jaw ended the professional wrestling bout —the roughest this season —at the Wellington Town Hall lust night. -‘Lofty” Blomfield, announced as New Zealand heavyweight champion, beat Jack Forsgren, declared to be Canadian heavyweight champion, by two falls to one, before a crowded and vociferous house. In the sixth round, when each man had a fall to his credit, Forsgren dropped Blomfield time and again with forearm jolts, swung him through the ropes, and then went on hitting him. The referee was on the outskirts trying to pull him back when Blomfield gave Forsgren everything he had in his right arm and shoulder on the jaw. He had only to scramble through the ropes into the ring and fall on the totally bewildered Canadian to finish the bout. It was not for a few moments afterward that Forsgren realised he had lost. When full consciousness returned, he objected strenuously, trying to push past the referee and get at the watchful Blomfield at the other side of the ring. Finally he abandoned his verbal and physical protests and shook hands with good grace. Right from the first bell the bout bad bgen more than willing. Blomfield emerged the winner from a welter of forearm jolts—there were more of these than there were of holds. So grim was the bout that i£ some gas had been handy they would probably have used it. Forsgren tried several times for a boston crab, and was very disappointed when he missed. But it was with a boston crab that he won his fall, getting it in a torrid fifth round after felling th? New Zealander with jolts. Blomfield had surprised a wildly cheering crowd in th<»> eond round by winning a fall with a bod? press after some perfectly-timed jolts, two flying tackles, and a dump. Throughout the ■bout, Forsgren was troubled by his eyes, ■one of which was swollen and angry. Forsgren handed his towel with a benign air to his second, but lie shed his benignity with his dressing gown, jolting Blomfield thrice to the jaw and then earning the crowd’s disapproval by grabbing a one-finger hold when retaining an arm bar. Blomfield jumped out with, a head scissors. Forsgren felled him with a jolt under the heart and then hit him again. Blomfield, annoyed, went after the Canadian and hit him. Forsgren sat down heavily. Blomfield stamped on him. Forsgren scrambled up and left the scene. He was dropped again. He banged Blomfield’s head on the floor. Then he nearly got a boston, objecting strongly when Blomfield stuck his feet under the ropes. Each kicked the other, honours going to Blomfield after a particularly heavy bang in the middle. Forsgren again nearly got a boston, Blomfield kicking him off just when Forsgren had turned him over. Forsgren was warned by the referee for one-finger holds. Blomfield’s Fall. An arm bar by Forsgren was broken by a head scissors. Blomfield banging Forsgren’s head twice before the Canadian came out of the trouble with. • a cradle hold. Forsgren put all his weight into a leg bar. Then he hit Blomfield who stood up on the ropes and jolted the Canadian heavily three times, jumped in twice with flying tackles, banged him again and won frantic applause by getting a fall with a dump and body press in 4min. 33see. Forsgren was assisted to his corner after an unavailing effort to crawl there.

Forsgren stalled for time and then tried to pour Blomfield over the ropes. His next move was a trip and splits, going thou for a boston. He hit the prostrate Blomfield over the ear and then experimented on the New Zealanders nose. Standing up, he swung his elbow into Blomfield’s back aud then gave the other tome bad moments with a hammerlock. Blomfield was dropped with a jolt and then swung the Canadian’s legs up and strained for a boston. After some anxious waiting Forsgren tipped him oft balance and dropped him with a jolt and headlock. Blomfield missed with a flying tackle and was sent cra.-hing with a jolt. Forsgren fell on him and got a body scissors. Blomfield got out of that wijh a double toelock and swore softly when Forsgren brought both hands down on the back of his neck. Forsgren pushed Blomfield up ou the ropes and was persuaded to leave only when Blomfield poked two fingers behind his ears. Thoroughly maddened, Forsgren rushed away, stamped on the mat, threw his hands into the air and then swung an elbow into Blomfield’s jaw. He stood up out of a head scissors and put nil his strength into an attempt at a boston. When Blomfield finally twisted him off his balance ‘he squatted down and vented his disappointment on the mat. He got a burred wrist-lock and jumped on Blomfield's arm muscle. A clash of jolts by each followed the break. Forsgren was the first to leave, doing so by way of the ropes. Blomfield threw a piece of tooth away. Then he went back to Forsgren. dropped him with some jolts, aud used the corner ropes to assist him in stamping on the Canadian. Some more jolts and Forsgren went for a boston. The bell interrupted his strivings. Forsgren’s Revenge. Blomfield broke a full nelson with a trip and toehold. Forsgren reached up and climbed over with Blomfield’s arm in a scissors. When Blomfield finally stood up with a splits his forearm was quite white. He worked off some of his spleen by bending Forsgren’s leg backward and forward as if it were a farmyard pump. Out of that, Forsgren used his elbows again. Blomfield withstood one barrage and dropped Forsgren with a jolt and two tackles. But he stood up to the next, knocked Blomfield over, picked him up and dumped him. Twice more he did it, pulling Blomfield’s head up each time by the hair. Blomfield dropped as if poleaxed under the weight of a jolt, and could offer no resistance to a boston crab, Forsgren winning a submission fall in Gmin. 39sec. A Sensational Climax. Eager to finish the bout. Forsgren objected to the incursion of an electric sweeper which was brought on to clear some dust. The hell went at the right time, however, and Forsgren immediately sailed into Blomfield with both arms. Blomfield no sooner stood up after one jolt than he crashed to the mat under another. Forsgren picked him up and swung him through the ro|X's. Instead of waiting for Blomfield Io return he throw him back into the ring. Then he threw him out again. Disregarding rules and referee, he leant over the ropes and hit the other on the jaw. Dazed though he was by merciless punishment. Blomfield stood hack and hit the Canadian with what looked suspiciously like n righthand swing. Forsgren was temporarily knocked o_ut. Blomfield fell on him and won a sensational fall in 50sec. Amateur Bouts. Welterweight. I). Sword, Ost. 121 b., heat I). Howell, lOst. 21b., b.v the only fall of the match, .securing it in the second round with a crotch liold and dump. F. Spalding, Kist, 91b., beat 11. King. Hist. -lib. on points, neither obtaining a fall after much grim wrestling. Middleweight. G. McDonald, list. 81b., beat 11. Liddle, • 11st. -lib., by the only fall of the bout, getting it in the third round with a crotch hold and dump after a fast, willing and clever exhibition. Flyweight. L. Dayman, 7st. 51b., beat A. Mulholland, 7st. 51b., with a fall in the third

round, getting it with a body press after a spin. _____ MATCH AT ROTORUA By Telegraph—Press Association. Rotorua, June 8. The New Zealander King Elliott and Joe Woods (U.S.A.) provided eight rounds of fast aud interesting wrestling on Saturday night in what was generally voted t<> be one of the best bouts seen here. The men were well matched, and when the referee gave it a draw the decision was a popular one. Woods secured a fall in (lie fifth round with a surfboard hold, and Elliott equalised in the seventh with flying tackles and a pre»». Both meu dispensed with showmanship and had sufficient difference in their methods to make the bout thoroughly interesting.