Eugene OR: January 5, 1963
(Cow Palace) … (Battle Royal) featuring Wild Bill Savage, Rocky Colombo, Herb Schiff (as
Herb Freeman), Haru Sasaki, Pat Patterson, Kurt Von Poppenheim, Ricky Hunter & Maurice
(Mad Dog) Vachon … Kurt Von Poppenheim vs Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon … Pat Patterson
vs Rocky Colombo … Herb Schiff (as Herb Freeman) vs Wild Bill Savage … Ricky Hunter vs
Haru Sasaki

Eugene OR: January 12, 1963
(Cow Palace) … Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon vs Herb Schiff (as Herb Freeman) … Kurt Von
Poppenheim vs Lorenzo Parente … Ricky Hunter vs Haru Sasaki

Eugene OR: January 19, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … (Battle Royal) featuring Herb Schiff (as Herb Freeman), Rocky Colombo,
Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon, Haru Sasaki, Wild Bill Savage, Ricky Hunter, Shag Thomas &
Abe Jacobs

Eugene OR: January 26, 1963
(Cow Palace) … Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon beat Rocky Colombo (2-1, blood) … Abe Jacobs
vs Pat O'Brien … Herb Schiff (as Herb Freeman) vs Cowboy Bob Boyer … Kurt Von
Poppenheim vs Ricky Hunter

Eugene OR: February 2, 1963
(Cow Palace) … (Lights Out Match) Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon vs Rocky Colombo … Abe
Jacobs vs Haru Sasaki … Pat O'Brien vs Cowboy Bob Boyer … Kurt Von Poppenheim vs
Ricky Hunter … NOTE: (advertisement) "Colombo-Vachon to Fight to a Finish in Private Duel
– Bare Knucks or With Boxing Gloves – This Is Not Part of Regular Wrestling Card – Fans in
Attendance Invited to Stay for Grudge Fray"

Eugene OR: February 9, 1963
(Cow Palace) … Fritz Von Goering & Kurt Von Poppenheim vs Herb Schiff (as Herb Freeman)
& Rocky Colombo … Pat Patterson vs Cowboy Bob Boyer … Haru Sasaki vs Al Pago Pago

Eugene OR: February 16, 1963 (Saturday)
(Lane County Fairgrounds) … Don Kalt (as Jack Dalton) & Jim Baggis (as Jim Dalton) vs Bill
Savage & Herb Schiff (as Herb Freeman) … Curtis Iaukea (as Prince Kuhio) vs Chief Billy
White Wolf … Haru Sasaki vs Ricky Hunter

Eugene OR: February 23, 1963
(Fairgrounds "Cow Palace") … Don Kalt (as Jack Dalton) vs Nick Kozak … Bill Savage vs
Chief Billy White Wolf … (Midgets) Little Beaver & Tiny Tim vs Sky Low Low & Billy the Kid …
Ricky Hunter vs Frenchy Roberre

Eugene OR: March 2, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Don Kalt (as Jack Dalton) vs Chief Billy White Wolf … Herb Schiff (as Herb
Freeman) vs Jim Baggis (as Jim Dalton) … Andre Drapp vs Ricky Hunter … Art Michalik vs
Jack Kiser

Eugene OR: March 9, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … (Indian Death Match) Don Kalt (as Jack Dalton) vs Chief Billy White Wolf …
Herb Schiff (as Herb Freeman) vs Haru Sasaki … Jim Baggis (as Jim Dalton) vs Bill Savage
… Kurt Von Poppenheim vs Frenchy Roberre … NOTE: Baggis/Dalton was handcuffed to a
ringpost to prevent him from interfering with the main event.

Eugene OR: March 16, 1963
(Fairgrounds "Cow Palace") … Don Kalt (as Jack Dalton) vs Chief Billy White Wolf … Haru
Sasaki vs Bob Boyer … Wild Bill Savage vs Ricky Hunter … NOTE: White Wolf demands that
Jim Baggis (as Jim Dalton) "be barred from the arena" and vows he'll "get to him next week!"

Eugene OR: March 23, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Don Kalt (as Jack Dalton) & Jim Baggis (as Jim Dalton) vs Chief Billy White
Wolf & Wild Bill Savage … Bing Kai Lee vs Haru Sasaki … Rocky Colombo vs Pat O'Brien

Eugene OR: March 30, 1963
(Fairgrounds "Cow Palace") … (Battle Royal) featuring Don Kalt (as Jack Dalton), Jim Baggis
(as Jim Dalton), Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon, Soldat Gorky, Chief Billy White Wolf, Art
Michalik, Rocky Colombo & Lorenzo Parente … Rocky Colombo vs Haru Sasaki … Chief Billy
White Wolf vs Soldat Gorky … Art Michalik vs Bing Kai Lee

Eugene OR: April 6, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Don Kalt (as Jack Dalton) & Jim Baggis (as Jim Dalton) vs Rocky Colombo &
Chief Billy White Wolf … Art Michalik vs Lorenzo Parente … Haru Sasaki vs Gil Ane … NOTE:
Kalt/Baggis are defending their "Northwest" tag team title … Ane is the brother of Detroit
Lions football star Charlie Ane.

Eugene OR: April 13, 1963
(Cow Palace) … Herb Schiff (as Herb Freeman) vs Art Michalik … Kurt Von Poppenheim vs
Gil Ane … Soldat Gorky vs Bob Boyer … Haru Sasaki vs Rocky Colombo

Eugene OR: April 20, 1963
(Cow Palace) … Chief Billy White Wolf vs Art Michalik … Soldat Gorky vs Gil Ane … Bing Kai
Lee vs Kurt Von Poppenheim … Haru Sasaki vs Ricky Hunter

Eugene OR: April 27, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon drew Chief Billy White Wolf (1-1, nc) .. Pat
Patterson vs Ricky Hunter … Wild Bill Savage vs Gil Ane … NOTE: Vachon and White Wolf
fought out into the parking lot, wound up smashing one another's heads into parked cars
until the blood battle was finally halted.

Eugene OR: May 4, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon vs Chief Billy White Wolf … Herb Schiff (as Herb
Freeman) vs Soldat Gorky … Haru Sasaki vs Ricky Hunter

Eugene OR: May 11, 1963
(Cow Palace) … (Texas Death Match) Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon vs Chief Billy White Wolf
… Pat Patterson vs Rocky Colombo … Soldat Gorky vs Gil Ane … Haru Sasaki vs Ricky
Hunter

Eugene OR: May 18, 1963
(Cow Palace) … (Indian Death Match) Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon vs Chief Billy White Wolf
… Soldat Gorky vs Ricky Hunter … Pat Patterson vs Gil Ane … Rocky Colombo vs George
Drake

Eugene OR: May 25, 1963
(Fairgrounds "Cow Palace") … Don Kalt (as Jack Dalton) & Jim Baggis (as Jim Dalton) vs
Shag Thomas & Gil Ane … Andre Drapp vs Soldat Gorky … Ivan Kameroff vs Rocky
Colombo … NOTE: Kalt/Baggis are defending their "Northwest" tag team title

Eugene OR: June 1, 1963
(Fairgrounds "Cow Palace") … Don Kalt (as Jack Dalton) & Jim Baggis (as Jim Dalton) vs
Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon & Pat Patterson … Wild Bill Savage vs Andre Drapp … Shag
Thomas vs Gil Ane

Eugene OR: June 8, 1963
(Cow Palace) … Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon vs Shag Thomas … Pat Patterson vs Andre
Drapp … Chief Billy White Wolf vs Haru Sasaki … George Drake vs Gil Ane

Eugene OR: June 15, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Shag Thomas & Billy White Wolf & Gil Ane vs Soldat Gorky & Ivan Kameroff
& Haru Sasaki … Ivan Kameroff vs Billy White Wolf … Haru Sasaki vs Andre Drapp … Gil Ane
vs Rod Orell

Eugene OR: June 22, 1963
(Fairgrounds Horse Arena, att. 2,500) … (Battle Royal) featuring Haystack Calhoun, Rocky
Colombo, Pat Patterson, Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon, Soldat Gorky, Haru Sasaki, Abe
Jacobs, Ivan Kameroff, Shag Thomas & Herb Schiff (as Herb Freeman) … NOTE:
(advertisement) " Greatest Wrestling Card in Eugene History – No Increase in Prices -
HAYSTACK is amazing, fantastic, terrific" … "2,500 saw tremendous card last week and went
home thrilled to death." – Eugene OR Register-Guard advertisement, June 28, 1963

Eugene OR: June 29, 1963
(Fairgrounds Horse Arena, att. 2,500) … Haystack Calhoun & Abe Jacobs vs Maurice (Mad
Dog) Vachon & Pat Patterson … NOTE: (advertisement) "I'll belly smash this guy (Vachon)
flatter than a corn cake." – Haystack Calhoun … The 2,500 attendance figure represents a
"packed house"

Eugene OR: July 6, 1963 (Saturday)
(Fairgrounds) … Haystack Calhoun & Abe Jacobs & Shag Thomas vs Maurice (Mad Dog)
Vachon & Pat Patterson & Soldat Gorky

Eugene OR: July 13, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Tony Borne vs Gil Ane … Billy White Wolf vs Luther Lindsay … Andre
Drapp vs Rod Orell

Eugene OR: July 20, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Danny Hodge vs Wild Bill Savage … Pat Patterson vs Rocky Colombo …
Andre Drapp vs Herb Schiff (as Herb Freeman)

Eugene OR: July 27, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … (Battle Royal) featuring Tony Borne, Pat Patterson, Danny Hodge, Luther
Lindsay, Billy White Wolf, Soldat Gorky, Abe Jacobs & Rod Orell … Tony Borne vs Andre
Drapp … Danny Hodge vs George Drake … Luther Lindsay vs Soldat Gorky … NOTE: For
the second consecutive week, the promotion continued to bill him as "Danny Hodges."

Eugene OR: August 3, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Danny Hodge & Billy White Wolf vs Soldat Gorky & Tough Tony Borne …
Pat Patterson vs Abe Jacobs … Gil Ane vs Shag Thomas … Andre Drapp vs Rod Orell …
NOTE: For the third straight week, it is "HODGES" for the man the promotion boasted was
"the greatest amateur wrestler ever developed in America."

Eugene OR: August 10, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Tony Borne vs Luther Lindsay … Dick Beyer (as The Destroyer) vs Rocky
Colombo … Abe Jacobs vs Andre Drapp … George Drake vs Gil Ane

Eugene OR: September 7, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Curtis Iaukea (as Prince Kuhio) vs Luther Lindsay … Tony Borne vs Don
Duffy … Soldat Gorky vs Gil Ane … NOTE: The annual Lane County Fair break appears to
be over.

Eugene OR: September 14, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Dick Beyer (as The Destroyer) & Art Michalik vs Gil Ane & Danny Hodge …
Curtis Iaukea (as Prince Kuhio) vs Dick Dunn … Don Duffy vs George Drake … NOTE: Lane
County Fair break or no, the promotion insists on billing the man as Danny "Hodges."

Eugene OR: September 21, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Curtis Iaukea (as Prince Kuhio) vs Tony Borne … Art Michalik vs Herb Schiff
(as Herb Freeman) … Gil Ane vs Don Duffy

Eugene OR: October 5, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Dick Beyer (as The Destroyer) vs Shag Thomas … Nick Bockwinkel vs Don
Duffy … Danny Hodge vs Dick Dunn … NOTE: In his 12th week in the territory, Danny is still
reading "HODGES" in the Eugene advertisements about promoter Don Owen's Saturday
night wrestling shows.

Eugene OR: October 12, 1963
(Cow Palace) … (Battle Royal) won by Nick Bockwinkel over Luther Lindsay, Tony Borne,
Dick Beyer (as The Destroyer), Art Michalik, Gil Ane, Don Duffy & Dick Dunn

Eugene OR: October 19, 1963 (Saturday)
(Cow Palace) … Nick Bockwinkel vs Art Michalik … Luther Lindsay vs Don Duffy … Freddy
Baron vs Jack Kiser

Eugene OR: October 26, 1963
(Cow Palace) … Dick Beyer (as The Destroyer) & Art Michalik vs Luther Lindsay & Shag
Thomas … Nick Bockwinkel beat Curtis Iaukea (as Prince Kuhio) … Dick Dunn vs Great Dane

Eugene OR: November 2, 1963
(Cow Palace) … Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon vs Shag Thomas … Nick Kozak & Herb Schiff
(as Herb Freeman) vs Soldat Gorky & Wild Bill Savage … Dick Dunn vs Freddy Baron

Eugene OR: November 9, 1963
(Cow Palace) … Nick Bockwinkel vs Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon … Luther Lindsay vs Wild Bill
Savage … Freddy Baron vs Jack Kiser … NOTE: Bockwinkel comes in as the newly minted
"Northwest heavyweight champion," a title he won from Tony Borne

Eugene OR: November 16, 1963
(Cow Palace) … Nick Bockwinkel vs Dick Beyer (as The Destroyer) … Shag Thomas vs Art
Michalik … Paddy Barrett vs Don Duffy … Gil Ane vs Ricky Hunter … NOTE: Bockwinkel's
"Northwest title" is on the line.

Eugene OR: November 23, 1963 (Saturday)
(Fairgrounds) … (Battle Royal) featuring Haystack Calhoun, Dick Beyer (as The Destroyer),
Art Michalik, Soldat Gorky, Dick Dunn, Nick Kozak, Paddy Barrett, Shag Thomas, Gil Ane &
Abe Jacobs … NOTE: Although a number of weekend events around town were postponed
due to the assassination of President Kennedy, the Cow Palace ring at the Lane County
Fairgrounds was chock-a-block with a 10-man battle royal.

Eugene OR: November 30, 1963
(Cow Palace) … Haystack Calhoun vs Wild Bill Savage … Paddy Barrett vs Abe Jacobs …
Luther Lindsay vs Art Michalik

Eugene OR: December 7, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Curtis Iaukea (as Prince Kuhio) vs Gil Ane … (Midgets) Sky Low Low & Irish
Jackie vs Tiny Tim & Billy the Kid … Paddy Barrett vs Bing Kai Lee … Nick Bockwinkel vs Wild
Bill Savage … Shag Thomas vs Art Michalik

Eugene OR: December 21, 1963
(Fairgrounds) … Dick Beyer (as The Destroyer) & Art Michalik vs Nick Kozak & Nick
Bockwinkel … Tony Borne vs Bing Kai Lee … Luther Lindsay vs Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon
… Don Duffy vs Paddy Barrett … NOTE: Promoter Don Owen lets in free women and children
who donate "a sack of groceries" to help brighten the Christmas of disadvantaged folks.

Eugene OR: December 28, 1963
(Cow Palace) … Maurice (Mad Dog) Vachon vs Nick Bockwinkel … Haru Sasaki vs Herb
Schiff (as Herb Freeman) … Don Duffy vs Bing Kai Lee … NOTE: Vachon, always "the hated
Frenchman" here, reportedly won the "Northwest title" by injuring Bockwinkel "last week in
Portland." … Now, Bockwinkel wants it back.



Research by J Michael Kenyon
Eugene Wrestling Results - 1963
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