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