Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, January 17, 1939
(Auditorium) … Joe Savoldi beat Hardy Kruskamp (2-0) (first fall by dq) … Dick Lever (as
House Painter Dick Hogan) beat Tom Mahoney … Alex Kasaboski drew Jim Austeri (30:
00) … referee: Fred Bourguignon … (first card of the year-promoter: John Tunney)

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, January 31, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-2,100) … Man Mountain Dean beat Jack McArthur (2-1) … Tom
Mahoney beat Cardiff Giant … Joe Pazandak drew Benny Stein (215 pounds, NYC)
(30:00) … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Almonte, Ontario: Saturday, February 11, 1939
(Town Hall, att.-450) … Reg Axcell beat Reg Raby … Fred Syms drew Bill Cowan (30:00)
… plus 6 boxing matches

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, February 14, 1939
(Auditorium) … House Painter Hogan beat Tom Mahoney (2-0) … Joe Pazandak drew
Benny Stein (sub for Chief Chewacki) (45:00) … Benny Stein beat Jack McArthur (dq) …
referee: Fred Bourguignon … NOTE: The main event grapplers Man Mountain Dean vs
Al Sparks didn’t appear. The Stein-McArthur bout was added to the card. It was
announced that refunds would be given. A total of $2.75 was refunded to fans.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, February 21, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-2,000) … (WTM) Jim Londos* beat House Painter Hogan (2-0) … Cardiff
Giant beat Jack McArthur … Scotty McDougall drew Benny Stein (30:00)

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, February 28, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-500) … Hans Steinke beat Ernie Powers (2-0) … Cardiff Giant beat Tom
Mahoney (2-1) … Jack Washburn beat Joe Pazandak … referee: Fred Bourguignon …
NOTE: Icy streets helped set a record low for the Auditorium.

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, March 21, 1939
(Auditorium) … Joe Savoldi vs Cardiff Giant … Little Rat (215 pounds) vs Scotty
McDougall … Big Rat (270 pounds) vs Benny Stein … Card cancelled as Savoldi had
influenza

Ottawa, Ontario: Tuesday, March 28, 1939
(Auditorium) … Vic Christy vs Little Rat … Big Rat vs Scotty McDougall … Jack Washburn
vs Benny Stein … Card cancelled as Christy was sick and Little Rat had a minor
operation … NOTES: This ended wrestling until May 24. John Tunney was planning to
bring in two masked men known as the Brother Rats. They never used those names in
Toronto, Hamilton or Montreal. Sadly wrestling fans will never know who they were.

Paris, France: Monday, April 3, 1939
(Palais des Sports) … Henri DeGlane beat Yvon Robert (2-1)

Paris, France: Monday, April 17, 1939
(Palais des Sports) … Felix Miquet beat Yvon Robert (2-1)



Marseille, France: Saturday, April 29, 1939
Felix Miquet beat Yvon Robert (2-1) … NOTE: This was Robert’s last match in his tour of
France.

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, May 24, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-1,500) … Ted Cox beat Hal Rumberg (2-1) … Red Shadow beat Jack
League … Jerry Monahan beat Dave Johnson … Tommy Nilan drew Bob Wagner (30:00)
(sub for Cliff Thiede) … wrestling returned to Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, May 31, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-1,500) … Danno O’Mahoney beat Ted Cox (2-0) (first by dq) … Cy
Williams beat John Katan … Frank Taylor beat Jerry Monahan … George Koverly beat
Alonzo Wood … referee: Fred Bourguignon … NOTE: This card featured the “New Deal”
to eliminate kicking, eye-gouging, hair-pulling, fights outside the ring and the mauling of
referees. The new order was the result of meetings between such well known promoters
as Paul Bowser of Boston; Tom Packs of St. Louis; Jack Ganson of Montreal; John
Tunney of Toronto; Jules Bauman of Rochester, and Hans Furst of Syracuse.

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, June 7, 1939
(Auditorium) … Frank Taylor beat Bob Wagner (2-1) … Dutch Hefner drew Don Evans
(30:00) … Bill Longson beat Cliff Thiede … Leo Numa beat Jim Coffield … referee: Fred
Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, June 14, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-1,000) … Danno O’Mahoney drew Frank Taylor (60:00, 1-1) … Bob
Wagner beat Leo Numa (dq) … Jerry Monahan beat Alonzo Wood … referee: Fred
Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, June 21, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-1,100) … Leo Numa beat Bob Wagner (60:00, 1-0) … Pat Kelly beat
Jack Washburn … Alex Kasaboski drew Joe Maynard (30:00)

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, June 28, 1939
(Auditorium) … Leo Numa beat Dutch Hefner (2-1) … Bill Longson beat Don Evans …
Pat Kelly beat Joe Maynard … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, July 5, 1939
(Auditorium) … Leo Numa beat Danno O’Mahoney (2-1) … Bob Wagner beat Alex
Kasaboski (sub for Ed Don George) … Wild Bill Longson beat Dutch Hefner … NOTE:
George was said to have suffered cracked ribs in his Montreal bout on Tuesday.
Originally Wagner was to face Gus Sonnenberg who withdrew earlier.

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, July 19, 1939
(Auditorium) … Yvon Robert vs Leo Numa (nc) … Wild Bill Longson beat Jerry Monahan
… Bob Wagner drew Hal Rumberg … referee: Fred Bourguignon … NOTE: The main
event ended abruptly when Numa inured his right leg. Robert refused victory.

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, July 26, 1939
(Auditorium) … Yvon Robert beat Hal Rumberg (2-0) … Wild Bill Longson beat John
Katan … Bob Wagner drew Len Macaluso (30:00) (sub for Dutch Hefner)


Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, August 2, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-1,500) … Yvon Robert drew Leo Numa (60:00, 1-1) … Wild Bill Longson
beat Pat Kelly … Jerry Monahan beat Len Macaluso

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, August 9, 1939
(Auditorium) … Leo Numa beat Wild Bill Longson (2-1, dq) … Cy Williams beat Hal
Rumberg … Pat Kelly drew Jim Coffield (30:00) … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, August 16, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-2,100) … Cy Williams beat Wild Bill Longson (2-0) (first by dq) … Ernie
Dusek beat Bob Wagner … Gus Sonnenberg drew Emil Dusek (30:00) … referee: Fred
Bourguignon … NOTE: Longson was disqualified for rabbit-punching Williams before the
match started. The second fall lasted only 2:20 sending the crowd home unhappy.

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, August 23, 1939
(Auditorium) … Cy Williams beat Wild Bill Longson (53:10 of 60:00, only fall) … Leo
Numa beat Don Evans … Jack Ganson beat Joe Maynard … referee: Duke Willis

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, August 30, 1939
(Auditorium) … Steve Casey beat Wild Bill Longson (2-1, utc) … Cy Williams beat Pat
Kelly (cor) … Jack Ganson beat Dutch Hefner (dq) … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, September 13, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-3,000) … Ed Don George drew Yvon Robert (60:00, 1-1) … Gus
Sonnenberg beat Frank Judson (sub for Maurice Robert … Danno O’Mahoney drew
Marvin Westenberg (30:00) … (first card of September)

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, September 20, 1939
(Auditorium) … Steve Casey beat Marvin Westenberg (60:00, 1-0 by cor) … Rebel Bob
Russell beat Benny Stein … Alex Kasaboski drew George Lennihan (30:00) … referee:
Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, September 27, 1939
(Auditorium) … Yvon Robert vs Leo Numa (1-1, nc) … Rebel Bob Russell beat Frank
Judson … Marvin Westenberg beat Jim Wright (dq) … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, October 4, 1939
(Auditorium) … Ed Don George beat Danno O’Mahoney (2-1, dq) … Steve Casey beat
Tony Parkin (sub for Frank Judson) … Rebel Bob Russell beat Albert Mills (222 England)
… referee: Fred Bourguignon … NOTES: It was said that this was a different Mills than
Lord Albert Mills, who appeared here some time ago. George put on a poor match.

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, October 11, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-1,500) … Steve Casey beat Danno O’Mahoney (1-0, utc) … Rebel Bob
Russell beat George Ryan … Leo Lefebvre (sub for Al Mercier) beat Eddie Newman (dq)

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, October 18, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-3,000) … Everett Marshall drew Yvon Robert (60:00, no falls) … Lou
Thesz beat Jerry Monahan … Steve Casey vs Wild Bill Longson (nc) …referee: Fred
Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, October 25, 1939
(Auditorium) … Steve Casey beat Wild Bill Longson (2-1) … Cy Williams drew Leo Numa
(45:00) … Frank Sexton beat Hal Rumberg … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, November 1, 1939
(Auditorium) … Wild Bill Longson beat Leo Numa (2-1, cor) … Cy Williams beat Mayes
McLain … Pat Reilly (as The Angel) beat Jack Marshall … referee: Fred Bourguignon

Ottawa, Ontario: Wednesday, November 8, 1939
(Auditorium) … (WTM) Bronko Nagurski* beat Cy Williams (2-0) (first by dq) … Joe
Savoldi beat The Angel (dq) (sub for Mayes McLain) … Tommy Nilan drew The Angel (30:
00) … referee: Fred Bourguignon … (next card 11-20)

Ottawa, Ontario: Monday, November 20, 1939
(Auditorium) … Steve Casey beat Pat Kelly … Wild Bill Longson vs The Angel (nc) …
Elmer (the Great) Eastup beat Hal Rumberg … referee: Fred Bourguignon … NOTE:
Count Rossi was the manager of Elmer the Great.

Ottawa, Ontario: Monday, November 27, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-1,500) … Lou Thesz beat Wild Bill Longson (2-1, dq) … Elmer Eastup
beat American Angel … Elmer Eastup (sub for Len Macaluso) beat Frank Sexton (cor) …
referee: Fred Bourguignon … NOTE: The Sexton match was after the main event.

Ottawa, Ontario: Friday, December 1, 1939
(Auditorium) … Terry Evans beat Fred Syms (2-0) … Reg Axcell beat Major Cook … Web
Mahoney beat Norm Sheean (cor) … Bill Cowan drew Chris Worthy (30:00) … plus 3
boxing bouts … (sixth annual Ottawa Police A.A.A. hospital fund Boxing and Wrestling
show) … NOTES: Terry Evans, of Toronto, was Canadian Y.M.C.A. heavyweight wrestling
champion. Fred Syms was a local constable and football player. Chris Worthy, from
Toronto, was a referee during the 1950s. They were using pro tactics such as body
slams and flying tackles.

Ottawa, Ontario, Monday, December 4, 1939
(Auditorium, att.-1,500) … Elmer (The Great) Eastup drew Wild Bill Longson (60:00, 1-1)
… Everett Marshall beat Pat Reilly (The American Angel) … Ivan Rasputin beat Pat Kelly

Ottawa, Ontario: Monday, December 11, 1939
(Auditorium) … Elmer (The Great) Eastup beat Cy Williams (2-0) … Frank Sexton beat
Legs Langevin (sub for Abe Yourist) … Ivan Rasputin beat Tommy Nilan

Ottawa, Ontario: Monday, December 18, 1939
(Auditorium) … Wild Bill Longson beat Leo Numa (cor) … Elmer Eastup beat Frank
Sexton (dq) … John Katan drew Mayes McLain (30:00 (subs for Bobby Pearce vs Jerry
Monahan) … referee: Fred Bourguignon … (last card of the year)


Research by Don Luce
Ottawa Wrestling Results - 1939