IN FIVE ROUNDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 210, 6 September 1938, Page 14

IN FIVE ROUNDS.

DETTON'S VICTORY.

HANSEN MADE THE PACE.

■WAS "BRAKED" BY TOE-HOLD.

Just to prove that miracles can still happen the professional matmen at the Town Hall last night ended things in the fifth round—and that without the aid of chairs, ring posts, or any other extraneous means. It just happened that way. However, that five rounds is not the measure of the ability of Billy Hansen, from Texas, via Australia: nor. for that matter, was it the measure of Dean Detton. ex-world champion. There were only two falls in it, "one each apiece all round," but the last was applied by Detton. It was a toehold, but he swung on it (in spite of the referee's protestation and physical endeavour) for so long that Billy was unable to come up for the sixth. 1 In spite of that fact and of his name. Billy is no "goaf at the wrestling game. He is a bundle of energy and can catapult with the best. Detton did not show championship form and during the opening rounds Hansen was well ahead on points. He scored one off the referee with a tackle; but Detton equalised that by jolting (ever so accidentally) the same gentleman. Mr. McLean has suffered quite a lot at the hands of his charges lately. If it goes on it looks as though he will have to take out a license himself so he can answer back in the same coinage. There was a look on his face after taking that jolt that indicated that "warnings" lack soul appeasement. The Will and the Way. Hansen is certainly agile and he should "draw" well. He was popular with the crowd last night and justified it with his fast, spectacular mat work. It was good wrestling most of the way, but when Detton's activities required answer Billy "mixed it" with a will—and a way. Hansen's early advantage with arm bars was strengthened with two running head throws and a head scissors, but Detton gripped Billy's head between two feet— and "Sliding" Billy justified his name. He had slipped across the ring and out of it like an eel. Three times he did it— and Detton became annoyed. He was held back from the ropes and Hansen added insult with a slap and injury with a wristlock. but Detton applied a head scissors that lasted out *he round. Out of the blue came a **bulle-eye" dropkick by Hansen at the start of the second and Brother Dean went down to stay. First blood to Hansen, while Detton shook his head with a "What hit me?" expression. Referee Takes It!

Detton was cautious at the third, but suddenly swung a rabbit punch, took a warning in his stride, and "roughed" Hansen in a beadlock. Billy went after him with jolte and a rabbit punch, but had his warning, too, and then a head-«cis£brs treatment by Detton. He slipped out of that with an Indian deathlock applied with his arm: was kicked off, head tossed twice from the ropes, and was still fighting off a body scissors and press at the gong. Hansen still made tbe pace in the fourth, but was taken in a combination key-lock. He cleared that with a stopper, but the ropes cleared all. Both were at the simmering stage, and as the referee, Mr. J. _ McLean, broke into a fierce toe-to-toe jolting campaign he stopped one, also. Twice Hansen was thrown in headlocks, going clean out of the ropes in the second. Detton was keen for a "kill," but as Mr. McLean fought him off Hansen came back in a dive. The referee got that, man! However, Hansen was punished for that as he was taken in a Japanese wristlock and held to the close of the round. The man on the flying trapeze had nothing on either of the two at the start of the fifth, as they flung themselves through the air in tackles. Jolts, and Hansen went out of the ropes—a dropkick and Detton headed for the open spaces, also. Then they came down to earth again with Detton held in a wristlock, a full-nelson and a bouncing bodyscissors. He was nearly caught in a jackknife, and was taken in a head-scissors. With difficulty Detton pulled him up for a low dump, but he broke the press attempt with a head-scissors. "No! No!" said Hansen as Detton whipped on a reverse; toe-hold, and a moment later the referee was fighting Detton to make him release it. Hansen had submitted. Hansen was still on the mat when the sixth was called, and Detton rushed in. This time, though, he obeyed the referee's traffic signals, and was awarded the bout on a technical knock-out. Rod Douglas, 13.6, beat Fred Boric, 13.10, by one fall, with a Boston crab, in the fifth round of the professional preliminary. '