Dallas TX: April 21, 1926 (Wednesday)
(City Hall Auditorium) … Joe Shimkus vs Harry Demetral … Hugh Nichols vs Cyclone
Burns … NOTE: Burns is recalled from a year or so ago, when he "gave tough bouts to
Ernie Glover and Stan Rogers."

Dallas TX: April 28, 1926
(Fox-Willoughby Arena) … Hugh Nichols vs Clete Kauffman … Referee: Larry Meinert …
Joe Shimkus vs Cyclone Burns … NOTE: Named for the promoters, the "Fox-Willoughby
Arena" was an open-air space at the old Dallas ballpark in Oak Cliff.

Dallas TX: May 5, 1926
(Fox-Willoughby Arena) … Joe Shimkus beat Hugh Nichols (2-0) … Charlie Fox beat Vic
Miller (of Lincoln NE) (2-0) … Heny Reed drew Amarillo Kid (15:00) … Tex Atchison drew
Clayton Moffitt (15:00) … NOTE: Plus a "battle royal between seven dusky inhabitants of
Deep Elm" – Dallas TX Morning News, May 2, 1926  … Shimkus said to win "the eastern
and southern light-heavyweight championships" in lightning-fast falls, both taken with his
patented wristlocks, in one minute, 40 seconds and one minute, 20 seconds … This is
one of the more astounding results in the history of top-flight light-heavyweight wrestling.

Dallas TX: May 19, 1926
(Fox-Willoughby Arena) … Charlie Fox beat Jack Roller … Joe Shimkus drew Stanley
Rogers … Leo Fox beat Bill McKinnon … NOTE: Roller was remembered for wrestling Joe
(Toots) Mondt here in the fall of 1925, while Rogers was said to be in from a tour of the
Ozark country, where he reportedly won 12 straight bouts.

Dallas TX: June 2, 1926
(Fox-Willoughby Arena) … Charlie Fox beat Joe Shimkus (2-1) … Harry Demetral drew
Hugh (Jew) Swartz (15:00) … (Woman vs Man) Dot Apollo (185, of Dallas TX) beat
Amarillo Kid (156, of Dallas TX) (9:00) … NOTE: Fox is credited with relieving Shimkus of
the "southern" light-heavyweight championship … Both men had to make 175, with the
winner sweating off nearly 10 pounds.










Research by J Michael Kenyon
Dallas Wrestling Results - 1926