San Antonio TX: December 26, 1917
Young Dixie, a Russian light-heavyweight wrestler, is in town and challenging to wrestle
… Joe Shimkus, an erstwhile boilermaker, accepts the defi … Young Dixie, incidentally,
claims to have been "under the instruction of Farmer Burns" – which well may have
meant that he had read one of Martin's instructional pamphlets.

















Research by J Michael Kenyon
San Antonio Wrestling Results - 1917