WRESTLING
RICHFIELD BEATS RUMBERG [Per United Press Association.] MASTERTON, July 22. “ Lofty ” Blomfield’s octopus clamp spelt disaster for Hal Rumberg in a spectacular, match staged before a capacity house. Rumberg took a fall in the fourth round with a body press, and (Blomfield evened in the seventh round with an octopus clamp. Rumbere, who was well ahead on points, could hardly stand up for tho final round, and the referee awarded the match to Blomfield. MARSHALL AND LITTLE WOLF DRAW [Per United Press Association.] PALMERSTON N., July 22. In the most thrilling hout witnessed at Palmerston North for years, Floyd Marshall drew with Chief Littlo Wolf, each securing a fall. Marshall secured his in tho fourth a body press following a series of chanceries with the knee bumped in for good measure and two dumps. Chief Little Wolf equalised in the seventh round with an Indian deatblock applied with dramatic suddenness.
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Evening Star, Issue 22708, 23 July 1937, Page 4
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