WRESTLING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 218, 14 August 1937, Page 16

WRESTLING.

BLOMFIELD v. COX. A return of the wrestling match which has aroused more interest and excitement than any other which lias been staged either this season or in the past will be presented at the Palmerston North Opera House next Thursday night. The contestants will bo “Lofty” Blomfield. the Now Zealand champion and the idol of wrestling enthusiasts throughout his native country, and “King Kong” Cox, the Jack Dempsey of the wrestling ring. Blomfield and Cox a.ro two wrestlers who, perhaps more than any others who have been scon in New Zealand, exemplify the kind of wrestling which the public most dearly love to see, and when they are placed in the ring together the attraction naturally becomes almost a “battle of a century.” Not only do Cox and Blomfield pursue similar tactics, tactics which involve the elastic rules of the all-in mat game being strained to the utmost, often to breaking point, but also they arc exceptionally well matched. Efforts which liavo been mado to discover which 13 the better of the two have met with no tangible result other than to show that no hall in the country is large'enough to hold all tho people who want to sco them fight the matter out. At Auckland they broke all records by being responsible for the Town Hall being booked out throe days before the match, and it would not bo surprising if even the record figures established by Blomfield tho last time ho was in Palmerston North were surpassed when he enters the ring against Cox. The latter holds the distinction of having held Earl McCready to a draw in both of two matches. Tho box plans open at Colbnson and Cunninghame’s on Monday morning. On Wednesday night the district amateur championships will be fought down to the semi-finals.

WADE AND WESCOATT DRAW. Per Press Association. TIMARU, Aug. 13. In a bout in which there was little wrestling but plenty of showmanship, Wescoatt and Wade wrestled an unconvincing draw before a packed house to-night. Wade deputised jor Little Wolf who incurred the displeasure of the New Zealand police fo.lowing the Christchurch bout, and leaves shortly for Australia.