WRESTLING MELEE
DETTON BEATS DEMETRAL REFEREE CALLS POLICE (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, last night. A lively impromptu bout, without any hampering rules, followed the announcement of the decision in a professional wrestling match to-night. Dean Detton was given the decision over Harry Demetral on a foul. Demo-, tral secured’a fall in the third round and Detton evened up in tho fourth. Bemetral was disqualified for punching in the fifth. Demetral forthwith knocked the referee aside, and felled Dettori. with a fierce swing -or hook. Detton rushed into the encounter with his fists flying, and a.general mix-up followed, involving ’the referee.
As soon as that official got clear, lie called the police to remove the wrestlers from the ring. The appearance of a jwlico officer was sufficient. Demetraf left the ring at once.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17920, 26 October 1932, Page 3
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132WRESTLING MELEE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17920, 26 October 1932, Page 3
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