Emporia, KS: Monday, May 13, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Orville Brown beat Alex Aberg (2-0) … Steve Brody beat Prospector Pete (2-1) … Hans Schwarz beat Albion Britt … referee-Clarence Jenkins … (Att.-1,000) … (first major card in several years) … NOTE: Aberg, spelled Aaberg here, was said to be from Narvik, Norway and had red hair. He is not to be confused with the noted Greco- Roman wrestler of the 1910 period. Emporia, KS: Monday, May 20, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … (WTM) Bobby Bruns* beat Steve Brody (2-0) … Orville Brown beat Al Lovelock (1-0, utc) (sub for Dick Shikat) … Hans Schwarz beat Prospector Pete … referee-Clarence Jenkins … (Att.-600) … NOTE: Dick Shikat was reported ill in Columbus with ptomaine poisoning. Emporia, KS: Monday, May 27, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Orville Brown beat Fritz Schnabel (2-0) (sub for Alan Eustace) … Frederich Otto Von Schacht beat Ray (Hans) Schwarz (2-0) … Steve Brody drew Angelo Martini (30:00) … referee-Clarence Jenkins Emporia, KS: Monday, June 3, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … (WTM) Bobby Bruns* beat Frederich Otto Von Schacht (2-1) … Al Lovelock beat Steve Brody (2-1) … Angelo Martini beat Fritz Schnabel … (Att.-800) Emporia, KS: Monday, June 10, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Orville Brown beat Wladek Zbyszko (2-1) … Dick Shikat beat Fritz Schnabel (2-0) … Hans Schwarz beat Angelo Martini … (Att.-800) Emporia, KS: Monday, June 17, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Bobby Bruns beat Dick Shikat (2-1, dq) … Juan Humberto beat Ray (Hans) Schwarz (2-1) … Al Lovelock drew Karol Zbyszko (30:00) (sub for Angelo Martini) … referee-Steve Brody Emporia, KS: Monday, June 24, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Dick Shikat beat Jack Hader (2-1) … Juan Humberto beat Al Lovelock (2-1) … Dave Levin beat Albion Britt … referee-Steve Brody … (Att.-1,200) Emporia, KS: Monday, July 1, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Bobby Bruns beat Juan Humberto (2-1, dq) … Dave Levin beat Sammy Feeback (2-0) … Jack Hader drew Cal Reese (30:00) … referee-Steve Brody … (Att.-500) Emporia, KS: Monday, July 8, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Juan Humberto beat Steve Brody (2-1, utc) … Al Lovelock drew Cal Reese (60:00, 1-1) … Jack Hader beat Sammy Feeback … referee-Clarence Jenkins … (Att.-1,000) … NOTE: Clarence Jenkins was a local policeman who was said to have wrestled Ed (Strangler) Lewis in a title match in Emporia. Emporia, KS: Monday, July 15, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … (WTM) Orville Brown* beat Wladek Zbyszko (2-0) (sub for Dick Shikat) … Jack Hader beat Juan Humberto (2-1) … Al Lovelock beat Jerry Meeker … referee-Steve Brody … (Att.-1,500) … NOTE: Shikat was a no show and the promoter failed to tell the Gazette anything about it. He was said to have known that Shikat was not coming at ten Monday morning. The Brown-Zbyszko bout was horrible. It was said that city officials ordered the Auditorium doors and windows left open all night to get the smell of that one out of the building. Emporia, KS: Monday, July 22, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Juan Humberto beat Steve Brody (2-1) … Dick Shikat beat Al Getz (2-0) … Al Lovelock drew Jack Hader (30:00) … referee-Clarence Jenkins … (Att.-1,200) Emporia, KS: Monday, July 29, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … (WTM) Orville Brown* beat Dick Shikat (1:30:00, 1-0)… Juan Humberto vs Jack Hader … Andy Meixner beat Al Lovelock … referee-Steve Brody … (7- 30 paper was missing, results reported following week) Emporia, KS: Monday, August 5, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Dick Shikat beat Bobby Bruns (2-0) … Al Getz beat Jack Reeder (2- 1) … Cal Reese drew Andy Meixner (30:00) … referee-Steve Brody Emporia, KS: Monday, August 12, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … (WTM) Orville Brown* beat Dick Shikat (2-1) … Jack Hader beat Andy Meixner (2-0) … Don McIntyre beat Jack Reeder … referee-Steve Brody Emporia, KS: Monday, August 19, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Don McIntyre beat Jack Hader (2-1) … Steve Brody beat Al Lovelock (2-0) … Al Getz beat Cal Reese … referee-Charley Hatfield Emporia, KS: Monday, August 26, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Don McIntyre beat Steve Brody (2-0) … Ralph Garibaldi beat Jack Reeder … Jack Hader beat Leo Jensen Emporia, KS: Monday, September 2, 1940 No Wrestling Emporia, KS: Monday, September 9, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Don McIntyre beat Ralph Garibaldi (2-1) … Dorv Roche beat Jack Hader (2-1) … Dick Lever beat Jack Reeder … referee-Steve Brody Emporia, KS: Monday, September 16, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … (WTM) Orville Brown* beat Don McIntyre (2-0) … Dorv Roche beat Dick Lever (1-0, utc) … Hans Schwarz beat Jack Reeder … referee-Steve Brody … NOTE: After the final match, Mrs. William Lary invaded with ring with a half full carton of sacks of popcorn, grabbed from a vendor for the occasion. She threw it at Brody who fled the ring. Emporia, KS: Monday, September 23, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Don McIntyre beat Steve Brody (2-1) … Jim Wright beat Hans Schwarz (2-0) … Dick Lever beat Jack Reeder … referee-Harry Cohen … NOTE: The matches were held up until Governor Payne Ratner arrived and received a chorus of boos. Emporia, KS: Monday, September 30, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Jim Wright beat Don McIntyre … Steve Brody beat Hans Schwarz … Dan O’Connor beat Dick Lever … special referee-James J. Braddock Emporia, KS: Monday, October 7, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Steve Brody beat Hans Schwarz (2-1) … Jim Wright beat Jack Hader (sub for Abe Friedman) … Dan O’Connor drew Jim Parker (30:00) … NOTE: Wright was to face Dorv Roche, who’s baby was taken to a Chattanooga hospital. Emporia, KS: Monday, October 14, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Dorv Roche beat Jim Wright (2-0, dq) … Dan O’Connor beat Don McIntyre (2-1) … Hans Schwarz drew Jack Hader (30:00) (sub for Harry Cohen) … referee-Steve Brody Emporia, KS: Monday, October 21, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Jim Wright beat Dorv Roche (2-1, utc) … Dan O’Connor beat Dale Raines (2-0) … Hans Schwarz drew Prospector Pete (30:00) … referee-Steve Brody … NOTES: Dale Raines was a different wrestler than Dick Raines. The crowd was the smallest all year. Emporia, KS: Monday, October 28, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Jim Wright beat Jack League (2-1) … Steve Brody beat Prospector Pete (2-1) … Hans Schwarz drew Dutch Wyman (30:00) Emporia, KS: Monday, November 4, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … (WTM) Orville Brown* beat Jim Wright (2-1) … Steve Brody beat Dutch Wyman (2-0) … Dan O’Connor beat Hans Schwarz … referee-Jack League Emporia, KS: Monday, November 11, 1940 (afternoon) (Civic Auditorium) … Dan O’Connor beat Jack League (2-0, utc) (sub for Lee Wycoff) … Jim Wright (sub for Jim Coffield) beat Steve Brody (2-0) … Hans Schwarz beat Jack Hader (dq) … referee-Clarence Jenkins … NOTE: Lee Wycoff thinking it was an evening show failed to reach there in time. The Auditorium was booked that night. Emporia, KS: Monday, November 18, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Lee Wycoff beat Dan O’Connor (2-0) … Dorv Roche beat Jack Hader (2-1) … Steve Brody beat Sammy Feeback … referee-Jack League Emporia, KS: Monday, November 25, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … (WTM) Orville Brown* vs Lee Wycoff (1-1, nc-both cor) … Jim Wright beat Jim Coffield (2-1, dq) … Hans Schwarz beat Harry Kahoe … referees-Clarence Jenkins and Hans Schwartz who worked the main event after Jenkins quit … NOTE: The dirty tactics of Brown, and lop-sided refereeing, so enraged the crowd that many of them left the building, before the end. Emporia, KS: Monday, December 2, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … (WTM) Orville Brown* beat Jim Coffield (2-1) … Lee Wycoff beat Tuffy Cleet (2-0) … Hans Schwarz beat Sammy Feeback … referee-Charley Hatfield … NOTE: Jim Wright was suspended by the state commission for hitting a referee in a recent Kansas City match. Tuffy Cleet was to face Wycoff. The results had that Wycoff beat Andy Meixner alias Tuffy Cleet. Emporia, KS: Monday, December 9, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Lee Wycoff beat Harry Kent (2-1) … Steve Brody beat Harry Kahoe (2-1) (sub for Cal Reese) … Tuffy Cleet beat Hans Schwarz Emporia Gazette: Thursday, December 12, 1940 Ray (Hans) Schwarz defeated Steve Brody Wednesday in Topeka in a match which was booked as a junior heavyweight championship contest. Schwarz won the first and third falls. William Dougdall, of the Topeka American Legion, presented Schwarz with the junior heavyweight belt. Emporia, KS: Monday, December 16, 1940 (Civic Auditorium) … Steve Brody beat Tuffy Cleet (2-0) … Albion Britt beat Abe Friedman (2-0) … Hans Schwartz beat Harry Cohen (sub for Sammy Feeback) … referee- Charley Hatfield … (last card of the year) NOTE: Despite the Emporia Gazette claiming that Tuffy Cleet and Andy Meixner was the same wrestler they were not. Fellow historians J. Michael Kenyon and Libnan Ayoub went through their records to check this out. J. Michael added that Roy C. Cremeans Sr. nee Tuffy Cleet passed away on Sunday, June 21, 1959 of a heart attack at the age of 50. promoter-Sam Perdaris Research by Don Luce |
Emporia Wrestling Results - 1940 |