WRESTLING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19339, 1 June 1937, Page 7

WRESTLING

SPELLMAN-RUIVIBSRG NEXT SATURDAY'S BOUT Wrestling enthusiasts throughout the Dominion have, commenced to sit up and take notice of John Spellman, the Rhode Island wrestler who won'a heavy weight wrestling title at Paris in P.ii’i. The Gisborne association is particularly fortunate in being able to put, on a match between Spellman and Kumbcrg next Saturday night, as this is a match which many of the larger associations are anxious to secure. Spellniiui’s all-round wrestling knowledge is planed by the fact that In had been a wrestling coach as well as a prominent eompetitiov on both the amateur and professional sides of the spoil. Spellman learnt his wrestling from Frank Herrick, one of America’s most famous tutors, and had had plenty of experience in the game before he joined the cash ranks in HE’S. Since then he has had hundreds of mutches in America and Panada and has long been recognised as a man who is constantly on' Hie fringe of championship honours. He is nearly lift in height, weighs Hist, arid is an extremely tough wrestler who works along aggressive mol colourful lines, lie is famous bolh for his elbow jolts and his living tackles as well as foi the all-round excellence of his performances. in Euniberg, Spellman will be meeting a man who is capable of extending him to tin l utmost. I’umberg was (lie outstanding importation to Xew Zealand in 1933 and since then lie has been kept busy wrestling against the best men in the game, Ho created a

sensation recently when lie lowerei Sammy Stein’s colours in Welliugto: and all his bouts have been of: a eon sistentlv high order. On Saturday the accounted for Blointield in Dune din.

DECISION TO BLOMFIELD DEFEAT OF KIRILINKO (I’or Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. Bv a decision on points “Lofty” Blointield bent the' .Russian, Afatros Kirilinko, in a professional heavyweight wrestling bout at the Town Hall. Wellington, to-night. The Russian, a colourful and clever malmnn, had the Dost of the early rounds, repeatedly worrying Blointield with a short-arm scissors and secured a fall bv ill is means in the fifth round. From l.iion on, however, Blointield sei the puce and in the seventh round tripped Kirilinko and de.velnped a toehold aad rose suddenly to his feet amid the plaudits of a large crowd, Kirilinko sprawling entwined in the toils of Blointield's dreaded octopus damp. Blointield had much the heller of the (irial round. On hearing the decision, Kirilinko strove vain I v to address the crowd and stamped round the ring waving his arms.