WRESTLING BOUTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 148, 26 June 1934, Page 6

WRESTLING BOUTS

SENSATIONAL MATCH DETTON DISQUALIFIED. WILD SCENE WITNESSED. ( Per Press Association ). AUCKLAND, June 25. Easily the most thrilling and sensational wrestling match yet hold in Auckland took place at the Town Hall to-night, when Dean Detton was disqualified iu the sixth round of his match with George Walker for striking the referee, Mr. H. C. Sidford. Up to that stage each man had secured a fall, Detton in the second round with a body press following a scries of flying tackles, and Walker in the fifth with a jack-knife hold. The sixth round had barely commenced when Detton rushed towards Walker, sprang into the air, kicked straight out at his opponent, and landed squarely on his feet on thc mat again. He repeated this process several times and Walker was caught on the shoulders and thc side of thc head. Walker eventually went through the ropes almost at the feet of the occupants of the front row of thc stage seats. The referee commenced his count of twenty. When Walker rose to his feet late in the count his second held thc rope while he crawled through. No sooner was Walker back than he was sent sprawling with another dropkick and lie fell groggily with his head and shoulders just under the ropes in front of the press 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. Thc referee was also attempting to pull Detton away. As soon as he had done so Detton hit thc referee a back-hander and thc referee chon 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 that he had not observed thc second’s action. Apart from the fact that thc last-named was repeating the count to ! Walker he had not disqualified Detton because of kicking Walker but on account of having struck himself as thc official iu charge.

BOUT AT WELLINGTON JAP DEFEATS CHINESE. FAIRLY SPECTACULAR. ( Per Press Association ). WELLINGTON, June 25. Six rounds of fast, entertaining and fairly spectacular wrestling, in which a variety of punishing holds were exploited, was seen in the Town Hall this evening, when Old 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. The 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.