WRESTLING

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1937, Page 11

WRESTLING

FORSGREN v. BLOMFIELD

[PER BPRESS .ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, June 21.

Hurtling head first through the ropes in a flying tackle that flattened Jack Forsgren, Lofty Blomfield won this evening’s wrestling bout, at the Town Hall by two falls to one. The bout produced a good deal of heavy elbow slogging. Forsgren in the fourth round grabbed Blomfield by the ankles and applied the Boston Crab, to which the New Zealander was in haste to submit. In the next round Blomfield tripped Forsgren and from a toehold developed an octopus clamp, and it was Forsgren’s turn to beat the mat. Finally, in the sixth round, Forsgren knocked Blomfield clean through the ropes with a forearm jolt. Blomfield returned and sent Forsgren finally to the mat.

STEIN v. KIRILINKO.

AUCKLAND, June 21.

A professional heavyweight contest held under the control of the Auckland Wrestling Association at the Town Hall, between Sam Stein (America) and Matros Kirilinko (Russia), was won by Stein on points, after each man had secured a. fall. The first fall was gained by Kirilinko in the fourth round, after a. series of headlock and forward chancery throws, which had been preceded by a series of forearm jolts. Stein evened in the seventh round with a body scissors and arm-bar after four flying tackles.

It was a good lively bout, watched by a crowd which almost filled the Town Hall.