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Photograph caption date stamped June 8, 1964 reads "The Masked Destroyer, in real life an ex-Syracuse University football great, is expected to lure a near-capacity crowd to the Valley Garden Arena Monday night for his two-out-of-three-fall match with Alberto Torres." Richard "Dick" John Beyer is the Masked Destroyer.
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