SAVOLDI BEATS WOODS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 3

SAVOLDI BEATS WOODS

♦ - — ’■ Wrestling at Levin ‘ SPIRITED ENCOUNTER Dominion Special Service. Levin, September 16. The first professional wrestling contest in Levin was held at the Regent Theatre to-night by the Manawatu Wrestling Association, under the auspices of the Horowhenua Wrestling Association. There was a crowded house, and the public was treated to good preliminaries, in which three local boys figured, ae well as a good major bout, which proved a spirited encounter. The professional bout between Joe Savoldi and Joe Kopach Woods, opened with Woods putting on an arm-bar which he changed to an arm scissors. Savoldi soon freed himself to give Woods trouble with a sitting splits. Woods broke the hold with elbow jolts. He followed with a “surf board,” and the round ended with Woods in a wristlock and an arm scissors.

The second round saw Woods give Savoldi an anxious time with Japanese arm locks, and he missed a boston crab in the step-over. Savoldi replied with headlocks, but Woods broke clear. The third round opened with an exchange of elbow jolts, and Woods punished Savoldi in a hammeflock. This broken, Savoldi put an arm stretch on Woods, and the round closed with Savoldi in a double hammerlock. \ The fireworks started in the fourth round when Savoldi threw Woods three times in succession with hammerlocks. Woods replied with elbow jolts, and then threw Savoldi with a crutch hold. ■Savoldi followed suit and pinned Woods with a body press for the first fall. In the fifth round Woods ran out with three elbow jolts, but Savoldi replied with a drop-kick. At the end of the round Woods had to be assisted to his corner. He came out, apparently sick, for the sixth round. Savoldi went in with a flying tackle, followed by a drop-kick, and dumped him with a crotch hold. He pulled Woods up, threw him with a headlock, and followed with a body press to end the bout. The amateur preliminaries resulted as follow: — Lightweight: J. Eckersley, 9.7 (Palmerston North) beat W. Brown, 9.7 (Palmerston North), with a fall in the third round. Welterweight: W. Goodall, 10.7 (Palmerston North) beat C. Harrison (Levin), on points; B. Coulter, 10.7 (Levin) beat W. Johnson, 10.6 (Palmerston North), on points. Light-heavyweight: R. Walker, 11.5 (Levin) drew with J. McConachie, 11.12 (Palmerston North). The referee for both professional and amateur bouts was Mr. W. Nicholls (Palmerston North). Blomfield and Davis Draw By Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, September 16. A wrestling contest here this evening between Lofty Bldmfield (17.2) and Willie Davis (18.6), resulted in a draw. Davis secured a fall with a body press in the sixth round, and Blomfield evened with a fall by an octopus clamp in the fipal round.