WRESTLING

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1946, Page 4

WRESTLING

Dominion Amateurs Show Improvement (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 17. Brilliant displays by N. Legros (Wellington), who won the bantamweight section, and D. Mudgway (Hawera), winner of the featherweight section, were the outstanding features of the New Zealand amateur wrestling championship finals contested to-night. The standard showed a marked improvement on the opening day’s performances, better mat technique being revealed. The main weakness was in the comparative absence of counter-holds. Bantamweight.— Semi-final: N. Legros (Wellington), Bst 101 b, beat C. Thorne (Wairarapa), Bst 91b, by a fall in the second minute. Final: Legros beat J. Donaldson (Otago), Bst 101 b, by a fall in the eighth minute, giving one of the fastest and cleverest displays of the tournament. Featherweight.—Winner, D. Mudgway (Hawera); runner-up, C. Ruby (Wellington). Lightweight.—Final: W. Adams (Wellington), lOst 51b, beat R. Smith (Christchurch), lOst 11b, on points. Adams had the upper hand throughout, showing greater skill in applying and maintaining holds. Welterweight.—Winner, J. Monoghan (Otago); runner-up, K. Mahoney (Wellington). Middleweight.—Final: J. Patterson (Wellington), 12st, beat R. Tourell (Otago), on points, generally having the better of the bout. Light-heavyweight. — Final: R. Herstich (Wellington), 13st 81b, beat J. Price (Wairarapa), 13st 41b, by a fall in the first minute. Price suffered an injured leg. Heavyweight.—Final: R. Herstich (Wellington), 13st 81b, beat N. Smith (Christchurch), 12st 31b, by a fall in the sixth minute. Herstich was too powerful for his opponent. ■

Atkins'’ Tactics Annoy McCready (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 17. Rough tactics adopted by Fred Atkins (17st lib) in a professional wrestling contest against Earl McCready (17st) kept a large attendance excited to-night, and led to Atkins’s defeat. He paid little heed to the referee’s orders from the first round, and had a penalty fall registered against him in the fourth for knocking the referee down when the latter was trying to separate the contestants on the ropes. In the sixth McCready tossed his opponent in a series of head throws, after which Atkins went out through the ropes. He stood up, and was walking about still outside the ropes when McCready reached over and threw him back into the ring with a flying mare. McCready then connected with a series of elbow jolts and seemed a second fall with a rocking chaii splits. Blomfield Wins Title Bout (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 17. Notable for its speed and lively action, the match for the heavyweight wrestling championship of Australasia in the Town Hall tonight, between “Lofty” Blomfield and George Pencheff, was won by Blomfield by two falls to one. The match was generally accepted by the packed bouse as well worthy of a title event. Pencheff gained his fall after the use of his popular drop-kick, which left Blomfield groggy for some time. Blomfield was unable to manoeuvre into position for his favourite octopus clamp because of Pencheff’s speed, and gained both his falls with jolts and dumps.