RUMBERG WINS

Northern Advocate, 18 July 1933, Page 6

RUMBERG WINS

TWO STRAIGHT FALLS. .LOSER’S GOOD SHOWING. Splendid spirit prevails. '*’(Special to "Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, This Day. • Three days off the steamer which 'brought him from America, Hal Rumbe](g, another overseas wrestler, made his ; Zealand *debut at the Town Hall last evening when he defeated fsfKfrhiskers ’I Blake by two straight falls. : The attendance was smaller than usual. ‘if.- / and strength were against ESajte and the tall bewhiskered one was unable to. fully extend his opponent, although he again pleased with his un,lisual style. For a man who is unnatarBlake has a lot of speed, and hip height allows him to step out of ?dftajn. holds with amazing ease. He fe :,.a^b'. : clever lyith his logs, which he continually wraps round his opponent |op use'in conjunction with one or other ; of the well-known splits holds. mbre strength, Blake would probably] win a lot of matches; against last night he was up against n hopeless handicap, and the newcomer woh'J comfortably.

I Bamberg, who weighed 16,5 to his bpppngrit’s Isst, has yet to be seen at Jjis best.;' From the reception he was given after his success last evening it seems that he will draw well next time hie’appears in an Auckland contest. The outstanding feature of the match was tho.good spirit in which it was contested. The referee, Mr H. Sidford, had an esxtromely;;easy evening. Lengthy Legs.

J Blake opened the match by rushing across tlje ring and jumping at his opponent, and he was cheered when hr swung-his legs into the/air for a head scissors, which left him free from a beadloelc. Eumberg clapped on a stand ing wristloek, and looked surprised jyhen his opponent stepped out of it by swinging his right leg over the newcomer’s head. Eumberg did more work in the second, and also secured a hammerloefe A short-arm scissors ha I Blake grunting, but he held his opponent for some time in a standing splits Near the end of the term Eumberg almost pinned his man by lying across him with a head scissors.

.Leaping at his opponent at the start off round three, Blake secured a body scissors, but was pulled off by the fgferee, as the suddenness of the attack had taken the pair into the ropes, series of headloeks sent Rnmherg sprawling over the ring, but he suddenly recovered to send Blake to the mat with a flying scissors. Following up his advantage, the newcomer picked his opponent up by the legs and, in preference to turning him over for a Boston crab, swung him round several times and then let him drop to the mat. Tie got an easy first fall with a. body press. '"Blake was unable to make any impression with an arm-bar at the start of t,ho. fourth round, and Rumberg'? strength nullified a hammerlock, which the bearded one held securely midwnv through the term. The end pmo in the fifth round when Rumberg, after being tossed about with headloeks, rebounded off the ropes to bowl his opponent over and score an ■eisy. fall with a press.