WRESTLING

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1936, Page 1

WRESTLING

McCREADY BEATS BLOMFIELD

Per Press Association Copyright,

WELLINGTON, November 9

Seventy-five minutes of solid and strenuous wrestling at the Wellington Town Hall to-night ended in Bail McCready again 1 establishing his supremacy over Lofty Blomfield, whom he beat, by a single fall. Blomfield throughout the match, sti-ove vainly to apply: his fatal octopus clamp, hut each time McOreadv threw him off his balance. In such an episode in the seventh round, however, McCreadv countered with a hammerlociv, to which Blomfield The match was i vVatcfidd. jby a crowd that packed the bouse, i aiid< the crowd was held tense from; the : moment that the wrestlers' entered the ring. » WALKER AND iwIJMANN DRAW . AUCKLAND, November 10. After a successful, season in Australia the former Auckland heavy-weight wrestler, Geoige Walker, 15st ;>ir>, made a reappearance to-nignt, when lie drew with Baumann each securing one fall. As a • spectacle the contest was disappointing, there being frequent periods of inactivity. Both wrestlers were stroiig and heavy; put slowness and scarcity of more spectacular . holds and methods of attack marred the bout.