WRESTLING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 140, 15 May 1936, Page 10

WRESTLING.

The Palmerston North Wrestling Association ushered in its 1936 season with tho cKnt-Clenn Wado bout. Now it has arranged an even more attractive match, for Wednesday next when Joe (“lxopaeh”) Woods and “Lofty” Blomfield will try conclusions. ’The match will be a return one the pair having recently met at Hastings. Referring to tho earlier clash, the Hastings Tribune wrote:—“ln striking contrast to the opening bout of the season at Hastings, when a sterling contest of straight wrestling was provided, the bout between “Lofty” Blomfield, 16.8, and Joe (‘Kopach’) Woods, 15.7, was a real sample of vigorous and colourful wrestling, the honours eventually going to Blomfield in the seventh round, when he secured the third fall of the match. The bout was a stirring one throughout, the crowd being almost delirious with excitement.” Few wrestlers have won popularity so quickly in the Dominion as has Woods, the boxerwrestler from Michigan—he is not to bo confused with the wrestler of that name who was in New Zealand last season. Though ho is not particularly big. ho is very compactly built and is as tough as nails. Crowded houses follow him wherever" lie goes and he holds the record for tho largest wrestling attendance ever attracted to the Leichhardt sadium, Sydny.