SWINGING IT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 174, 26 July 1938, Page 16

SWINGING IT.

DEAN, AND DON'TS. HAD REFEREE TROUBLE. BEAT FRALEY—OR BID HE 7 The man who can solve the problem as to which comes first, the chicken or the egg, should find an equally interesting problem in deciding the winner of a wrestling match between Pat Fraley and Dean Detton. A Wellington crowd last week saw Dean Detton win by one fall in the eighth round of a contest in which Haley had decidedly the better of the wrestling. An Auckland crowd saw the same thing lurst niuht at the Town Hall, only this time Dean took the fall in the second round. All in all the toss of a coin would have saved a lot of trouble . . . but then, of course, one of them would have been the winner without argument. As it was Dean took the fail and the victory; Pat took another moral victory to bed with him; the crowd said "800 ' —and, maybe, they were all satisfied.

Those Warnings. Let this be said. Dean was wrestling under difficulties, and his major one was the referee. Mr. J. McLean. His warnings to Dean were more frequent than the holds. More power to his elbow if he stops illegality promptly and effectively, but it might as well be consistent . . . and it warnings are followed by the awarding of penalty fal's or disqualifications that is good. Fraley would have lost a number of his earlier bouts if that had been the case, but he got away with more than ever Dean attempted. Under the succession of "Don'ts" Dean passed from pi otest to anger, and from anger to aggrieved patience. Tile bear of baiting days must have looked like him —and he was sadly lacking in dash over the latter rounds. In the earlier stages lie looked like a champion. However, the bout was notable for several things. In the first three rounds there were just about the same number of holds (with variations in one case). In the sixth they drop-kicked simultaneously —and in the last Fraley applied his toehold four times in different ways, and each time Detton withstood it long enough to get under the ropes.

A punishing wristlock on Fraley took hiin to the mat from the opening tussle, and there lie stayed and "O'olid" with a will for quite five minutes —in spite of injunctions to '"Bite him, I'at," and "'Watch him, ref. . . . the dir-rty c9,v" before lie came to his feet. It was only for a second though. Then down lie went again, still in the wristlock to the gong. Pat Fell For It I Detton tried a swift one at the start of the second, went in fast with a hard right jolt and swung on a step-over toehold. Fraley submitted immediately, but Detton had to be pulled off the hold and ordered back to his corner, amid of chorus of "boos." He tried the same "cagey" tactics at the start of the third," but met a series of jolts, while the spectators roared in excitement. Detton was warned for swinging a round arm rabbit punch, stopped a kick and was caught by Fralev in a head scissors, which was converted first into a short-arm scissors, then a barred hanimeriock, and finally a surfboard. He broke just as the round ended. The comparative calm was broken with sensation in the fourth as Detton was tossed through the ropes, vaulted back in a dive that met upraised feet, and went over the ropes on the other side. Again he tried it and went over the ropes on the other side on the springboard of Fraley's feet. Fraley was "swinging" it now and Detton made a rapid retreat from attempted dropkieks and jolts before lie was taken down in another hammerlock; but that was broken under the ropes. A lieadlock and then a chin-jack added yet another to Detton's score of warnings, but Dean applied a lieadlock and trotted round the capstan with it. Detton was strung in the ropes as he was flung off that, applied a head scissors, but Pat took a lying splits and that gave Detton something to worry about to the gong. Up in the Air.

It seemed Detton was annoyed. Hie voice rose in heated protest as he broke from a headlock and he seized a handful of hair. A moment later he was flying over the ropes on to the staging and then the floor. He came back running, but a rlropkick stopped that. He got a wristlock on Pat, lost it—had another "barney" with the referee—and was taken in a body scissors—and then was twice neatly tossed in head scissors with Fraley somersaulting to do it! He broke that with a toehold made more potent with a scissors —until Fraley made a meee of the lot with a splits and a toe tangle of his own. Fraley was coughing in a headlock at the sixth and fhen in turn a face twist, a head scissors and a short-arm scissors. "Watch those shoulders!" came Dean's battle cry, but the ropes settled the argument, and Dean suffered a minor jolt or two. to be tossed in a headlock. Flung against the ropes Fraley caught Detton with _ a dropkick, but was lowered with one in retaliation. Then came sensation as both leaped together in droplocks and went down. Detton recovered first and crawling over tried for a press, but Fraley withstood it and took first a head scissors and then a short-arm scissors that had Dean calling for heavenly assistance.

He made it up at the start "of the * seventh when he took Fraley down i n a headlock, but Pat won that argument uue of his. Dean was head tossed sought sanctuary, suffered a rabbit punch and then a punch. To injury Pat added insult with face slaps and chapping elbowg Dean tried one in his turn, but was bounced otf an Irish whip. Detton -was holding himself in, but it was hard! IJ e was pulled away by tlie referee when he followed up after throwing Pat into the ropes, was tipped up as he attempted one dropkick and stopped by the referee in another. In turn he was somei-saulted bv a Hying tackle and his face "roughed. 7 * * Tile eighth came with an opening interlude as Detton flung his towel into the audience when made to wipe water off body—and then three dropkicks by Fralev prepared the way for a flying toehold Detton agonised but stood it until h e was under the ropes. He "fixed"' in and out of the ropes, missed an Irish whip, -n-as cartwheeled and again in the toehold Again lie took it and made the ropes while he panted out "N"o! No!" and "Go away" to the referee. He was pulled out of a corner in a headlock and a third time it was applied. This time Detton fought it and emerged with an Indian dcathlock —but he was tumbled and the toehold was on again. At last Fraley g lve it un and tried for a wristlock as well Rut the gong came —the decision, and the "'bons." K. Kenneth. 14.6. and R. Douglas. 1.1.8 made a ponnlar appearance in the professional preliminary and exerted themselves pleasinglv in fast action wrestling. Kenneth took a fall in the second with a stepover toehold, but Douglas gained' an equaliser in the fifth with a Boston crab, The Amateurs. Mr. .Tim Brown refereed the amateurs with Messrs. G. Heald and Browne as judges. It was good wrestling, but the crowd was still unappreciative of the rules. \V. Tucker. 10.."!. beat F. Gunn, 10.0, by a fall in three minutes. ' " B. Sigley. 8.6. beat T. Harvey, 0.10, bv a fall in ten minutes. '

BLOMFIELD V. LOPEZ.

AUCKLAKDER DISQUALIFIED. (By Telegraph.—Pres-s Association.) W ELLIXGTOX, Monday. Excellent wrestling was seen by a well filled house at the Wellington Town Hall to-night, when Vincent Lopez defeated lioft.V Blomfield. Lopez secured a fall with a Boston crab in the third round, and Blomfield evened with a flying tackle and body press in the sixth. The end came in the seventh round when, following a series of powerful elbowjolt#! and butts, Blomfield hurled the Mexican through the ropes and struck him while he was out of the ring. He was promptly disqualified.

RAINES-MEEHAN DRAW.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) IXVERCARGILLj Monday. The professional wrestling contest between Meehan and Raines to-night resulted in a draw. Raines secured a fall in the fifth round, and Meehan was- awarded a penalty fall-jn the sixth.