Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, January 4, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-1,500) … Danno O’Mahoney beat Jerry Monahan (2-1) … Bob Wagner
beat Dr. Freddie Meyer (cor) … Jack League drew Henry Graber (30:00) … referee:
Fred Bourguignon … promoter: Jack Corcoran … NOTE: The writer often called
Monahan “Wimpy.”

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, January 11, 1938
(Auditorium) … Bob Wagner beat Dr. Freddie Meyer (2-1) … Jack League beat Dick
Powell (dq) … Henry Graber beat Al Dunlop … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, January 18, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-1,500) … Vic Christy beat Bob Wagner (2-1) … Steve Casey beat Jerry
Monahan (2-0) (first by dq) … Henry Graber beat Jack League … referee: Fred
Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, January 25, 1938
(Auditorium) … Vic Christy beat George Clark (2-1) … Dick Powell beat Tony Parkin …
Dr. Freddie Meyer beat Henry Graber

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, February 1, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-2,500) … Vic Christy beat Dick Powell (2-1) … Bill Sledge beat Count
George Zarynoff … Jack Hader beat Henry Graber (sub for Freddie Meyer)

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, February 8, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-2,000) … Dick Powell beat Bob Wagner (2-0) … Bill Sledge beat Sailor
Bull Curley (as Curry) (218 pounds, Chicago) … Red Devil beat Al Dunlop … referee:
Fred Bourguignon … NOTE: Curley was tattooed from his shoulders to his shoe tops with
intricate patterns.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, February 15, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-2,500) … Yvon Robert* beat Dick Powell (1-0, utc) … Dr. Freddie Meyer
beat Bill Sledge (cor) … Red Devil beat Sailor Bull Curley … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, February 22, 1938
(Auditorium) … (still claimant) Everett Marshall* drew Vic Christy (60:00, no falls) … Felix
Miquet beat George Wilson … Bill Sledge beat Maurice Robert

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, March 1, 1938
(Auditorium) … Vic Christy beat Dr. Freddie Meyer (2-1) … Bill Sledge beat Bob Wagner
… Baron Benny Ginsberg beat Sailor Bull Curley … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, March 8, 1938
(Auditorium) … Bill Sledge beat Dr. Freddie Meyer (2-1) … Lou Plummer beat Jack Hader
(as Hayder) … Baron Benny Ginsberg beat George Wilson … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, March 22, 1938
(Auditorium) … Bill Sledge vs Dick Powell … Benny Stein vs Jack Hader … NOTE: The
Ottawa Citizen is missing from the Google newspaper site from March 19, through May
17, 1938.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, May 17, 1938
(Auditorium) … (World Title Match) Vic Christy* beat Alonzo Wood (2-0) (first by dq) …
Ed Don George drew Hal Rumberg (30:00) … Bob Wagner beat Dan O’Connor … Bill
Middlekauf beat Slim Zimbleman … referee: Fred Bourguignon … NOTE: Wagner started
such a riot that Ottawa Mayor Stanley Lewis ordered that the wrestling permit of the
Queensbury Athletic Club be suspended until an investigation was held.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, May 31, 1938
(Auditorium) … Masked Marvel beat Len Macaluso (2-0) … Dan O’Connor beat Paul
Genereau (sub for Mike Mazurki) … Don McIntyre drew Jack Hader (30:00) … George
Harben bear Benny Stein … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, June 7, 1938
(Auditorium) … Dan O’Connor vs Bob Wagner … Masked Marvel vs Bill Middlekauf …
John Katan vs Alonzo Wood … Jerry Monahan vs Pete Managoff … NOTE: The page
was printed backwards and on its side. I’m dizzy enough.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, June 14, 1938
(Auditorium) … (WTM) Masked Marvel* beat Dan O’Connor (2-0) … Hal Rumberg beat
Alonzo Wood … Jules Strongbow beat Paul Genereau (sub for Mike Mazurki) … Len
Macaluso beat Jerry Monahan (dq) … referee: Fred Bourguignon … NOTE: Len
Macaluso was said to be the Masked Manager of the Masked Marvel for this show. I think
it likely that Jerry Monahan often appeared under the hood in this role. The Buffalo
Evening News once mentioned that Monahan wrestled in place of the masked wrestler
without any one being the wiser. Monahan and Ted Cox had similar builds.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, June 21, 1938
(Auditorium) … Vic Christy beat Jules Strongbow (2-1) … Felix Miquet drew Dan O’
Connor (both cor) … Ernie Bickerton (218 pounds, Cumberland, Ontario) beat George
Harbin … referee: Fred Bourguignon … NOTE: It is likely that Ernie Powers was called
Bickerton in the results.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, June 28, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-2,000) … Yvon Robert beat Bob Wagner (2-1) … Hardy Kruskamp beat
John Katan … Jules Strongbow beat Glen Wade … referee: Fred Bourguignon … NOTE:
During the match, a fan threw an over-ripe plum at Wagner which missed its mark and
splattered over A. E. Lyon of the Ontario Athletic Commission and another ringside
spectator.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, July 5, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-2,500) … Yvon Robert beat Hal Rumberg (2-1) … Chief Jay Strongbow
beat Ernie Bickerton (cor) (sub for Danno O’Mahoney) … Glen Wade drew Alonzo Wood
… referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, July 12, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-3,000) … Yvon Robert drew Danno O’Mahoney (1-1, both cor) … Hardy
Kruskamp beat Jules Strongbow … Felix Miquet beat Karl Davis (dq) … referee: Fred
Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, July 19, 1938
(Auditorium) … Hardy Kruskamp beat Vic Christy (2-1) … Bob Wagner beat Hal Rumberg
… Karl Davis beat Paul Genereau

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, July 26, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-2,700) … Yvon Robert drew Hardy Kruskamp (60:00, 1-1) … Masked
Marvel* beat Bob Wagner … Hal Rumberg drew Felix Miquet (30:00) … referee: Fred
Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, August 2, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-4,000) … (WTM) Masked Marvel* beat Bob Wagner (2-1) … Yvon
Robert beat Jerry Monahan … Karl Davis drew Hal Rumberg (30:00) … referee: Eddie
Forbes of Toronto

Chesterville, Ontario: Wednesday, August 3, 1938
(Chesterville Arena) … Bull McGregor vs Ernie Franklin … Paul McPherson vs Cliff
McConnell … Art Nault vs Rene Nenard … NOTE: Recently McGregor and Franklin, both
200-pounders, drew in Ormond, Ontario.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, August 9, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-3,000) … Yvon Robert beat Hardy Kruskamp (2-1, dq) … Felix Miquet
beat Vic Christy … Glen Wade drew Len Macaluso (30:00) … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, August 17, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-4,500) … (WTM) Masked Marvel* beat Felix Miquet (60:00, 1-0) … Ernie
Bickerton beat Karl Davis (dq) (sub for Legs Langevin) … Karl Davis beat Hal Rumberg
… referees: main bout-Jack Sharkey and Fred Bourguignon

London, England: Tuesday, August 23, 1938
(Albert Hall) … Earl McCready beat Rube Wright (as Reuben Wright) (5:15 of sixth round)

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, August 23, 1938
(Auditorium) … (WTM) Masked Marvel* beat Karl Davis (cor) … Hal Rumberg vs Don
Evans … Jerry Monahan vs Alonzo Wood … (result found 8-26)

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, August 30, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-3,000) … (WTM) Masked Marvel* beat Alonzo Wood (2-1, cor) … Felix
Miquet beat Yvon Robert (1:57) … Hardy Kruskamp beat Dan O’Connor … referee: Fred
Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, September 6, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-3,000) … Yvon Robert beat Felix Miquet (2-1) … Nanjo Singh beat Chief
Jules Strongbow … Hardy Kruskamp (sub for Jerry Monahan) beat Len Macaluso (cor)

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, September 13, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-4,000) … (WTM) Masked Marvel* drew Karl Davis (60:00, 1-1) … Nanjo
Singh beat Alonzo Wood … Dick Shikat drew Mayes McLain (30:00)

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, September 20, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-4,000) … (WTM) Yvon Robert* beat Nanjo Singh (2-1) … Dick Shikat
beat Dan O’Connor … Felix Miquet beat Alonzo Wood (dq) … referee: Fred Bourguignon
… NOTE: Karl Davis was at the card, challenging the Masked Marvel.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, September 27, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-3,500) … (WTM) Masked Marvel* beat Karl Davis (2-1) … Hardy
Kruskamp beat Jerry Monahan … Don Evans beat Len Macaluso … NOTE: The Toronto
office didn’t recognize the Montreal change to Robert as world champion.

Halifax, Nova Scotia: Monday, October 3, 1938
Red Mephisto vs Steve Brody … Brody was taken to the hospital after being thrown to
the floor. He only suffered a neck sprain when checked.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, October 4, 1938
(Auditorium) … Hardy Kruskamp beat Nanjo Singh (2-1, dq) … Bob Wagner drew Don
McIntyre (45:00) … Karl Davis beat Ernie Bickerton … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, October 11, 1938
(Auditorium) … Ted (King Kong) Cox drew Bob Wagner (60:00, 1-1) … Wee Willie Davis
beat Len Macaluso … Sid Nabors (sub for Don Evans) beat House Painter Hogan (dq) …
referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, October 18, 1938
(Auditorium) … Ted (King Kong) Cox beat Hardy Kruskamp (2-1, dq) … (WTM) Yvon
Robert* beat Bob Wagner (2-1) … Louis (Lou) Newman beat House Painter Hogan (dq)
… referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, October 25, 1938
(Auditorium) … Hardy Kruskamp beat Ted (King Kong) Cox (2-1, cor) … House Painter
Hogan beat Don McIntyre … Babe Zaharias drew Sid Nabors (30:00) … referee: Fred
Bourguignon

Wednesday, November 2, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-6,000) … Fred Syms beat Chris Worthy (2-0) … Bill Cowan drew Reg  
Axcell  (30:00) … plus 3 boxing bouts … wrestling referee: Fred Bourguignon … Ottawa
Police Amateur Athletic Association fifth annual boxing and wrestling show … NOTE:
Syms was the heavyweight wrestling champion of the Ottawa Police Force and played
inside wing with the Ottawa Rough Riders football team.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, November 8, 1938
(Auditorium) … Ted (King Kong) Cox beat Hardy Kruskamp (2-1) … House Painter Hogan
beat Karl Davis … Babe Zaharias drew Don McIntyre (30:00)

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, November 15, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-3,000) … (WTM) Yvon Robert* beat House Painter Dick Hogan (2-1) …
Louis Newman beat Babe Zaharias … Wee Willie Davis beat Sid Nabors … referee: Fred
Bourguignon … NOTE: Bob Wagner, seating at ring side, jumped on the ring edge and
smashed Zaharias in the head, leading to his defeat. Wagner, in a strange role, helped
the hero Newman. I remember Shoulders Newman telling me that he met up with Wagner
on the west coast. Wagner wanted Newman to share the driving across the country. He
said that Wagner didn’t help much to get him bookings when they arrival in the east.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, November 22, 1938
(Auditorium) … Danno O’Mahoney beat Babe Zaharias (2-0) (first by dq) … Cy Williams
beat Don McIntyre … George KO Koverly beat Sid Nabors (sub for Don Evans) …
referee: Fred Bourguignon
Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, November 29, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-3,500) … (Double World title Match) Yvon Robert* drew Ted Cox* (60:
00, no falls)… Cy Williams beat Karl Davis … Dutch Hefner beat Len Macaluso …
referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, December 6, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-1,500) … Cy Williams beat George Koverly (2-1) … Sid Nabors beat
Don McIntyre … Don Evans drew Maurice Robert (30:00) … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, December 13, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-1,500) … Danno O’Mahoney beat Bob Wagner (2-1) … Mayes McLain
beat George Koverly (cor) … Sid Nabors beat Tiger Joe Marsh (dq) … referee: Fred
Bourguignon … NOTE: Wagner was pinned in the third fall with his robe on. Next card is
December 27.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, December 27, 1938
(Auditorium, att.-1,500) … (WTM) Cy Williams* beat Bob Wagner (1-0, utc) … Don Evans
beat Tiger Joe Marsh (cor) … Scotty McDougall drew Al Dunlop (30:00) … NOTE: Cy
Williams’s pet hold the “Alligator Crutch” was a version of the step-over-toe hold.



Research by Don Luce
Ottawa Wrestling Results - 1938