WIN ON POINTS TO BLOMFIELD

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 184, 21 August 1937, Page 19

WIN ON POINTS TO BLOMFIELD

Lively Wrestling Bout with Wescoatt EACH SCORES A FALL . "Lofty." Blomfield gained. a p.oiuts decision over "Rusty" Wescoatt in a wrestling bout at the Mnnicipal Theatre, Hastings, last night. Each man had taken a. fall. The eontest was full of action, with many lively ahd torrid exchanges. Wescoatt -thrilled the house with his drop-kieks, which were 'sufficient • to cause his opponent to ; lay prostrate on the mat for fully a minnte. In ,the earlier rounds Wescoatt was the • aggressor and worried Blomfield with a seri.es of well-applied headscissors. Both men showed that they were masters at„- elbow-jolts, which carried a good ideal of weight behihd them. Blomfield demonstrated a variety of painful leg-holds which frequently had Wescoatt squirming. ' ' What about the octopns • elainp, Lof-ty?" cried his supporters on several occasions. This he applied more than once, but in -a sitting position only. Wescoatt, when in this predicamenti fought strenuously to keep Blomfield off his balanc© and prevent him from gaining his feet. Turning the tables on Wescoatt in the fifth round, Blomfield, after a volley of elbow-jolts and halches, picked up Wescoatt in a cyoteh-hold, dumping him heavily to pin him easily with a bodypress. In the following two rounds Wescoatt on several occasions appeared to be groggy, but each time he proved to be most dangerous, and Blomfield took good eare that he was not caught napping. Early in the seventh round Westcoatt gave a glimpse of his best form. Resenting a complaint by Blomfield that he was using his fists, Wescoatt rushed in with. a battery of elbowjolts and launehed three spectacular drop-kicks, enabling the equalising fall to be seeured with a body-press. Torrid Final Round. Blomfield Tecovered from this battering attack' before the next gong, and the next ten minutes saw some most gruelling work on the mat, with both men after a fall. Attack and counterattack followed in rapid succession in which neither had ariy monopoly of the punishment. Blomfield had sliglitly the better of the strenuous final session, and the decisien in his favour was popnlar. No time was lost by the two men in getting into grips^ and, breaking a chinlock which had driven iiim against the ropes, Wescoatt worked on a variety of scissors holds during which he had Blomfield thrashing the floor. A toohold, with some vigorous hair-pulling, had Wescoatt in trouble until he could ■ retaliate with an arm-strange. Blomfield was soon working overtime in a vicious head-acissors, Wescoatt adding to his diseomforl with a vigorous spinal massage. Blomfield just managed to get clear and snap on a toehold as the gong went. Wescoatt had a turn at thrashing tho mat while he was held in a short annscissors« Grabbing Blomfield 's head, Wescoatt broke tho hold and, rising from a halch, he sent Blomfield against the ropes with a drop-kick. This he followed with a full-nefson. Blomfield, throwing his legs np smartly, broke the hold to apply an arm-bar, bouncing with his ltnees on his opponent 's imprisoned arm. A smart movement by Yfescoatt trapped Blomfield in a lying splits as the round ended. Wescoatt proved to be only foxing when he appeared to be .d'azed from two heavy elbow-jolts. Blomfield land.ed with a heavy thud on the mat when Wescoatt retaliated with a liberal dose of the eame medicine. While wxithing in a painful armbar, Blomfield sought refuge under the ropes, but he was quickly dragged to the centre of the ring by his iinprisoned arm and had his head bonnced vigorou'sly on the mat. This was followed with a double barred toehold, and, gaining a body-press, Wescoatt put the whole of his 17 stone into pfnning Lofty. Pulling himself out under th'e ropes enablod Blomfield to break the hold. Full-Nelson Applied. The fourth round opened with Blomfield working with a full-nelson well applied. Wescoatt turned the tables on Blomfield with the same hold in which a greater degree of punishment was dealt out. A run round the ring by Wescoatt prevented Blomfield from making a hammerlock effective. This Blomfield followed with a vicious headscissors, giviug Wescoatt a taste of his owh' favourite punishment. Early in the fiftii Wescoatt, getting on his feet, broke a short arm-scissors

to bear down heavily on a double barred toehold. Blomfield took Wescoatt unawares with three elbow-jolts, picking him up and dumping him for the first fall in 3.28. • Wescoatt was not anxious to go m for tbe next, find, suddenly going Dacit against the ropes, he prepared for a fiying tackle, Blomfield dropping instantly to the mat. After a battery of elbow-jolts Weiseoatt punished Blomfield with a crocodile"crotch, the latter bridging strenuously to keep his skouldefs off tlie maty A serioa of legholds ahd key-locks wero applied by Blomfield, Wescoatt ' showing that he alsp qould tortur© by the same means. Annoyed at a compiaint by Blomfield, Wescoatt went all out at the beginning of the seventh round. After elbowjolting and halching, Blomfield was felled with three drop-kicks, falling an easy victim for the equalising fall. The final round' saw both men dipping into their kit of wares. Blomfield could Only suceeeded in applying his octopus elanip from a sitting position, which was as mueh as Wescoatt wanted. Wescoatt was very wrath when he found that Blomfield was too elusive for his fiying tackles. Wescoatt began making up the little leeway he had (lo9t early in the round by clam^ing pn j 1

a painful crucifix as the final gong went. Mr A. Anderson, of Palmerston North, refereed. THE AMATEURS Allingham (11.10) v Bennett (11.10). — Allingham accounted for Bennet^ by tWo straight falls. Bennett did all the wqrk jn. the opening round,. but on coming ont for the second round he was taken by surprise and on being up,-ended had to yield to a body-presa, Allingham came but very aggressively for the third, which was. of Short duration. J. Stewart (12,4, Hastings)- V JVBaumart (12.0, Palmerston, North). — Stewart proved too strong for Baumont, taking two straight falls from him. Gruelling. work; on the mat occupied the 'first round. Early in the second Stewart had his opponent in trOuble with a figure-f our head-s.cissors, which was quickly converted into a body-press foi a fall. The final round -was not '.in .progress long when Stewart trapped -Banmont into the second fall with a body-press. ' A." Skudder (11.7) v L. Haftka (13.7). — - — Although he had to eoneede the big .margin of- two stone, Skudder proved more than n. match. for Haftka. The bout was lively and full of. action, the referee Jiaving to caution both men for nsi-ng their fists. Skudder proved too slippery and, unmanageable for his heavier opponent, who was easily pinned with .a body-press early .in the third round. W. Whitaker (9.12, Hastings) v J. Wadham (9.6, Palmerston North). — Whitaker, who gained the only fall, was kept fully extended by his opponent, who, he found, was by no means easy tq handle.