TWO BROWNINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 31

TWO BROWNINGS

! Overseas papers report that Walter Browning, of Auckland, is wrestling in America under his own name of Blomfield. This should end the confusion in the minds of many New Zealand fans as to which Browning is among the top-liners in the United States of America. . Walter Browning -:-or Blomfield—is a New1 Zealand product who came into the limelight in 1930 when he annexed the New Zealand amateur heavyweight title in Wellington. He turned professional and went to Australia where he met with some measure of success. The Lurich-Browning matches were notoriously hectic.

New Zealand fans are more particular about their bill of fare, and when Browning later visited New Zealand his antics, which included throwing chairs at referees, met with ho approval. One or two disqualifications forced him to do more wrestling and less chair throwing. ■ .

The other Browning is Jim, ex-world champion, who recently lost the title to Londos, the present champion. Browning, famous for his airplane scissors, is at present staging a come-back, although critics state that the old axiom "They never come back" is operating again. However, he is still a power to be reckoned with. His airplane scissors hold has not yet been successfully countered. Even Londos was severely punished with this hold in their title match. According to witnesses, it was an old head injury rather than the superiority of Londos that lost Browning the match.

The latest contender for the title is Ed Don George, who holds a victory over Jim Browning since the title, changed hands, and wrestling authorities say that Londos will go down to George when they meet in New York in aid of Mrs. Hearst's milk fund.