WRESTLING

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 14, 17 July 1939, Page 15

WRESTLING

BLOMFIELD DISQUALIFIED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, July 16,

A wrestling contest at the Town Hall on Saturday night between Lofty Blomfield, Auckland, 16.8, and "King-Kong" Cox. America, 17.0, elided in a win for the latter, Blomfield being disqualified in the seventh round for punching. Before that each man had obtained a fall. Cox led the way with a fall .in the second round with a body press following a succession of forearm jolts in the region of tlie kidneys. Blomfield evened the falls in the fifth round by means of a step-over toehold.-

WIN FOR KIRCHMEYER

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH," July 16.

Wild exchanges and showmanship marked a wrestling bout on Saturday night before Rollend Kirchmeyer incapacitated Frank Forster in the sixth round. Forster had gained a fall in the fourth with a flying body scissors and press after a series of rabbit killers..

BOESCH AND JONES DRAW

(By Telegraph—-Press" Association.) GREYMOUTH July 16.

The wrestlers Boesch and Jones drew in an interesting bout before a large attendance on Saturday night. Jones's tactics excited both laughter and resentment among the onlookers,. while Boesch showed elusiveness and versatility. Jones got a fall with a hook figure-four body scissors in the fifth round and Boesch equalised in the eighth round after dropkicks 'with a double leg hold.