Chicago, IL: January 4, 1929
(Ashland Boulevard Auditorium) … Richard Shikat (as Schikat) beat John Freberg (2-1) …
Wladek Zbyszko vs Tom Lurich … Kola Kwariani vs George Hill … William Demetral vs Karl
Pojello

Chicago, IL: January 7, 1929
(Broadway Armory) … Charley “Midget” Fisher beat Johnny Meyers (2:00:00, 1-1,
decision) ... Lou Talaber beat Tony Hadjich ... Zack Malkov beat Walter Billeter ... Jack
Smith beat George Mack (20:00, dec.)

Chicago, IL: January 11, 1929
(Ashland Auditorium) … (WMTM) Gus Kallio* beat Joe Parelli (2:00:00, 1-0) ... Yaqui Joe
beat Joe Silvio ... Lou Talaber drew with Hugh Nichols (30:00) ... Karl Pojello beat Pat
Corrigan

Chicago, IL: January 15, 1929
(Hippodrome Arena) … Richard Shikat beat Joe Rogacki (2-0) ... Toots Mondt beat Jim
Browning (19:08)

Lawrence, MA: January 15, 1929
(WTM) Gus Sonnenberg* beat Frank Malcewicz (2-0)

New Orleans, LA: January 28, 1929
Mike Romero beat Hans Bauer

Chicago, IL: January 29, 1929
(Hippodrome Arena) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis beat Marin Plestina (2-0) ... Kola Kwariani
beat Jack Washburn ... Gino Garibaldi (as Jim Garibaldi) beat Jack McKay ... Karl Pojello
beat Tommy Marvin

St. Louis, MO: January 29, 1929
(exhibition match) Gus Sonnenberg beat Frank Jorgenson (3:55)

Chicago, IL: February 8, 1929
(Ashland Boulevard Auditorium) … Kola Kwariani beat Moose Norbeck (2-0) … (exhibition
match) Gus Sonnenberg vs Frank Forbes (8:15) … Karl Pojello beat Mike Romero (dec.)
… Toots Mondt drew with Gino Garibaldi (30:00) … Tom Marvin beat Young Zbyszko

Memphis, TN: February 13, 1929
(WTM) Gus Sonnenberg* beat Stanley Stasiak (1-0, utc)

New Orleans, LA: February 18, 1929
Ed “Strangler” Lewis beat Mike Romero (1-1, utc)

Chicago, IL: February 25, 1929
(Coliseum) … (WTM) Gus Sonnenberg* beat Stanley Stasiak (2-0) … Karl Pojello beat
Tommy Marvin … Jim McMillen beat Dan Koloff … Hans Steinke beat Jack Washburn …
John Evko beat Joe Rogacki … (Att.-6,000, $15,000) … (referees-Emil Thiry and Charley
Lavine … (promoter-Doc Krone)

Chicago, IL: February 28, 1929
(Broadway Armory) … Johnny Meyers beat Joe Parelli (2-1) … Lou Talaber vs Arnold
Minkley … Zack Malkov vs George Hanson … George Mack vs Ted Victor

Chicago, IL: March 11, 1929
(Coliseum) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis beat Kola Kwariani (2:00:00, 1-0) … Toots Mondt beat
Firpo Wilcox … Hans Bauer beat Jack Washburn (dq) … Jim Londos vs Gino Garibaldi …
Nick Lutz vs George McCloud … Hans Steinke vs George Hill … (main bout referee-Ted
Tonneman) … (Att-4,000) … (promoter-Joe Coffey)

Lafayette, IN: March 16, 1929
(Big Ten championships) Ed George (Michigan) beat Swenson (Wisconsin)

Washington, DC: March 18, 1929
(WTM) Gus Sonnenberg* beat Pat McCarthy (2-0)

Chicago, IL: March 26, 1929
(Coliseum) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis beat Joe Malcewicz (2-1) … Kola Kwariani beat Hans
Bauer … Toots Mondt beat Paul Jones … Hans Steinke beat Carl Schultz … Karl Pojello
beat John Ondracek … (Att.-5,000) … (promoter-Doc Krone

Chicago, IL: March 30, 1929
(Chicago Athletic Association) … Charley “Midget” Fisher vs Zack Malkov … Lou Talaber
vs Chief War Eagle … plus five boxing matches

Columbus, Ohio: March 30, 1929
(National Intercollegiate tournament) (heavyweight final) Earl McCready (Oklahoma A. and
M) beat Russ Fairall (1:25) … NOTE: Ed George of Michigan was unable to go to the
tournament because of a bad elbow.

Chicago, IL: April 1, 1929
(Broadway Armory) … Johnny Meyers vs Zack Malkov … (light heavyweight claimant)
Arnold Minkley vs George Mack … NOTE: Zack Malkov is called a north shore motorcycle
policeman. Malkov is a former amateur champion and has been wrestling professionally for
two years. Zack was still wrestling in 1960.

Ann Arbor, MI: April 6, 1929
Coach Clifford Keen of the University of Michigan wrestling team awarded nine letters and
seven AMA’s to members of the Wolverine wrestling squad at the close of their most
successful season in which they won the western conference title and were second in the
national championships. Ed (Don) George was one of the team who received his letter.

Chicago, IL: April 16, 1929
(Ashland Boulevard Auditorium) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis beat Renato Gardini (2-0) … Jim
Londos drew with Ray Steele (37:00) … Hans Steinke beat Howard Cantonwine … Toots
Mondt drew with Wladek Zbyszko (30:00) … (Att.1,500) … (main bout referee-Emil Thiry)
… (promoter-Doc Knone) … NOTE: Billy Sandow was the second for Lewis and Jack
Curley was the second for Gardini.

Meriden, CT: April 16. 1929
Freddie Verrillo, of this city, beat Pete Colonius, Chicago, (2-1) regarded as the title holder
of the world’s welterweight title. A diamond studded belt emblematic of the championship,
became Verrillio’s property.

New York City, NY: April 20, 1929
(National A.A.U. tournament) (heavyweight final) Ed George (Michigan) beat Ernest Ots (of
NY) (10:00) … (160 pound final) Ben Sherman (Portland, OR) beat Charles Humbert (NY A.
C.) (7:40) … (Semi final round) Ed George beat Odoilio Marchioni … Ernest Ots beat
Herbert Friedman … NOTE: Odlio Marchioni of Boston took the runner up honors in the
heavyweight class with a victory by forfeit from Ernest Ots of New York.

Chicago, IL: April 24, 1929
(Broadway Armory) … (WMTM) Charley “Midget” Fisher* vs Johnny Meyers … NOTE:
Fisher was said to have won the middleweight title from Meyers on a referee’s decision at
Broadway armory a few weeks ago. If so the Tribune didn’t cover it.

Chicago, IL: April 29, 1929
(Coliseum) … (WTM) Gus Sonnenberg* beat Joe Malcewicz (2-0) … Wladek Zbyszko beat
Paul Martinson … William Demetral beat Jack McCarthy … Gino Garibaldi beat George Hill
… Ray Steele beat Hans Bauer … (main bout referee-Emil Thiry) … (Att.-5,500) …
(promoter-Joe Coffey)

Chicago, IL: May 7, 1929
(Ashland Boulevard Auditorium) … Jim Londos beat Gino Garibaldi (2-0) … Ray Steele
beat George Hagen … Karl Pojello beat George Mack … Charley Strack beat Jack
Roberts … (Att.-2,000) … (promoter-Doc Krone)

Battle Creek, MI: May 20, 1929
(middleweight claimant) Gus Kallio* beat Jimmy Demetral (2-0)

Chicago, IL: May 27, 1929
(Coliseum) … Jim Londos beat Ray Steele (2:00:00, 1-0) … Toots Mondt beat Gino
Garibaldi … Hans Steinke drew with Kola Kwariani (30:00) … Charley Strack beat Charley
Marvin … (Att.-3,500) … (promoter-Doc Krone)

Chicago, IL: June 10, 1929
(Hippodrome) … Jim Londos beat Jack Taylor (2-0) … Ray Steele beat William Demetral
… Karl Pojello drew with Rudy Dusek (30:00) … Pietro Bacini beat Gene LaDoux …
(promoter-Joe Coffey)

Chicago, IL: June 28, 1929
(Logan Square Baseball Park) … Jim Londos beat Charley Strack (2-0) … Rudy Dusek
drew with Toots Mondt (45:00) … (promoter Doc Krone)

New York City, NY: July 24, 1929
Dr. Benjamin F. Roller was sued for divorce by his wife, Mrs. Tracy H. Roller yesterday.
The couple was married in 1910 at Fort Erie, Ontario.

Chicago, IL: July 31, 1929
(Hippodrome) … Joe Stecher beat Howard Cantonwine (2-0) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis beat
Matros Kirilenko … Charley “Midget” Fisher drew with Gus Clem (30:00) … Joe DeVito
beat Paul Martinson … (Att.-1,500) … (promoter-Joe Coffey) … NOTE: At the end of 34:
00, referee Bob Managoff awarded the decision to Matros Kirilenko in the semi-final. The
Boxing commission overruled Managoff’s decision and ordered the bout to go fifteen
minutes more. Lewis pinned Kirilenko in 6:50. This avoided a riot as the fans were throwing
missiles and yelling threats at the referee.

Chicago Tribune: August 1, 1929
Dan Koloff, suspended for wrestling under assumed names, was refused a hearing at a
meeting of the Illinois Athletic commission yesterday.

Chicago Tribune: August 3, 1929
Governor Emmerson yesterday asked for the resignations of Paul Prehn, Al Mann and
Sam Luzzo as members of the state athletic commission which controls boxing and
wrestling.

Chicago, IL: August 9, 1929
(Logan Square Open Air Arena) … Karl Pojello beat Mike Romero (2-1) … Hans Steinke
beat Joe Komar … Jim McMillen beat Jack Washburn … Kola Kwariani beat Hans Bauer
(30:00, dec.) … (promoter-Dick Curley)

Chicago Tribune: August 10, 1929
Brig. General John V. Clinnin last night announced that he would accept the chairmanship
of the newly appointed Illinois boxing commission.
Freddie Meyers and Charley Hanson, heavyweight mat performers, were found guilty of
wrestling under assumed names and were suspended. Ed “Strangler” Lewis also came up
for a suspension for intimidating a referee of his recent match in Chicago.

Chicago, IL: August 26, 1929
(Coliseum) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis beat Matros Kirilenko (2-1) … Marin Plestina drew with
John Freberg (30:00) … Stanley Lurick beat George Mack (30:00, dec.) … Joe DeVito vs
Jack McCarthy … Charley “Midget” Fisher vs Gus Clem … (promoter-Doc Krone)

September 1929 No Wrestling

Chicago, IL: October 7, 1929
(Coliseum) … Joe Stecher beat Stanley Stasiak (2-1) … Joe Malcewicz beat Charley
Hanson (45:00, dec.) … (middleweight claimant) Charley “Midget” Fisher drew with Heine
Engle (30:00) … William Demetral vs John Mandrick … Pete Schuh vs Stratta Ruby …
(promoter-Joe Coffey)

Portland, OR: October 30, 1929
(WTM) Gus Sonnenberg* beat Howard Cantonwine (2-0)

Chicago, IL: November 18, 1929
(Dreamland rink) … George Calza vs Joe Komar … Jim Londos vs Karl Pojello …
(promoter-Dick Curley)

Chicago, IL: December 2, 1929
(Coliseum) … (WTM) Gus Sonnenberg* beat Joe Malcewicz (2-0) … Charley “Midget”
Fisher drew with Ralph Parcaut (43:45) … Johnny Meyers vs George Kogut … John
Spellman vs Joe DeVito … (Att.-3,500) … (promoter-Joe Coffey)

Tulsa, OK: December 16, 1929
(WTM) Gus Sonnenberg* beat Ed “Strangler” Lewis (2-0) … (Att.-6,000)

Chicago, IL: December 19, 1929
(Coliseum) … (WTM) Gus Sonnenberg* vs Joe Devito … Joe Stecher vs Pat McGill …
Wladek Zbyszko vs Marin Plestina … Joe Malcewicz vs John Grandovich … (promoter-Doc
Krone) … (postponed as a major snow storm hit the Midwest)


Research by Don Luce




Below is additional research by Tim Hornbaker


Chicago, Illinois:  Monday, January 7, 1929
(Broadway Armory Arena) ... World Middleweight Champion Johnny Meyers vs. Charles
"Midget" Fischer
Notes:  According to the Associated Press, the Illinois State Athletic Commission
recognized Gus Kallio as the middleweight champion, but "Meyers has obtained a court
injunction restraining the commission from awarding the title to anyone else."


Chicago, Illinois:  Tuesday, January 29, 1929
( ) ... Ed "Strangler" Lewis b. Marin Plestina (2-0) (1:17, 7:00)


Chicago, Illinois:  Monday, April 29, 1929
( ) ... World Heavyweight Champion Gus Sonnenberg b. Joe Malcewicz (2-0) (52:38, 2:52)
(flying tackle, crotch and half-Nelson hold)


Chicago, Illinois:  Monday, June 10, 1929
( ) ... Jim Londos b. Jack Taylor (2-0) (49:23, 1:38)


Chicago, Illinois:  Friday, June 28, 1929
( ) ... Jim Londos b. Charlie Strack (2-0) (43:07, 9:42) ... Rudy Dusek and Joe "Toots"
Mondt drew (45:00)

Chicago, Illinois:  Monday, December 2, 1929
( ) ... World Heavyweight Champion Gus Sonnenberg b. Joe Malcewicz (2-0) (1:05:00, 3:
00) (flying tackle)
Chicago Wrestling Results - 1929