WRESTLING.
MoCREADY RETAINS TITLE. BLOMFIELD DEFEATED. WELLINGTON, July 27. By a fall in the eighth round of the most evenly-matched bout seen at Wellington this season, Earl McCready beat Lofty Blomfield to-night and so retained his title to the British Empire championship. After being driven on to the ropes by Blomfield's savage attack and released by the referee's intervention McCready felled the New Zealander with an elbow jolt and leaping on him pinned him. An angry demonstration by Blomfield’s supporters followed the fall, “boos” and jeering greeting the winner. The wrestling was in the main orthodox rather than spectacular, one of the most interesting phases being when McCready, « .JZ 8 *! stren B th > withstood BlomHeld’s dreaded octopus clamp. (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 28 July 1936, Page 5
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