WRESTLING
, BLOMFIELD BEATEN. (Per Press Association—Copyright). . WELLINGTON, April 29. John Katan beat Lofty Blomfield by one fall in a professional wrestling bout at the Wellington Town Hall to,-night. The bout was very even. Blomfield took the initiative much ot the time, and he three times strove to apply his octopus clamp, but, on each occasion, Katan. wrigghd through the ropes. Katan obtained a fall in the fifth round, when lie broke out of a fullNelson, by climbing the ropes, and projected himself, head-first, at Blomfield, torpedoing him in the face, and sending him to the mat, where he pressed him.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1940, Page 8
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