Sport Tabloids

Pawtucket Times – March 15, 1927
United Press

CHICAGO – Joe Malcewica, Utica, N. Y., defeated Stanley Stasiak, Boston wrestler, in two out of three falls of a wrestling match here. The men are heavyweights. The match, billed to determine the Polish heavyweight championship, attracted 4500 fans who paid approximately $7500 at the gate.

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.

Lack Of Action Causes Siki Bout To Be Halted

Buffalo Evening News – April 14, 1932

PHILADELPHIA, April, 14 (AP). – Gus Sonnenberg of Providence threw Karl Pojello of Chicago with a flying tackle in 15 minutes, 13 seconds Wednesday night.  Joe Malcewicz of Utica and Count George Zarynoff of Ukrainia wrestled to a draw in a 30-minute semi-final.

Referee Benny Paul threw Reginald Siki, Abyssinia Negro, and Kara Pasha, the Turk, out of the ring after 27:34 elapsed without action.

Nick Lutze, former Notre Dame football player, won a 30-minute decision over Pat McKay of Memphis.

Wrestling Results

Buffalo Evening News – September 7, 1932
By the Associated Press

THREE RIVERS, Que., (AP) – Joe Malcewicz, 202, Utica, N. Y., defeated Al Mercier, Chocutimi, Que., two falls to one (Malcewicz, 20; Mercier, 22; Malcewicz, 12)

NEW YORK, (AP) – Sammy Stein, 202, Newark, threw Bill Middlekoff, 222, Florida, in 17 minutes, 56 seconds ; Sid Westrich, 206, New York, threw Mike Romano, 205, Italy, in 18:57; Bruno Goriarani, 209, Italy, threw Benny Ginsberg, 210, Chicago, 17:08; Matros Kirilenko, 216, Russia, threw Michael Orgovanya, 202, Hungary, in 17:36, and Steve Znoski, 216, Poland, threw Jerry Monahan, 215, California, in 22:32.

Joe Malcewicz Wins Over Colored Champ

Utica Daily Press – January 24, 1925

Reginald Siki Falls Victim of Flying Mare in Third and Deciding Fall – Utican Is Downed at Outset With Punishing Headlock

Joe Malcewicz, Utica’s premier mat artist defeated Reginald Siki, colored champion in a fast, clever match Friday night at Maennerchor Hall.

Joe lost the first fall to Siki when the colored champion clamped on a punishing head scissors and bar arm on him after 31 minutes of fast work.  Both men worked out of some tight places, Siki being being punished with a headlock several times.

Jack Sherry Wins Over Charley Hansen

Rochester Democrat And Chronicle – May 5, 1932

New York, May 4 – (AP) – Jack Sherry, 220, of Ohio, used an airplane spin and body slam to throw Charley Hansen, 205, of Sweden, in 30:18 of the feature wrestling match at St. Nicholas Arena tonight.

Other results: Reginald Siki, 210, Buffalo, threw Paul Finsky, 215, Poland, in 11:31 with a body slam, Wong Bock Cheung, 200, China, threw Bob Wilkis, 200, Buffalo, in 26:03 with a King Fu Stopper, Joe Malcewicz, 201, Utica, pinned Al Mercier, 205, Montreal, in 14:30 with a back drop.

Morelli Beats Siki, Earns Bout With Lutze

Albany Times-Union – September 2, 1932
By Jack Andrews

Reginald Siki, the massive Senegalese negro, can’t take it.

There isn’t much doubt about that after his showing against Al Morelli, the Boston Bumper, in the topline wrestling event at Hawkins Stadium last night.

The Boston Bumper bumped Reginald with a flock of flying tackles and Reginald literally gave up, taking a ten count outside the ropes after 34:29 of almost completely outweighing the tackle specialist.  Morelli earned the right to meet Nick Lutze in the main next week.

Sonnenberg Takes Two Out Of Three Falls From McCoy

Nashua Telegraph – June 27, 1930

Has Easy Time With Boston Man

Holy Cross Star Takes First Fall

BOSTON, June 27, (AP) – Gus Sonnenberg, claimant of the world’s heavyweight wrestling championship, won two out of three falls from Bob “Bibber” McCoy, former Holy Cross athlete from Cambridge in a battle of flying tackles here tonight.  McCoy won the first fall in 33 minutes and Sonny the next two in 16 and 6 minutes respectively.

McCoy apparently shot his bolt during the 33 minutes of torrid wrestling for the first fall.  This came when Sonnenberg backed “Bibber” into a neutral corner to maneuver for flying tackle.  Before he could launch his butt, McCoy spilled him with a front headlock and banged his shoulders to the mat with a tackle and butt.

A New Wrestling Find

Boxing & Wrestling News – April 1933
By Marvin Williams

When we discover that a youngster of barely twenty-one summers in the short space of less than a year has already nearly defeated a great ex-champion, Gus Sonnenberg, and recently gave the present champion, Jim Browning, a tough battle, we naturally prick up our ears and decide to look into the matter. We realize that this is a very rare case. We remember that such a fine wrestler as Earl McCready, after successfully wrestling for years, made the statement when a match between himself and Jim Londos was talked about, “I am not yet ready to meet Londos. I feel that I require more experience.”

We wonder if Paul Boesch is too ambitious and if he will be a flash in the pan? We wonder if he will grow discouraged by being defeated, even though the defeats thus far have only been at the hands of the finest? Or can it be possible that Paul is a “great”; one of those instinctive wrestlers who acquires great skill without long years of practice? Perhaps he figures that the finest experience in the world can only come from real matches against the best.

Strangler Lewis In Title Campaign

Seattle Times – January 11, 1933

Ed (Strangler) Lewis, many-time heavyweight champion wrestler of the world, is campaigning for undisputed possession of that title once again, in “wrestling matches” rather than the present-day “exhibitions.” The veteran heavyweight made that declaration here yesterday.