BOESCH WINS AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 129, 2 June 1936, Page 14

BOESCH WINS AGAIN

FALL AGAINST RUSSELL

DROPKICK BRINGS RESULTS

EVENLY-MATCHED PAIR

Paul Boesch, the New York drop-| kick expert, added another win to his New Zealand record at the Town Hall last night, his victim being Cowboy Bob ("Rebel") Russell, who had his rebelliousness and other wrestling qualities temporarily kicked out of him early in the fifth round. The resultant fall was the only one of the match, but had Russell managed to level the.scores he could scarcely have missed securing at least a draw. His performance all round, in fact, was so good that it would not have been surprising, in such circumstances, if he had been given the verdict. However, Boesch's defensive work was so effective that Russell never looked like ending a round quickly. The match was somewhat different from what had generally been expected. Boesch's flair for the spectacular, combined with Russell's liking for operations sufficiently open to allow him what may be called elbow-room caused the majority of a well-filled hou3e to look for some lively play, but, instead, most of the time was taken up with gruelling struggles on the mat. In these exchanges, however, there was constant movement, and the pace right through was so hard that it scarcely seemed possible in the early stages that both men could last it out. But last it out they did, and there was no slackening at any stage, while all that was done bore the mark of real wrestling quality. Boesch took the ring at 15st 81b, Russell being nine pounds lighter. BOTH MEN CLEVER. The cowboy started with some elbow work in the referee's hold, and soon wiped the smile off Boesch's face. They were on top in turn when they went •to the mat, considerable cleverness being displayed on both sides. .Russell did well with a head scissors, and was the aggressor in some gruelling mat work. He eventually developed an arm bar which caused Boesch a lot of trouble before a head scissors carried him out Russell drew blood from Boesch's nose by whipping his wrist across it, and he earned some boos at the gong for failing immediately to release an arm bar. , They quickly went to the mat in the second round, and Russell developed a punishing arm twist. Boesch s legs brought him out, and he flattened the cowboy with a dropkick. It was Boesch's turn to get a barred wrist lock, but he went close to being caught in the spreadeagle. From that events took another sudden turn, Boesch standing up with the death lock. He could not hold it, and there continued to be nothing between them, though both worked hard. Russell again dealt out punishment after the gong had rung and was cautioned by the referee. Boesch essayed a dropkick in the third round, but found Russell out of bounds. Nothing daunted, he snapped on a short arm scissors and used it to give Russell a rough ride round the ring. Russell was ready with an answer, however, and doubled Boesch's hand back at the end of an arm bar. Elbows to the heart sank Boesch to the mat, but the was in an uproar when Boesch responded to the jaw and soon had the cowboy on the retreat. Russell met with no sympathy when he protested to the referee. After being held in a head lock Russell came back with a hammer lock .which he mixed with elbows to the stomach. He was still holding it at the bell, but this time he melodramatically broke it without further trouble. ' , .... Boesch opened the fourth round with a full nelson and when Russell gained another hammer lock he threw the cowboy over his head. A double face bar troubled Boesch but he wriggled into a short arm scissors only to find that this brought no results. He kicked his way out of a toe hold and, after stopping a charge, checked another by planting a foot in Russell's middle. DROPRICKED OUT.

It had been mostly gruelling work so far and the crowd was beginning to look for Boesch's dropkicks. There was not long to'-wait. Russell opened the fifth round with elbow jolts, followed by a couple of charges, and appeared to have Boesch distressed. The latter suddenly shot out his feet in a dropkick, however, and connected well and truly. Two more served thenpurpose and Russell was the victim of a* fall at lmin 59sec. . Some wild swinging set the sixth round under way and continued until Russell was pulled up for closing his fist Both men then started pulling hair, and that had to be stopped too. There was a roar from the crowd when Russell raised a threatening fist and Boesch accepted the invitation, rushing in and grabbing it to take its owner down with an arm bar. This did not last long and he was soon squirming under a hammer lock. He was scarcely free before he was caught in a painful leg lock in 1 which he finished the round. While circling round exercising his leg in the next round Boesch unexpectedly launched a dropkick, Russell back-pedalling just in time. Russell plied a busy elbow for a while but Boesch weathered the storm and came back with some of his own as a means to securing a leg trip. There was a thrill when Russell hurtled back from the ropes only to be tossed with a perfect stomach throw, the manoeuvre being repeated when Russell rushed in again. Near the end of the round Russell secured the death lock but could not hold it. After both had used arm stretches Russell was twice kicked out of the Boston crab in the final round and also stopped a dropkick. He kept up the pressure and caught Boesch in.the rocking-chair splits. Boesch broke it with another ineffectual death lock. A lady ringsider. received a reprimand from Hussell for giving Boesch advice. The cowboy continued to work hard while the minutes ebbed away but all to no effect. Mr. Alf. Jenkins was the referee. ' AMATEUR PRELIMINARIES.

Results of the amateur preliminary boats were:— T. Murrell (lOst 41b) beat L. Hancock (lOst 61b) by a fall in the third rOund. . _ _ -L. Spalding (lOst 91b) beat S. McDonald (lOst 51b) by a fall in the third round. -A. Tomlinson (7st 51b) beat H. Dooley (7st) by two falls to one. P. and N. Razos (list 81b and 12st respectively) wrestled an exhibition bout. Mr. J. H. Thompson was the referee.

BLOMFIELD'S CLAMP ELLIOTT INCAPACITATED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, June 1. Lofty Blomfield. of Auckland, and King Elliott, of Wanganui, met in the Civic Theatre this evening to decide the New Zealand heavyweight wrest-r-P* title. The verdict went to Blomlield, whose octopus clamp put Elliott oUt of action half-way through the seventh round. Elliott had secured the only fall in the match to that stage (with a body press in the fourth round) and was ahead on points. BJomfield's weight was given as 16st 81b and Elliott's as. 15st 61b.