Bob Kruse Is Held To Draw By Westenberg

Victoria Daily Times – June 5, 1931

Heavyweight Wrestlers Thrill Vancouver Crowd With Action Galore

Malcewicz Defeats L’Heureux; Kruse Appears Here To-morrow Night

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Bob Kruse, Portland heavyweight wrestler, will appear in the main event of the wrestling card at the Tillicum gymnasium to-morrow evening, with Ivan Siemans, Bremerton, as his opponent.  In the five-round semi-windup Ray Frisbie tackles Jack O’Dell.

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Vancouver, June 5 – Bob Kruse of Portland and Billy Westenberg, Tacoma, roused a lethargic wrestling crowd to roars of tumultuous cheering and jeering as they swirled like lithe tornadoes through six rounds of rip-roaring grappling at the Arena yesterday evening to wind up in the final canto with a fall each and the honors even.

Some Beef

Los Angeles Evening Express – September 7, 1926

The gentlemen of huge proportions pictured above who earn their livelihood by twisting one another into various pretzel shapes will grapple on Lou Daro’s card of eight bouts at the Olympic Auditorium tomorrow evening.

Mat Winner To Get Champ

Oakland Tribune – August 15, 1940

Brazil, Ivan Rasputin Victor Will Wrestle Pantaleon Manlapig

BATTLES BRAZILL
Ivan Rasputin

“Calling Pantaleon Manlapig!”

That’s who Promoter Ad Santel was paging today for a possible opponent to tangle with the winner of the Pedro Brazil-Ivan Rasputin match tomorrow night at the Oakland Auditorium.

Manlapig is the proud owner of the Pacific Coast wrestling championship, which he captured several months ago from Ramon Villmer.  The giant Filipino star has waited 2 ½ years for such an opportunity and he plans to keep the golden throne for a long time to come.

Mat Man Loses As Fighter, Too

Oakland Tribune – October 29, 1932

Rudy Laditzi Attacks Dr. Hall After Referee Gives Later Decision

Rudy Laditzi, wrestler, is nursing a sore head today as a result of a blow from a policeman’s club that broke up a near riot at the end of the wrestling bout between Laditzi and Dr. Len Hall ,at the Twelfth Street Theater last night.

Laditzi attacked Dr. Hall after the latter had been adjudged victor and was preparing to leave the ring. Referee Mark Nelson was brought into the scrap and it was necessary for the officer to wield the club to quiet Laditzi. The blow knocked him down and rendered him semi-conscious. During the embroglio a spectator threw a chair at Laditzi which narrowly missed him.

Laditzi, Hall Top Mat Card

Oakland Tribune – October 27, 1932

HEADLINER
Dr. Len Hall, heavyweight wrestler, who meets Rudy Laditzi in the main event at the Twelfth Street Theater tomorrow night.

A scientific wrestler will pit his skill against a rough, powerful grappler tomorrow night at the Twelfth Street Theater, when Dr. Len Hall clashes with Rudy Laditzi, Hungarian heavyweight.

They meet in the main event on the mat card and wrestling fans will witness two decidedly different types of ring maneuvers. The bout will be a two-hour contest, two falls deciding.

What The Referee Thought

San Francisco Chronicle – January 3, 1917
By Al Williams

It was a great match and I could do nothing else but call it a draw. Lewis was on top more than Santel, but in figuring all the holds and the counters, they were even, so far as I could determine.

Lewis And Santel Meet In Return

San Francisco Chronicle – January 2, 1917
By Harry B. Smith

San Francisco’s second big wrestling match under the modern revival int he West will be held tonight at the Civic Auditorium. Ad Santel and Strangler Lewis, whose first match showed there was comparatively little difference between them from a standpoint of ablity: the two who put up such a battle that fans have been talking about it ever since, are to meet this evening in a session which is virtually under the same conditions as before.

When the Kentuckian and the local favorite were first signed up by Promoter Frank Schuler it was for a two-hour contest, with a decision to be given in the event of neither contestant securing the necessary two-out-of-three falls.

5,000 Crowd Well Pleased At Verdict

San Francisco Chronicle – January 3, 1917
By Harry B. Smith

Strangler Ed Lewis and Ad Santel wrestled 2 hours and 31 minutes to a draw decision last night at Civic Auditorium and when Referee Al Williams raised the arms of both men in unison to indicate an even break not even the most partisan of Santel’s admirers could complain as to the ruling. There were no falls; no advantage that would have given either wrestler even so much as a shade verdict and it was a fitting end to a night’s entertainment that even surpassed the previous engagement between the same pair.

That extra minute of wrestling was thrown in by the timekeeper, who made the mistake of working the match with a stop-watch and checking each sixty seconds on pencil and paper. Somehow or other, in the excitement that punctuated the bout from start to finish, he skipped a count and the result was a little more mat work than had been the bargain.

Strangler Lewis in Win Over Ad Santel

San Francisco Chronicle – April 29, 1933

Strangler Lewis won two out of three falls from Ad Santel in their feature wrestling match last night in the Oakland Auditorium. Lewis won the first fall in twenty-four minutes with a headlock, lost the second in six minutes when he quit to a Japanese leglog, and won the third by twisting halfway out of another leglock and pinning Santel’s shoulders to the mat in seven minutes.

Royal Welcome For New Rassling Mob

San Francisco Examiner – January 31, 1961
By Prescott Sullivan

The State Athletic Commission has rolled out the red carpet of welcome for a new rassling mob.

With the commission’s blessing, the new outfit has settled down in Oakland’s KTVU where last Friday night it put on its first televised studio show.

Four or five other televised studio “come on” productions will follow.