DOMINION WRESTLING.

Pahiatua Herald, 29 September 1936, Page 5

DOMINION WRESTLING.

LOFTY BEATS “WEE WILLIE. Electric Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, Last Night. One of the liveliest and most spectacular wrestling bouts of the season was witnessed when “Lofty” Blomfield (16.10) defeated “Wee Willie’ 1 ' DavTs (18.6), of America, by two falls to one. The bout was marked by thrilling exchanges from start to finish with flying tackles, dumps and vigorous jolting as salient features. DROP-KICK BATTLE. WELLINGTON, Last Night. With a drop-kick meeting dropkick iu mid-air, George Pencheff landed on the back of his head and knocked himself out, thus losing his professional heavyweight wrestling match against Joe Savoldi at the Town Hall, Wellington, tonight. The opening stages of the bout were relatively quiet and at times comic. In the fourth round, however, Pencheff created a sensation l»y taking a fall from Savoldi with the latter’s own specialty, the drop-kick. Savoldi, who had beenkeeping this resource in reserve, himself unleashed a drop-kick in the sixth round, sending Pencheff to the mat for a fall. The seventh round was a drop-kick battle, the honours being more or less even when the two met on the wing and Pencheff was counted out while the winner knelt on the mat beside him dazed and helpless.