TWO FALLS TO ONE
ELOMFIELD BEATS FORSGREN ROUGH BOUT IN CITY (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night, in lilt; roughest professional wrestling bout of the season Blomlield beat Forsgren by two tails to one, winning in the sixth round, after ]•:not*king the Canadian nut with a right arm swing delivered from outside tin 1 ropes whence he had been thrown. Forsgren broke the rules and went on hitting lilomfield from inside the ring. Blomlield was badly dazed,
bu-. managed to connect with what uns to till appearances a punch, having only to crawl through the ropes and drop on Forsgren for a fall.
Blomlield took the lirst fall with a press, following* a dump, after tackles and jolts, and Forsgren equalised in the fifth with a Boston crab after a series of heavy jolts. Throughout the bout there were more jolts than holds.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19036, 9 June 1936, Page 8
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