SPECTACULAR WRESTLING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19119, 14 September 1936, Page 8

SPECTACULAR WRESTLING

BLOMFIELD BEATS DAVIS UNORTHODOX EXTRA ROUND (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, last night. Before the largest house this season, Lofty Blomfiold (10.10’) and Woe Willie Daviso (1S.0) met in a scheduled eight-round wrestling contest, Blomfiold winning by a straight fall .secured in, the eighth round with a hoadlock and body press. It was a hard and fast bout, in which straight wrestling and roughhouse tactics were well mixed. Although in one or two of the rounds the latter predominated, the showmanship of the pair kept the crowd largely amused.

After the conclusion of the contest, they staged a brief but exceedingly brisk extra round, which was apparently tho outcome of some unorthodox move on the part of one or (he other. The police finally got them to their corners and the spectators dispersed perfectly satisfied that they had had their money’s worth.

| CONTESTS IN SYDNEY | WALKER DEFEATS WAHLBERG SYDNEY. Sept. 13. At the Leichhardt Stadium on ■ Saturday night, the Canadian, George j Walker, defeated the Dane, A. Wahl* I berg, with a fall from a jack-knife I hold in the fifth round. ! In a preliminary bout Sam Rogers defeated the New Zealander, Bob King, by one fall. Rogers finished off Iris opponent in IS minutes. I LURICH RETAINS TITLE SYDNEY, Sept. .13. ! Wrestling for the heavyweight championship of Australia at Sydney Stadium, the title holder, Tom Lurk-h, received a. verdict, over eight rounds against Fred Atkins. Both obtained a fall early. Lunch obtained his second fall after a fast exhibition in the final round.