WRESTLING
DETTON BEATS FRALEY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In one of the cleverest and most colourful exhibitions of wrestling seen in a Wellington ring, ' Dean Detton, exworld heavyweight champion, defeated Pat Fraley, the American, by a fall in the eighth round before a well-filled Town Hall last night. Never before has such spectacular ringcraft been seen by two big men, who moved so fast that they frequently went hurtling clean out of the ring. Though Detton was the more aggressive of the pair, it was not'until the last of the scheduled eight rounds that he managed to secure a fall. After Detton had thrice felled Fraley in the last round, the latter clapped on a flying toe-hold, but Detton countered this with such an effective hammerlock that Fraley patted the mat and exclaimed “Let him have it.” The round had been in progress for 22 seconds.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1938, Page 2
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