ROUGH WRESTLING
BLOMFIELD BEATS KENNEDY (Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Monday Ignoring frequent warnings by the referee for punching and kicking his opponent in the abdomen, Jack Kennedy (America) was the loser of a match with "Lofty” Blomfleld at the Twon Hall on Saturday night. Blomfleld gained a fall with forearm jolts and a body press early in the bout which was stopped in the final round by Inspector Scott, of the Auckland Police.
MEEHAN AND YOURIBT (By Telegrapn.—Pre3s Association) GISBORNE, Monday A fast, spectacular wrestling match on Saturday between Abe Yourist and Pat Meehan ended in a draw. Even on fails. Meehan came off the ropes with a Hying scissors in the fourth and finished off with a body press. His opponent did not equalise till Hie seventh, when Median went, down to repeated jolts, headlocks and shoulder charges. The match lacked science but furnished identv of excitement.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19380523.2.104
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20505, 23 May 1938, Page 11
Word count
Tapeke kupu
148ROUGH WRESTLING Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20505, 23 May 1938, Page 11
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in