WRESTLING
1 BLOMFIELD DEFEATS M’KAY I [FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, April 26. A wrestling bout remarkable more for sheer savagery than for clean, scientific wrestling ended in Lofty ! Blomfield, professional heavy-weight ’/champion of New Zealand, beating ' the American, Pat M’Kay, who was unable to continue after falling a vic- : tim to the octopus clamp. The Town Hall, where the match took place, was crowded. Throughout the early stages both i wrestlers made free with elbow-jolts, . hair-tugging, ear pulling, and other rough tactics. In the sixth round ; Blomfield tripped M’Kay, and clapped Jon an octopus clamp. M’Kay resisted ’ stubbornly until-the end of the round, tut was so disabled by the hold that! he was uilable to rise to his feet. The match was awarded to Blomfield.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1938, Page 4
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