WRESTLING
RUSSELL v. BLOMFIELD. [per press association.] DANNEVIRKE, May 29. In a hurricane start, Rebel Russell obtained a fall from Blomfield, in under a minute of the opening round in the Town Hall, before a packed house. Russell knocked Lofty off his feet with a shoulder charge, hit him on the jaw with a fierce elbow jolt,
smacked him hard in the face, and with three vicious dumps made Blomfield very groggy, and gained a sensational fall. From then onwards, the struggle was very dour. Not till the end. of the seventh did' Blomfield equalise with a hard dump, after some effective jolting. There were no further falls, and the match was drawn.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 May 1936, Page 12
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