WRESTLING
WIN FOR BLOMFIELD. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI. August 9. After a solid display of wrestling tonight. Lofty Blomfield scored a points decision over Paul Boesch after jach had scored a fall. The decision net with a hostile reception from a large house, which considered that, the result should have been a draw. Blomfield scored the first fall in the fifth round with a stopover toehold, to which Boesch submitted. Boesch evened in the seventh when he connected with three dropkicks and look Blomfield to the mat for a fall with a press. KIRCHMEYER BEATEN BY COX. HASTINGS, August 9. In a mediocre bout King Kong Cox beat Rollcnd Kirchmeyer in a professional wrestling match in Hastings tonight. Kirchmeyer secured a fall in the third round and Cox equalised in the seventh. Cox secured a points lead : n the closing stages of the bout which resulted in his being declared the winner. Cox resorted to his usual “bad-man” tactics —eye-gouging, kicking, punching and biting, but had many supporters in the audince.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1939, Page 9
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