WRESTLING
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Blomfield's Defeat of Forsgren
(By Telegrap.
WELLINGTON, Last Night. Hurtling headflrst through the rope.in a flying tackle that flattened Jack Forsgren,- * Lofty Blomfield Won tonight's wrestling bout at the Town Hall by two falls te one. The bout pro* duced a good deal of heavy elbow slogging. Forsgren in •the fourtb round grabbed Blomfield by the ankles and applied a Boston crab to which the New Zealander was in haste to submit. In the n6xt round Blomfield tripped Forsgren and from a toehold developed his octopus clamp and it was Forsgren 's turn to beat the mat. Finally in the sixth round Forsgren knocked Blomfieli clean through the ropes with a forearm ■jolt, but Blomfield returned torpedo fashion and sent Forsgren finally to thc mat.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 133, 22 June 1937, Page 9
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