WRESTLING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12865, 20 May 1936, Page 6

WRESTLING

BLOMFIELD—WOODS SPLENDID MATCH FOR, THURSDAY NIGHT Successful in its negotiations fur the substitution of Lofty' Bk) infield and Joe Woods as the principals in the professional contest for Thursday night, the Gisborne Wrestling, Association is a.nt’cipating a full house fop ldiel second tournament of the seal-on. Blomfield and Woods replace Savage and Oswald, who were to have headed the lull for Thursday, Oswald having boon incapacitated for some weeks by ail injury received in meeting Savage at A-uck land on Saturday night. The Aucklander. Blomfield, was to have appealed here on May 7. against Mehringer. but was weatherbound at Nelson and could not make tho connections necesivary to get boro in. time. Glen Wade took the ring in bis place against Mehringer, and Blomfield doubtless was glad of the opportunity offered;/this week to make good 1 his previous involuntary reaction.

The public here knows Lofty Blomfield well, and bis douigs this season have been followed with keen interest,/ as lie is the one New Zealander operating in the profostsion-al ring among tlie top-notohers from the United Stages ami Canada. He has not lost any of' his status in the matches lie hndl in 1936. but he lias Probably learned a good deal from his encounters with the now overseals stars.

In Joe “Koepak” Woods. Bloomfield wil have a wiry and vi'ilo opponent on Thursday, full of ini/iative and •possessing a, wide range of' modern rmg tact’os. Ho beat Harry Kent! at Wellington late ln«t month, and drew with Bob “Rebel” Russell at, Mnstervon w few days later, since when he has been given plenty of work by metropolitan and' country associations. Tie will lie giving Weight away to Lofty Blomfield, but Woods is one of the tvne who bel'oves Mi ay! “the lugger they come tho harder they fall.” As preliminaries for the professional bout, tho Gisborne Association has arranged five good 'amateur bouts for Thursday as under:— 8. R.itclro v. S. Turnbull. E. Hardings v. -T. Coleman. K. Pore v. T. Stevens. A. Read . H. Diu-kwo-th. C. Buseke v. E. Perrott.

WALKER DUMPS VENTER (Press Association"*. WAIPTTKUR VTJ. May 19. In a bout undm* ‘be auspices of the P-oimer Wros 1 b’ng Blub of Hawke’s Bpv at Wainukuran las 1 night. George Walker. New' Zealand beat Peter Venter. Smith Africa in the fifth von ml of the ■scheduled ekdit-round bom . Venter was unable to continue after an ao’wolane spin and was hcavilv dumped. There was a large! attendance.