WRESTLING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22466, 9 July 1936, Page 17

WRESTLING

CONTEST ON MONDAY NEXT BLOMFIELD AND LEATHERS Welcome news to Auckland wrestling enIhusiasts is the announcement that "Lofty Hlonifield, the local idol, is fit and well again after being temporarily incapacitated ns the result of an injury in his last match with Forsgren. Hlonifield, whose absence from the Wrestling Union's forces, even if only for a short while, has been keenly fell, will resume operations in his home city on Monday night next, when he will meet the formidable " Sad Sum " Leathers at Ihe Town Hall. In one respect lilomfield's injury was a stroke of good fortune for local enthusiasts, as this match was originally booked by Wellington but had lo be cancelled because of lilomfield's injury. In addition to marking the return to the ring of Hlonifield, the match is of special interest as it will be the Auckland debut of Leathers, a polished wrestler of an unorthodox type who has shown exceptionally fine ability in his matches in other parts of the Dominion. Leathers has many novel holds lo display and uses them with great speed and power. He specialises in hook and body scissors—the former being a head scissors applied from a standing position—and has in addition a wide variety of rit'nc'iiing and defensive holds in most of which his ltfhg and powerful legs play a, proifiinent- part. He is (ift i l /jin in height, and weighs about Hi stone. The following amateur preliminaries have been selected: —A. Irvine (Akarana), list 71b, v. M. Maicli (Y.M.C.A.), 13st 71b; T. Harvey (Kiwi). :>st 21b, v. C. Sleuth (Otaliiihu), ! Ist; !?. Aspin (Awhitu), 11st lolb, v. 11. Young (Community Sunshine), 12st 71b. Special challenge match: K. Kenneth (Y.M.C.A.), 12sl 71b. v. If. Douglas (Surrey), 12st fill) McCREADY BEATS ELLIOT [IIV TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] MAR-TON, Wednesday A large crowd last night saw Karl HeCrcadv, lOst- 121b., defeat King Elliot, l.">st 81b., by two falls in a solid wrestling bout, ending in the seventh round. McCread.v secured (lie first- fall in the sixth round, and Elliot fell an easy victim in the seventh lo the octopus clamp.