WRESTLING
EASY WIN FOR DETTON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Never fully extended, Dean Detton, world champion professional heavyweight wrestler of a year ago, beat Jack Kennedy at the Town Hall, Wellington, last night, by two falls, a penalty and a dump following an aeroplane spin. Detton, returning to New Zealand more experienced and with an even finer physique than before, gave hint of great potentialities. Perhaps because it was felt Kennedy was no match for him, the crowd was a smaller one than might have been expected to be drawn by so renowned a wrestler. The penalty fall was given against Kennedy for driving his knee into the pit of Detton’s stomach. This temporarily incapacitated Detton. The spectators voiced annoyance at this breach of etiquette.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1938, Page 5
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