VIGOROUS WRESTLING

Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 15

VIGOROUS WRESTLING

TUHEERG OUTPOINTS GOX CUE FALL EACH Ted (“ King Kong ”) Cox (17.0) met •with one of his first reverses in New Zealand at the Town Hall on Saturday night, Hal Eumherg (16.7) gaining a points decision after each had a fall to his credit, Eumherg pinning his opponent in the sixth round with a flyng body scissors, while Cox obtained his fall in the last round following a series of dumps. The audience was the smallest of the season, but the spectators were rewarded with a fast and vigorous match in which both contestants showed any amount of clever wrestling, with Humhero- concentrating mainly on the straight stuff, while Cox, as usual, introduced plenty of colour, variety, and showmanship to his work. Both men wrestled hard, but Rumherg’s sureness and brilliant countering earned him the decision. His beadlocking, use of the reverse wristlock, and his : application of various scissors holds were most effective, and the lead he established in the first four rounds was more than Cox could overtake in the latter stages, although the latter was definitely in the ascendancy at the finish. Both men indulged m forearm jolts, hut there was very little in the bout to which exception could be taken. Cox went in to his man from the start, but Rumberg took him to the mat with a reverse headlock. Cox rolling out. Each in turn exploited the Japanese wristlock, and Rumberg countered with a head scissors, shitting to a short-arm scissors. Cox managod. to g<jt clear, but Ruiuberg rolled him over again with a headlock, being right over the top of hjs man. There was some forearm jolting, and it was amusing to see Cox volubly protesting to the referee, who waved him into action again. Cox grabbed a handful of Rumberg’s wavy locks, and brought him back with a chinlock. securing a reverse wristlock and head scissors. Rumberg countered beautifully with a forward toehold, which he held at the bell. Both were wrestling solidly, with Rumberg working very surely on his holds. Rumberg neadlocked Cox, who was face-barring his opponent whenever they went to the mat. Rumberg threw liis opponent with a reverse headlock, and then came in to throw Cox twice with the Irish whip, a form of shoulder, butt. Cox got through the ropes, and the referee applied a count. Cox shifted quickly from a reverse wristlock to an armbar and head scissors, but Rumberg was wrestling with plenty of vim, and his severe reverse headloeks and scissorholds kept his opponent busy in this round, Cox relying mainly on facebars to break Rumborg’s scissor-hold. Cox secured a headlock, hut Rumberg came over for a wristlock and body press, shifting his clutch to a reverse headlock. just before the gong. Clever headlocking by both men opened the third round, Rumberg doiug the more punishing work. Working well on the mat, Cox secured a head scissors and armbar, which Rumberg countered with a nead scissors. Rumberg was wrestling very smoothly and brought Cox over with a reverse headlock with the arm in. Cox pulled his head out quickly, grabbed Rumberg by the wrist, and pulled the arm up for a hammerlock, Rumberg rolling out. Bringing Cox down with a wristlock, Rumberg switched to a headlock and arm scissors, Cox retaliating it with a head scissors. Rumberg reversed a wristlock, and stood up with it, Cox turning and dropping under the ropes. Rumberg put on a flying body scissors, his opponent had recourse to forearm jolts to break it. It had been hard and solid wrestling so far, with Cox providing the colourful touches and introducing a bit of showmanship, while Rumberg was concentrating on the straight stuff, although when it came to an exchange of forearm jolts he was more than able to hold his own, Rumberg did some good headlocking in the fourth, and a forward toehold and legloek caused Cox some trouble. When Rumberg secured the splits, his opponent tried to break it with a facebar, and eventually came round to secure a barred toehold, shifting to a straight-up toehold and halfnelson with the leg. Cox was missing with some wild swings, hut he secured a good reverse wristlock, Rumberg ■breaking it was a flying body scissors. Cox used a reverse headlock very effctively, rolling underneath his man and bringing him right over, but Rumberg countered with a double legloek. Cox made another grab at his opponent’s hair as he chinlocked him, and he then slipped on a reverse wristlock just before the bell.

The fifth round opened with some bright work by Bamberg, . who took Cox for a “ride ” in a body scissors, the latter replying with a cradle-hold, and when a fall appeared near Rumberg countered beautifully with a ■barred toeheld. Cox used a forward headhold effectively, and he moved from one hold to another with great speed, Rumberg securing a good short-arm scissors. Cox held Rum berg in a bodyscissors, and then shifted to au armbar and head-scissors. The position did not look too good for Rmnberg when Cox stood up, holding a double armbar, to work for the surf-board hold from the back. Rumberg could not pull clear, and Cox was holding on grimly when the bell brought relief to Rumberg. The sixth round was short but lively. Cox connected with a forearm jolt to the chin, and grabbed Rumberg by the hair, the latter bringing him to the mat with a headlock. Cox threw Rumberg into the ropes with a series oi headloeks, but Rumberg came off the ropes like a flash and seemed a flying body-scissors to very quickly pin" his opponent for the first fall. Rumberg opened the seventh round as if he meant to finish the bout there and then, but Cox scoured a cradle hold, bringing his leg over to lock it. Romberg tried desperately to get out of it, and when he proved successful went for a forward toehold, Cox kicking him off. Cox did some punishing work, pulling Rumberg about with faeebar and headloeks. He was on top now, and connected with a real elbow jab to the face. Rumberg ran into more forearm jolts, and was rather sick when Cox secured a hammerlock with a bar. He back-slammed his opponent, but the latter still held his hammerlock, Rumberg being in a dangerous position when the bell went. Cox was in the ascendancy in the eighth, though Rumberg was still offering strenuous resistance to his efforts to obtain a fall. Rumberg broke a hammerlock by climbing u,p the ropes, but Cox went in for a dump and crotched Rumberg to bring him hard to the mat. Twice, Rumberg spun out after he had been dumped, but Cox’s strength told in the end, and Rumberg was pinned with a body press. Ho took a minute or so to recover, and was then awarded the decision on points, the verdict meeting with the approval of thei spectators. i

THE PRELIMINARIES. L. Smut (9.12) boat L. Hamil (10.4) by two falls to one. Hamil was wrestling at the Town Hall for the first time, and though his condition troubled him a bit in the last round he moved well and gave a good account of himself, picking Scurr up in the first round with a crotch hold and dumping him hard to take a- fall with a body press. Scurr wrestled in very lively fashion in the second round, and evened up by pinning his opponent with n standing cradle hold. Scurr had all the better of the last round, apd took the deciding fall with a half-nelson and body press after Hamil battled hard to keep his shoulders off the mat. G. Terry (11.9) beat H. Munt (12.6) by one fall. Although he was giving away nearly a stone in weight, Terry had Munt in trouble for the best part of the three rounds, Terry employing punishing headloeks and head and body scissors. Munt used an armroll nicely, but ho could not hold Terry, who took the only fall in tho third round after bringing' his opponent down with a perfectly applied headlock. A Beveridge (10.4) beat J. White (10.4) by one fall. Wrestling under Olympic rules of one 10-minute round or_ two falls, the contestants performed like tradesmen, working very surely on their holds and countering cleverly. White did most of the attack, but Beveridge pinned his opponent in the closing stages of the bout, taking the fall with a, body press following a cradlo hold and body stride. L. Coughlan (12.7) beat L. Williams (11.11) by/dne fall; This was one of the most willing matches of the season, and Williams became so excited at one stage that he pushed the referee in the face, an action which merited immediate disqualification. At other times he did not take heed of the referee’s command, and there were some wild mix-ups on the ropes, in which the contestants and the referee were all entangled. The only fall came in the second round, when Coughlan floored Williams with a flying tackle and then lifted him up with an arm throw to pin him with a body press. The last round was not marked by much wrestling, the referee spending most of the time untangling the men from the ropes. The amateur bouts were refereed by Messrs C. Turner and T. "Samson, and were scheduled for three five-minute rounds. EARL M’CREABY RETURNS Earl M'Cready. who was so unfortunate in his world title match against Dean Detton in Vancouver recently, makes his first appearance this season in the north to-night, and will wrestle at Dunedin next Saturday against Matros Kirilenko, this being the first match between the pair. BLOMFIELD BEATS FORSGREN [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Juno 27. A contest between “ Lofty ” Blomfield and Jack Forsgren was iron by the former by two falls to one. The first fall was gained by Blomfield in the second round with a body press, following a series of flying tackles. The Canadian drew even in tho fifth round. (Blomfield endeavoured unsuccessfully to counter his opponent’s forearm jolting with flying tackles, and maintaining this form of attack Forsgren twice lifted his man for slams, obtaining a fall on tho second occasion. The bout ended in the seventh round when there was a. wild exchange of flying tackles. Forsgren was arguing with tho referee when Blomfield felled him to secure tho deciding fall with a body press.