WRESTLING

Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 8

WRESTLING

BLOMFIELD V. PEHCHEFF The New Zealand champion, Lofty Blomfield, who figured in a match here last week against Wee Willie Davis, will be seen in action again to-night at the Town Hall, his opponent being George Pencheff, the Bulgarian, who is a naturalised British subject, and therefore eligible to compete for the British Empire title. Pencheff, who is a cousin of Dan Koloff, started wrestling ns an amateur in his native country and turned professional about eight years ago. It was not long before he found himself in Australia, and in 1931 he visited New Zealand. During the past five years ho lias travelled widely and wrestled so often that New Zealanders should regard him as a sterner opponent than ho was when hero five years ago. Ho has filled out physically, and now weighs 15.7. For the major portion of the past year he has been wrestling on the Pacific Coast of America, where he has figured in over 100 . matches without once being defeated. Joe Malcowictz and Hans Steinke are among two of the most formidable men over whom he has decisions, and he also has a draw with Dan O’Mahoney, the Irish ex-world champion, to his credit. It was while wrestling O’Mahoney, and subsequently when training with him, that Pencheff became an adept at the use of the Irish whip, the hold that won the world title for the Irishman. In Blomfield, Pencheff will be meeting a man who has made great progress in wrestling since 1931, and ho is likely to find him one of the hardest propositions he will encounter in the Dominion. For telephone reserves ring 11-842 after 6.30 p.m.