AN OCTOPUS CLAMP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 166, 15 June 1936, Page 3

AN OCTOPUS CLAMP.

AMATEUR WRESTLERS “TIED UR.” POLICEMAN UNRAVELS THE KNOT. A policeman at Lower Hutt was summoned urgently on Friday night to unravel a human knot. Two well-known Lower Hutt residents, both keen followers of wrestling experimented with “Lofty” Blomfield’s much-discussed octopus clamp. Guided by diagrams and instructions, one man tried to put the hold on the other. He succeeded —and then, to his horror, he found he was unable to loosen it. For fully 10 minutes lie manoeuvred gingerly, to his own dtseomfort and the intense suffering oi the man on whom the hold was applied. It was useless; it was an octopus clamp and it remained as such. So must “Lofty” Blomfield have felt when he was disqualified in the Wellington Town Hall on May 25 after be had so neatly applied the clamp to Paul Boeseh, only to find that he could not disentangle it.

By this time both men were feeling the strain acutely. What could be done? One course suggested itself—the reliable policeman, the man to help one out of any trouble. A member of tbe family was quickly dispatched, and the policeman arrived to find two painstricken men mvsteriouslv interlocked in an intricate mass of limbs. The policeman was unhurried and calm, but effective. Within one minute he had the octopus clamp untied, and the two exhausted would-be wrestlers lay back on the floor and panted their relief. The policeman unconcernedly' returned to the police station. It was all in a day’s work, after all.