WRESTLING
I ■ * BLOMFIELD BEATS SPELLMAN. j Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 28. i Enmeshing his opponent' in an octoput clamp, Lofty Blomfield beat Spellman by a single fall in a lively wrestling bout to-night. The bout went the full eight rounds with a fall in the seventh. For fully five minutes in the last round iJlomfiehi .successfully withstood an Indian deathlock perfectly applied and reinforced with all Spellman’s weight and salvos of elbow-jolts. The bout was preceded by an unexnected incident when a burly individual clambered into the ring, jostled aside the announcer and proclaimed loudly that he desired to challenge Blonifield. The intruder was recognised as a wrestler who appeared last season under the name of A 1 Wahll'erg and refereed in recent bouts as A 1 Dane. ; He was escorted from the ring by policemen.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 10
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137WRESTLING Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 10
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