A ROAMING COWBOY

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1938, Page 20

A ROAMING COWBOY

PAT FRALEY ARRIVES

DEFEAT OF YOURIST

TOUGH AND ABLE WRESTLER

One of two or three men—Blomfield, Cox, or Forsgren—would have been very useful at the Wellington Town Hall last night to deal with a rampaging cowboy in the person of Pat Fraley. Fraley was let loose against Abe Yourist and, although the latter displayed considerable speed and adroitness, a man of tougher fibre was required to subdue Fraley.

News of Fraley's doings in Auckland attracted one of the biggest attendances of the season and, if he should be matched here against stronger opposition, there will be standing room only. Though the bout took a while to warm up, it had some lively moments before the finish, and once the referee had to point out to the men that it was not a boxing contest. Fraley's weight was announced as 16st 31b with Yourist, who was taller but not nearly so solid, a pound lighter.

Fraley looked so businesslike and so unwilling to smile when they came out for the first round that the pleasantfaced Yourist said to himself, "This guy's serious," and tossed his chewing gum into a corner. Fraley, with a reputation as a jolter par excellence to uphold,' dug his elbow tentatively in Yourist's ribs as a range-finder, only to be sent to the mat under a wrist lock. Yourist, who used a boxer's approach, was certainly a lively customer and some wriggling on his part took him clear when Fraley was trying to settle down on top of him. That the jolting was not confined to Fraley was indicated by a trickle of blood from Fraley's nose.. Yourist was sitting on Fraley's head and holding a Japanese arm bar at the bell.

Fraley had barely turned round when the call to action sounded again before Yourist was upon him, but the cowboy threw himself out of a bear hug, sitting down hard, and, wrapping himself round Yourist, tossed the latter out of the ring. Some jolts led to a hammer lock by Fraley, but the point of Yourist's elbow brought a sudden break. Fraley came to light with a variation of Steve Savage's toe hold, working into it from a splits and bending Yourist's leg back on to his chest. The point of Yourist's elbow was again applied to good effect. Yourist was next tied up in a jack-knife hold, but managed to squirm free, and he was responsible for Fraley making an undignified landing by stepping out of the range of a dropkick. JOLTS AND SLAPS. After a barrage of jolts they applied leg locks to each other in the third round, Yourist coming out with an arm stretch. While he was holding it, however, he had to suffer having his face smacked. Fraley found a tender spot pn Yourist's back and quickly persuaded him to let go. Some mope jolts drove Yourist to his knees in a corner, and when he had returned to the open he threatened to come back with a charge off the ropes, Fraley jumping clear. A totfch of jiu-jitsu made Fraley surrender a death lock applied with his arms, and there was a more spectacular moment' when Yourist threw Fraley off his back, went to jump on him as he lay on the mat, and was sent flying by a stomach throw.

A butt and some jolts by Yourist persuaded Fraley to flop his way uncertainly out of the ring in the fourth round, his return being expedited by his opponent. The procedure was repeated a couple of times and then Yourist butted Fraley in the face with his head opening up a bad cut above the latter's right eye. From this he went to jolts and the cowboy seemed to be in a bad way. Dropkicks were attempted on both sides though the men seemed to be shaken and their efforts lacked accuracy. Finally Yourist came in with a tackle which flattened Fraley but an attempt to repeat it brought his downfall. Fraley took the, opportunity to apply . his specialty, the flying toe hold, and Yolirist lost no time in submitting at 3min 55sec. FRALEY'S EYE BLEEDING. Fraley's eye was bleeding badly but the -"Business as usual" sign was up and he emptied Yourist onto the timekeepers shortly after the fifth round got under way. A jolt sent the Jewish wrestler down and he was kept in check for a minute or two by a arm scissors. Yourist tried desperately to upend Fraley on his shoulders but could keep him there for no more than two seconds. Fraley was leaving nothing to chance and he was plainly the master throughout the round. The Free Ambulance arrived at the interval to attend to Fraley's eye.

Fraley bounced, Yourist on the mat in the sixth round but when Yourist tried to emulate the manoeuvre he had difficulty in raising his man into the air. Fraley slapped the mat in disgust when he missed the flying toe hold after inviting a flying tackle. During a mix-up on the mat Fraley stopped a boot with the back of his head as Yourist kicked free, but there was only one man in it when it came to trading jolts. Before the round ended Yourist did some useful work With a short-arm scissors.

Some legal and illegal kicking .started the seventh round and Yourist continued his uphill fight, with commendable spirit. When he caught Fraley with a charge off the ropes the latter was again "in bad" with the crowd for crawling out of the ring. After the latter had received one of his numerous reprimands for using his closed fist he backed Yourist against the ropes and tipped him out. Yourist eluded every attempt at a repetition of the flying toe hold, but he had plenty of other forms of punishment to contend with.

Fraley apparently was determined to have only one man in the ring but his attempt to remove Yourist in the last round was frustrated by the referee. Yourist proceeded to make his presence felt by bowling Fraley over with flying tackles. The referee then had to exercise his voice to some purpose by counting while Fraley repeatedly pushed his shoulders through the ropes until he had recovered. Yourist tried again with a pile driver scissors but, as the minutes passed, it became apparent that the only fall of the bout had been taken. Mr. Alt Jenkins was the referee. AMATEUR PRELI3HN ARIES. The amateur preliminaries resulted:— H. Sinclair (Kilbirnie), lOst 31b, beat J. Smith (Petone), lOst 51b, on points, one fall each. C. Malley (Koolman's), 12st 131b, beat L. Williams (Koolman's), 12st 121b, by two straight falls. V. Thomas (Koolman's), list, beat K. Croft (Koolman's), list 71b, by two straight falls. D. Minnis (Koolman's), lOst 41b, beatj C. Croskery (Kilbirnie), 9st 101b, by | one fall. Mr. J. H. Thompson was the referee.