WRESTLING.
DETTON BEATS FRALEY. WELLINGTON, July 18. In one of the cleverest exhibitions of wrestling ever seen in Wellington, Dean Detton, former world heavyweight champion, heat Pat Fraley, of America, by a fall in the eighth round, before a well-filled house at the Town Hall to-night. Never before has there been such spectacular ringcraft )>y two big men, who moved so fast that they frequently went hurtling out of the ring. Though Detton was tho more aggressive of the pair, it was not until the last of the scheduled eight rounds that he managed to secure a fall. After Dptton had thrice felled Fraley in tho last round, tho latter clapped on a flying toehold, hut Detton countered this with such an effective hammerlock that Fraley patted tho mat and exclaimed “Let him have it!” The round had been in progress for 22 seconds.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 237, 19 July 1938, Page 2
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