WIN FOR BLOMFIELD
Unsatisfactory End To Wrestling Bout By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, May 29. Although the professional wrestling bout held on Saturday night between Blomlield and Moen, both 16.8. was taet and intereisting, it came to a somewhat unsatisfactory ending. Moen took a tall with a headlock in the fifth round. Blomfield equalising in the seventh with a clamp. , „ , Moen was still feeuug the effects when he came out tor the eighth round and. sparring for a time, used the ropes whenever possible. At this stage the referee. Mr Frank Anderson, stopped the bout, and gave the decision Io Blomlield. though Moen insisted that he was able and willing to continue. KENNEDY BEATS JENSEN By Telegraph — Press Association. Gi'cymoutli. May 29. After a lively encounter Jack Kennedy defeated Leo Jensen by two falls to one in a wrestling contest on Saturday night, the bout ending in the sixth round. Kennedv gained the first fall with a body press 'following a series of elbow jolts in the second round. Jensen equalised with a Japanese arm lock in the fourth round, but was compelled to submit immediately to a boston crab in the sixth.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 207, 30 May 1938, Page 16
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192WIN FOR BLOMFIELD Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 207, 30 May 1938, Page 16
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