WILD WRESTLING.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20341, 26 June 1934, Page 4

WILD WRESTLING.

Referee Stops Back-handed | Swipe. DETTON DISQUALIFIED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. June 26. ; A sensational wrestling match was. witnessed at the Tojpn Hall last’ evening, when Dean Detton was dis- j qualified, in the sixth round of his ! match with George Walker, for strik- ' ing the referee, Mr H. C. Sidford. Up j to that stage each man had secured a ; fall, Detton in the second round with j a body press following a series of flying tackles, and Walker in the fifth round with a jack-knife-hold. The sixth round had barely opened when Detton rushed towards his opponent, sprang into the air, kicked straight out at his opponent and landed squarely on his feet on the mat again. He repeated this process several times, and Walker was caught on the shoulders and the side of the head. Walker eventually went through the ropes almost at the feet of the occupants of the front row of stage seats. The referee began his count of twenty. When Walker rose to his feet late in the count, his second’ held the rope while he crawled through. Sent Sprawling With Kick. No sooner was Walker back than he j was sent sprawling with another drop- | kick. He fell groggily with his head and shoulders just under the ropes in front of the reporters’ table. Detton leapt into the air and 'came down, feet first, upon Walker's prostrate body. He then stood off and kicked his opponent twice with his right foot. Detton, meantime, had pounced upon Walker and was trying to pull him back into the ring. The referee was also attempting to pull Detton away. As soon as he had done so, Detton hit the referee a back-hander, and the refereg then rushed over to Walker, who by this time had, with the assistance of his second, reached a standing position in the ring, and held up Walker’s hand in token of victory. The spectators became thoroughly roused, and a wild scene was witnessed. Interviewed subsequently, Detton said he was annoyed because the referee had not awarded him the match when Walker’s second first took an active part in the contest by assisting Walker back into the ring. Mr Sidford said he had not observed the second’s action apart from the fact that the second was repeating the count to Walker. He had not disqualified Detton because of kicking Walker, but on account of having struck himself, as official in charge. Dr Meyer to Meet Japanese Matman. For the first time this season. Dr Fred Meyer, of the United States, will wrestle Okl Shikina. of Japan, at St ’James Theatre to-morrow evening. Both these matmen have displayed exceptional form to date, each having been defeated on ohly one occasion. Dr Meyer, who has been nicknamed “ the big bad w’olf ’* of wrestling, has an excellent overseas record to uphold, including a victory over Stanley Pinto and a draw with Gus Sonnenburg, while his recent drawn match with George Walker is further e-vjdence of liis calibre. The stocky Japanese made a very favourable impression on his first appearance here. The four amateur preliminaries will be the best since the inception of the association, and, as amateurs are now permitted to employ all professional holds except hammerlocks and the Boston crab, they should be well worth seeing. A new attraction in the form of community singing has been added to the programme. Mr George Titchener will lead the singing, which will take place between 7.30 and 8 p.m. AH tickets, including reserves, are now available at Lange’s. United Service Buildings. Doors will open at 7 p.m., from which time the lanthe Orchestra will be -in attendance. Shikina v. Cheung. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. June 25. Six rounds of fast, entertaining and fairly spectacular wrestling, by which a variety of punishing holds was exploited, was seen when Oki Shikina (Japan) beat Wong Buk Cheung (China) by two falls to one. Shikina took the first fall in the fourth round*, when Wong fell to his foxing. An equaliser came in the fifth round through a flying scissors; and when Wong secured another flying scissors in the sixth round Shikina threw himself forward to pin his opponent’s shoulders for the deciding fall.