WRESTLING
BLOMFIELD DISQUALIFIED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) . AUCKLAND, September 9.
A spectacular wrestling contest between Lofty Blomfield, 16st 101b, and Floyd Marshall. 16st 81b, held at Hamilton, had a disappointing finish in the sixth round, in which Blomfield-, though he had the match in hand, was disqualified. The first four rounds were full of interest, both men exploiting punishing holds. In the' fifth round Blomfield converted a Japanese leg throw into an octopus clamp and, with , the assistance of the ropes, secured a fall. Marshall was apparently disabled and Blomfield could easily have secured the deciding fall when -the gong sounded for the sixth round. Instead,'he jumped at Marshall several times while the latter, was sitting in a dazed condition on the ropes, and his repeated disobedience of the referee's orders to keep back resulted in his disqualification.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1937, Page 5
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