WRESTLING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22654, 20 August 1935, Page 10

WRESTLING

BLOMFIELD AND ANDRESON DRAW A FAST, HARD CONTEST In a bout that was fast and full of action, and in which neither wrestler gave anything away, the New Zqalander, Lofty Blora field and Ole Andreson (Nebraska) wrestled to a draw last evening, the decision meeting with the unqualified approval of a crowd that filled almost every available seat in the Town Hall. Blomfield secured the first fall shortly after the beginning of the fourth round by bringing Andreson down with a dump and pinning him with a body press, but the Nebraskan equalised matters in the seventh with a full Nelson with the legs, which troubled Blomfield so much that he was forced to submit. Blomfield’s weight at the ringside was given as 16.10 and that of Andreson as 15.8, but the discrepancy in poundage looked even greater, and, compared with his massively-built opponent, Andreson appeared almost slender. There is no question that both men are clever wrestlers, but Andreson, perhaps, possesses the more extensive repertoire of holds, and he has, moreover, a pair of educated legs that can do wonderful things, such as, for instance, stepping out ol a wristlock. The first round had not been long in progress when Blomlieid had Andreson in a cradle hold, hut the latter kicked bis way out, and brought Blomfield down twice with Swiss head-throws. Blomfield, on coming up, sent his elbow to Andreson’s jaw, but the Nebraskan retaliated by bringing his opponent down with a reverse wristlock and clipping on an arm scissors, hooking Blomtield’s head back with his foot when the latter attempted to rise. Blomfield went for a splits, but Andreson was too elusive, and, working very fast, he sent the New Zealander to the mat with a good old-fashioned Cumberland hold—a forward cross buttock. Blomfield aroused a chorus of hoots when again lie exploited the forearm jab, which he followed up with a couple of Swiss head throws and a head scissors, but Andreson gpt clear, and, connecting twice with two solid forearm jolts, gave the New Zealander a taste of his own medicine. As the gong sounded he had Blomfield clamped in a ghort-arm scissors. For the first few minutes of the next round Andreson showed what an artist he is with scissors holds, but Blomfield’s strength and clever countering always got him out of trouble, and coining out of one particularly punishing arm scissors, he smartly clamped on a flying head scissors. The Nebraskan worked himself free and secured a cradle hold before turning over and applying a hammerlock which he hupfi to despite the New Zealander’s efforts to break it. Andreson went for a hammerlock as the third round opened, but Blomfield caught him napping and, picking him up in a crotch hold, dumped him on his head. And.reson was rattled for a moment, but he sailed in and got a flying full nelson with the legs, and as Blomfield dropped, hit him in the stomach. Blomfield used his weight to some purpose in the latter stages of the round, and was keeping Andreson very busy. The fourth round was short and lively. Andreson secured a full nelson and immediately after went for a flving body scissors, but missed. Blomfield brought his elbow into play, and as Andreson retaliated in kind it looked as if trouble might ensue. The referee dealt with the situation firmly, however, and Blomfield immediately threw Andreson twice with head twists, before diving at him, heaving him up and sending him to the mat for a fall with a devastating dump. Early in the fifth round Blomfield slipped on a reverse wristlock, but wielding a stylish leg, the Nebraskan promptly stepped out of it. He was round, and in a flash had his favourite figure-four scissors on the body, and was giving Blomfield a thorough bumping. Blomfield saved himself a good deal of punishment by turning round and clawing his way to the ropes, and, although again and again Andreson tried to get another body Scissors, Blomfield was now wise to this move, and shrewdly countered it every time it was attempted. In the opening stages of the sixth round, Blomfield, bypulling himself up by Andreson’s ears, demonstrated a new method of breaking standing splits. After this, the round was even, both men wrestling hard and with no " beg-pardons.” Andreson’s chance came in the seventh round, after he had downed the New Zealander with a Swiss head-throw. As Blomfield rose, Andreson secured a figure-four scissors on the body, and shifting it up until he had obtained a full nelson with the legs, punished Blomfield so severely that he was forced to submit. It was obvious, as soon as the final round commenced, that both men were out for the deciding fall. Blomfield trapped Andreson into a splits as he came up from a headthrow. but the latter rolled himself into a ball and managed to escape. Andreson s bodv scissors were not coming off as successfully as they had done earlier in the bout, and, although he got another full nelson on Blomfield, the latter was giving a great display of defensive wrestling, and adroitly countered every move. He went for a Boston crab, but missed, and as the gong went he was bolding Andreson with a reverse wristlock and a figurefour scissors on the ana/ THE PRELIMINARIES J. White 0.8 beat H. Stevens 10.7. Both lads showed a good variety of holds, White being especially enterprising. He took a fall in the first round with a headlock and body press. Stevens equalised in the second round with a body tress following an aeroplane spin, but in the next White pinned his opponent w r ith an arm-in headlock and body press, and took the bout. G. Terry 10.9 beat F. Keach 10.1. Reach was on top for the first round, but he was not so aggressive in the other two and Terry, keeping at his opponent all the time, established a comfortable lead on points. A. Beveridge 6.7 beat A. Oakes 9.7. Beveridge, who is a smooth, fast wrestler, gave a finished display and pinned his opponent in the third round with a straddle and body press. L. Goughian 12.1 beat G. Thom 13.0. This wag a fast and hard bout, Goughian gaining the decision in the third round with an armbar and body press. Mr M. Goughian was referee for the main bout, and Mr F. Anderson for the preliminaries. M'CREADY BEATS JAGAT SINGH iPeb United Press Association) WELLINGTON, August _ 19. The crowd that packed the Wellington Town Hall to-night saw a sensational end to the wrestling bout between Earl M'Cready and Jngat Singh. M'Cready, bv a submission fail gained with his octopus deathlock in the sixth round, won the bout, but he finished writhing on the canvas as the Inst gong struck and was by a matter of a few seconds a lucky man not to have had the contest drawn. The crimination came exactly one minute before the end of the last round when Singh stood up with his ferocious Indian deathlock fully applied, but, playing to the gallery, he failed to put on sufficient pressure. M'Cready held out to the gong and was carried to his corner where a dislocated kneecap was pulled into place.