Rough Wrestling

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 161, 11 July 1939, Page 7

Rough Wrestling

BLOMFIELD AND KIRCHMEYER DRAW Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 10. The New Zealander Lofty Blomfield and the visiting American Rollend Kirchmeyer were not in a friendly mood when they clashed in the professional heavyweight contest before a crowded house at the Town Hall and Referee J. McLean had a busy time keeping the contestants within the limits of roughness allowed under the New Zealand rules. Strangleholds, gouging and straightout punching were the principal illegalities w'hich kept the controlling official continually separating the pair. Successfully resisting a python clutch, the American’s specialty, in the eighth round at which stage each man had a fall to his credit Blomfield managed to force a draw on points. Kirchmeyer took a fall in the third round with a press after lowering Blomfield with a flying body scissors and the New Zealander evened in the sixth with a submission fall gained with a forward atepover toehold. SAVAGERY RATHER THAN SCIENCE KING KONG COX BEATS CLARKE Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 10. Ted Cox, known to wrestling enthusiasts as King Kong, brought jungle law into the ring to-night when he beat Jim Clarke by two falls to one in a brisk, rough tooth and nail encounter. The Town Hall was crow’ded. Clarke was first to take a fall in the third round with a Boston crab. In the fifth Cox battered Clarke with jolts to the head and side and arm blows to the small of the back, dumping him and thumping him alternately and finally pinning him.

The last round was brief. Cox took his second fall in tho same manner when the round had been in progress for a minute. Savagery rather than science was the keynote of the contest..