WRESTLING
TO-NIGHT "AT OPERA HOUSE. With “Lofty” Blomfield as one of the principals in a wrestling contest a crowded house can be expected. This young New Zealander is popular everywhere in the Dominion, and especially so in Palmerston North. To-night at. the Opera House he will meet the big Irish-American, Pat Kennedy, one of the biggest and heaviest of this year’s visiting team, and a wrestler who has the reputation of being able to keep up the pace at a rapid clip from gong to time. Kennedy has given some splendid exhibitions of wrestling since he arrived in New Zealand, and should be a refclly good opponent for Blomfield. All the amateur bouts to-night as well as those throughout the country must be contested under Olympic Games rules, wherein rolling falls count. These rules are necessary to train our amateurs and mako them familiar with what they are. likely to be opposed to in the event of them travelling away from here or meeting amateurs from other districts. -
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 21 April 1938, Page 2
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168WRESTLING Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 21 April 1938, Page 2
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