Thursday, September 25, 2014

A little Known History of Paul Boesch


Paul Boesch


David Buie


HIST 4301:  US History from 1945
Dr. Christian
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            For many people in Houston, Texas the name of Paul Boesch congers up specific images, whether those images are pro-wrestler Paul Boesch or wrestling announcer/promoter Paul Boesch or even if one was not a wrestling fan they may have known him from a popular commercial for a local jewelry store that ran for many years .  However, there are many aspects of Paul Boesch that do not get the acknowledgement that should.  Little known in the public eye is Paul Boesch the soldier or the philanthropist or father or poet or writer on such varied topics as World War II, women’s self defense, and wrestling.
                         Contentment
                        By Paul Boesch
            Contentment embraces the motionless sea
            Lulling the waves to peace
            Cloudless sky and the breeze agree
            It’s time for unrest to cease.
            Soaring sea birds, gracefully wing,
            Admiring reflections in lapis blue;
            Tawny sands welcome a gathering
            Of seaborne lovers in rendezvous…[1]
            Paul Boesch was born October 2, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York.  At age ten, the young Boesch moved to Long Beach, New York.  After two years of high school, Boesch left school to go to work.  He had been employed as a part-time lifeguard since the age of thirteen and by the age of fifteen he was a full-time member of the Long Beach Patrol.[2]
            After leaving high school Boesch also worked as a lathe man, gym instructor, and ditch digger.  However as a natural athlete Boesch played semi-professional and professional basketball where he was paid $5 per game.[3]  In 1932 Boesch placed third in the North Atlantic Coast Lifeguard Championship. It was Boesch’s notoriety as a life guard that put him in contact with on of the most controversial figures in professional wrestling, Jack Pfefer the match maker for Madison Square Garden.  That same year in October, Boesch wrestled in his first professional match.[4]  Boesch from that October day in 1932 was never very far from wrestling.  As a professional wrestler he was able to compete all over the United States and Canada and even in locales as far away as the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand against the top talent in the world.[5] During his career as a Wrestler Boesch wrestled some of the top wrestlers of the day such as former world champions Jim Londos and Dick Shikat, Boesch also faced the likes of Ted “King Kong” Cox, Earl McCready and later in his wrestling career Duke Keomuka and Leroy McGuirk.[6]
Wrestling opened a lot of doors for Paul Boesch.  One was broadcasting of a wrestling match in Portland, Oregon.  Though this was at the time more of an accident than a career.  When Rollie Truitt, the radio announcer in Portland, Oregon, was interviewing Boesch between falls of a match and in Boesch’s own words, “Rollie Truitt handed me the microphone when the wrestlers returned to the ring and said ‘you broadcast the next fall’ I stammered a protest, but he walked away and I became a radio announcer.”[7]  It did eventually become part of his career in 1948 when he began broadcasting wrestling on KLEE-radio, and a year later on KLEE channel two, which was the first television station in Houston, Texas, Boesch was one of the first telecaster of sports in Houston in January, 1949, of which Boesch said, “I hadn’t even seen televison and suddenly I was on it.”[8]  He also worked as a disc jockey on several radio stations that broadcasted throughout Texas.  In 1950 KLEE was bought out by the Houston Post and the Hobby Family, after the purchase compulsory network programming caused Paul Boesch’s show, Houston Wrestling, to move to channel thirteen, where the show was a fixture until the last few months of 1981.  However, Boesch was able to again move his show to the “new kid in town” when on January 1982 he began broadcasting on channel thirty-nine.[9]  Though broadcasting brought Boesch a measure of notoriety to the population in general to those that were fans of wrestling and those in the business his real contribution was made as a promoter. Paul Boesch, in 1937, was wrestling in Seattle, Washington when a back injury prevented him from wrestling for a full year.  Boesch was able to buy into the Seattle wrestling promotion.  It was during his time as a promoter in Seattle that Boesch had a bright idea that he wishes he had back.  Boesch described it this way, “I invented ‘mud wrestling’ and promoted the first one [match] in this country.  I meant it to be a ‘Hindu style’ match with India’s Harnem Singh and former world’s champion Gus Sonnenberg wrestling in a ring packed with dirt.  Someone forgot to turn off the water.”[10]  After a year of therapy, Paul’s back had healed sufficiently for Boesch to return to the ring where he continued his wrestling career.[11]  However this was not the last time Boesch would work as a wrestling promoter, but on December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor thrusting the United States into World War II.  Paul Boesch had returned to Long Island after the war in Europe started where he was working as chief of lifeguards while wrestling around New York.  In 1942:
Across the river he lies in wait
This man I have sworn to kill
Carefully I’ve learned to hate
The enemy who’s blood I’ll spill…
-from The Enemy By Paul Boesch-[12]
            In 1942 Paul Boesch, much like Audie Murphy, tried to get into the military only to be turned down twice before finally landing in the army.  Boesch’s first attempt occurred when after a Judo demonstration a naval officer approached Boesch to teach hand combat at the naval pre-flight training schools.  However when it became known in Washington, D.C. that Boesch did not finish high school the offer was withdrawn.[13]  Next, Jack Dempsey, the former heavyweight boxer, who was commissioned as commander in the Coast Guard and responsible for developing a physical fitness program contacted Paul Boesch and promised to get him a rating of chief petty officer to work as a hand to hand combat instructor.[14]  This did not happen because the Coast Guard had decided that they were not taking any more athletes as chiefs and offered Boesch a job as an apprentice seaman which Boesch declined.  Boesch heard about the United States Army volunteer officer candidate program which offered the opportunity to become an officer to any civilian that was not draftable if they could pass a physical, army general classification test, an interview by a board of officers, and waive their deferment.  If the candidate made it they would be inducted into the army through normal channels.  If the candidate made it through basic training the candidate would go before a selection board.  Those who made it through boot camp would go before a selection board.  Those who made it through the selection board would go onto non-commissioned officer school.  Then those that survived non-commissioned officer school would ultimately go onto officer candidate school.  Paul Boesch made it through and left officer candidate school.  He was then assigned to the 63rd Infantry Division at Camp Blanding, Florida where he was assigned to the 255th Infantry.  Second Lieutenant Boesch’s first assignment white at Camp Blanding was to teach “dirty fighting” and he was also assigned to Headquarters Company of the 3rd Battalion.  Lieutenant Boesch’s self-defense class was a melding of judo with some wrestling.
            One morning the executive officer of the division, Brigadier General F.M. Fitch, observed Lieutenant Boesch’s class.  As the general watched Lieutenant Boesch brought an unsuspecting captain forward and placed him in an unconscious hold and in a few seconds the captain was out cold and to quote Lieutenant Boesch, “The general stared at him until I thought his eyes would pop out!”[15]  Lieutenant Boesch revived the captain and then Lieutenant Boesch moved onto a sergeant also taking class and applied a variation of the same hold with the same results.  Lieutenant Boesch described the generals reaction to the state of the second volunteer as, “I could see out of the corner of my eye that the general was about to go nuts with excitement!”[16]  Lieutenant Boesch then revived the sergeant and then called a break.  The general then sought out Lieutenant Boesch and enthusiastically questioned the self-defense instructor.  He ultimately asked Lieutenant Boesch, “That fellow was faking wasn’t he?  You rehearsed that as a part of your class, didn’t you?”[17]  To which Lieutenant Boesch slipped behind the general and put his arms around his neck and said, “I’d be glad to show you what happened, sir.”[18]  The general made the fastest move of the day and chuckled as he said, “I believe you.  Never mind the demonstration.”[19]  Not long after this incident Lieutenant Boesch shipped out of Europe where he served with the 121st Infantry of the Eighth Division.  During his time in the service Lieutenant Boesch won the Silver Star with cluster, Bronze Star with cluster, a Purple Heart with cluster, Combat Infantrymen’s Badge, and three Battle Stars.  As part of the 121st Infantry he received the Distinguished Unit Citation and from the French government the Croix de Guerre with star.  Lieutenant Boesch also won the admiration of those that served with him.  Major General William Weaver said of Lieutenant Boesch, “In decorating Lieutenant Boesch with the Silver Star for his work in the attached (his third award in less than two months), I wrote his wife that her husband was a brave and efficient soldier, whose action upheld the highest military traditions.”[20]  While Major General P.D. Ginder said, “…one unit Company ‘G’ of the 121st Infantry had been able to take a small piece of the town and hang onto it.  This badly depleted company leady by Lieutenant [Paul] Boesch gave me the spring board to complete the capture of Huertgen.”[21]
            After Paul Boesch left the military he returned to wrestling, first in Texas then in New Zealand.  Then in 1947 Boesch returned to Texas to stay.  However, in 1947 Paul was wrestling in San Antonio, Texas and he decided to go to Corpus Christi but he never made it.  Paul Boesch was involved in automobile accident with an oil truck.  Paul Boesch said of the accident, “The automobile accident confronted me with a nightmare I had often experienced during the war.  What would I do if I couldn’t wrestle again?”[22]
             After the injury, Boesch went to work for W. Albert Lee broadcasting wrestling for him on the radio.  Then somewhat by accident Boesch was in Morris Sigel’s office and Sigel needed some newspaper articles changed. This led to Sigel offering Boesch a job, of Sigel’s offer Boesch said, “Doctors had said I should not wrestle again so I eagerly grabbed the chance to stay in wrestling.”[23]  Sigel took Boesch under his wing.  Boesch worked as a referee in several matches throughout 1948 and even was referee during Miguel Guzman’s defense of his Texas heavy weight wrestling title on March 9, 1948 against Sonny Myers at the sportatorium in Dallas.[24]
            In 1925 Julius Siegel started promoting wrestling in the old city auditorium.  Julius Sigel had top talent coming to wrestle in Houston, Texas on a regular basis.  Julius was joined by his brother Morris Sigel.  In 1929 Julius decided to move onto New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana which left Morris in charge of the Houston, Texas promoting.  Boesch recalls “Morris’ strength as a promoter lay in his ability to bring good business practices into the sports world.  He paid his bills promptly and had an unparalleled reputation for honesty.  Matchmaking was not his strong point, but he did surround himself with people who knew the mat game.”[25]  Paul Boesch credits one these people in mentoring him as a match make, Karl “Doc” Sarpolis who had wrestled in the early 1920s and was great at evaluating wrestlers.[26]
            Paul continued working for Sigel even after he decided to come out of retirement and again step into the squared circle on July 20, 1948 against Ray Clements.[27]  During that time Boesch helped to mentor several up and coming wrestlers like Tiger Conway, Cowboy Carlson, Hogan Wharton, and Boesch even helped Tiger Conway’s son ,Tiger Conway Junior win both the light heavyweight and heavyweight championships. Boesch did this by teaching Conway Junior the sleeper hold which had been Boesch’s own signature hold.[28]
            Early on in his career on television, Paul Boesch realized that television gave him the opportunity to do a lot of good for a lot of people.  One of Paul’s earliest causes was Elk’s Club anti-polio campaign, the Mile of Dimes.[29]  However Mr. Boesch’s charitable works do not end there.  Paul Boesch was a very civic minded and giving individual.  Among his various charitable contributions, Paul Boesch was a regular reader to Taping for the Blind, where he put more than twenty-five books on tape.  He also was a regular lecturer to convicts at the pre-release center of Texas Department of Corrections (TDC).[30]  Once while conducting his lecture, channel thirteen’s Marvin Zindler accompanied Mr. Boesch and the convicts asked Paul to demonstrate his signature move which was the sleeper hold and Paul asked who they wanted him to put the hold on.  The crowd at once started chanting Marvin.  Never one to disappoint, Boesch put Marvin in the sleeper hold, however; it worked better than he had anticipated.  Marvin not only passed out it took longer than usual to bring him around and although he never publicly acknowledged any worry he did later confide to his wife Valerie that he was glad when Marvin came too.  For his work with the TDC Paul Boesch was named an honorary convict.[31]  Mr. Boesch was also cited in a resolution by the Houston City Council thanking him for his civic work. In 1978 Mayor Jim McConn appointed Boesch to the Board of Directors of the Houston Public Library.[32]  Paul Boesch also worked extensively with veteran organizations, being a veteran these groups were close to his heart.  He worked with and was honored by Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), the United Service Organization (USO), Veterans of World War I, and the Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital, which in 1978 Paul Boesch conducted a blood drive for the VA Hospital and received more than 2,500 pints of blood that were donated strictly through his efforts.[33]
            The charity that received most of his time and was closest to his heart was the Boy’s Club.  Paul Boesch began working with the Boy’s Club through his affiliation with the Variety Club in 1952.  Paul’s work with the Boy’s Club/Variety Club spanned many years during which time Paul won many awards, such as the Boys Club Medallion in 1955, the Silver Keystone in 1958 and in 1973 Boesch won the Southwesterner Award for outstanding contribution to the growth and development of the Boys’ Club movement in the southwest region.  Paul Boesch’s work with the Boy’s Club/Variety Club up until Houston’s Variety Club folded in 1974.  Paul was able to work out a deal with the Rotary Club of Houston to pick up the mantel of the Boys Club.  Mr. Boesch remained active with the Boys Club throughout his live.[34]
            In 1966 Morris Sigel died after a long illness.  Paul Boesch purchased the Gulf Athletic Club from Mrs. Sigel and in purchasing the Gulf Athletic Club Paul Boesch became the top promoter of professional wrestling in Houston, Texas.  Paul Boesch said, “I had long known the stress of promotion and was well aware of the possibilities and its promise for twenty years.  I had been training for my new position without knowing it.”[35]
            Paul Boesch took off as a promoter in Houston, Texas.  His many contacts he had made as both a wrestler and junior promoter along with Houston’s reputation as a wrestling city all aided Paul in being able to bring top talent to Houston.  This helped Paul Boesch to be named promoter of the year and Houston as “Wrestling City of the 70s.”[36]  Boesch continued to run the Houston wrestling promotion through the Gulf Athletic Club until he sold the promotion to Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation. Paul continued to work for McMahon for a few months but on August 28, 1987 Paul Boesch hosted his retirement show before 12000 fans, and many big names in wrestling such as: Ox Anderson, Cyclone Anaya, Red Bastien, Jim Casey, Tiger Conway Senior, Verne Gagne, Stu Hart, Danny McShane, Pat Patterson, Lou Thesz, Jose Lothario, Ernie Ladd, Vince McMahon Senior, and many others.  They all wished Boesch well.
            As important as wrestling was to Boesch it was not the only reason for notoriety.  Paul Boesch was an author that wrote a book about his time in Europe during World War II called Road to Huertgen: Forest in Hell.  Paul also wrote Rasslin Round Up a book about his career as a wrestler.  Mr. Boesch also wrote a book of poetry called Much of Me in Each of These.  He has also written a book on self-defense for women called The Womanly Art of Self Defense.  This led to a series of syndicated newspaper articles called Lady Protect Yourself.[37]  This series gained Mr. Boesch much notoriety.  So much so, one newspaper article in Dallas is quoted saying, “Boesch is also an author of Road to Huertgen, and Much of Me in Each of These.  He is best known however for his advice to women on the protection of their own lives, their children, and their homes.”[38]  Boesch a man who knows how to market a product taped The Lady Protect Yourself articles for a radio series that aired all around the world.[39]  Paul Boesch literary notoriety did not end with his self-defense articles and book.
Paul Boesch even shared the same page in the Dallas Morning News literary section with John Keats, not the ode to a Grecian urn John Keats, the New Romans John Keats.[40]  In the article they are announcing Boesch’s poetry reading at the Texas State Fair on October 15, 1967 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in observance of National Poetry Day.[41]  Paul even made the letters to the editors page on August 12, 1966 issue of Life Magazine, when Vic Green of Houston, Texas nominated him as least likeliest poet.  Paul Boesch also wrote Hey Boy Where’d You Get Them Ears: 55 Years of Pro Wrestling which was published posthumously and was edited by J. Michael Kenyon.[42]  Paul Boesch also wrote several articles for various newspapers and magazine articles about wrestling such as the 1981 article for The Wrestling News the Career of Paul Boesch: One Man, One Sport, One Lifetime 50 years on the Mat.
Joey
By Paul Boesch
Bundle of laughter, contagious joy,
Delightful, inquisitive, appealing
One hundred percent thoroughbred boy
Whose talented hands express his feelings
Warmly sympathetic, considerate, kind
Selected by Go to stand apart
Not realizing that he is blind,
He sees the world…with his heart.[43]
Paul Boesch on the outside was a rough and rugged individual but on the inside he was a tender compassionate man that cared deeply for his family.[44]  He married his first wife Eleanor in 1930 and they were married until her death in April 1982.  Later that same year, Boesch was married to long time friend Valerie Choate.  Then he adopted Valerie’s son Joey who took his adopted fathers last name.  Joey is a noted musician in his own right and was the reason that Valerie and Paul met.  Paul had booked Joey to play at a charity event and then Paul and Valerie became good friend.  After their marriage, Paul and Valerie traveled extensively especially to those countries Paul had visited as a wrestler and soldier.  Valerie said, ‘It meant a lot to Paul to show me [Valerie] where he had been.”[45]  It also seems that Paul’s philanthropic spirit was passed onto his adopted son Joey, according to Lauren Rowe, director of Houston Children’s Charity, “[Joey] He has done more pro-bono performances for non-profits than any other piano soloist in Houston…”[46]  Joey’s charitable works include a concert for Loving Hearts and Loving Hands and The Living Bank gala.  Joey also conducts a prison ministry through music.[47]
Paul Boesch touched the lives of people in all walks of life whether famous or regular people.  Former professional wrestler Terry Funk in his book Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore said, “I also loved working for Paul Boesch in Houston.”[48]  Boesch’s former business partner and former wrestler, Bill Watts, in his book said, “Boesch had become a bigger star to people in Houston than the wrestlers.”[49]  Perhaps the biggest reference Paul Boesch could have received was in the telegram that was sent to Paul and all Houston Wrestling fans and was reprinted on the program of Paul Boesch’s retirement show that reads:
To all Houston Wrestling Fans
I'm sorry to miss the gala event in honor of my friend Paul Boesch. Paul has made a fantastic contribution to American sports. Through his leadership and foresight, wrestling is now enjoyed by millions of Americans. I treasure my friendship with Paul Boesch. We have known each other for many years. He is a great guy and wrestling will never be quite the same without his firm, principled leadership.
Sincerely,
George Bush[50]
Paul Boesch was truly the definition of a Renaissance man, athlete, soldier, father, business man, philanthropist, writer, poet, and world traveler.  He lead a life that many people would dream to live but he never took his good fortune for granted.  He worked hard to give back to his adopted hometown and Houston was always grateful for all that he did, whether it was the wrestling fan that enjoyed a great Friday night, or veteran that received a life saving blood transfusion, a young person that was mentored or the blind person that was able to enjoy a good book, they all had Paul Max Boesch to thank.


Notes


            1.  Paul Boesch, Much of me in these (Houston: Premier Press, 1966), 44.

2.  Paul Boesch, “World War II: As One Soldier Knew It”, Houston Public Library, Texas Room, Houston, TX.
           
            3.  Paul Boesch, “The career of Paul Boesch: One man, one sport, one lifetime 50 years on the mat,” The Wrestling News, 1981, http://www.wrestling-titles.com/personalities/boesch_paul/career.html (accessed November 27, 2010).

4.  Boesch, “World War II”.

            5.  Boesch, “World War II”.

            6.  Paul Boesch, “The career of Paul Boesch”.

7.  Paul Boesch, “The career of Paul Boesch”.

9.  Paul Boesch, “The career of Paul Boesch”. 

10.  Paul Boesch, “The career of Paul Boesch”.

11.  Paul Boesch, “The career of Paul Boesch”.

12. Paul Boesch, Much of me in these, 19.

            13.  Boesch, “World War II”.

            14.  New World Encyclopedia Online, s.v. “Jack Dempsey”, http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Jack_Dempsey (accessed November 27, 2010).

            15.  Boesch, “World War II”.

            16.  Boesch, “World War II”.

            17.  Boesch, “World War II”.

            18.  Boesch, “World War II”.

            19.  Boesch, “World War II”.

            20.  Paul Boesch, Road to Huertgen: forest in hell (Houston: Gulf Publishing Company, 1962), vi.

            21.  Paul Boesch, Road to Huertgen: forest in hell, vi. 

            22.  Paul Boesch, “The career of Paul Boesch”.

            23.  Paul Boesch, “The career of Paul Boesch”.

            24.  “Guzman keeps title by hair,” Dallas Morning News, March 10, 1948.

            25.  Paul Boesch, “The career of Paul Boesch”.

            26.  Paul Boesch, “The career of Paul Boesch”.

            27.  “Fems to Vie on Mat Card,” Dallas Morning News, July 20, 1948.

28.    Paul Boesch, “The career of Paul Boesch”.

29.  Paul Boesch, “The career of Paul Boesch”.

30.  Valerie Boesch, interview by David Buie, Houston, TX, November 2010.

            31.  Valerie Boesch, interview by David Buie, Houston, TX, November 2010.

            32.  Valerie Boesch, interview by David Buie, Houston, TX, November 2010.

            33.  Boesch, “World War II”.

            34.  Valerie Boesch, interview by David Buie, Houston, TX, November 2010.

            35.  Boesch, “World War II”.

            36.  Boesch, “World War II”.

            37.  Carolyn Dunnigan, “The lock on your door, lady, is your best trouble preventative, says epxert,” Dallas Morning News, September 19, 1969.

38.  “Colorful personality set as craig class speaker,” Dallas Morning News, March 8, 1970.

            39.  Boesch, “World War II”.

            40.  Lon Tinkel, “America, arbiter of world order?,” Dallas Morning News, October 15, 1967.

            41.  Lon Tinkel, “America, arbiter of world order?”.

            42.  Valerie Boesch, interview by David Buie, Houston, TX, November 2010.

            43.  Paul Boesch, Much of me in these, 55.

            44.  Valerie Boesch, interview by David Buie, Houston, TX, November 2010.

            45.  Valerie Boesch, interview by David Buie, Houston, TX, November 2010.

            46.  Daniel J. Vargas, “Spotlight on Joey Boesch / Blind pianist has forged a life filled with religion and music,” Houston Chronicle, September 17, 2000.

            47.  Cindy Ziervogel, “You have to hear it to believe it,” Fort Bend Lifestyle Magazine.

            48.  Bill Watts and Scott Williams, The Cowboy and the cross: The Bill Watts story: Rebellion, wrestling and redemption (Toronto, Canada: EWC Press, 2006), 88.

            49.  Bill Watts and Scott Williams, The Cowboy and the cross, 151.

            50.  “Paul Boesch, 1912-1989,” Wrestling Observer, March 20, 1989, http://www.wrestling-titles.com/personalities/boesch_paul/death.html (accessed November 27, 2010).































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