ROUGH WRESTLING

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 8, 5 October 1937, Page 2

ROUGH WRESTLING

Marshall Penalised For Infringements

DECISION TO BLOMFIELD

Rough, guelling wrestling at the Wellington Town Hall last night resulted in "Lofty” Blonitield beating Floyd Marshall by a penalty rail, when the score stood at one fall each. There were constant outbreaks of knock-down -fisticuffs, and the referee, Mr. Alf. Jenkins, spent his time warning the wrestlers tor repeated inl'ringments. Marshall took a pin-fall in the third round, following a dump; Blomfield, in the seventh, turned the tables on Marshall’s body-scissors, which he converted to a boston crab, Marshall submitting. In the last round, Marshall elbow-jolted Blomfield out oi the ring, and before he could clamber back sent him flying headlong into the crowd 'with a shoulder-tackle; the referee promptly awarded the bout to Blomfield. When he stripped off Ins dressinggown to face Blomfield, Marshall revealed a magnificent chest and torso. Actually, at 16st. 81b„ he was the lighter man- Blomfield’s weight was 16st. 101 b. But Marshall showed himself possessed of great stamina and endurance, and indeed both men sustained appalling punishment during the progress of the eight rounds. . ■ t t . “You must keep your fists out of your punches,” the referee told the wrestlers before they joined battle. The warning proved much needed. The bout had not been in progress a minute before Blomfield sent his elbows crashing home and doubled Marshall over the ropes, ran him into a corner, and again jolted him violently; to which Marshall retorted by knocking Blomfield clean off his feet with a smacking forearm blow to the head. When Blomfield came back, carefully guarding his face from a second such liberty, Marshall drove his forearm into his ribs instead, and held him on the mat in a standing splits. When Blomfield broke that, Marshall held him : on the mat in a head scissors, and when Blomfield escaped from that and revenged himself with a series of. jolts, Marshall held him on the mat in an arm-bar. But Blomfield had the last word, holding Marshall in a head-scissors and pulling his hair. The referee had difficulty in separating the wrestlers in the ropes early in the second round. Blomfield then belaboured Marshall with jolts and tripped him, shaping an octopus clamp. Marshall escaped. Blomfield marched Marshall across the ring by his two ears, took him in a headlock and pulled.his hair and jolted him a few more times. Things were becoming torrid when the referee warned Marshall not to use his fists. Manshall halched Blomfield with his knee, held him in a splits and, finding this a useful manoeuvre, brought h ; s knee into action a second time.. Blomfield was tossed on to his back and landed heavily, looking dazed. . . Blomfield pinioned Marshall with a full-nelson. Marshall dropped to the floor, spun round, and kicked upward, his heels connecting with Blomfield’s jaw. He clamped on a head-scissors. Blomfield wound one of Marshall’s feet round the ropes; the referee separated them—and not without difficulty. Marshall let fly a farewell kick which whizzed nearer to the official than to Blomfield.

First Fall Comes Early. ‘

Blomfield again discharged a salvo of jolts. Marshall, apparently wearying of being a target for this form of pleasantry, retorted iu kind, lie knocked Blomfield into the ropes and there took him in a crotch-hold. He dumped him once and leapt on him to pin, him, but already Blomfield was recovering. After several attempts, Marshall forced his shoulders to the mat and the referee slapped his shoulder, awarding a fall. Time: Snun. Bsec. in the third round. In the next round Blomfield, who seemed not a whit the worse for his rough handling, held Marshall in a spectacular standing . splits. Marshall, after .threshing awhile on the mat ; kicked him off. Blomfield once again tripped him. trying for the octopus hold, but missed. Marshall applied a toe-hold. Blomfield grasped Marshall’s toe, and Marshall took hold of an odd leg sticking out of the tangle; both pulled, but it was impossible to say who was having the better of the matter; it was a surprise that they were able to untangle themselves without being separated. ■ . Blomfield again resorted to elhow-.iolts, and took Marshall by the head to throw him hard. Marshall, however, caught Blomfield off balance; pulled him backward, and they both rolled out of the ring. Blomfield three times knocked Mar- , shall down with savage jolts. Each time Marshall again staggered to his feet. Blomfield reached for a crotch-hold, but as there seemed to he still life in his victim, he again jolted him until he was sufficiently dazed to submit to being dumped. But even then, Blomfield could not pin him. He hoisted his tough opponent aloft and dumped him a second time with .great gusto.' One would have thought Marshall would have little fight left, but as Blomfield closed to pin him he kicked upward from the mat and flattened Blomfield. Referee Kept Busy, Marshall was warned for failing to break cleanly. Blomfield was warned for hair-tugging. Marshall was warned for a strangle-hold. The referee was having a busy time. Blomfield took Marshall on the'mat and hammered his head between his Knees. Marshall took him by the neck and doubled him over the I‘ope's; the referee had to haul Marshall off bodily. “Another one like that, boy. and I’ll put you out of the ring,” eaid the referee when Marshall experimented with fisticuffs. “Don’t you start, too,” the referee admonished Blomfield. Blomfield, however. used his elbow. He battered Marshall, threw him with a headlock, and again jolted him. Marshall, however, with indomitable courage, came back and pitched Blomfield hear! over heels twice with hard headlocks. The two went into a huddle on the mat. Final Warning. Blomfield emerged with a manual deathlock. He punished Marshall with lusty blows whenever the other tried to sit up. “You can stop that; one man’s already been stopped,” said the referee a« Blomfield’s blow® container! more fist than elbow. “It's your filial warning,’’ the official told Marshall a moment later as ho esea ped from the hold and gave back blow tor blow. Striking Blomfield twice with his forearm, Marshall threw him across and across the mat with headlocks and sprang into a flying body scissors, Blomfield tor a few moments lay supine, then rose to his feet holding Marshall by the legs. He turned him over, developing a boston erab. Marshall beat the mat with his hand in submission. Time, 6min. lOsee. The last round was brief. The two wrestlers met in a stand-up battle, exchanging tremendous elbow-jolts. Each of these incredibly hardy souls came gamely back for more. Finally Marshall sent Blomfield spinning through the ropes; he picked himself up slowly and began to clambt’r back, while the referee tolled the seconds. Before the referee had finished counting, or Blomfield managed to scramble into the ring, Marshall hurled himself into a flying shoulder tackle. Blomfield disappeared somersaulting into the crowd. The referee rushed at Marshall and thrust him hack across the ring; then waited while Blomfield slowly returned, and raised his hand as victor. Blomfield wont across to Marshall and offered to shake hands but Marshall waved him aside with a gesture of negation. ’ Amateur Preliminaries. Paperweight: J. Prestney (Kilbirnie. 7.0) beat G. Wales (Petone, 6.13) on points in a no-fall bout. Welterweight: J. Hill (Petone. 10.0) beat B. Mon,astra (Kilbirnie, 10.5) on points. Tlie bout was without a fall, but Hill set (he pace throughout. Junior flyweight: S. Deslnndcs (Kilbirnie, 5.3) bent A. Henderson (Petone. 5.1) by one fall. He turned Henderson

over QU the mat aud pinned him in the third round of a bright and even bout. Light-heavyweight: 11. R. Godfrey (12.0) beat R. Bell (11.10) by one fall, in a particularly willing and interesting bout. Godfrey found a willing and able opponent in-Bell, who'gave him several nasty tumbles but never had him iu serious difficulties. Godfrey pinned him late in the last round. MARSHALL BEATS WADE By Telegraph—Press Association. Dannevirke, October 4. Marshall beat Wade on Saturday night in a dour bout. Each gained a fall, Wade in the fourth round, after a vigorous exchange of jolts, by a complicated hold, and Marshall in the seventh, with a dump nnd body press. Marshall finished more strongly to secure the verdict.