The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
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ERNIT pVIE
ERNIE PYLE

EDITORS NoTE-ThiS rowing reporter
for The Times goes where he piesses.
when he pIeases. in search of odd stories
shout this and that.
VILLA JUAREZ, Mexico, May
16.-This girl in tie blue
tailored suit comes up to us in the
hotel and asks, Are you Amer
icanS?"
So we say yes and she sits down
and starts talking And then her
husband comes over, and it turns
out he is an American raSSler.
They have been in Mexico about
a month, under a Mexican manager.
working the small towns out of
Tampico, rassling two or three
times a week.
They are from Salt Lake City.
The rassler'S name is Dory Detton.
Dory's father was rassler, and
there are three sons, and they're all
rasSlers. One is in Hawaii, and the
9th r in Washington, D. c. His
names Dean and he has eyes on the
heavyweight championship
Dorv went to the University Of
Utah. and made good grades, too.
but three years ago he quit school
to go into professional rassling.
HIS first professional appearance
was when he was watching his
brother Dean rassle. and the other
guy had Deans head all twisted up
in the ropes. So Dory. who was
Just a spectator, forgot himself,
jumped into the ring, and knocked
this guy cold. Brother Dean
thought it was awfully funny.
DORY has had 800 matches in
~ three years. and been beaten
only few times, but he sounds
like the Monday morning traffic
toll. His skull has been fractured.
his right hip smashed, his left
shoulder crushed and his back
broken-or at least some vertebrae
knocked out of place, and it stiIl
botherS him.
His wife has to work on him all
the time. She used TO be a beauty
operator, so she mas strong arms.
even though she is just little
thing, and pretty, too.
After every rassle Dorys back is
all out of joint, so she gives him an
adjustment" and gets his vertebrate
back in place.
We got interested in Dory, and
went to see him rassle.
There were three boutS-American
against Mexican in each one. Each
bout was two falls out of three.
Dory and his pal came on. Dory's
a middleweight, but when he gets in
the ring he looks like one whole
end of the Chicago stockyards. The
Mexican started right in to slaughter
him.
I'VE never seen such rassle. This
L Mexican was wild man. He
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places, and used his knee, and tried
to gouge Dory's eyes out, and twice
when Dory had him down the
Mexican broke loose by biting
hunk out of Dorys leg.
The referee tried to stop the MeXi-
can, but the crowd wouldn't let him.
That was bad crowd. They wanted
their man to win, and to hell with
the details.
When Detton had the Mexican
down fiat, and the referee started
counting, the crowd would scream
NO! No! mol"
Detton won. He threw the MeXi-
can twice. He simply picked him UP
and put him on his shoulders and
jumped up ana down with him till
he had all the wind knocked out df
him, and then laid him on the mat.
Afterward, Dory and his wife
came up to our room. He was plenty
sore. He said if he were in the
states, and anybody pulled such
dirty stuff on him, he'd knock him
out.
Il
"DUT I'm afraid of these crowds"
- he says. They've cut a couple
Of American wrestlers all to pieces
in the last few months.
Il figured the only thing to do
was hold my temper, and watch
that I fought clean, and just go in
there and get it over with as quick
as I could
Having had no previous social
contact with the groan and grimace
boys, had supposed that all rasslers,
like Davy Crockett, were half alli-
gator and half horse.
But these Dettons are nice peo-
pie. Both Dory and his wife are
young, about %, I'd judge, and very
quiet and serious.
He figures that if he goes well
in Mexico City he may clean up
$4,000 or $4,000 in a few months. and
that'll build them a little house out
in California. Then he can 90 into