Waterloo, IA: May 8, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Cardiff Giant (337 pounds from Marshalltown, IA) vs Sun
Jennings ... Hans Kampfer (as Kaempfer) vs Olaf Swenson ... Pat McClary vs Gabe Zeller
... (referee-Wally Karbo) ... (first outdoor card of the season was rained out)

Waterloo, IA: May 15, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Cardiff Giant beat Sun Jennings (13:00) ... Al Bisignano beat
Johnny Marrs ... Hans Kampfer beat Olaf Swenson (dq) ... (referee-Wally Karbo) ... (Att.
-2,500) ... (first card)

Waterloo, IA: May 22, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Al Bisignano beat Cardiff Giant (5:00) ... Strangler Pete Schuh
beat Johnny Marrs ... Gino (Red) Vagnone drew with Dr. Gordon McKenzie (as Dr. Fred
McKenzie) (30:00) ... (Att.2,500) ... NOTE Al Bisignano used the ring name Babe Carnera
in some areas.

Waterloo, IA: May 29, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Pete Schuh beat Cardiff Giant (10:00, cor) ... Otto Kuss beat Earl
Wampler (dq) ... Olaf Swenson drew with Harry Kent ... (referee-Wally Karbo)

Waterloo, IA: June 5, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... (WTM) Bronko Nagurski* beat Pete Schuh (18:00, body slam) ...
Harry Kent drew with Alford Johnson (30:00) ... Gino Vagnone beat Johnny Marrs ...
(referee-Wally Karbo)

Waterloo, IA: June 12, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Al Bisignano drew with Earl Wampler (60:00) ... Otto Kuss beat
Alford Johnson ... Cliff Thiede beat George Sauer ... (referee-Wally Karbo) ... NOTE: The
Cardiff Giant challenged the main event winner offering to shave his whiskers if defeated.

Waterloo, IA: June 19, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Earl Wampler beat Cardiff Giant (lost his beard) ... Harry Kent
beat Joe Pazandak (as Joey Pazendak) ... Cliff Thiede drew with Gordon McKenzie (as
George McKenzie) (30:00) ... (referee-Wally Karbo)

Waterloo, IA: June 26, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Al Bisignano beat Cardiff Giant (17:30) ... Olaf Swenson beat
Sun Jennings ... Gordon McKenzie beat Joe Hubka ... (referee-Wally Karbo)

Waterloo, IA: July 3, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... (Iowa title match) Al Bisignano beat Earl Wampler (1:21:00) (won
title) ... Otto Kuss beat Gordon McKenzie (dq) ... Olaf Swenson beat Alf Johnson ...
(referee-Tony Legouri)

Waterloo, IA: July 4, 1938 (Monday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... (Boxing) Robert E. Lee (of Price, Utah) beat Frank Jones (8
round decision) ... NOTE: Lee, from Price, Utah, was a protégé of Jack Dempsey. His
height was not given by the paper. The Boxing Record Archive lists him as a different
fighter than Robin (Tiny) Lee who was listed as boxing in 1945-46. The later boxer
became wrestler Sky Hi Lee. JMK is likely right that they were the same boxer.

Waterloo Daily Courier: July 10, 1938
Andrew L. George, Waterloo promoter, Saturday night married Vivien Sieman here.

Waterloo, IA: July 10, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Al Bisignano beat Gordon McKenzie (26:00) ... Otto Kuss drew
with Olaf Swenson (30:00) ... Gino Vagnone beat Cliff Thiede ... (referee-Tony Legouri)

Waterloo, IA: July 17, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Chief Bearclaws Chewacki beat Al Bisignano (22:00, dq) ... Olaf
Swenson drew with Gino Vagnone (30:00) ... Harry Kent beat Sun Jennings ... (referee-
Jack Lamphere)

Waterloo, IA: July 24, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Al Bisignano beat Chief Bearclaws Chewacki (as Chewichki) (23:
00) ... Jack Hader drew with Harry Kent (30:00) ... Prince Bhu Pinder beat Gordon
McKenzie (sub for Alf Johnson) ... (referee-Tony Legouri)

Waterloo, IA: July 31, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Al Bisignano beat Chief Bearclaws Chewacki (20:14) ... Olaf
Swenson beat Cliff Thiede (utc) ... Prince Bhu Pinder beat Jack Hader (dq) ... (referee-
Wally Karbo) ... (Att.-4,000)

Waterloo, IA: August 7, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Jack Hader beat Prince Bhu Pinder (22:00) ... Olaf Swenson drew
with Don McIntyre (30:00) ... Earl Wampler beat Cliff Thiede ... (referee-Wally Karbo) ...
NOTE: Olaf Swenson, later the Swedish Angel, was billed as San Francisco’s
“Frankenstein”.

Waterloo, IA: August 14, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Olaf Swenson beat Jack Hader (24:00) ... Gino Vagnone drew
with Gordon McKenzie (30:00) ... Harry Kent beat Leo Alexander ... (referee-Bob Jessen)

Waterloo, IA: August 21, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Al Bisignano beat Olaf Swenson (21:00) ... Don McIntyre beat
Eddie Cook (dq) (sub for Jack Hader) ... Eddie Cook (of Cedar Rapids) beat Alf Johnson
... (referee-Tony Legouri)

Waterloo, IA: August 28, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... (Iowa State title) Al Bisignano* beat Eddie Cook (28:00) ... Jack
Hader beat Bob Jessen ... Gino Vagnone beat Joe Hubka ... (referee-Tony Legouri)

Waterloo, IA: September 4, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Joe Savoldi beat Al Bisignano (26:00) ... Jack Hader beat Gabe
Zeller ... Gino Vagnone drew with Gordon McKenzie (30:00) ... (referee-Wally Karbo)

Waterloo, IA: September 5, 1938 (Monday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... (Boxing) Robert E. Lee vs Frank Jones (boxing card rained out)

Waterloo, IA: September 11, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Joe Savoldi vs Al Bisignano ... Earl Wampler vs Gino Vagnone ...
Jack League beat Gordon McKenzie ... (referee-Tony Legouri) ... NOTE: After the first
match, a heavy downpour of rain made further activity impossible.

Waterloo, IA: September 18, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Al Bisignano beat King Levinsky (6:30) ... Earl Wampler beat
Lord Mills ... Jack League drew with Hans Schultz (30:00) ... (referee-Tony Legouri) ...
(Att.-1,200)

Waterloo, IA: September 25, 1938 (Sunday)
(Electric Park Arena) ... Al Bisignano beat Jack Hader (22:15, dq) ... Earl Wampler beat
Jack League ... Hans Schultz drew with Gordon McKenzie ... (referee-Tony Legouri) ...
(last card of the season)



Research by Don Luce
Waterloo Wrestling Results - 1938