WRESTLING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 197, 2 June 1934, Page 2

WRESTLING.

ALI BEY BEATS SANTEN. TIMARU, June 1. The wrestling season opened tonight, when Ali Bey (Turkey) met Santen. (America). Santen,. in the third round, brought the Turk down with a double leg hold, securing a double toe hold, which ho barred, applying steady pressure to obtain the first fall. Ali Bey dumped Santen twice in the fourth round and equalised with a fall with a body press and a reversed Japanese a miliar. The latter part of the bout was,marked by a good deal of punching. Santen had Bey groggy with four flying tackles in the sixth round, but with the last tackle he struck his nose oh the Turk’s knee and, while stunned, Bey pinned him with a body press. Bey was booed at the end of the bout.

SHIKSNA BEATS DETTON. PALMERSTON N., June 1. With the score of one fall each and Detton during the final round making repeated excursions to sanctuary outside the ring, Old Shikina gained a points decision before a packed house at Palmerston North this evening. The verdict was a popular one and the bout was interesting after the third round. Shikina’s fall came following a succession of jolts, arm and hip rolls in the fourth round, and Detton s equalising fall came early in the seventh, after head-locks, bunts and jolts had rqttled Shikiha. The Japanese recovered quickly and after Detton failed to connect With a flying tackle early in the concluding round, was able to avoid rushes by the Amencan, who did some spGct&oulcir diving through the ropes. THE ASHBURTON ASSOCIATION. ALI BEY AND RENE MICHOT. f The Ashburton Wrestling Association has arranged a special international heavy-weight contest to be held m his Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday ij|xt (Sapling Stakes night) between All Bey (Turkey) and Rene Michot (France), Both men are in excellent form, and Ali Bey secured a convincing win last, evening at Timaru over Charles Santen. Bey is a nephew ' and pupil of Yuseft Mahmont, world famous a few years ago as “The Terrible Turk.” Rene Michot has everything to make him a first-class wrestler. He has physique, weight, strength and tempeiament, but lacks in a small way the experience of the American style or roughing it. In the ring it might be said he is rathed too gentlemanly, but in France that is liow they work. For all that, however, he has secured a number of victories in New Zealand already this season, and gave Walker a very, hard tussle last Monday in Auckland.