WRESTLING CONTEST
VICTORY FOR BLOMFIELP [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] GISBORNE, Wednesday In a wrestling match, Lofty Blomfield, 16st. 61b., beat George Pencheff, lost. 51b., by two straight falls. Blornfield scored Lst in the fifth round with an octopus clamp, and .in the sixth round Pencheff was dumped over the top rope. He was unable to resume on the count of 20.
SAVOLDI BEATS WOODS FAST BOUT AT HAWERA [Br TELEGRAPH—PRESS' ASSOCIATION] NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday A cleverer and faster wrestUij, Joe Savoldi defeated Joe Woods on points in a contest at Haw era this evening. Each,man gained a fall. . Woods gained the first fall in theji fourth round with elbow jolts and a'® crutch hold. Savoldi secured an equalising fall in the seventh round with a drop-kick that dazed Woods and left him an easy victim.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22538, 1 October 1936, Page 13
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