Anniston, AL: Tuesday, January 7, 1936
(The Barn Arena) ... Sergeant Harry Nixon beat John Ellis (sub for Turk Powell) (2-1) ...
Sailor Al Olsen drew Joe Wheeler (6:00, 1-1) ... NOTE: The site was located at
Fourteenth Street and Wilmer Avenue. Chris Jordan was the promoter.

Anniston, Tuesday, January 14, 1936
(The Barn) ... (U. S. Army LH title*) Turk Powell beat Sergeant Harry Nixon (2-1) (won
belt) ... Don Cortez beat Red Duggan  (subs for Stanley Hackney vs Dr. Carl Von Horn)

Anniston, AL: Thursday, January 18, 1936
(Anniston Country Club) ... Red Duggan vs Louis Knichel ... NOTE: Louis Knichel was the
younger brother of Freddie Knichel.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, January 21, 1936
(The Barn) ... Joe Wheeler beat Eddie Baker (2-1) ... Windy Stokes (sub for Don Cortez)
beat Sammy Evans (2-0) ... referee-Don Cortez

Piedmont, AL: Saturday, January 25, 1936
(City Hall) ... J. H. (Turk) Powell beat Joe Wheeler (2-1) ... Louis Knichel drew Red
Duggan (sub for Don Cortez) ... referee-Windy Stokes

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, January 28, 1936
(The Barn) ... Prince Leilani beat Sergeant Harry Nixon (2-1) ... Freddie Knichel drew Joe
Wheeler (1-1)

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, February 4, 1936
(The Barn Arena) ... Prince Leilani beat Joe Wheeler (2-1) ... Freddie Knichel beat Billy
Isen (2-1, dq) ... referee-Steve Morgan

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, February 11, 1936
(The Barn) ... Prince Leilani beat Eddie Baker (2-0) (first fall by dq) ... Tommy Tassos
beat Louis Knichel (2-1, cor) ... referee-Windy Stokes

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, February 18, 1936
(The Barn) ... Prince Leilani beat Turk Powell (2-1, dq) ... Joe Wheeler drew Billy Isen (60:
00, 1-1) ... referee-Jim Morrow

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, February 25, 1936
(The Barn) ... Turk Powell beat Jim Morrow (2-1) ... Dr. Carl Van Horn beat Mickey
McGuire (2-1, dq) ... referee-Windy Stokes

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, March 3, 1936
(The Barn) ... Turk Powell beat Prince Leilani (2-1, cor) ... Dr. Karl Van Horn beat Eddie
Baker (2-1, dq) ... referee-Jack Warner

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, March 10, 1936
(The Barn) ... Turk Powell beat Eddie Baker (2-1) ... Joe Wheeler drew Windy Stokes (60:
00, 1-1) (sub for Francis Stull of Nebraska) ... NOTE: Stull was called a baseball player
who was called to training camp.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, March 17, 1936
(The Barn Arena) ... Mickey McGuire beat Jack Morrow (2-1) ... Brooks Clayton beat Milo
the Great (2-1) ... Joe Wheeler beat Sammy Sloan ... referee-Red Duggan ... NOTE:
Clayton was billed as claimant of the Southern Light-heavyweight title.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, March 24, 1936
(The Barn) ... Mickey McGuire beat Dr. Carl Van Horn (2-1) ... Red Duggan beat Jimmy
Sloan (2-1) ... referee-Windy Stokes

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, March 31, 1936
(The Barn) ... Emil Firpo beat Jack Morrow (2-1, dq) ... Soldier Smith beat Billy Hickson (2-
1) ... referees-Windy Stokes and Chris Jordan ... NOTE: Billy Hickson, billed from
Knoxville, wrestled in Chicago on Marigold TV shows in the 1950s.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, April 7, 1936
(The Barn) ... Prince Leilani beat Emil Firpo (2-1) ... Jimmy Sloane beat Johnny Gasser
(2-1)

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, April 14, 1936
(The Barn) ... Johnny Marrs beat Turk Powell (1-1, utc) ... Raoul Lopez beat Soldier
Smith (2-0) ... referee-Tommy Tassos

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, April 21, 1936
(The Barn) ... Johnny Marrs beat Jack Morrow (2-1) ... Turk Powell beat Emil Firpo (2-0,
dq) (sub for Prince Leilani) ... referee-Lee Bonner

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, April 28, 1936
(The Barn) ... Johnny Marrs beat Mickey McGuire (2-0) ... Eddie Baker beat Raoul Lopez
(2-1) ... referee-Tommy Tassos

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, May 5, 1936
(The Barn) ... Dynamite Joe Dillon beat Eddie Baker (2-1) ... Otto Ludwig beat Emil Firpo
(2-0) ... referee-Tommy Tassos

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, May 12, 1936
(The Barn) ... Dynamite Joe Dillman beat Al Kimball (2-1) ... Jack Bloomfield drew Otto
Ludwig (60:00, 1-1)

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, May 19, 1936
(The Barn) ... Prince Leilani beat Otto Ludwig (2-1, dq) ... Jack Bloomfield beat Frank
Kirkland (2-0)

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, May 26, 1936
(The Barn) ... Johnny Marrs beat Otto Ludwig (2-0) ... Prince Leilani drew Jack Bloomfield
(60:00, 1-1) ... referees-Dale Hanson and Windy Stokes

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, June 2, 1936
(The Barn) ... Johnny Marrs beat Joe Dillman (2-1) ... Prince Leilani beat Charley Layton
(2-1, dq) ... (boys) Paul Dottley beat Charles Dottley ... referee-Bill Dottley (boy’s father)

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, June 9, 1936
(The Barn) ... Johnny Marrs beat Turk Powell (2-1, dq) ... Charley Layton beat Eddie
Weyland (2-1) ... Carl Dowdy beat Windy Stokes ... referee-Dale Hanson

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, June 16, 1936
(The Barn Arena) ... Johnny Marrs beat Charley Layton (2-1, dq) ... Joe Gunther beat
Bobby Sampson (2-0) ... referee-Bill Guthrie ... NOTE: Gunther’s wife, of two weeks, was
at ringside. They were said to have married in Hawaii.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, June 23, 1936
(The Barn) ... Prince Leilani beat Freddie Knichel (2-1) ... Bobby Sampson beat Louis
Knickel (2-0) ... referee-Bill Dottley

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, June 30, 1936
(The Barn) ... Charley Layton beat Jack Warner (2-1) ... Lon Chaney drew Charley
Keene (60:00, 1-1) ... referee-Louis Knickel ... NOTE: Charley Keene was from East St.
Louis. He was the same wrestler as Charley Kuehn, note the spellings.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, July 7, 1936
(The Barn) ... Lon Chaney beat Johnny Marrs (2-1) ... Freddie Knichel beat Charley
Keene (2-1) ... NOTE: Chaney was said to be a duck farmer from Indiana.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, July 14, 1936
(The Barn) ... Lon Chaney beat Charley Layton (2-1) ... Freddie Knichel beat Otto
Ludwig (2-1, dq)

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, July 21, 1936
(The Barn) ... Lon Chaney beat Dynamite Joe Dillman (2-1, dq) ... Chief Joseph War
Eagle beat Eddie Wayland (2-1) ... referee-Tiger Rollins

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, July 28, 1936
(The Barn) ... Joe Dillman beat Charley Keene (spelled Kuehn again) (2-0) ... Joe
Gunther beat Prince Leilani (2-0) ... referee-Tiger Rollins ... NOTE: Sunday’s paper said
that Robert E. List of the athletics committee of the local American Legion gave Prince
Leilani Manai, a snake to take back to Hawaii. The Prince said that there were no snakes
in Hawaii and he was going to take two back home, hoping one was a male and the other
a female, so they could mate. SEE WHAT WE LEARN WHEN WE RESEARCH THE
NOBLE SPORT!

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, August 4, 1936
(The Barn) ... Mike Nazarian beat Joe Dillman (2-0, cor) ... Joe Gunther beat Joe Bauer
(2-1, dq) ... referee-Tiger Rollins

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, August 11, 1936
(The Barn) ... Mike Nazarian beat Buck Lipscomb (2-0) ... Freddie Knichel beat Joe Bauer
(2-1) ... referee-Tiger Rollins ... NOTE: It was said that Lipscomb looked like Don Cortez.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, August 18, 1936
(The Barn) ... Lon Chaney beat Mike Nazarian (2-1, dq) ... Sam McClaren beat Bobby
Sampson (2-0) ... referees-Ross Tipton and Dr. Dwight L. Evans ... NOTE: Chancy was a
claimant of the Southern light heavyweight title.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, August 25, 1936
(The Barn) ... Mike Nazarian beat Otto Ludwig (2-0) ... John Felix beat Sammy McClaren
(2-1) ... referee-Tiger Rollins ... NOTE: Nazarian’s last name was usually spelled wrongly
as Mike Mazarian here.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, September 1, 1936
(The Barn Arena) ... Johnny LaRue beat Lon Chaney (2-0) ... Joe Dillman beat Bill
Jeffries (2-1) ... referee-J. Ed Kaiser

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, September 8, 1936
(The Barn) ... Bill Jeffries beat Charley Layton (2-1, dq) ... Raoul Lopez beat Sailor Al
Olsen (2-1) ... referee-J. Ed Kaiser

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, September 15, 1936
(The Barn) ... Johnny LaRue beat Sailor Al Olsen (2-0) ... Verne Clarke beat Sammy
(Buddy) McClaren (2-0) ... referee-Ed Kaiser ... NOTE: Clarke was said to be an ex
University of Washington football player.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, September 22, 1936
(The Barn) ... Johnny LaRue beat Verne Clarke (2-1) ... Billy McEwan beat Raoul Lopez
(2-0) ... referee-Nick George

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, September 29, 1936
(The Barn) ... Buddy Knox beat Johnny LaRue (2-0) ... Bill Jeffries beat Billy McEwan (2-
1) ... referee-J. Ed Kaiser

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, October 6, 1936
(The Barn) ... Buddy Knox beat Wild Bill Jeffries (2-1) ... Eddie Wayland beat Lon Chaney
(2-0, dq) ... referee-Walter Miller of Toledo, Ohio.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, October 13, 1936
(The Barn) ... Buddy Knox beat Eddie Wayland (2-1) ... Mike Nazarian drew Walter Miller
(60:00)

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, October 20, 1936
(The Barn) ... Mike Nazarian beat Buddy Knox (1-1, utc) ... Doc Poole beat Verne Clarke
(2-0) ... referee-Battling Bozo

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, October 27, 1936
(The Barn) ... Turk Powell beat Doc Poole (2-0) (sub for Sergeant Harry Nixon) ... Joe
Dillman drew Mike Nazarian (60:00, 1-1) ... referee-Battling Bozo

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, November 3, 1936
(The Barn) ... Turk Powell beat Mike Nazarian (2-1, cor) ... Fritz Krueger beat Eddie
Wayland (2-1) ... referees-Dale Hanson and Windy Stokes

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, November 10, 1936
(The Barn) ... Joe Dillman beat Fritz Krueger (2-0) ... Chin Lee beat Wild Bill Jeffries (2-1,
dq) ... referee-Turk Powell

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, November 17, 1936
(The Barn) ... Turk Powell beat Wild Bill Jeffries (2-1, dq) ... Arthur Mack (sub for Chin
Lee) beat Irish Paddy Nolan (2-1, dq) ... referees-Ed Kaiser and Battling Bozo

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, November 24, 1936
(The Barn) ... Turk Powell beat Joe Dillman (2-1) ... (Boxing) Battling Bozo beat Ed Kaiser
(decision-10 rounds) ... referee-Eddie Wayland ... (Att.-over 900) ... NOTE: Curtis
Hambright was the real name of Battling Bozo.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, December 1, 1936
(The Barn) ... Mike Nazarian beat Eddie Wayland (2-1) ... (LWTM) Clara Mortensen* beat
Mildred Burke (as Mildred Burt) (9:00) ... Billy Wolfe beat Paddy Nolan (2-0) ... referees-
Battling Bozo and Mrs. Poole

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, December 8, 1936
(The Barn) ... Mike Nazarian beat Fritz Krueger (2-1) ... Billy Wolfe beat Jimmy (Doc)
Poole (2-0) ... referee-Dale Hanson ... NOTE: The Wolfe-Poole match was set up from
last week when Doc’s wife was said to have given Clara Mortensen a break in the female
match she refereed with Wolfe’s wife Mildred facing Clara.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, December 15, 1936
(The Barn) ... Billy Wolfe vs Mike Nazarian (1-1, nc) ... (LWTM) Clara Mortensen* beat
Mildred Burke (2-1) (sub for Betty Blondell) ... Lee Myers beat Leo Milo (2-0) ... referees-
Leo Milo and Dale Hanson ... NOTE: Referee Leo Milo forfeited the match to Mazarian.
This decision was reversed, however by the local committee which ruled that both
wrestlers had fouled and that Mazarian had done most of the fouling after repeated
warnings.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, December 22, 1936
(The Barn) ... Buddy Knox beat Sailor Al Olsen (2-1) ... Lee Myers beat Jack Lewis (2-0)
... referees-Battling Bozo and Jack Lewis ... NOTE: Bozo did such a big job refereeing the
main bout that Jack Lewis replaced him during the first fall.

Anniston, AL: Tuesday, December 29, 1936
(The Barn Arena) ... Turk Powell beat Buddy Knox (2-1) ... Fred Mortensen beat Lee
Myers (2-1, dq) ... referee-Leo Milo ... NOTE: Milo was the son of Fred Mortenson, and
brother of Clara Mortensen.


Research by Don Luce
Anniston Wrestling Results - 1936