BLOMFIELD BEATEN
SPELLMAN'S DIZZY SPIN (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, last night. in one of tlie best wrestling bouts ever seen here, Jack Spellman, lGst., defeated "Lofty" Blomfield, lflst. Gib., on Saturday night by two falls to one. Blomfield scored with an octopus damp in the third round, Spellninn equalising in the fifth round with an aeroplane spin, a dump and a body press, following three terrific dumps. Blomfield was groggy in the sixth round and tho American had no difficulty in securing another fall with an aeroplane spin and a body press. It, was a, hard, fast contest, devoid of showmanship, Spellman's display marking him as one of the cleverest wrestlers who has ever appeared in Dunedin.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19338, 31 May 1937, Page 8
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