WRESTLING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20783, 19 July 1937, Page 12

WRESTLING

MARSHALL PLEASES By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, July 18. Floyd Marshall made his first appearance in New Zealand when he met “Lofty” Blomfield on Saturday night and created an excellent impression. Weighing 17st, he provided spectacular wrestling in abundance, and with Blomfield quite willing to mix it the eight rounds were full of jolting and fast action. The result was a draw, Marshall taking a fall with a body press in the fourth round and Blomfield gaining a submission fail with his octopus clamp in the sixth. UNINTERESTING BOUT By Telegraph—Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, July 18. , King Kong Cox defeated John Spellman by one fall in the seventh round in an uninteresting bout before a large house. Cox threw Spellman out of the ring, elbow jolted and dumped him for a fall. Spellman showed the greater science. A COLOURLESS DISPLAY By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, July 18. At no stage of the professional wrestling contest between George Walker and Steve Savage, staged at the Town Hall on Saturday night, was the large attendance of spectators given cause for real enthusiasm, as the bout was one of the most disappointing of the season. Although both contestants are noted more for their solid methods than for spectacular dispalys, they even failed to give a convincing exhibition of rugged wrestling and both, men were counted out on several occasions by the crowd. The decision went to Savage by one fall which he gained in the seventh round when Walker submitted to a complicated forward toehold.