HARD WRESTLING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18758, 15 July 1935, Page 10

HARD WRESTLING

BLOM FIELD A WINNER TACTICS BEAT PEREIRA BOLT ENDS in sixth Standing even on lallo, Jiml well ahead on points, at the start, ut tin; sixth round ul the professional wrestling eontest staged by the Oisborue Wrestling Association on Saturday. night, At Pereira was beaten to the deciding lull b\ “Lofty" Bloiniield, who exploited a ruse previously dcmonslrated in Gisborne by George Walker, and turned apparently imminent defeat into victory. Blomfield was in trouble from the efleets of chancery holds and deadlocks wiien Pereira stepped in, picked him up bodily, and essayed to dump him. llau he managed the dump, Pereira almost certainly would have pinned Blomfield, but the latter reached the top rope, pulling against bis opponent as Pereira tried to get him into the open for the toss. The Portuguese allowed himself to he trapped, and when Blomfield let go the rope. Pereira was off balance, the pair falling with the Aucklander on. top and ready to make the most of it by pinning Ins man. There was more solid wrestling in tin contest —and incidentally far less than the usual amount of agonised gasping from the principals —than has been seen by a Gisborne audience in any recent professional bout put on by the association. Blomfield and Pereira worked from the opining bell, and when either got a temporary advantage, he did not neglect to force it. The Portuguese was the more finished wrestler, and had Blomfield in plenty of trouble, but the latter did not fail, as so many visiting professionals have done, to the bewilder menl of close watchers of their bouts, to counter Ids opponent's efforts at every turn. Tin; expectation of a real ly good contest was fully justified, and i! the Gisborne association could secure more of the kind, the sport would soon begin to show good money for the prill cipals. Air. T. Simile was the referee for tin full tournament programme. OPENING EXCHANGES Evenly matched for height, the Iwc professionals entered the ring at the an nouueed weights: Pereira 16.3, am Blomfield 17.0. Pereira actually looked the heavier, and certainty carried mor. weight about the midriff (hail on Idprevious appearance in Gisborne. Pereira opened with an arm-bar, will which In- brought his opponent flown, lidding him for a while and then trails ferring to a hammei lock, out. of wind' Blomlieid eventually somersaulted. The Aucklander took a turn at deadlocking hi smau, hut soon after was in troubh in a. lying splits, lie countered with ; toc-hoid, hut Pereira got it on again and Blomlieid dragged the referee into the argument, finally breaking out. Pereira threw him heavily with head locks three times running, and then pu! on a head-scissors, from which Blum field bucked out after taking heavy punishment. Blomfield tinned Liu tallies late in the round by bulling Pereira as he came in, and soon altei put on a severe hammerlork. Peroiri hatched liinr twice, but the Aucklander hung on to the hammei'luck, which win only broken when Pereira again hulchcd him. this time over the. top rope. The second round opened with Blom field aggressive, punishing Pereir with a barred wrist lock. Pereir; grubbed a blind fill of hair, but tin Aucklander brought, him down in : head scissors, thou changing to a short arm scissors. Pereira suffered fq: a'while, three times tbeing -turned ovet us lie struggled to his feet, and finally got his opponent worried when lit stood hint on one shoulder. Blcitn field hastened to escape, but war caught in ti painful body scissors. He found it nerve centre, and i'o.rcei’ Pereira to relax the grip, but was soon in trouble again with a leg-lock. lit got out of it finally by grabbing ; handful of hair, ami the round dosed with Pereira under pressure with halches -and chancery holds. BLOM FIELD ’.S HA AIM It! BLOC K Opening the third round Blomfield got behind his opponent to resume his earlier hammerloek, Pereira tossing hint without shifting the hold, but eventually getting a crotch lift: and dumping the Aucklander. Both indulged in hair-ruffling, and Pereira manoeuvred for a shoulder charge, but Blomfield was not to be caught that way. Pereira scored with chancery holds which plainly troubled his man. but Blomfield in turn attacked with a lying splits. The Portuguese escaped and caught Blomlieid in a ldg-lock, the referee 'barring the lipid, and the break being followed by a lively exchange, Pereira getting in with two shoulder charges, but finding Blomfield still wary and not seriously shaken. Blomfield' was pressing a head scissors ut the bell. An arm bar and head scissors held Blomfield early in the fourth round, and he got out of this only to fall into a body scissors equally troublesome. Me again struggled free, and nulled Pereira up in tin effort to regis- ; er a Boslon crab, but was toppled town again and was in trouble with % leg stretch. Kicking his way out of this, lie picked the Portuguese up, but got the worst of the fall, ami once more was tied up in a body scissors, which Pereira changed to a crucifix. Blomfield struggled for a while in this hold, but resistance was vain as well as painful, and after a quarter of it minute be conceded a submission lull, just on the close of the round. LEU EIK A (HITGENEi; A ELED Once again Pereira a I tucked at the opening of the fifth round, and Blomfield showed first-class'ladies in escaping from Pereira's efforts to repeat licadlock throws. Pereira went fora lying I Hid v scissors, but. missed, and lilonriield scored with u standing splits, his opponent getting out under the ropes. Pereira used his elbotv in sue•essi ve exchanges, Blomfield driving him off with a butt, and after a few moments beginning lo use effectively ■severe elbow jolts to flic jaw mid over

the heart. Pereira was quickly reduced Hi a badly troubled ‘ condition, and was picked up for a. heavy dump, followed by a body press with which Blomfield scored the equalising tall two minutes before the. normal close ot the round. Great excitement signalised the declaration of the fall. The sixtli round opened with Blomfield under pressure front ehaucery holds, in which Pereira held, him and put him down heavily. Jhe Aucklander kicked his oppouent oft, but Pereira came in again, and licadlockcd Blomfield twice, and then picked him up for a dump. Blomfield grabbed the top rope, and resisted his opponent s efforts'to get him clear for the completion of the dump. Pereira pulled, and while he was off balance Lolmlicld let go, the pair falling heavily, with Blomfield on top. Pereira struggled vainly to come out 'from under, but the Aucklander held Him securely, the referee quickly tapping him in token o 1 the third and deciding fall. Pereira appeared to be completely taken bv surprise by the referee’s award, and tried to convince Mr Srnalc that he bail been -pinned for only a Heeling moment. The referee stood his ground, however, and Pereira fiepar tod. nnieli put out, while the .crowd applauded him and Blomlieid impartially. THE AMATEUR BOUTS WELL UP TO STANDARD The amateur programme was opened by bantamweights, Thompson, 6.0, and S. Lee, 7.7, who staged a lively lisrl round in which Thompson showed greater experience, meeting the aggu.ssive tactics of his opponent coolly, ami taking the points of the round, lne pair exhausted most of their ideas m this session, and though they continued aggressively to the finish, and Lee cans close to registering a fall more than once, there was not much in it, amthe verdict of a draw was popular. Two newcomers in S. McColl and N James gave an unscientific but enter tabling exhibition which kept the crowd going throughout their three roundsMcColl knew more than his opponent about the holds and counters, but James was the more punishing. James got the verdict, which was not unanimously endorsed by the audience. The spectators expected fast action from the bout between W. Cooper, 11.7, and T. Stevens, 12.0, and early.m the first round this ' expectation was realised. The pair wrestled hard and keenly, with occasional slaps and somy spectacular headlocking. Cooper landing once with Ids hand-spring attack. The second round opened with hostilities, and the going wqs even' to the close of the session, when Stevens held his opponent with a ‘ painful toe-hold-Cooper trying to get through the ropes, but being'held to "the bell. Cooper was in trouble' in the third round owing to an instep injury, and lie was unable to continue after _ completing half the session, Stevens being declared the winner. SPEEDY WORKERS The fastest- pair of amateurs in the district, in E. i’errott and F. Hayward, both IU.U, lived up lo their recent form in their three-round bout, working without a break and proving so cyenly matched' that neither seemed likely in the opening round to score a'fall. Penult had his opponent worried in the second round, and half way through Hayward suddenly lost his aggressiveness, Pcrrott pulling him down and applying an unu-bat which held, him helpless, a fall being awarded to .PerrotL Hayward canto out with renewed vim for the third’, and with Perru.tt responding eagerly to his rushes, they put in sojuQ great work. Hayward got homo with, an effective butt, after a last exchange, and before his opponent could recover, he jumped iu and put on a jack-knife hold, pinning Perrott for tho equally iug fall. EXPERIENCE- TELLS TALE A special iivo-ruumi bout between C. Buscke, 1D.7, agd 15.’ HiU'iis, 10.0, also lived up to expectations. Harris has improved a good deal of late, and through a part ot' the'first round held his own With the more experienced Buscke. For a period of torrid wrestiing in the second' rouud, Harris seemed to hold an advantage, but Buscke picked him up iW a eouplo ,«1 heavy dumps, and took a lot of steam out of him, Harris just escaping from a fall on two occasions, but coining back strongly at the end 01. the round. The third round was as hard as either of its predecessors, and at its close conditions seemed to be telling in favor ot' Harris, his opponent making little attempt to follow up advantages. Buscke opened the fourth with an attempt at a. flying head scissors, but missed, and fell -heavily Hard wrestling saw out the round, Harris proving to.o canny when ! Buscke tried to manoeuvre him into position for a loop slam, but taking a hard jolt right on the -bell from v straight dump. ■The last round opened like those that went before it, hut Buscke turned on his full talents when Harris scored points with two rolling licadlock throws. Turning the tables. Buscke tossed his opponent heavily, and then pinned hint without difficulty, amidst gratified applause, the one fall deciding the match. LURICII RETAINS TITLE SYDNEY, July 1-1. In a wrestling contest for the Australian heavyweight championship at the Leichhardt Stadium, Tom Lunch boat Nick Dncprovsky by two fails to one.