WRESTLING

Grey River Argus, 7 September 1939, Page 11

WRESTLING

PINDER v. JONES. CHRISTCHURCH, September 6. Prince Bhu Pinder to-night beat Paul Jones in a professional wrestling match. Pinder took one fall in the fifth round with an Indian crab, and throughout the match was much the faster. Jones was below his usual standard. Despite showmanship tne bout was sometimes lifeless.

MARTINEZ DISQUALIFIED. NEW PLYMOUTH, September 6. Ignacio Martinez was disqualified for punching i n the seventh round of a wrestling match with Lofty Blomfield at Hawera to-night. Martinez had taken a fall in the third round with a Sapanish deathknot. Blomfield equalised in the fifth by rolling back when held in a full Nelson applied with the legs, and forcing Martinez’s shoulders to the mat;