WANTS HEAVY CROWN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 148, 26 June 1939, Page 14

WANTS HEAVY CROWN.

DEAN DETTON'S HOPES. A DRAW WITH NAGURSKI. "New Zealand and Australia still hold their place in the wrestling world and I would welcome a bout for the world heavy-weight title here," said Dean Detton, Pacific Coast champion wrestler and exworld champion, who was a through passenger by the Monowai, which arrived from Vancouver and Honolulu to-day, en route to Sydney.

While in Canada and the United States, during the first five months of this year, Detton annexed the Pacific jCoast title from Lou Plummer, at San Francisco, on March 12, and also had a bont with Bronko Nagurski. with honours even. His only defeat since leaving New Zealand last September was by Ray Steele in Sydney. On the Pacific Coast he had been unbeaten.

Among the most promising of the young wrestlers in the western part of America was Tarzan White, of Los Angeles, he said, and possibly he might make an appearance later in New Zealand and Australia. He was hoping that a chance to meet Jim Londos, present world titleholder, would occur in the near future, for Detton considered he was now in as good form as when he won the heavy-weight crown in September, 1937. Dean Detton is accompanied by his wife, son and daughter. He expects to come to New Zealand towards the end of the present season. BLOMFIELD BEATS LEVER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE. Sunday. In a hard-worklnc wrestling bont. unmarked by any sensational incidents, before a packed house. I.ofty Blomfield defeated Dick Lever by a submission fall in the sixth round with a reverse leglock.