Wrestling

Northern Advocate, 31 July 1939, Page 4

Wrestling

Jones Beats Cox

[Special To "Northern Advocate ”J AUCKLAND. This Day.

In a disappointing exhibition of wa’cstling, Paul Jones beat King Kong Cox at the Auckland Town Hall on Saturday night. Jones took a fall with a figure-four hook body-scissors and press in the fourth round, and the referee brought proceedings to a finish early in the seventh round, when he awarded a penalty fall against Cox for persistent use of the stranglehold. Cox weighed 17-stone and Jones 1G stone 9 lbs.

Grcymouth.-—“Lofty” Blomfield beat Jack Donovan before a capacity house on Saturday night, in a rough and spectacular bout. Donovan secured a fall with a body-press, after a series of dumps, in the third round. Blomfield evened with an octopus clamp in the sixth round. In the seventh round Donovan applied a full Nelson, but Blomfield threw himself backward from the ropes to pin Donovan. Westport.—Before a good attendance on Saturday night, Paul Boesch drew with Joe Woods, each man gaining a fall. Woods gained the first in the fourth round, following a succession of elbow jolts and a body-press, and Boesch evened in the last round after drop-kicking Woods and pinning him.