브라우닝이 젠킨스를 꺾다

12 월 17, 1923, 짐 브라우닝(Jim Browning)은 그의 고향인 베로나(Verona)에서 보기 드문 경기를 펼쳤습니다., 미주리. 브라우닝과 클라렌스 젠킨스의 경기를 보기 위해 인근 지역에서 400여 명의 팬들이 행사장으로 몰려들었습니다., 엠포리아 출신의 레슬링 선수, Kansas.

브라우닝과 젠킨스는 둘 다 캔자스에서 대부분의 경기를 치렀습니다. 1923. Browning was starting a career that would see Browning claim a version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in the early 1930s.

Jenkins never left Kansas. Jenkins eventually joined the Emporia Kansas Police Department and wrestled only part-time for the remainder of the 1920s. Jenkins eventually rose to the rank of Assistant Chief in charge of the night shift.

12 월 1923, Browning was a 20-year-old wrestling prodigy, while Jenkins was a 29-year-old solid journeyman. The men wrestled evenly for the first fifty-five minutes until Browning secured a body scissors for the first pinfall.

After the intermission, Jenkins said he was unable to continue due to broken ribs. Jenkins returned to Emporia for the holidays, while Browning stayed in Verona. Their careers also travelled in different directions.

Jim Browning travelled across the United States and Canada wrestling for every active promoter. Browning claimed his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1933. When Joseph “Toots” Mondt pulled off the double-cross of Jim Londos, Mondt put the title on Browning for safekeeping a year later.

Clarence Jenkins remained in Kansas, where he worked for the Emporia Kansas Police Department until he passed away at only 48-years-old after an illness of one month. Jenkins wrestled Ed “Strangler” Lewis in 1927 but primarily wrestled local Kansas wrestlers during the 1920s. Jenkins retired from the ring permanently in 1932.

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Sources: Springfield Leader and Press (Springfield, 미주리), 12월 19, 1923, 피. 10 과 The Emporia Gazette (Emporia, 미주리), 4월 22, 1942, 피. 1

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