Violent Wrestling Bout in Wellington

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 98, 27 April 1937, Page 7

Violent Wrestling Bout in Wellington

RUMBERG KNOCKS OUT RICHARDS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. A brief but violent wrestling bout in which fisticuffs were more plentiful than scientific holds, ended to-night in Hal Rumberg defeating Ray Richards. Both were warned for using their lists. Richards knocked Rumberg over with repeated shoulder tackles and took a Call in tho third round with a headlock and press. In the fifth, after a good deal of exciting action, Rumberg dazed Richards with forearm jolts and dumped him, knocking him out. Richards had barely entered the ling for tho sixth round when Rumberg picked him up in a crutch hold, but the referee stopped the bout before he could dump him, as Richards was plainly incapable of further resistance. BAD BREAK FOR REFEREE. JEWISH CHAMPION BEATS BLOMFIELD. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. A bright and spectacular professional wrestling contest between Lofty Blorofield, .of Auckland, and Sammy Stein, of America, the Jewish champion of the world, ended in a win for Stein by one fall. This was obtaiued in the sixth round. Blorafield had his opponent in a corner with what the referee considered a stranglehold, when the controlling official (Mr J. McLean) ordered and forced a break. He was struck on the back of the neck by Blomfield and almost immediately Stein bounced off the ropes with a flying tackle which caught the referee unawares and sent both him and Blomfield sprawling. Stein then pounded upon his opponent to win a fall with a body press, the referee having quickly regained his feet to witness the procedure and award a fall.