WRESTLING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1939, Page 2

WRESTLING

DONOVAN BEATS KIRCHMEYER. WIN ON PENALTY FALL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day.. Because he declined to relinquish his python clutch on being awarded a fall, Rollend Kirchmeyer lost his wrestling bout with Jack Donovan in the Town Hall, Wellington, last night, by a penalty fall. Donovan, who exhibited some pretty matcraft in the early rounds, pinned Kirchmeyer in the fourth round after dumping him three times. Kirchmeyer, set the pace thereafter, and in the seventh round strove repeatedly to enmesh Donovan in his specialty hold: he finally succeeded in doing so. Donovan beat the mat in submission and the referee, Mr Alf Jenkins, slapped Kirchmeyer on the back to indicate a fall, but Kirchmeyer continued to bump Donovan violently on the mat, while the official strove vainly to drag him off. Finally a penalty fall was given against him. Despite wind, rain and hail, a large crowd went to see the sport, and received the decision with mixed sentiments, a rowdy section showing hostility to Kirchmeyer. The bout was distinguished by a good deal of excellent scientific wrestling. Kirchmeyer. 6ft. 71in. tall, weighed 17st. 61b., to Donovan’s 16st. 71b. WIN FOR BLOMFIELD. AUCKLAND, This Day. By two falls to one Blomfield beat Boesch in a wrestling match last night.