Erie, PA: Friday, January 5, 1940
(Auditorium) … Wild Bill Longson vs Elmer the Great Estep … postponed due to
snowstorm … NOTE: Elmer was Sol Slagel.

Erie, PA: Friday, January 12, 1940
(Auditorium) … Elmer the Great beat Mayes McLain … Al Billings beat Fred Bozic …
Tiger Joe Marsh beat Jack Washburn … Jack Bagley beat Bruno Luczak

Erie, PA: Thursday, January 18, 1940
(Auditorium, att.-800) … Elmer the Great beat Wild Bill Longson … Ivan Rasputin beat
Tiger Joe Marsh … Leo Numa beat Bob (Rebel) Russell … Rudy Strongberg beat Al
Billings

Erie, PA: Friday, January 26, 1940
(Auditorium) … Joe Savoldi beat Leo Numa … Frank Sexton beat Wild Bill Longson (dec)
… Tom Zaharias beat Pete Baltram … Rudy Strongberg beat Tiger Joe Marsh

Erie, PA: Friday, February 2, 1940
(Auditorium, att.-900) … Wild Bill Longson beat Ivan Rasputin … Elmer the Great beat
Tom Zaharias … Leo Numa beat Pete Baltram … Tiger Joe Marsh drew Lee Henning

Erie, PA: Friday, February 9, 1940
(Auditorium) … Wild Bill Longson drew Ivan Rasputin … Lee Henning beat Frank Sexton
(cor) … Bob (Rebel) Russell beat Mark Hosley … Pete Baltram beat Fred Bozic

Erie, PA: Friday, February 16, 1940
(Auditorium) … Walter Podolak (sub for Elmer the Great) beat Lee Henning … Wild Bill
Longson beat Bob (Rebel) Russell … Walter Podolak beat Pete Baltram … Tiger Joe
Marsh beat Fred Bozic (spelled Bozak in Erie)

Erie, PA: Thursday, February 22, 1940
(Auditorium) … Walter Podolak beat Ted (King Kong) Cox … Ben Shalom beat Mayes
McLain … Bob (Rebel) Russell vs Rudy Strongberg (ddq) … Mark Hosley beat Lee
Henning (dec)

Erie, PA: Saturday, March 2, 1940
(Auditorium, att.-1,952) … Maurice Tillet (as The Angel) beat Walter Podolak … Harry
Kent beat Leo Numa … Ted (King Kong) Cox beat Ivan Rasputin … Bob (Rebel) Russell
vs Rudy Strongberg (no result given)

Erie, PA: Friday, March 8, 1940
(Auditorium, att.-1,777) … Maurice Tillet (as The Angel) beat Wild Bill Longson … Ted
(King Kong) Cox drew Harry Kent … Tor Johnson beat Lee Henning … Walter Podolak
beat Bob (Rebel) Russell (dec)

Erie, PA: Saturday, March 16, 1940
(Auditorium) … Elmer Estep beat Ivan Rasputin … Tor Johnson vs Leo Numa … Walter
Podolak vs Ted (King Kong) Cox … Pete Baltram vs Bobby Kawaka … NOTE: This was
the former Dayton football player who worked as Tony Kawaka and Bobby Roberts.

Erie, PA: Saturday, March 23, 1940
(Auditorium) … Elmer the Great Estep beat Ted (King Kong) Cox … Wild Bill Longson
beat Tor Johnson (cor) … Harry Kent beat Frank Sexton (dec) … Bob (Rebel) Russell
beat Leo Numa

Erie, PA: Saturday, March 30, 1940
(Auditorium) … Ivan Rasputin beat Elmer the Great Estep (utc) … Wild Bill Longson vs
Ted Cox (ddq) … Bob (Rebel) Russell beat Frank Sexton … Harry Kent beat Leo Numa

Erie, PA: Saturday, April 6, 1940
(Auditorium) … Ed Don George beat Ivan Rasputin … Wild Bill Longson drew Frank
Taylor … Bob Kawaka beat Mark Hosley … (Handicap) Bob (Rebel) Russell FTT Charley
Kammerer (5:00) … NOTE: This was said to be the debut of Kammerer who became
Babe Sharkey. He was billed as an Erie boy.

Erie, PA: Saturday, April 13, 1940
(Auditorium) … Wild Bill Longson beat Tor Johnson … Ivan Rasputin beat Harry Kent …
Frank Sexton beat Ted (King Kong) Cox (dec) … Charley Kammerer beat Bob (Russell)
Russell

Erie, PA: Friday, April 19, 1940
(Auditorium) … Wild Bill Longson vs Ivan Rasputin (ddq) … Ted Cox beat Tor Johnson …
Don Evans beat Walter Podolak … Charley Kammerer beat Pete Baltram … NOTES: Ed
Don George was a no show. This was the last show at the Auditorium which will be torn
down. Built in 1927, it will become a bowling palace.

Erie, PA: Tuesday, August 27, 1940
(Athletic Field) … Maurice Tillet (as The Angel) vs Elmer Estep … Abe Kashey vs Harry
Kent … postponed rain

Erie, PA: Saturday, October 12, 1940
(Elks Auditorium, att.-500) … Joe Cox vs Elmer Estep (ddq) … Ed Don George beat Juan
Humberto (dq) … Sandy O’Donnell beat Jerry Monahan … Billy Watson beat Billy Bartush
(dec)

Erie, PA: Saturday, October 19, 1940
(Elks Auditorium, att.-400) … Elmer the Great Estep beat Jake Patterson … Frank Taylor
beat Billy Bartush … Billy Watson beat Bruno Luczak … Sandy O’Donnell drew Joe Cox

Erie, PA: Friday, October 25, 1940
(Elks Auditorium) … Frank Taylor beat Elmer Estep … Joe Cox beat Bobby Kawaka …
Juan Humberto beat Bruno Luczak … Jake Patterson beat Lee Henning (dec)

Erie, PA: Saturday, November 9, 1940
(Elks Auditorium) … Golden Terror beat Ted (King Kong) Cox … George Koverly beat
Bobby Roberts … Frank Taylor beat Lee Henning … Don Evans beat Juan Humberto
(dec) … NOTE: Looks like Kawaka decided Roberts would be a better ring name.

Erie, PA: Saturday, November 16, 1940
(Elks Auditorium) … Golden Terror beat Elmer Estep … Don Evans beat Lee Henning …
Ted Cox drew Sandy O’Donnell … Frank Taylor beat Juan Humberto

Erie, PA: Saturday, November 23, 1940
(Elks Auditorium) … Frank Taylor drew Ivan Rasputin … Don Evans beat Elmer Estep …
Ted Cox beat Bobby Kawaka … Juan Humberto beat Jake Patterson … NOTE: Was it the
promoter, reporter or Kawaka who could not decide his last name? It must have been
hard signing autographs.

Erie, PA: Saturday, November 30, 1940
(Elks Auditorium) … Everette Marshall beat Don Evans … George Koverly beat Frank
Taylor (cor) … Ted Cox drew Juan Humberto … Sandy O’Donnell beat Jake Patterson
… NOTE: Sandy O’Donnell was Ray Eckert.

Erie, PA: Saturday, December 7, 1940
(Elks Auditorium) … Everette Marshall beat Ivan Rasputin … Frank Taylor drew Roy
Graham … Sandy O’Donnell beat Juan Humberto … Don Evans beat Jake Patterson

Erie, PA: Thursday, December 12, 1940
(Elks Auditorium) … Everette Marshall beat Frank Taylor … Wladislaus (Iron) Talun beat
Sandy O’Donnell … Roy Graham vs Don Evans (ddq) … Howard Burnell beat Juan
Humberto (dec)

Erie, PA: Thursday, December 19, 1940
(Elks Auditorium, att.-400) … George Koverly beat Ted Cox … Roy Graham beat Don
Evans … Benny Stein beat Juan Humberto … Jack Russell beat Billy Watson … (last card
of the month) … NOTE: This Jack Russell was said by Burt Ray to have worked as
Cowboy Jack Ray, related if he won, a bum if he lost.


Research by Don Luce
Erie Wrestling Results - 1940