San Francisco Wrestling Results

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, January 5, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Man Mountain Dean b. Bill Longson (19:45) … Gino Vagnone
b. Chief Little Wolf (DQ) … Brother Jonathan b. Chet Wildes (4:28) … Kimon Kudo b. Ernie
Peterson (2-0) (jiu-jitsu match) … “Mexico” Tommy Marvin b. John Spellman (10:20) …
Freddie Meyers and Rudy Strongberg drew (20:00) (Meyers was a substitute for Pat O’
Shocker) … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)
Notes: The newspaper said “Longson is rated a second Joe Stecher because of his
powerful leg holds.” Longson suffered a severe back injury during this match with Dean.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, January 12, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Man Mountain Dean b. Brother Jonathan (2/3) (Jonathan won
the first fall by DQ in 6:40, Dean won the second in 40 seconds, and Jonathan was unable
to continue) (Jonathan was shaved) (match was billed as “Battle of ‘Whiskerinos,’ with loser
to have his chin hair shaved off in the ring) … Sandor Szabo b. Frank Malcewicz (23:00) …
Bill Hansen b. Wee Willie Davis (23:40) (countout) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis b. Bill Beth (2:
45) (headlock) … The Red Shadow b. Jack Spellman (8:42) … Pat Meehan and Freddie
Meyer drew (20:00) (Meyer was a substitute for Bill Longson) … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)
… (8,000 fans)
Notes: The San Francisco Chronicle stated that Longson “broke a vertebrae last week
and has been ruled off the mat for life in this state.” No show next week due to the 6-day
bicycle race.

*A report in the Wednesday, January 20, 1937 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle
stated that $4,000 was spent from the boxers and wrestlers benefit fund of Northern
California “in the last few months” to help wrestler Sammy Stein (trachoma), Sacramento
wrestler Cliff Chambers (infection) and boxer Speedy Urita. Stein’s case needed $1,300,
whicl Chambers needed $1,400. Bill Longson was another situation that the newspaper
mentioned and Harry B. Smith, sports editor, wrote that he was expected to be out of
wrestling for a year and in a plaster cast for two months. There was talk of a benefit show
for Longson and Chambers, and Joe Malcewicz wanted Man Mountain Dean to headline.

*In Will Connolly’s column on Tuesday, January 19, 1937 in the San Francisco Chronicle,
he reprinted comments from Alan Ward of the Oakland Tribune regarding Man Mountain
Dean’s flying broad jump. Ward expressed the opinion that the maneuver should be
banned by the California Athletic Commission, and mentioned that Dean “put a young
athlete named Bill Longson, father of two children, one an infant in arms, in Atla Bates
Hospital in Berkeley, paralyzed from the waist down. Longson will never wrestle again. He
may never walk again. He has a broken back. He is encased in a cast from his armpits to
his toes and is plagued with the terrifying numbness that comes of a pinched spinal cord.”
Ward mentioned that the “crowd roared” when Dean smalled down onto Longson’s
stomach, and called the move a “cowardly stunt.” He wrote “there is not a professional
heavyweight wrestler in California so untalented but that he could not throw Dean without
breaking a sweat,” and that Dean was unpopular with his fellow grapplers.

San Francisco, California: Thursday, January 21, 1937
(Exposition Auditorium) … Jack Claybourne vs. Ole Erickson … (promoter: Frank Schuler)
… (matchmaker: Cal Herman)
Notes: The San Francisco Chronicle called the matchmaker “Carl Herman.” Claybourne
was making his San Francisco wrestling debut.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, January 26, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Dean Detton and Vincent
(Vicente) Lopez drew at the midnight curfew (1:33:00) (Detton worked as a heel) … Sandor
Szabo b. Bob Russell (18:47) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis b. Rudy Strongberg (20:30) … Bill
Hansen b. Frank Malcewicz (22:50) … Tommy Marvin b. Pat Meehan (20:01) … Casey
Kazanjian and Dr. Freddie Meyer drew … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (referee: Jack
Wagner) … (8,000 fans) (capacity)
Note: The San Francisco newspaper called him “Vicente Lopez.”

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, February 2, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Pacific Coast Heavyweight Champion Sandor Szabo b. Ed
“Strangler” Lewis (2/3) … Bill Hansen b. Tommy Marvin (DQ) (17:32) … The Red Phantom
b. Pete Managoff … Gino Vagnone b. John Spellman … Ivan Managoff b. Larry Carlson …
Casey Kazanjian b. Frank Fouche … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)
Notes: The paper said that Lewis was nearing 50 and that it was going to be last “here for
a year or more, for the headlock specialist leaves for a world tour in a few days, which will
find him wrestling the best in foreign countries, among them the Great Gama of India (if he
can find him).”

San Francisco, California: Thursday, February 4, 1937
(Exposition Auditorium) … Bob Castle b. Larry Tillman (2/3) (Tillman suffered an injury in
the third fall and the bout was stopped) … Jimmy El Pulpo b. Everett Upslinger (2/3) …
Mitsugo Hamanaka b. Ray Lampman (12:00) … Ole Errickson b. Rudy Meyers (9:18) …
Husky Bird and Mountain Herman drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Schuler)
Notes: Pulpo was originally booked to wrestle Steve Jockum of Berkeley. Hamanaka was
called the “coast’s 160-pound champion.” Errickson was initially scheduled to battle Glen
Stone of Seattle. Bird was to wrestle Gus Johnson, according to the original line-up.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, February 9, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Pacific Coast Heavyweight Champion Sandor Szabo b. Man
Mountain Dean (DQ) (after the bout, Dean was going to deliver his big splash, only to be
held back by fans, who also decided to punch the wrestler) (Dean’s wife, who was ringside,
stomped on the hands of those fans grabbing her husband, and members of the audience
then decided to pull her from the ring and into the second row) (Szabo was carried from the
ring on a stretcher) … Billy Hansen b. Tommy Marvin … The Red Phantom b. Casey
Kazanjian … Ivan Managoff b. Bill Beth (DQ) … Gino Giovanni b. Nelson Davis … Dr.
Freddie Meyers b. Leo Narberes … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (referee: Joe
Gardenfield) … (benefit for the flood relief fund of the Red Cross)
Notes: Szabo said he would only wrestle Man Mountain Dean if his flying broad jump was
banned and Malcewicz planned to discuss things with California State Athletic Commission
Chief Inspector Donn Shields. A photo of Shields presenting the “California Wrestling
championship” belt to Szabo, with Malcewicz appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.
“Szabo won the abdominal decoration from Billy Hansen in an Oakland bout,” the paper
said. Dean was called a “former Presidio soldier.” The State Athletic Commission upheld
Dean’s broad jump ban. Dean claimed that his box official appeal was his whiskers. It was
said that “Hansen can arch his back and push his head, like a crab, over the 100 yard
course in 22 seconds.” Nelson Davis was called the “brother of Wee Willie Davis, well
known problem child of wrestling. Wee Willie, to his credit, is home in Virginia attending his
ailing father, but brother Nelson promises to maintain the family’s bad reputation.”

*Photos of a bout between “Mrs. Billy Wolfe (the brunette) of Kansas City and Miss Clara
Mortensen from Glendale, Cal.,” appeared in the Tuesday, February 9, 1937 edition of the
San Francisco Chronicle. The match occurred in Atlanta, and was won by Mrs. Wolfe, who
was Mildred Burke, by disqualification.

San Francisco, California: Thursday, February 11, 1937
(Exposition Auditorium) … Bob Castle b. Steve Strelich (2/3) … Husky Bird b. Ray
Lampman (Bird was a substitute for Everett Uplinger) … Steve Jockums b. Husky Bird …
Louie Miller and Larry Tillman drew … Mitsugu Hamanaka b. Jimmy El Pulpo … Ole
Errickson b. Ted Sarris … (promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, February 16, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Dean Detton b. Billy Hansen
(2/3) … The Red Phantom b. Frank Malcewicz … Kiman Kudo b. John Spellman … Ivan
Managoff b. Bill Beth … Pat Meehan b. Ernie Peterson … Al Baffert and Casey Kazanjian
drew … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)
Note: Detton was managed by Jack Washburn.

San Francisco, California: Thursday, February 18, 1937
(Exposition Auditorium) … Louie Miller b. Bob Castle (2/3) … Don Sugai and Larry Tillman
drew (45:00) (1-1) … Mitisuga Hamanaka b. Chick Cicogni (10:00) … Gus Johnson b.
Jimmy El Pulpo (5:00) … Ole Errickson b. Mountain Hermit (10:00) … Husky Bird and Steve
Jockums drew … (promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, February 23, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Dean Detton b. Billy Hansen
(2/3) … The Red Phantom b. Pat Meehan (17:43) … Chief Chewacki b. Frank Fouche …
Ivan Managoff b. John Spellman … Frank Malcewicz and Ernie Peterson drew … Al Baffert
b. Ted Cox … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, February 25, 1937
(Exposition Auditorium) … Dory Detton b. Larry Tillman (1-0) (60:00) … Bob Castle b.
Mitsugu Hamanaka (2/3) … Jimmy El Pulpo b. Ole Errickson … Tommy Tassos b. Chick
Cicogni (6:00) … Steve Jockums and Gus Johnson drew … Husky Bird b. Cliff Campbell …
(promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, March 2, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Pacific Coast Heavyweight Champion Sandor Szabo b. Chief
Chewacki (2/3) (Szabo won the first fall by DQ) … Vicente Lopez and The Red Phantom
drew … Ivan Managoff b. Ted Cox (12:42) … Ezra Morgan b. Pete Managoff (6:33) … Dr.
Len Hall b. Bill Beth (9:15) … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (referee: Joe Gardenfield)
Note: Morgan, a “bewhiskered” grappler, was said to be making his San Francisco debut.

San Francisco, California: Thursday, March 4, 1937
(Exposition Auditorium) … Dory Detton b. Bob Castle (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Ted Sarris
b. Ole Errickson … Gus Johnson b. Cliff Campbell … Mitsugu Hamanaka b. Ray Lampman
… Tommy Tassos and Larry Tillman drew … Jack Purdin b. Jimmy El Pulpo … (promoter:
Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, March 9, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Pacific Coast Heavyweight Champion Sandor Szabo b. Ivan
Managoff (1-0) (Managoff was unable to continue) (Szabo earned a match with Dean
Detton for the world title next week) … Vincente Lopez b. Pat Meehan (21:10) … Billy
Hansen and Gino Vagnone drew (30:00) … Chief Chewacki b. Dale King (5:02) … Dr. Len
Hall b. Tommy Marvin (DQ) … “Elephant Ezra” Morgan b. John Spellman (3:33) …
(promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (referee: Joe Gardenfield)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, March 16, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Dean Detton b. Sandor Szabo
(2/3) (third fall by DQ) (during the match, the official banned Szabo’s giant swing) (the
paper said that after the bout, “riots and police followed, as usual”) … Dr. Freddie Meyers
b. Pat Meehan … Chief Chewacki b. Ernie Peterson … Iavn Managoff b. Vanco Valdez …
Billy Hansen b. Ed Hellwig … Count Zarynoff b. Bill Beth … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) …
(referee: Jack Wagner)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, March 23, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Count George Zarynoff b. Dr. Freddie Meyers (2-0) … Vincente
Lopez b. Chief Chewacki (9:51) (elbow smash) … Dr. Len Hall b. Tommy Marvin … Bill
Hansen b. Bill Beth … Pat Meehan b. Frank Malcewicz (DQ) … The Red Phantom b.
Nelson Davis and Ernie Peterson (15:00) … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, March 25, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Dory Detton b. Tommy Tassos (9:15) … Jimmy El Pulpo b. Mike
London (14:17) (decision) … Bob Castle b. Gus Johnson (27:10) … Danny Russo b. Husky
Bird (5:00) … Chick Cicogni b. Ray Lampman (8:00) … Jack Purdin and Larry Tillman drew
… (promoter: Frank Schuler)
Note: London was suspended for his tactics.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, March 30, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … The Red Phantom b. Count George Zarynoff … Gino Vagnone
b. Dr. Freddie Meyers … Billy Hansen b. Chief Chewacki (DQ) … Ivan Managoff b. Al
Baffert … Pat Meehan b. Frank Malcewicz … Jack Gacek and Tommy Marvin drew …
(promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, April 1, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Dory Detton b. Bob Castle (26:12) (flying tackle) (after the match,
Castle punched Detton several times in the jaw) … Gus Johnson b. Tommy Tasson …
Bobby Coleman b. Larry Tillman … Jimmy El Pulpo and Danny Russo drew … Otto Lugger
b. Chick Cicogni … Husky Bird b. Ray Lampman … (promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, April 6, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Vincent Lopez b. Gino Vagnone (2-0) (Vagnone missed a flying
tackle during the first fall, after 42:09, and landed in the third row in the lap of a lady fan) ..
Billy Hansen b. Chief Chewacki (23:26) (flying tackle) … Pat Meehan b. Bill Beth … Ivan
Managoff b. Tommy Marvin … Jack Gacek b. Ted Cox … Al Baffert b. Dale King …
(promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, April 8, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Bob Castle b. Gus Johnson (2/3) (Johnson was unable to continue) …
Jimmy El Pulpo b. Dory Detton (2/3) … Otto Lugger b. Larry Tillman … Danny Russo b.
Roland Warren (flying tackle) … Bobby Coleman b. Rudy Meyers … Ted Sarris b. Cliff
Campbell … (promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, April 13, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Vincent Lopez b. Billy Hansen (2/3) … Ezra Morgan b. Nelson
Davis and Bronco Valdez (6:00 for both falls) (Morgan had to win both falls in 15:00) …
George Zarynoff b. Al Baffert … Ivan Managoff b. Vic Hill … Chief Chewacki b. Pete
Managoff … Jack Gacek b. Ernie Peterson … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, April 15, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Bob Castle b. Gus Johnson (2/3) … Jimmy El Pulpo b. Danny Russo
(13:09) … Dory Detton b. Roland Warren (14:23) … Mike Works b. Rudy Meyers (10:26)
… Larry Tillman b. Ted Campbell (11:07) … Bobby Coleman and Otto Lugger drew …
(promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, April 20, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Vincente Lopez b. Count George Zarynoff … Red Vagnone b.
Ernie Peterson … Billy Hansen and Red Phantom drew … Pete Managoff b. Nelson Davis
(DQ) … Pat Meehan b. Frank Malcewicz … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)
Notes: According to one report, Sandor Szabo was supposed to have defended his
championship against Ezra Morgan in the main event of this show. Morgan was called the
“tallest, heaviest and most powerfu grappler in competition today.” He stood a reported 6’6”
and weighed 260 pounds. Szabo was given permission by the athletic commission to use
his giant swing, which had been claimed to be a version of a stranglehold.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, April 27, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Dean Detton b. Sandor Szabo (1:
04:10) (Szabo reportedly suffered a knee injury and was unable to continue) (Szabo was
taken from the ring on a strecher) … The Red Phantom and Count George Zarynoff drew
(30:00) … Pat Meehan b. Bill Beth (12:56) … Billy Hansen and Ivan Managoff drew … Abe
Yourist b. Jack Gacek (10:01) … Kimon Kudo b. Ernie Peterson (16:41) … (promoter: Joe
Malcewicz) … (referee: Joe Gardenfield) … (7,000 fans) … (gate: $5,030)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, April 29, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Jimmy El Pulpo b. Bob Castle (2/3) … Tetsuro Sato b. “Iron” Mike
Works (DQ) … Dory Detton b. Gust Johnson (flying tackle) … Mike Collins and Danny
Russo drew … Bobby Coleman b. Larry Tillman (flying tackle) … Roland Warren b. Mickey
Brown … (promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, May 4, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Willie “Jumbo” Kennedy b. Bronco Valdez (2:15) … The Red
Phantom b. Pat Meehan (2-0) (second fall in 35 seconds) … Gino Vagnone b. Frank
Malcewicz … Count George Zarynoff b. Pete Managoff … Billy Hansen b. Vic Hill … Bill
Beth and Abe Yourist drew … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)
Notes: This was Bill “Jumbo” Kennedy’s professional debut. He was also called “Willie
‘Jumbo’ Kennedy,” and was said to weigh 452 pounds. He was trained by Joe Malcewicz.

San Francisco, California: Thursday, May 6, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Mike Works b. Bobby Coleman (2/3) … George Dusette b. Jimmy El
Pulpo (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … The Black Secret b. Danny Russo … Tetsuro Sato and
Larry Tillman drew … Mike Collins and Gust Johnson drew … Al Belcher b. Roland Warren
(13:22) … (promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, May 11, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Billy Hansen b. Gino Vagnone (2-0) … Bill “Jumbo” Kennedy
and Count George Zarynoff drew (30:00) … The Red Phantom b. Ezra Morgan (DQ) …
Tiny Roebuck b. Bill Beth … Abe Yourist b. Ed Helwig (flying tackle) … Pete Managoff and
Ernie Peterson drew … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, May 13, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Ike Cazzell b. Jimmy El Pulpo (2/3) … Mike Works b. Tetsuro Sato
(2/3) (fans reportedly rushed the ring in a near riot after this bout) … Art Belcher b. Chris
Campbell … Bobby Coleman and Tony Russo drew … Larry Tillman b. Mike Collins (DQ)
… Harry Getas and Roland Warren drew … (promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, May 18, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Billy Hansen b. Ezra Morgan (2/3) … Bill “Jumbo” Kennedy b.
Count George Zarynoff (15:14) … Abe Yourist b. Gino Vagnone … Tiny Roebuck b. Pat
Meehan … Casey Kazanjian b. Sandor Vary … George Dusette b. Vic Hill (12:10) …
(promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, May 25, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Pacific Coast Heavyweight Champion Sandor Szabo b. Billy
Hansen (2-0) (first fall by DQ) … Vincent Lopez b. Casey Kazanjian (19:37) (flying tackle)
… The Red Phantom b. Tommy Marvin … Jumbo Kennedy b. Jack Woods … Kimon Kudo
and George Zarynoff drew … Ivan Managoff and Ezra Morgan drew … Frank Malcewicz
and Abe Yourist drew … Tiny Roebuck b. Cowboy Mallott … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) …
(benefit for the Mission Kiwanis Club)

San Francisco, California: Friday, May 28, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Gus Johnson b. Ike Cazzell (2/3) … The Black Secret b. Jimmy El
Pulpo … Mike Works b. Art Belcher … Danny Russo b. Larry Tillman … Mountain Hermit
and Roland Warren drew … Harry Getas b. Cliff Campbell … (promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, June 3, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Metsugu Hamanaka b. “Iron” Mike Works (2/3) … The Black Secret
and Gust Johnson drew … Ike Cassell and Danny Russo drew … Mountain Hermit b. Jimmy
El Pulpo … Flash Kelly and Roland Warren drew … Al Belcher b. Cyclone Franco …
(promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, June 8, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Dean Detton and Sandor Szabo
dre at the midnight curfew (1:20:00) (1-1) … Pierre Dusette and Bill Hansen drew … Ivan
Managoff b. Tiny Roebuck (DQ) (22:00) … Count Zarynoff b. Jack Woods … Abe Yourist
b. Jerry Meeker … Jim Parker b. “Cowboy” Ray Mallott … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) …
(referee: Jack Wagner)
Notes: Szabo was said to be the Pacific Coast champion. This was the third meeting of
Detton and Szabo in San Francisco. Pierre Dusette was billed as a “former world light
heavyweight champion.” Jim Parker was from Memphis, Jerry Meeker from Honolulu and
Woods from Australia.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, June 15, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Pacific Coast Heavyweight Champion Sandor Szabo b. Vincent
Lopez (2/3) (Lopez lost the third fall when he suffered a shoulder injury and was unable to
continue) … Pierre Dusette b. Frank Malcewicz … Count Zarynoff and Kimon Kudo drew
(mixed catch and jiu-jitsu match) (1-1) … The Red Phanton failed to beat both Jack Gacek
and Abe Yourist within the time-limit (Phantom beat Gacek in 9:00) … Jim Parker b. Ernie
Peterson … Bill Beth b. Cowboy Mallott … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (referee: Joe
Gardenfield)
Notes: It was said that Szabo won his Pacific Coast Title from Bill Hansen in Oakland
“several months ago.” Vincent Lopez also claimed to be the Pacific Coast champion, but no
one knew where his title was originating from.

San Francisco, California: Saturday, June 19, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … “Pacific Coast Light Heavyweight” Champion Dude Chick b. Frank
Taylor (2/3) … Pat O’Brien and Duke Pettigrove drew (60:00) (1-1) … “Tarzan” Paul Orth
b. Jim Goodrich … Bulldog Jackson b. Toy Aho … Mysterious X b. Wayne Stambaugh …
(promoter: Frank Schuler) … (sponsored by: Powder River Post of the American Legion)
Notes: The newspaper said that the “junior heavyweight wrestlers come back into the
picture here Saturday night at the Civic Auditorium in the American Legion’s first mat
show.” Chick was the National Wrestling Association World Junior Champion, not light
heavyweight as the newspaper indicated.

San Francisco, California: Friday, June 25, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Paul Orth b. Duke Pettigrove (2/3) … Pat O’Brien b. Pete Baltram …
Cyclone Mackey b. Don Hill … Toots Estes b. Rocky Brooks … Zibby Zbyszko b. Toy Aho
… (promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, June 29, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Women’s World Champion Clara Mortensen b. Rita Martinez
(11:10) … Vicente Lopez b. Sandor Szabo to capture the Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title
(2/3) (third fall by countout) … Walter Underhill b. Milo Mortensen (19:37) … Abe Yourist b.
Bill Lewis … Jumbo Kennedy b. Cowboy Mallott … Tiny Roebuck b. Ernie Peterson and
Bronko Valdez … Bill Beth and Kimon Kudo drew … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) …
(referee: Joe Gardenfield) … (gate: $4,000)
Notes: Kennedy was said to be 465 pounds. Milo Mortensen was said to be the brother of
Clara. Bill Lewis, the future Richmond promoter, may have managed Clara Mortensen.
The Mortensen-Martinez “exhibition” was said to be the “first time in 20 years, they say,
that feminine wrestlers have appeared here.” Mortensen wore a black eye she received
Monday in Sacramento.

San Francisco, California: Thursday, July 1, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Joe Parelli b. Steve Strelich (2/3) … Ike Cazzell b. Jerry Meeker (2/3)
(third fall by countout when Meeker ran to the dressing room) … Black Secret b. Metsugu
Hamanaka … Flash Kelly b. Rod Fenton … Mountain Hermitt and Larry Tillman drew …
(promoter: Frank Schuler) … (referee: Tom Sharkey)
Notes: Strelich was said to be from Hollywood. Rod Fenton was a newcomer from Amarillo.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, July 6, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Vicente Lopez b. Tiny Roebuck (2-0) … Gino Garibaldi b. Abe
Yourist (22:32) … Jimmy Sarandos b. Cowboy Mallott … Bill Kennedy b. Jack Gracek …
Pat O’Shocker b. Jim Parker … Pierre Dusette b. Bill Beth … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)
Notes: Jimmy Sarandos was “discovered by Jim Londos,” and known as the “new Greek
Hercules.”

San Francisco, California: Thursday, July 8, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Joe Parelli b. Dory Detton (2/3) … Black Secret b. Buck O’Neill (O’Neill
was unable to continue) … Rod Fenton b. Mitisugu Hamanaka (18:31) … Ike Cazzell b.
Mountain Hermitt (13:33) … Jerry Meeker b. Harry Getas (5:17) … (promoter: Frank
Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Saturday, July 10, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Pat O’Brien b. Paul Orth (2/3) … Cyclone Mackey and Bob Wagner
drew (1-1) … Don Sugai b. Sammy Kohen (11:00) … Toots Estes b. Frank Clements …
Pete Baltram and Carlos Rodriguez drew … (referee: John Kallas) … (sponsored by:
363d Infantry Post, American Legion)
Notes: Wagner was said to be from Detroit. Cyclone Mackey was “alias the Mysterious Mr.
X,” according to the paper.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, July 13, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Man Mountain Dean b. Willie “Jumbo’ Kennedy (2:20) …
Women’s World Champion Clara Mortensen b. Mary Davis (11:10) … Vincent Lopez b.
Pierre Dusette … Pat O’Shocker b. Ernie Peterson … Harry Jacobs b. Jack Mollott … Abe
Yourist b. Tiny Roebuck … Jack Holland b. Bill Lewis … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) …
(referee: Jack Wagner)
Notes: Dean was coming off a “long suspension.” It was said to be the first time that Dean
wrestled someone bigger than him. Jumbo weighed 135 pounds more than Dean, at 452
pounds.

San Francisco, California: Thursday, July 15, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Dory Detton b. Rod Fenton (2/3) … Joe Parelli b. Black Secret (1-0)
… Ike Cazzell and Buck O’Neill drew … Mitisuma Hamanaka b. Flash Kelly (DQ) … Ike
Cazzell and Jerry Meeker drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Saturday, July 17, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Paul Orth b. Pat O’Brien (2/3) … Don Sugai b. Cyclone Mackay (2-0)
… Bobby Wagner b. Bulldog Jackson (DQ) … Toots Estes b. Pete Baltram … Buck
Davidson and Jimmy Goodrich drew
Notes: Wagner was said to be from Manchester, New Hampshire and Goodrich from Notre
Dame.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, July 20, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Gino Garibaldi b. Pat O’Shocker (2/3) … Pat Fraley and Sandor
Szabo wrestled to a no contest … Ezra Morgan and Abe Yourist drew … Ivan Ostopovich b.
Tiny Roebuck … Jack Hollins b. Rudy LaDitzi … Harry Jacobs and Mike Mazurki drew …
(promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (referee: Joe Gardenfield)
Notes: Fraley reportedly quit the Boston police force to become a pro wrestler.
Gardenfield suffered an injured leg during the Fraley-Szabo bout.

San Francisco, California: Thursday, July 22, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Rod Fenton b. Dory Detton (2/3) … The Black Secret b. Fred
Knickles (2/3) … Joe Parelli b. Buck O’Neill … Ike Cazzell and Flash Kelly drew … Jerry
Meeker b. Johnny Bostrom … (promoter: Frank Schuler)
Notes: Fenton was called the Canadian middleweight titleholder. Another report said that
Fenton was the Canadian light heavyweight champ. Freddie Knickles was a “light
heavyweight title claimant.”

San Francisco, California: Saturday, July 24, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Yukon Jake Jackson b. Don Sugai (2/3) … Bob Wagner and Zibby
Zbyszko drew … Toots Estes b. Monty LaDue (DQ) … Pete Belcastro and George Ligorsky
drew … Frankie Murdock b. Duke Pettigrove

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, July 27, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Sandor Szabo b. Pat Fraley (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Vicente
Lopez and Ivan Ostopavich drew … Abe Yourist b. Ezra Morgan (DQ) … Rudy LaDitzi b.
Ernie Peterson … Pierre Dusette b. George Mallott … Harry Jacobs b. Jack Gacek …
(promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, July 29, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Joe Parelli b. Buck O’Neill (2/3) … Dory Detton b. Ike Cazzell (2/3) …
Rod Fenton b. Flash Kelly (23:07) … Danny Russo b. Jerry Meeker … Jerry Marcus b. The
Mountain Hermit … (promoter: Frank Schuler)
Notes: Buck O’Neill was from Helena, Montana. Al “Flash” Kelly was from Marysville,
California and Russo from Detroit. Jerry Marcus was called the “Jewish light heavyweight
champion.” The newspaper said that Parelli beat O’Neill “to crown him king of the Thursday
night light heavyweights.”

San Francisco, California: Saturday, July 31, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Jimmy Lott b. Paul Orth (2/3) … Bulldog Jackson b. Bob Wagner …
Betty Lee b. Jean Blondell … Danny McShain b. Don Sugai … Pete Belcastro b. Frankie
Murdock … George Ligorsky b. Charlie Carr
Notes: Jimmy Lott was the “Southern States Junior Heavyweight champion.” Betty Lee was
from Atlanta and Jean Blondell was from Boston. The San Francisco Chronicle stated that
“Woman’s place may not be in the home, but the State Athletic Commission has concluded
that it is definitely not in wrestling either – at least not in Northern California. Tonight,
therefore, will be the last appearance of girl wrestlers in this neighborhood.” Reportedly,
the commission was angry that the women grapplers dumped a booking in Fortuna tonight
for the more important San Francisco gig. Chief Inspector Donn Shields voiced his
complaints against women’s wrestling, inspiring the ban.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, August 3, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Pat Fraley b. Sandor Szabo (2/3) (third fall when Szabo was
unable to continue due to a wrist injury) … Gino Garibaldi and Ezra Morgan drew … Abe
Yourist b. Pat O’Shocker … Ivan Ostopovich b. Walter Underhill … Pierre Dusette b. Kimon
Kudo … Harry Jacobs b. Mike Stewart … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

*On Wednesday, August 4, 1937, two members of the California State Athletic Commission
met in Oakland, and agreed on the banishment of women’s professional wrestling in
California. The decision was made by Commissioners George Payne and Edwin Geary.
They also announced that the commission was recognizing Joe Parelli as the “175 pound
wrestling champion of the world.” Pat Fraley also appeared before the commissioners,
trying to convince them to give him a title shot against Bronko Nagurski, who he claims was
ducking him.

San Francisco, California: Thursday, August 5, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Dory Detton b. Rod Fenton (2/3) … Ike Cazzell and Danny Russo
drew (45:00) … Public Enemy No. 1 b. Flash Kelly … Jerry Marcus b. Jerry Meeker … Buck
O’Neill b. Cliff Campbell … (promoter: Frank Schuler)
Notes: Jerry Marcus was the “former O.C. matster and now instructor at the Jewish
Recreation Center.” “Public Enemy No. 1” was a new masked wrestler in the territory.

San Francisco, California: Saturday, August 7, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Jimmy Lott b. Toots Estes (2/3) … Danny McShain b. Pat O’Brien
(DQ) … Bobby Wagner b. Zibby Zbyszko … Pete Belcastro b. George Ligosky … Frankie
Murdock b. Duke Pettigrove
Notes: McShain was said to be from Scotland. Pettigrove was from Los Angeles.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, August 10, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Pat Fraley b. Ezra Morgan (2-0) (second fall in 23 seconds) …
Gino Garibaldi b. Ivan Ostopovich … Pierre Dusette b. Jim Parker (DQ) … Pat O’Shocker
and Abe Yourist drew … John Grandovich b. Tiny Roebuck … Jack Holland b. Rudy LaDitzi
(DQ) … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (referee: Joe Gardenfield)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, August 12, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Rod Fenton b. Joe Parelli to capture the California State Light
Heavyweight Title (2/3) (Danny Russo accompanied Parelli to the ring, and had attempted
to smash Fenton, but hit Parelli instead) … Dory Detton b. Danny Russo … Jerry Marcus b.
Ike Cazzell … Public Enemy No. 1 b. Buck O’Neill … Ace Abbott and Flash Kelly drew …
(promoter: Frank Schuler)
Notes: Parelli was defending his “State 175-pound championship and the gold belt
awarded him when he was named the titlist by the State Athletic Commissioners,” according
to the San Francisco Chronicle.

San Francisco, California: Saturday, August 14, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … The Black Secret b. Jimmy Lott (2/3) (third fall by countout) … Danny
McShain b. Steve “Cyclone” Strelich … Black Panther and Bob Wagner drew … Frank
Stojack b. Pete Baltram … Frankie Murdock b. Bill Hall
Notes: Lott vs. Black Secret was reportedly a “battle of rival wrestling organizations.”
Secret representing Frank Schuler’s operations on Thursday, while Lott was the “pride of
the American Legion mat stable.” The winner was going to wrestle Red Berry for the World
Light Heavyweight Title. Bill Hall was originally booked to wrestle Rocky Brooks.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, August 17, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Bronko Nagurski b. Pat Fraley (2-
0) … Gino Gariabldi b. Abe Yourist (10:00) … Pierre Dusette and Rudy LaDitzi drew (30:
00) … Harry Jacobs b. Jack Holland … Jack Grandovich b. Ray Mallott … Marshall
Blackstone b. Jack Gacek (12:13) … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)
Notes: Nagurski was said to be accompanied by his manager Tony Stecher and “trainer,
George Sauer.” Gino Garibaldi attempted to tell the crowd why he should be wrestling
Nagurski for the championship, but his microphone was turned off. The ring “rope” was
broken during the Garibaldi-Yourist match, which delayed the main event. While Nagurski
and Fraley waited in the ring for the rope to be fixed, several fans began to brawl around
the ringside area, which was said to distract Nagurski. Will Connolly of the San Francisco
Chronicle stated that “Bronko’s exhibition was spiritless and unworthy of a champion, but,
as I say, the young fellow was unnerved by the rudeness of the amateur boxers, who
crabbed his act.” Connolly also said that “Don McDonald of Los Angeles referred the
match to protect the champion from any untoward happening.”

San Francisco, California: Thursday, August 19, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … California State Light Heavyweight Champion Rod Fenton b. Danny
Russo (2/3) … Joe Parelli b. Pat O’Dowdy … Public Enemy No. 1 b. Ace Abbott … Yaqui
Joe b. Buck O’Neill … Al Szasz b. Flash Kelly … (promoter: Frank Schuler)
Note: Fenton was said to be “holder of the Canadian and California light heavyweight
wrestling championships.”

San Francisco, California: Saturday, August 21, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … World Light Heavyweight Champion Red Berry b. The Black Secret (2-
0) … Danny McShain b. Pete Belcastro … Pat O’Brien b. Bulldog Jackson … Black Panther
b. Larry Tillman … Frankie Murdock and Frank Stojack drew
Notes: In the advertisement for this show in the San Francisco Chronicle, the bill was
under a heading of “World’s Championship Wrestling.” Berry was making his debut at the
Auditorium, reportedly. The Black Secret was unmasked and was “shown to be Tommy
Gagan.”

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, August 24, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Dean Detton and Gino Garibaldi drew (1-1) … Rudy LaDitzi b.
Pierre Dusette … Pat O’Shocker b. Jack Holland … Harry Jacobs b. Tiny Roebuck … Ezra
Morgan and Abe Yourist drew … John Grandovich b. Jim Parker … (promoter: Joe
Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, August 26, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … California State Light Heavyweight Champion Rod Fenton b. Jerry
Marcus (2/3) … Joe Parelli b. Dory Detton (2/3) … Al Szasz b. Public Enemy No. 1 … Ace
Abbott b. Yaqui Joe … Pat O’Dowdy and Buck O’Neill drew … (promoter: Frank Schuler)
Note: It was said to be Marcus’s first shot at the “State Light Heavyweight Title.”

San Francisco, California: Saturday, August 28, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Jimmy Lott b. Paul Orth (2/3) … Danny McShain b. Pat O’Brien (2/3)
… Black Panther b. Sammy Kohen (DQ) … Frankie Murdock b. George Ligosky … Paul
Bozzell b. Larry Tillman
Note: Lott, with this win, earned a match with World Light Heavyweight Champion “Wild”
Red Berry.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, August 31, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Bronko Nagurski b. Gino
Garibaldi (2-0) … Sandor Szabo b. Abe Yourist (17:17) … Pat Fraley b. Frank Malcewicz
(14:21) … Pat O’Shocker b. Jack Gacek (13:05) … Leo Jensen b. Ezra Morgan (DQ) (9:
45) … Prince Ghu Pinder b. Paul Boesch (15:33) … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (3,500
fans)
Notes: There was a lot of publicity building up toward the Nagurski-Garibaldi match.
Nagurski initially said he wouldn’t wrestle Garibaldi. The San Francisco Chronicle stated
that if Garibaldi beat Nagurski, he’d become the first Italian “mat king.” In the August 31
edition of the paper, there was a photo of Gariabldi holding up an Italian newspaper with a
large headline promoting his bout with Nagurski. A “capacity” crowd was expected going
into the bout. Joe Cox was reportedly the only wrestler to pin Nagurski’s shoulders to the
mat in over 250 bouts.

San Francisco, California: Thursday, September 2, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … California State Light Heavyweight Champion Rod Fenton b. Joe
Parelli (2/3) … Al Szasz b. Danny Russo (2/3) … Dory Detton and Yaqui Joe drew … Pat O’
Dowdy b. Flash Kelly (15:46) … Buck O’Neill b. Ace Abbott … (promoter: Frank Schuler)

*On Friday, September 3, 1937 in Modesto, Dory Detton beat Danny Russo in the finals of
a round-robin tournament to capture the vacant “California State” Light Heavyweight Title.
The tournament was promoted by Cal Herman. The California State Athletic Commission,
however, backed the title being promoted in San Francisco by Frank Schuler.

San Francisco, California: Saturday, September 4, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … World Light Heavyweight Champion “Wild” Red Berry b. Jimmy Lott
(2/3) … “Tarzan” Paul Orth b. Alvin Britt (2/3) … The Black Panther b. Zibby Zbyszko (19:
00) … Nick Bozinis b. Billy McEunn … Frank Murdock b. Al Stecher (DQ) … (sponsored
by: American Legion)
Note: Nick Bozinis was called the “former Black Secret.”

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, September 7, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Sandor Szabo b. Pat Fraley (2/3) … Pat O’Shocker b. Jim
Parker … Harry Jacobs wrestled Ezra Morgan to a no contest … Jumbo Kennedy b. Beni
Casa (2:00) … Prince Bhu Pinder b. Jack Gacek … Jules Strongbow b. Fritz Muller …
(promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, September 9, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Al Szasz b. Rod Fenton to capture the local version of the Light
Heavyweight Title (2/3) … Joe Parelli b. Klem Kusick (2/3) … Pat O’Dowdy and Yaqui Joe
drew … Dory Detton and Joe Reno drew … Flash Kelly b. Ace Abbott (16:35) …
(promoter: Frank Schuler)
Notes: Rod Fenton was holder of the “light heavyweight wrestling championship,” also
called the “belt emblematic of the Civic Auditorium wrestling championship.” Al Szasz was
billed as being from Budapest, Hungary, and was said to be knowledgable in “both the
European and American methods.” Flash Kelly was from Marysville and Klem Kusick was
from Boston. Danny Russo was a Detroit wrestler.

*There were two different light heavyweight championships, one of the Modesto club and
one for the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.

San Francisco, California: Saturday, September 11, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Danny McShain b. “Tarzan” Paul Orth (2/3) … The Black Panther and
Jimmy Lott drew (45:00) … Frank Stojack b. The Black Secret … Monty LaDue b. Frankie
Murdock … Jimmy Goodrich b. George Ligorsky

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, September 14, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Sandor Szabo b. Pat O’Shocker (2-0) (second fall in 49
seconds) (Szabo used his giant swing) … Gus Sonnenberg b. Leo Jensen (14:16) … Harry
Jacobs b. Ezra Morgan (6:57) … Jules Strongbow and George Wilson drew … Cy Williams
b. Don Checo … Pierre Dusette b. Pat Stewart … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, September 16, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … “California State” Light Heavyweight Champion Al Szasz and Dory
Detton drew (60:00) (1-1) (non title match) … Joe Parelli b. Pat O’Dowdy … Yaqui Job b.
Rod Fenton (DQ) … Joe Reno b. Al Kelly … Cliff Campbell b. Hans Schumann …
(promoter: Frank Schuler)

San Francisco, California: Saturday, September 18, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … World Light Heavyweight Champion “Wild” Red Berry b. Danny
McShain (2/3) … Jimmy Lott b. The Black Panther (2/3) … Monte LaDue b. Jimmy
Goodrich … Frankie Peck b. The Black Secret … Johnny LaRue b. George Ligosky

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, September 21, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) .. Vicente Lopez b. Hans Steinke (2/3) … Gus Sonnenberg and
Sandor Szabo drew (30:00) … Prince Bhu Pinder b. Jules Strongbow (DQ) … Pierre
Dusette and Len Jensen drew … Harry Jacobs b. Bobby Stewart … Rudy LaDitzi and
George Wilson drew … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Thursday, September 23, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Joe Parelli b. Al Szasz to capture the California State Light
Heavyweight Title (2/3) … Dory Detton b. Al Boyd … Yaqui Joe b. Joe Reno … Pat O’
Dowdy and Joe Szabo drew … (promoter: Frank Schuler) … (referee: Fred Minden)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, September 28, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Sandor Szabo b. Vicente Lopez to capture the Pacific Coast
Heavyweight Title (1-0) (Lopez was unable to continue after losing the first fall due to a
“twisted neck”) … Pierre Dusette b. Leo Jensen (32:24) … Prince Bhu Pinder b. Pat O’
Shocker (14:54) … Harry Jacobs b. Joe Manuel (7:00) … Jumbo Kennedy b. Alex Lech (4:
13) … Jules Strongbow b. Bobby Stewart (15:51) … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

*The Wednesday, September 29, 1937 edition of the Modesto Bee and News Herald, Pat O’
Dowdy and Joe Parelli were both claimants to the California Light Heavyweight Title. They
were going to wrestle on Friday in Modesto with the winner claiming the championship.
Parelli was recognized in the Bay Area, while O’Dowdy was the Modesto titleholder, having
won his title “last week” from Dory Detton. Pat O’Dowdy was said to be a 15-year veteran.

San Francisco, California: Thursday, September 30, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Joe Parelli vs. Al Szasz (2/3) … Dory Detton vs. Pat O’Dowdy (2/3) …
Al Boyd vs. Yaqui Joe … Flash Kelly vs. Joe Reno … Speedy Cook vs. Joe Szabo …
(promoter: Frank Schuler) … (referee: Ken Larsen)
Notes: The Joe Parelli-Al Szasz was said to be a title match.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, October 5, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Sandor Szabo b. Prince Bhu Pinder (12:24) (mud match, there
was “mud seven inches deep” in the ring) … Jumbo Kennedy b. Harry Jacobs (5:00) …
Gus Sonnenberg b. George Wilson (flying tackle) … Pierre Dusette b. Joe Manuel (aiplane
spin) … Cy Williams b. Don (John?) Cherko … Leo Jensen and Rudy LaDitzi drew …
(promoter: Joe Malcewicz) .. (referees: Joe Gardenfield, Jack Wagner)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, October 12, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Sandor Szabo and Prince Bhu Pinder drew (2 hours) (1-1) …
Gus Sonnenberg b. Frank Malcewicz (11:45) … Leo Jensen and Cy Williams drew …
Pierre Dusette b. Rudy LaDitzi (DQ) (2:30) … Harry Jacobs b. John Cherko (7:12) … Al
Kasaboski b. Alex Lech (5:45) … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (referee: Joe Gardenfield)
Notes: The San Francisco Chronicle stated that Szabo was “fresh from the rigors of
becoming father to a 9 ½ pound baby girl yesterday morning,” in its Wednesday, October
13, 1937 paper. An announcement was made to the audience.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, October 19, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Prince Bhu Pinder b. Gus Sonnenberg (10:37) (“Hindu style”
mud match) (Sonnenberg missed a flying tackle, “buried his schnozzle in the sticky stuff
and the prince fell on top for the fall,” according to the newspaper report) … Jumbo
Kennedy b. Harry Jacobs (12:00) (mud match) … Cy Williams b. Leo Jensen … Pierre
Dusette and Al Kasaboski drew … Rudy Brenner b. Herman Olsen … George Wilson b. Bill
Evans … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (referee: Joe Gardenfield)
Notes: The mud matches, reportedly, occurred in some sort of special “tank” with a foot of
mud covering the bottom.

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, October 26, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Gino Garibaldi b. Jumbo Kennedy (2-0) … Cy Williams b. Nick
Lutze (25:20) … Prince Bhu Pinder b. Leo Jensen (18:48) … Pierre Dusette b. Billy Evans
(3:10) … Gus Sonnenberg b. Rudy Bremer (15:38) … Ignacio Martinez b. Herman Olsen (1:
30) … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)
Note: It was said to be “Jumbo’s first wrestling defeat.”

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, November 2, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Pacific Coast Heavyweight Champion Sandor Szabo b. Pierre
Dusette (1-0) (26:24) (Dusette was unable to continue after being on the receiving end of
a giant swing) (Dusette was carried away on a stretcher) … Gino Garibaldi b. Cy Williams
(DQ) … Gus Sonnenberg b. Harry Jacobs … Ignacio Martinez b. Joe Manuel … Gino
Vagnone b. Frank Malcewicz … Al Kasaboski and George Wilson drew … (promoter: Joe
Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, November 9, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Cy Williams b. Gino Vagnone (2/3) (Williams won the third fall in
12 seconds) … Prince Bhu Pinder b. Gus Sonnenberg (1-0) (15:28) (Sonnenberg missed
a flying tackle) … Terry McGinnis b. Nelson Davis … Leo Jenson and Walter Sirois drew
(30:00) … Ignacio Martinez b. Harry Jacobs (DQ) … Al Kasaboski b. Rudy Brenner …
(promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, November 16, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Sandor Szabo b. Walter Sirois (2-0) … Cy Williams b. Pierre
Dusette (DQ) … Al Kasaboski b. Terry McGinnis … Mike Bouskos and George Wilson drew
… Ignacio Martinez b. Nelson Davis (crabhold) … Harry Jacobs b. Hermie Olsen …
(promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (referee: Jack Wagner)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, November 23, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Cy Williams b. Pierre Dusette (2-0) … Dean Detton and Pat O’
Shocker drew … Gus Sonnenberg b. Walter Sirois (countout) … Gino Vagnone b. Al
Kasaboski (16:59) … Terry McGinnis b. Joe Manuel (4:04) … Leo Jensen b. Harry Jacobs
(DQ) … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, November 30, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Cy Williams b. Gus Sonnenberg (2/3) … Sandor Szabo b. Pat O’
Shocker (13:24) (they continued to brawl after the match around the ringsiders, and almost
into the lap of California State Athletic Commissioner Edwin Geary, who threatened to
suspend them if they didn’t get back into the ring – which they quickly did) … Ivan Rasputin
b. Frank Malcewicz (6:00) … Terry McGinnis b. Al Kasaboski (13:43) … Chief Little Wolf b.
Harry “Boxcar” Jacobs (9:48) … Vincent Lopez and Gino Vagnone drew (30:00) …
(promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (5,000 fans)
Notes: San Francisco Chronicle Christmas Fund show. The Olympic Club band played
throughout the show. Kasaboski was said to be from Tacoma. Williams was called the
“Tallahassee Terror.”

San Francisco, California: Wednesday, December 1, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … World Light Heavyweight Champion Danny McShain b. Pat O’Brien
(2/3) … Leroy McGuirk b. The Black Panther (2/3) … Bob Montgomery b. Frank Clements
… Sheik Mar-Allah b. Zibby Zbyszko … Danny Savich b. Johnny LaRue … (sponsored by:
American Legion)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, December 7, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Cy Williams b. Sandor Szabo to capture the Pacific Coast
Heavyweight Title (2/3) (third fall by countout) (Szabo refused to leave the ring after the
loss) … Ivan Rasputin b. Pierre Dusette (5:30) … Pat O’Shocker b. Prince Bhu Pinder (19:
37) … Walter Sirois b. Ted Palmer (8:48) … Leo Jensen and Al Kasaboski drew … Glenn
DuBose b. Harry Jacobs (DQ) … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz) … (referee: Jack Wagner)
Notes: Szabo was called a leading contender to Bronko Nagurski’s World Title. Glenn
“Pop” DuBose was said to be the “San Jose State football captain” for 1937.

San Francisco, California: Wednesday, December 8, 1937
(Civic Auditorium) … Ted Christy vs. Jimmy Lott (2/3) … Pat O’Brien vs. Duke Pettigrove
(2/3) … “Sockeye” Jack McDonald vs. “Cyclone” Steve Strelich (2/3) … Bob Montgomery
vs. Frankie Murdock … Frank Clements vs. Buck Olson … (sponsored by: American
Legion)
Notes: Ted Christy was called the “leading challenger” to the World Junior Title. Jimmy
Lott was said to be an “ex-University of Alabama gridder.” Steve Strelich was from
Hollywood and “has doubled for Maurice Chevalier, the late Will Rogers and others.”

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, December 14, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Ivan Rasputin b. Gino Vagnone (2-0) (second fall in 57 seconds
with a “body squeeze”) … Chief Little Wolf and Cy Willams drew (30:00) … Pat O’Shocker
b. Leo Jensen … Terry McGinnis and Walter Sirois drew … Ted “King Kong” Cox b. Benny
Cohen … Glenn DuBose and Al Kasaboski drew … (promoter: Joe Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, December 21, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Ivan Rasputin b. Pat O’Shocker (2-0) … Chief Little Wolf and
Walter Sirois drew … Ted Cox b. Leo Jensen … Terry McGinnis b. Frank Malcewicz …
Glenn DuBose b. Myron Cox … Pierre Dusette and Harry Jacobs drew … (promoter: Joe
Malcewicz)

San Francisco, California: Tuesday, December 28, 1937
(Dreamland Auditorium) … Sandor Szabo b. Jack Wagner (2-0) … Ivan Rasputin b. Pat O’
Shocker … Ted Cox b. Ignacio Martinez … Glenn DuBose and Walter Sirois drew … Pierre
Dusette and Al Kasaboski drew … The Yellow Peril b. Nelson Davis … (promoter: Joe
Malcewicz) … (referee: Joe Gardenfield)
Notes: In a column in the San Francisco Chronicle on December 28, 1937, Will Connolly
stated that referee Jack Wagner “paid a good price to the Farmer Burns’ Correspondence
School of rassling for the full course and in his day was heavy weight champion of
Nebraska. Wagner, only recently retired from an active career on the mat, has been
rehearsing in a gym he set up in the basement of his home to prove that if the cops ever
allowed a referee to get at a rassler, the official would throw the journeyman in jigtime.”

Research by Tim Hornbaker
December 1, 2007

Notes: There were two different groups of non-heavyweight performers in San Francisco
in 1937. The Exposition Auditorium and the Civic Auditorium were the same facility.

San Francisco Results - 1937