A track and field superstar, A.A. Cameron of Scotland was going to begin a wrestling career, the Washington Post announced on July 21, 1912. 34-year-old Cameron held more than a dozen world records and was abnormally strong. He wrestled previously as part of a troupe that toured Russian along with Aberg and George Lurich. At London, he wrestled Podoubny and gave the latter a tough match. On November 17, 1944, the Public Control Committee of the London County Council recommended a ban on professional wrestling. The "free-for-all" style of wrestling was popular before the war "after its inauguration by American wrestlers," according to the Associated Press. The council stated that "all-in" wrestling "cannot be regarded as true wrestling," and that they didn't "consider that it contains any elemet of sport, and we regard it as a degrading and unhealthy form of entertainment." A USO plane flying from England to Paris crashed on March 3, 1945, killing 16 people. Those killed were George Matkovich, Jack Ross, Mrs. Ruth G. Donor, Lester Chapman, H.A. Sabath, Gaius W. Young, Ben Reuben, Captain F.F. Foster, Lt. L.L. Heideman, Spec/1c John Garfield Hope, Sgt. Albert J. McVey, 1st Lt. Robert Dearstine, 1st Lt. Herbert H. Hirth, 1st Lt. Paul A. Mansell, PFC Alfred E. Barschdorf, PFC Paul J. Heeger. The Associated Press reported that the European Division of the Air Transport Command stated that this ended a safety run in which 5 million miles of flying by that division had occurred a loss of life. Matkovich, Reuben, Young, Chapman, and Ross were professional wrestlers. Research by Tim Hornbaker |
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