WRESTLING
BLOMFIELD AND LITTLE WOLF DRAW [Pau United Pkess Association.] HASTINGS, August 6. Honours were shared by Lofty ’ Blomfield and Chief Little Wolf m their contest at the Municipal Theatre. The bout was strenuous and interesting, though not exciting. Blomfield gained the first fall in the sixth round with a body press following a scries of forearm jolts and three flying tackles. The falls were.evened in the last round, when Chief Little Wolf secured a deathlock. In the second professional bout Herb Brinson (Hastings) beat Frank Sykes (New Plymouth) by two falls to one after a good exhibition. Brinson secured falls in the second and sixth rounds, with surfboard and jack-knife holds respectively. Sykes obtained his fall in the fourth round with a Japanese too and log lock.
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Evening Star, Issue 22721, 7 August 1937, Page 9
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128WRESTLING Evening Star, Issue 22721, 7 August 1937, Page 9
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