BIG CHIEF “SIT DOWN” WAS RUFFLED

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12826, 22 August 1939, Page 2

BIG CHIEF “SIT DOWN” WAS RUFFLED

Writing’in the Sydney Sun W. F. Corbett supplies the following humorous account of the wrestling match between Big Chief Little Wolf and Dean Detton on August 9. “Big Chief Little Wolf emulated one of his illustrious forefathers, Sitting Bull, at the Stadium last night. He sat in the centre of the ring as a “squat” protest against his defeat by Dean Detton, who is endeavouring to leap and whirl his way back to world title. Two hungers boomed, in the vicinity, a missile fractured a glass panel of the overhead clock. A couple of spectators, balancing precariously on the tops of chairs, did Dick Eve back dives. But the Chief's sit-down strike went on. Onlookers wouldn’t have cared if he had set up housekeeping in the ring and made it his residence for a week. He was beaten and that meant everything. Heads bobbed up and down around the ringside like popping cylinders, and in defiance of laws of metaphor, the circle of spectators in the bleachers writhed like a python’s coils. The Chief was beaten —can you beat 1 that! People swarmed up into the terraces as if they were cave dwellers of some congested archaeological period. Everyone was waiting in metaphoric ambush on Little Wolf. They wanted him “skinned alive” and in spirit they helped Detton to get his scalp.

The Chief essayed a Hansen slither, but it did not help him, out. In fact he was hauled in by the raven locks he is allowing to grow for a movie when he returns to America.

He w as trussed and spun in the ropes, nearly throttled at times and unceremoniously kicked, in the seat of the pants as he tried to retreat. He was tossed out of the ring as if he were a bison carcase, his face was trodden on and he was flayed about the ribs with fists as hard as the on big cudgels.

He lost a penalty fall for battering with his knee and was pinned after a shock charge that still has him staggered a bit. He didn’t take it all in the posture of Sitting Bull. He never won the feathers in his war bonnet that way. But there is no evading the fact that the Chief, as the American observes expressively ‘Got the works’.”