BLOMFIELD AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 22

BLOMFIELD AGAIN

"DAZZLER" CLARKE TAKES

DIVE

Having crowned Lofty Blomfield with everything barring the ring supports, Jim "Dazzler" Clarke, ScottishAmerican "razzler," crowned himself high dive champion of the Town Hall on Saturday night, states the Auckland "Star." Recumbent on the floor of the hall he didn't see the hand of Lofty raised in victory—and Blomfield couldn't have been too sure either. After two rounds of battering with flying tackles by Clarke Lofty couldn't have been sure of anything except desire to lie down and sleep.

Anyhow, it made an exciting finish to Clarke's debut under the patronage of the Auckland Wrestling Association

—a debut that held much excitement, even including police intervention regarding the "flying Scotsman's" use of the closed fist in "rabbit-killers" to the base of the neck. The "mon frae Glesga'" via America certainly delights in "mixing it," and like his ancestors of old went over the border in constant raids. For the rest he displayed a powerful headlock, and a capacity for hurtling flying tackles that nearly laid large Lofty low. At the time of Clarke's exit through the stalls they were a fall each, Lofty taking his with a press following jolts and head tosses in the fifth, and Clarke lambasting Blomfield to submission with tackles in the seventh. It was lucky for Lofty!