WRESTLING
BLOMFIELD BEATS MEEHAN (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 26. The curtain was rung down on the 1938 professional wrestling season at the Wellington Town Hall tonight when “Lofty” Blomfield, the New Zealand champion, beat Pat Meehan, America, by two falls to one in a bout marked by much clever wrestling. Blomfield secured the first fall in the fifth round with an arm strangle. Meehan equalized in the seventh with a figure four scissors and a chin lock. In the last round Meehan again got a body scissors going, but Blomfield climbed the ropes, throwing himself backward, so badly injuring Meehan that he was unable to continue the contest.
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Southland Times, Issue 23624, 27 September 1938, Page 10
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109WRESTLING Southland Times, Issue 23624, 27 September 1938, Page 10
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