ON POINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 100, 29 April 1940, Page 11

ON POINTS.

LITTLE WOLF WINS. BOUT WITH RAINES. COWBOY GOES BULL-DOGGING. Making his first appearance of the wrestling season in Auckland before a halffilled house in the Town Hall on Saturday night, "Cowboy" Dick Rainee lived up to his nickname by repeatedly bull-dogging his opponent Chief Little Wolf, who proved no docile "dogie," but turned again and again on his tormentor to retaliate in rough-houee tactie, while the corral rang with laughter and applause. A friendly pat on the head, as of appeal not to spoil the sport, wae all the response Referee Jack McLean got from repeated warnings of disqualification issued to Raines—and usually the cowboy followed this with something like a new dirty trick with which to infuriate the Indian and a section of the crowd. A couple of dumps of his special "backbreaker" variety brought Knines u fall in the fifth round. But Chief Little Wolf had the last laugh. In the seventh round lie lassoed the cowboy's hind logs with his "death-lock" and forced a submission fall, to follow this with a spirited attack in the final round on which the referee awarded him a points decision. Four Ineffective Rounds. Kaines stripped nt 17st, and Little Wolf at lOst 101b. After provocative jolts to the head that set the Indian scowling in disapproval, Kaines found the Wolf not so little whon he failed to budge the ludian in trying to toes him with a head-

lock. A little later the Indian tried a head-lock and Raines made It quits by just chrugglng him oft*. Raines went to his

"dogging" in earnest in 1lw? second round with headlocke and annlocks, interspersed freely with jolte, and had Little Wolf almost to the point of a fall with armlock and body press at the bell. In a lively third round Raines varied jolt* with footstnmping, dumping, a sly strangle and effective tugs at the Indian's long hair. Little Wolf, In full song with his gutteral chant that was obviously no Indian love call, grabbed Raines' thick mop of hair as purchase for a vicious stomach throw, and when the cowboy came back In a flying tackle he was toppled by a quick crouch, nnd nearly prewed to a fall. In the fourth round Raines was punished with a barred toehold, but got free nnd hoisted

his opponent for an aeroplane spin and dump. But the dump didn't nrrive, for Littlo Wolf had clamped himself to the other's shoulders inseparably.

Tien Falls and Fireworks. Back to his original plan of heavy jolte went Raines in the fifth round. Two of

them dropped Little Wolf, and he wae hoisted by a crotch hold and dumped to drop with h!e back across Raines , outstretched knee, and so to the mat. Picked up and again dumped in like manner, he was easily prised for a fall. The cowhoy had bull-dogged the Indian nnd put his strings on him with his "back-breaker."

After a back massage. Little Wolf come back for the sixth and danced about at long range to play for time. But when roughed up by having his face rubbed along the ropes he promptly grabbed Raines , hair and returned the insult. Then they hit up the pace ngain with lively but ineffectual throwe. In the seventh, with

the pace still on. ReAnes twice dumped • Little Wolf and approached unwarily to repeat when he was leg-locked, brought down and clumped in the Indians "deathlock" to which he speedily submit ted. Raines, nursing a cramped right knee, wns given no peace In the Inst round, but he tried flying tackles to drive off the Indian. He was counter-tackled and both went through the ropes to the hall floor where they wrestled for a time. Buck in the ring, Rainee was leg-locked, but escaped, and the bell went with the pair in a flurry of Jolts and counter-jolts. The referee's decision to Little Wolf on points on the last round had a mixed reception. The Preliminaries. A professional bout of five flve-mlnutc rounds between K. Douglas (14.0) and 1 , - Boric (13.10) was faet nnd furious, but without any fall, and Mr. 3. McLean awarded the bout to Douglas on points. Three amateur bouts were wrestled under Olympic rules. W McWlUlnmfi (9.6) beat W. Jackson (10.2). getting one fall: P. Hume (11.3) beat J. McLeod (10 9) on points; T. Yates (13.7) beat \V. Smith (14.6), getting cue fall.