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1889
JANUARY 1889
JANUARY 7, 1889 (MONDAY)
New York, New York
Purse: $800
1 - Graeco-Roman
E. Roeber Vs. H. Leonard,
Time-Limit Draw
JANUARY 1889
JANUARY 7, 1889 (MONDAY)
New York, New York
Purse: $800
1 - Graeco-Roman
E. Roeber Vs. H. Leonard,
Time-Limit Draw
DECEMBER 1889
DECEMBER 28, 1889 (SATURDAY)
Promotion: Buffalo Athletic Club
Music Hall, Buffalo, New York
Referee: Tom McMahon
1 - American Middleweight Championship
Tom Connors (c) Vs. Hugh Leonard (of Belfast, N.Y.),
Curfew Draw (02:36:00)
Notes:
Leonard is said to be a pupil of Muldoon.
The Sunday curfew was enforced.
1890
FEBRUARY 1890
FEBRUARY ??, 1890 (????)
International Wrestling Tournament
Promoter: Richard K. Fox(?)
New York, New York
Ende Hinweise / End Notes:
A trophy is at stake.
"The winner of the trophy will have to accept all challenges and win the trophy three times before it becomes his personal property."
Entries were open until February 10.
Teilnehmer / Participants (announced on January 27, 1890):
Sebastian Miller "the strongman of Germany",
Tom Connors,
William Muldoon,
Evan Lewis,
Hugh Leonard (of Buffalo, N.Y.),
Jack Carkeek,
Drago "the Austrian Hercules",
Ajax "the Man of Iron",
Greek Goerge (of Peoria Ill),
Ernest Roeber,
J.W. Kennedy (of Quincy, Ill),
Milo (the Greek Champion),
August Schmidt "the Well-Known German Wrestler",
And more to be announced.
Teilnehmer / Participants (announced on February 8, 1890):
Sebastian Miller "the Strong Man of Germany",
Hugh Leonard (of Buffalo, N.Y),
Jack Carkeek,
Drago "the Australian Hercules"
Ajax "the Man of Iron",
Greek George (of Peoria, Ill),
Ernest Roeber,
J.W. Kennedy (of Quincy, Ill.),
Milo,
August Schmidt "the Well-Known German Wrestler",
And more to be announced.
Carkeen is listed as the Cornish Champion.
Roeber is listed as the New York Champion.
Milo is listed as the Greek Champion.
The tournament is advertised as beginning in the third week of February 1890.
No further information.
FEBRUARY 1890
FEBRUARY ??, 1890 (????)
International Wrestling Tournament
Promoter: Richard K. Fox(?)
New York, New York
Ende Hinweise / End Notes:
A trophy is at stake.
"The winner of the trophy will have to accept all challenges and win the trophy three times before it becomes his personal property."
Entries were open until February 10.
Teilnehmer / Participants (announced on January 27, 1890):
Sebastian Miller "the strongman of Germany",
Tom Connors,
William Muldoon,
Evan Lewis,
Hugh Leonard (of Buffalo, N.Y.),
Jack Carkeek,
Drago "the Austrian Hercules",
Ajax "the Man of Iron",
Greek Goerge (of Peoria Ill),
Ernest Roeber,
J.W. Kennedy (of Quincy, Ill),
Milo (the Greek Champion),
August Schmidt "the Well-Known German Wrestler",
And more to be announced.
Teilnehmer / Participants (announced on February 8, 1890):
Sebastian Miller "the Strong Man of Germany",
Hugh Leonard (of Buffalo, N.Y),
Jack Carkeek,
Drago "the Australian Hercules"
Ajax "the Man of Iron",
Greek George (of Peoria, Ill),
Ernest Roeber,
J.W. Kennedy (of Quincy, Ill.),
Milo,
August Schmidt "the Well-Known German Wrestler",
And more to be announced.
Carkeen is listed as the Cornish Champion.
Roeber is listed as the New York Champion.
Milo is listed as the Greek Champion.
The tournament is advertised as beginning in the third week of February 1890.
No further information.
OCTOBER 1890
OCTOBER 23, 1890 (TUESDAY)
Opera House, Rochester, New York
Referee: Thomas Coyle
1 - Handicap - Roeber to Throw Leonard in Fifteen Minutes - Roeber to Forfeit $50 if Fails
Hugh Leonard Vs. Ernest Roeber,
Time-Limit - Roeber Failed to Throw Leonard (00:15:00)
OCTOBER 1890
OCTOBER 23, 1890 (TUESDAY)
Opera House, Rochester, New York
Referee: Thomas Coyle
1 - Handicap - Roeber to Throw Leonard in Fifteen Minutes - Roeber to Forfeit $50 if Fails
Hugh Leonard Vs. Ernest Roeber,
Time-Limit - Roeber Failed to Throw Leonard (00:15:00)
1891 (no results)
1892 (no results)
1893 (no results)
1894
FEBRUARY 1894
FEBRUARY 24, 1894 (SATURDAY)
'The World's' Free Bread Fund Benefit
Madison Square Garden, New York, New York
Attendance: 5,000
Gate: $5,000-$8,000
1 - Graeco-Roman
William Muldoon Vs. Ernest Roeber,
Time-Limit Draw (00:10:00)
2 - Catch-as-Catch-Can
Hugh Leonard Vs. Prof. B.A. McFadden,
Time-Limit Draw (00:10:00)
Notes:
Muldoon is listed as the former Graeco-Roman champion and Roeber the current.
The show also featured the First Naval Battalion Band, boxing bouts, a broadsword exhibition, and a trained boxing kangaroo.
FEBRUARY 1894
FEBRUARY 24, 1894 (SATURDAY)
'The World's' Free Bread Fund Benefit
Madison Square Garden, New York, New York
Attendance: 5,000
Gate: $5,000-$8,000
1 - Graeco-Roman
William Muldoon Vs. Ernest Roeber,
Time-Limit Draw (00:10:00)
2 - Catch-as-Catch-Can
Hugh Leonard Vs. Prof. B.A. McFadden,
Time-Limit Draw (00:10:00)
Notes:
Muldoon is listed as the former Graeco-Roman champion and Roeber the current.
The show also featured the First Naval Battalion Band, boxing bouts, a broadsword exhibition, and a trained boxing kangaroo.
1895 (no results)
1896 (no results)
1897 (no results)
1898
JANUARY 1898
JANUARY 29, 1898 (SATURDAY)
Benefit for Prof. H.A. Jacoby
New York Athletic Club Gymnasium, New York, New York
1 - Catch-as-Catch-Can
Hugh Leonard Vs. C.W. Turner,
Time-Limit Draw (00:10:00)
Note:
Featured fencing and boxing also.
JANUARY 1898
JANUARY 29, 1898 (SATURDAY)
Benefit for Prof. H.A. Jacoby
New York Athletic Club Gymnasium, New York, New York
1 - Catch-as-Catch-Can
Hugh Leonard Vs. C.W. Turner,
Time-Limit Draw (00:10:00)
Note:
Featured fencing and boxing also.
FEBRUARY 1898
FEBRUARY 6, 1898 (SUNDAY)
"A HAND BOOK OF WRESTLING. By Hugh F. Leonard. 12mo.; cloth; pp. 257. New York: E.R. Pelton, Publisher.
The author of this treatise on wrestling is instructor at the New York Athletic Club, and a recognized authority. After a chapter in which the history of wrestling as an art is sketched, there are a few paragraphs covering the fundamental principles. The rest of the book contains a number of half-tone engravings, two on a page, illustrating every important move in wrestling. Opposite each picture is printed a full explanation and direction. The pictures are arranged so as to follow each other in regular order. The work is edited by F.A. Fernald, and may be confidently recommended to anyone interested in athletics as a valuable treatise on wrestling, giving in small space almost everything that one would care to know about the art." - New Orleans Times-Picayune
FEBRUARY 28, 1898 (MONDAY)
New York Consulate of the League of American Wheelmen's Smoker
Lenox Lyceum, New York, New York
1 - Hugh Leonard Vs. Charles J. Kintner,
Result Unknown
Notes:
Kintner is listed as the New York Athletic Club Heavyweight Champion, the club where Leonard instructs.
Also featured vaudeville and fencing. As well as 10,000 cigarettes, corn cob pipes and tobacco being handed out.
APRIL 1898
APRIL 14, 1898 (THURSDAY)
Fifth Annual N.Y.A.C. Wrestling Championship: Final Day
New York Athletic Club House, New York, New York
1 - 125lb
Dr. W.W. Gilfillan def. Richard Stevens,
Forfeit (00:20:00)
2 - 135lb
Samuel Scovill Jr. def. W.B. Haven
(00:13:55)
3 - 145lb
A.A. Maurava def. F.L. Cooper
(00:04:57)
4 - Hugh Leonard Vs. George Betchell,
Result Unknown
Notes:
They wrestled without a fall for twenty minutes, Stevens then quit.
No-one could be found to go with Betchel so the heavyweight class was cancelled.
1899 (no results)
1900
DECEMBER 1900
DECEMBER 18, 1900 (TUESDAY)
Sporting Exhibition for the Hugh S. Hart Fund
Grand Central Palace Amusement Hall, New York, New York
Attendance: 'Fairly Good'
Gate: $500 (Advance sale only accounted for)
1 - Amateur Exhibition Match
The Iceman Vs. The Bear,
Time-Limit Draw
2 - $100 Side Bet
Gustav Estel (of Vienna) Vs. Frederick Mohk (of Zurich),
Time-Limit Draw
3 - Exhibition Match
Hugh Leonard Vs. Georg Bechtel, Time-Limit Draw
4 - Exhitbition Match - Ernest Roeber Special Guest Referee
George Bothner def. 'Irish Giant' Phil Brown
(00:06:30)
5 - Open Challenge - $500 to Any Man Who Pons Can Not Throw in Sixty Minutes
Paul Pons Vs. Unknown,
Result Unknown
6 - Exhibition
Ernest Roeber Vs. Jim Jeffries,
Cancelled
Notes:
The charity Event Also Featured...
- Sparring With James J. Corbett, Will Lester, Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin, Peter Maher, Matty Matthews, Jimmy Handler, George McFadden, Billy Smith, Professor Mike Donovan, George Scheuegler, Kid Levy and George Holden - Was cancelled.
- Bag Punching with Fred Graveur, the Kelly brothers and Johnny Dunn.
- Stength Display by Rolando.
- Rowing with Edward Hanlon and Davy Roach.
- Handball saw Phil Casey Vs. E.J. Giannini.
- Bicycling 'Mile a minute' saw Murphy Vs. Albert.
- Broadsword - Professor Koch Vs. a pupil.
- Speech from John L. Sullivan.
- 'Various Vocal Efforts.'
Jeffries was unable to appear at the event which is why Ernest Roeber ended up being a referee.
George Bothner was holding a version of the lighweight championship at the time of this event.
No mention of Paul Pons is made in the write-up following the show. Possibly he did not perform.
All wrestling exhibitions were noted for having no falls in them and being of a friendly nature, besides the Bother contest.
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Hugh Leonard's Results.
Updated: November 22, 2018.
Record: #43.
Editor: Jimmy Wheeler.