PENALTY FALL WIN
HECTIC WRESTLING BLOMFIELD DEFEATED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A hard, hectic wrestling bout ended in Dan O’Connor beating SergeantMajor “Lofty” Blomfield on a penalty fall in the Wellington Town Hall last night.. The score was brie fall each. Blornfield having successfully applied an Octopus-clamp arid O’Connor having, pinned Blomfield after dazing him with tackles rind a drop-kick: In a vigorous hurly-burly . Blomfield drove his fist into O’Connbr’s face a riff 'midriff instead of the customary forearm or elbow jolt. For this the referee declared O'Connor the winner, Blomfield weighted lCst 81b, and O’Connor Hist 101 b.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20270, 11 June 1940, Page 2
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