FIOGGED DEAD HORSE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 137, 13 June 1939, Page 13

FIOGGED DEAD HORSE

KIRCHMEYER'S ERRO&

DONOVAN WINS MAT BOUT

. Wo good purpose can be served by flogging a dead horse. The adage is old, but none the less true, and last night at the Wellington Town Hall Rollend Kirchmeyer found that the S.P.C.A. is liable to punish offenders against the code of ethics for the treatment of not-so-dumb animals. In the seventh round of his wrestling contest with "Irish" Jack Donovan, Kirchmeyer, who was then one fall to the bad, managed to apply his specialty, the python clutch. Donovan surrendered wtihout undue waste of time, but Kirchmeyer seemed determined to make the reverse a rout and continued to throw pressure into the hold.

The referee jumped in and struggled with .him but it toobk a few moments before he could untangle the locked legs and by that time Donovan looked, to be a very sick Irishman. Kirchmeyer was dispatched to his corner in disgrace and the referee's arm was raised over the prostrate Donovan. Donovan, suffering from stiffness of the joints, was assisted to his corner by his second and eventually out of the ring.

It was an exciting ending to a bout which, although it produced of good, hard wrestling, with little advantage to either man, lacked the thrills and speed of the Blomfield-Boesch clash, for instance. It was hard to understand why Kirchmeyer should forget himself as he did at the finish. Besides his height advantage he was rfearly a stone heavier than Donovan, the weights being 17st 61b and 16st 71b. The weather affected the attendance "which; nevertheless, was quite good. DONOVAN'S WRIST LOCKS. . Donovan put his trust in wrist locks when the bout started but a head scissors pulled him out of one and Kirchmeyer stepped out of the next. Kirchmeyer had some success with a short-arm scissors until he had his long legs stretched into a splits. A kick to the jaw freed him and he shook Donovan again with a jolt to the .ribs. Donovan had what looked like a strangle hold at the end of the round.

Kirchmeyer startled the natives in the second round by jumping upon his man and riding him with a figure-four body scissors. After groping for the ropes Donovan collapsed and the crowd was entertained by his grimaces when he was bumped on to the mat; "and when his face was pulled out of shape. He regained the advantage with one of his pet wrist locks. The air be.came warmer when Kirchmeyer initiated charges and was finally halted in full, flight by being chucked under the chin. It nearly cost him a fall. Kirchmeyer took full advantage of his height and reach to hold Donovan off in' the third round. The latter, took a look at the, hand hovering ' high above him; and then gave a. burlesque imitation'of Kirchmeyer's attitude for the benefit of the referee. He soon had a struggle with the referee for refusing to release a strangle hold »and Kirchmeyer proceeded to take it out of him with jolts. Donovan tried a. barred toe hold but Kirchmeyer is clever with his legs and he soon^had the advantage. They then lay together on their backs and waved their feet in the air while the crowd laughed. Donovan's disgust was mute but eloquent when Kirchmeyer held him safely at arm's reach by planting a hand in his face. DUMPS WIN FALL. Wrist locks and a short arm scissors by Donovan opened the fourth round. He lost it, clamped on a figure four head, scissors which he was compelled by the referee to release, and then tipped Kirchmeyer " out of the ring. Kirchmeyer came back with a flurry of jolts but ran into a series of dumps. Finally he could wriggle free no longer, and had a fall registered against . him at 4min 13sec.

. Donovan gurgled and pointed desperately to his throat when Kirchmeyer put on a figure four head scissors, but, for a while at least, the hold met the requirements. A littie later Kirchmeyer came back_off the ropes with a tackle but was pulled up by a wrist lock. He replied with one of his own and tried hard but in vain to, gain a fall, Donovan going under the ropes. Kirchmeyer unloosed a jolt or two, but a Japanese arm bar slowed him up. There Was promise of some lively action after the gong, but,the referee quickly stepped in. Donovan opened the sixth round with a punishing wrist lock, and Karchmes^r wanted the referee ,to •watch him, for some reason or other. The official responded by coming round to see what Kirchmeyer's fist was doing on the sly. Donovan was in troubb|e with a cradle splits, but came out of it well with an Indian death lock.

Kirchmeyer tried a cradle splits in the seventh round, but he was too close to the ropes, " through which Donovan escaped. A barred toe hold was no good, either, but he gave one of his flashes of rare skill when' he pulled Donovan's arm out of a short arm scissors and put one on himself. Then came the python clutch, which won Kirchmeyer a fall but cost him the bout. The fall was awarded at smin 57sec.

Mr. Alf. Jenkins was the referee. AMATEUR PRELIMINARIES. [Results of the amateur preliminary bouts are: —

J. Louisich (Kilbirnie), Bst 131b, beat A. Craig (Petone), 9st 51b, by one fall.

W. Weston (Kilbirnie), Bst lib, beat L. Ruby (Kilbirnie), 9st 41b, on points, one fall each.

C. Bartholomew (Koolman's), 12st, beat G. Ryan (Koolman's), list 91b, by two falls. D. Minnis (Koolman's), lOst 41b, beat J. Hill (Petone), lOst lib, by a fall in the first round. Mr. Ray Allen was the referee. A NEW HOLD (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 12. Paul Boesch, the American wrestler, introduced a new and sensational hold to a large crowd of enthusiasts at the Town Hall tonight, and his victim was the New Zealander, "Lofty" Blomfield. Exploiting a complicated type of headlock in which he made play on the nerve centres on the sides of Blornfield's neck and stopped the flow of blood to the brain, he soon had his opponent semi-conscious, and, as the New Zealander dropped inert, he had no trouble in taking a fall with a press. This happened in the fifth round, but

the decision went against Boesch, as ' Blomfield had previously secured a submission fall in the third round and gained another in the seventh with a press. .