Columbus, Ohio had no wrestling in January.

Newark, Ohio: February 5, 1919
Paul Bowser beat Mort Henderson (2-0 falls)

Columbus, Ohio: February 6, 1919
(Chamber of Commerce Auditorium) … Wladek Zbyszko beat Renato Gardini (2-0 falls) …
Paul Bowser beat William (John) Ellis (2-0 falls) … plus amateur matches … (referees: Ed
Beardsley and Al Haft (who refereed Bowser bout)
(Note: Jack Curley, Zbyszko’s manager, attended the card)

Ohio State Journal: February 10, 1919
Charley Cutler was managed by Billy Rochelle at this point.

Canton, Ohio: February 12, 1919
Wladek Zbyszko beat Jim Londos (1 hour 42 minutes)

Columbus, Ohio: February 13, 1919
(Chamber of Commerce) … Wladek Zbyszko beat Charley Cutler (2-0 falls) … Paul Bowser
beat Frank Fenby … (3 amateur bouts) Leslie Fishbaugh beat Walter Hamilton … Wilfred
Moyer beat Sam Travelers … Leo Morgan beat Harry Hughes
Note: Fenby was a sub for Paul Vallis (George Vassel)

Delaware, Ohio: February 14, 1919
Cliff Binckley beat Lee Hendricks (2/3 falls)

St. Louis, Missouri: February 15, 1919
Wladek Zbyszko beat Arvid Anderson

Columbus, Ohio: February 15, 1919
(Athletic Club Gym) … Cliff Binckley beat Herman Koch (2-0 falls) … (2 amateur bouts) Fred
Weishapt beat Clarence Luft (2-0 falls) … Charley Reade beat Kid Smith (2/3 falls) …
(exhibition of holds) Al Haft vs Walter Hamilton

Columbus, Ohio: February 20, 1919
(Chamber of Commerce) … Paul Bowser beat John Kilonis (wof) … George Vassel (spelled
Vallis) beat Chief War Eagle (dq) … (2 amateur bouts) Walter Hamilton beat Charles Reade
… Steve Petropolos drew with Mike Smeries

Note: This Chief War Eagle was likely wrestling too far back to be Don Eagle’s father. The
paper said that he had wrestled in Columbus before. Possibly he was Indian Joe Shutt, the
original Chief War Eagle. However he may be a different wrestler with the same name. As I
work back we may find out.

Brooklyn, NY: March 7, 1919
Martin Julian died at his Brooklyn home today. He was the brother-in-law of boxer Bob
Fritzsimmons, and his manager. Julian was credited with being among the first persons to
have motion pictures taken of prize-ring contests. He was also connected with wrestling as
part of the William Brady crowd.

Columbus, Ohio: March 13, 1919
(Chamber of Commerce) … Paul Bowser beat Joe Alpine (2-0 falls) … (handicap match)
Jimmy Gallagher beat Ted Mack, Jimmy Gallagher failed to throw Walter Hamilton in
remaining time limit … Steve Petropolos beat Ralph Lane (dec.) … Wilfred Moyer beat Simon
Benson (2-0 falls)

Columbus, Ohio: March 15, 1919
(Athletic Club Gym) … Cliff Binckley beat Andre Samson (utc-third fall) … (3 amateur bouts)
Walter Hamilton beat John Tallman … Ted Mack drew with Charles Read … Wendell Price
beat Fred Weishaupt (2-0 falls)

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: March 18, 1919
Wladek Zbyszko beat Ivan Madras (2-0 falls)
Note: Madras was billed as world’s greaco-roman champion)

Columbus, Ohio: March 18, 1919
(Chamber of Commerce) … Bill Demetral beat George Vassel (2/3 falls) … Masked Marvel
beat Cy Dellinger (utc-second fall) … (handicap match) John Tallman beat Mike Emeries,
John Tallman failed to throw Steve Petropolos in remaining time limit … (referee-Cliff Binckley)

Ohio State Journal: April 10, 1919
Al Haft has made a proposition in behaft of Cliff Binckley that Billy McCarney can Hardly turn
down. Haft wants Binckley in with Renato Gardini. A boxing-wrestling carnival is coming to
town featuring Jack Dempsey.

Columbus, Ohio: April 15, 1919
(Memorial Hall) … (boxing) Jack Dempsey beat Frank Wilk (ko-second round) … (boxing)
Jack Dempsey boxed Lee Anderson (3 rounds) … (boxing) Jack Dempsey beat Spike
Sullivan (ko-second round) … Renato Gardini failed to throw Cliff Binckley (20 minutes) …
Martin Ludecke failed to throw Matty Matsuda (15 minutes) … Oishi beat George Pappas …
(plus more boxing)

Ohio State Journal: April 18, 1919
Ed Lewis’ first Columbus match was over a year ago against Ivan Linow and Carl Sampson.

Ohio State Journal: April 20, 1919
Al Haft was a lieutenant stationed at Camp Gordon during the war.

Delaware, Ohio: April 23, 1919
Cliff Binckley beat Alex Thomas (2/3 falls)

Columbus, Ohio: April 23, 1919
(Chamber of Commerce) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis beat John Grandovich (2-0 falls) … Matty
Matsuda beat Vance Wallace … William Gallagher beat Hal Chenoweth … (Earl Beardley-ref)

Columbus, Ohio: April 26, 1919
(Athletic Club Gym) … Cliff Binckley beat Dan Kolikoff (2-0 falls) … Matty Matsuda beat John
Poulis … Ed Parich beat Simon Benson … Lee Miller beat George O’Dell … Steve Petropolos
drew with Mike Smeries

Note: Dan Kolikoff was billed from Omaha. He was not Dan Koloff.

Columbus, Ohio: May 9, 1919
(Chamber of Commerce) … (handicap match) Ed “Strangler” Lewis beat Antone Parino … Ed
“Strangler” Lewis failed to throw Cliff Binckley in rest of the 1 hour time limit … (handicap
match) Matty Matsuda beat George Pappas, Walter Hamilton, George Curry and Thomas
Yeager in the time limit … Simon Benson beat Mike Smerles (2-0 falls)

Note: In the handicap match, Ed Lewis started wrestling with Cliff Binckley for 30 minutes. He
then asked to wrestle Parino. After throwing Parino, Lewis faced Binckley again, for the
remaining 14 minutes with no fall resulting.

Columbus, Ohio: May 24, 1919
(Athletic Club Gym) … Ivan Linow failed to throw Cliff Binckley (2 falls in 90 minutes-no falls)
… Glen Beavers beat Fred Weishaupt … (amateur tournament) Charles Reed beat Ted
Mack … Walter Hamilton beat Tom Yeager … (final) Walter Hamilton beat Charles Reed

Columbus had no wrestling in June, July and August.

Delaware, Ohio: September 2, 1919
Matty Matsuda vs Johnny Billiter

Ohio State Journal: September 15, 1919
Earl Roach and Al Haft, two of the best known men in the boxing and wrestling sphere of
Columbus, have combined in forming the Union Club and their first show, will be produced on
the evening of September 22. Earl Roach was in charge of matches at the Columbus Athletic
Club.

Columbus, Ohio: September 22, 1919
(Chamber of Commerce Auditorium) … Bill Demetral beat Cliff Binckley (decision-1 hour) …
plus boxing carnival

Washington C.H., Ohio: September 29, 1919
Cliff Binckley failed to throw Tom Hillery (twice in 1 hour, no falls)

Columbus, Ohio: October 20, 1919
(Chamber of Commerce) … Ivan Linow beat Giovani Carpini (48 min.) … (amateurs) Walter
Hamilton drew with Clyde Hinton … plus 2 boxing matches

Columbus, Ohio: October 25, 1919
(Athletic Club Gym) … Cliff Binckley beat Ivan Kalikoff (2/3 falls) … Ivan Linow failed to throw
Miller (twice in 30 minutes, Ivan won 1 fall) … Walter Hamilton drew with Clyde Hinton

Ohio State Journal: October 29, 1919
Al Haft and Jack Geyer left last night for Pittsburgh where Geyer boxes Frank Moran in a no
decision affair. The bout on October 30, saw Moran winning by a knockout. Moran was a top
contender, who once fought Jess Willard in a heavyweight title contest.

Dodgeville, Wisconsin: November 3, 1919
Evan Lewis, the original “Strangler” Lewis died at the age of 58.

Columbus, Ohio: November 22, 1919
(Athletic Club Gym) … Cliff Binckley vs Leo Hyatt match postponed to December 6. Binckley
had been sick and was in no condition to wrestle.

Columbus, Ohio: December 1, 1919
(Chamber of Commerce) … Ivan Linow beat Bill Demetral (26 minutes) … Ray Carpenter
beat Whitey Delong … Bill Brooks drew with Walter Hamilton

Columbus, Ohio: December 6, 1919
(Athletic Club Gym) … Cliff Binckley beat Leo Hyatt (1 hour, 3 minutes) … Matty Matsuda
beat William Gallagher … Glen Beavers drew with Simon Benson

Washington C.H., Ohio: December 10, 1919
Cliff Binckley vs Mort Henderson (nc)
Note: Both wrestlers rolled off the mat and platform with Henderson receiving a broken rib.

Columbus, Ohio: December 22, 1919
(Chamber of Commerce) … Ivan Linow vs Ali Hassan
No doubt this match was canceled. The paper made no more mention of it for over a week.

Notes: The mat cards in this period were all held under the Union Club name. Al Haft usually
called his shows as being the Empire Club. He was also the manager of Cliff Binckley.


Research by Don Luce
Columbus Wrestling Results - 1919
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