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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1944, Page 7

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WRESTLERS IN <N0 CONTEST'

4 wrestling match at the Wellington Town 7mL\ *'dSK "J lght between Lofty Blomfleld (16st 101b) and Ken Kenneth (16st 81b) had an unusual if not entirely novel ending. The contest had reached, the seventh round with the score standing at one fall each when Kennetih .Started using flying tackles against his opponent. He repeatedly connected, but finally i Blomfleld stepped out of Hie way of a longOistance charge and Kenneth &>und nothing in front of Mm except the referee (Mr. Ray nil? ti 4i ie corner of the rine- He Crushed past the referee and finished up against the1 ropes, but the referee went flying out of the ™glay nQp r os? r datl head °U ** fl°°r' Where Kenneth then turned his attention to his opponent, whom he securely pinned, but there was no one available to award him the winning fall. Wliile the wrestlers continued to tus&le seconds jumped into the rhig, and Mr. J. K. Hughes, the official announcer, also appeared. Unfortunately the loud-speaker system had been disconnected and there was a hold-up while the operator endeavoured to put it to- ? t etheF again, his haste naturally making it all the harder to find the right thread Swi,T n£V ° screw one piece into another. Eventually he was able to hand the microphone to Mr. Hughes, who announced that the wn^T + w? s u-nable t0 return and therefore he ™£?«TcoL^ n himself t0 declare the The display, which drew a moderate house, w.ifi» 9mt« as good as the Previous meeting between the two men, Kenneth appearing to have difficulty in keeping his opponent hard nLr^"' In the third round Blomfleld sit ? p:n h .^ s. opponent with jolts, repeatedly felling nun to the canvas, and thereby cleared tb* way for the first fall of the match Three i n nAi flve"/ OUP d suPP°rting bout between two .local professionals, Tom Wright and Sergeant' *°f*'n WeTV t0 th6», toal before there 3was a fall. Then, while Cook was throwing him .round the ring with chanceries, WrlgM grab? hfm S^° PP?. nent'? ams and took a fall off him with a back loop slam. Mr. Ray Allen was the referee. Amateur preliminaries, which were conwl\ ed h?i~}S- L- W- Woods' resulted :-K. {fa, s?sa s« a, s-a cs fii «?r (Koolman's), lOst 21b, by one fall.; R. McKay (Kilbirnie), Bst 111b beat W Hobson (Koolman's), Bst 61b, by two falls