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OVER THE SWEDEWon Successive Fa -lanson at Woolvin-Hall LastWaino Ketonen won successive falls from Fritz Hanson at Woolvin Hall last night in one of the cleanestmatches Wilmington has ever seen.The local man gave up under the ex-1cessive punishment of a top scissors i and head lock in the initial fall, after an hour and seven tn mutes of wrestling while the Finn flattened the Swede’s shoulders in the second fall in thirteen and a half minutes, employing a body scissors and arm barto turn the trick.The muscles in Hanson’s side werestrained in the first fall which greatly minished his chances of winning the match, yet he went gamely back to to the mat after he nad been treated by a physician and came within an ace of throwing his opponent during the first seven minutes of the secondfall.The affair was not as spectacular as a majority of the fans had expected. Ketonen, while displaying marvelous strength, was not Half as fast as his' ] admirers had imagined and he allowed j Hanson to do most of the work duringthe initial fall. He broke holds for the Swede that would have finished smaller ealibred men and was kept on the defense the greater part of thetime.Without meaning to detract in any way from the ability and prowess of the Finn the assertion can be madethat he is a better defensive wrestler than offensive. At least that isthe way he showed up last night, when pinned the Finn appears to possess superhuman strength and he re-$(iileased himself from a head scissors f \ and liammerlock during the early partof the first fall in a manner that brought generous applause from the jspectators.The warning given ladies that the match might be rough was wasted for it was one of the cleanest Win-miugton has ever seen, there being nothing that the most fastidious could have objected to. The men will * probably wrestle later at 149 pounds j for the welter belt now held by Ke- ■ tonen and if this match is arranged all the lady fans in the city should see it.
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Wilmington Dispatch
Wilmington, North Carolina, US
Sat, May 05, 1917
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