"Meet Four-Way Phony Rudy"
by Marty Berg
Sports-Week (circa 1946)

If New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey is looking for splash headlines in an effort to advance his cause in the '48 race for the White House, it is my sincere recommendation that he take up the not altogether insignificant professional wrestling racket in the Empire State.

Mr. Dewey got himself an abundance of front page space when he was the state's District Attorney. He was the great racket buster. His busting rackets got him into the State House at Albany, and made him the Presidential candidate he's supposed to be.

Whatever Mr. Dewey may have to say regarding international politics, economics, etc., wouldn't impinge itself on me, since I don't have much time to read anything but the sports pages (which is why I'm a pretty illiterate jerk).

Whatever Mr. Dewey would do regarding the cleanup of sports in New York State, however, not only would be seen by me, but by sports fans throughout the nation, since he'd make the sports pages of every newspaper. I half suspect most people have gone back to reading sports pages almost exclusively, since world news isn't much better. Mr. Dewey would reach a marvelous audience.

If Mr. Dewey is looking for a fit suspect, I offer him a phony named Rudy Dusek, of the somewhat infamous Dusek brothers, who have been foisting their fraudulent mat gymnastics on the public, in and out of New York State, for too darned many years already.

Rudy, however, is a perfect subject for Mr. Dewey. He's a perfect subject, because Mr. Dewey can get the goods on him without even hiring investigators or anything. All Mr. Dewey has to do is tell Mr. Edward Eagan, chairman of the State Athletic Commission, to furnish the evidence on Mr. Dusek.

Should the good Mr. Eagen be unable or unwilling to provide Mr. Dewey with this ammunition, may I refer the good Governor to three most important sentences on Page 56 of the Rules and Regulations and the Laws Regulating Boxing and Wrestling Matches in New York State.

These sentences read: (1) No person acting as a promoter is qualified to hold a license as a manager; (2) No person licensed as a manager is qualified to act as a promoter or hold a license as a matchmaker; (3) No person licensed as a matchmaker is qualified to hold a license as a manager.

Rudy Dusek, Mr. Dewey, serves in all three capacities, with or without the knowledge of Mr. Eagan and Mr. Eagan's most cooperative staff of political frumperies!

I am uncertain whether Rudy Dusek is licensed as a promoter, matchmaker or manager. Whichever of these three licenses he holds is held in fraud because Mr. Dusek not only is all three, but when the occasion arises, New York's Number One mat faker Rudy Dusek also serves as a wrestler! Quadruplets, that's Rudy Dusek!

When an applicant for a license as promoter, manager, matchmaker, or wrestler, appears at the Commission offices, he must swear that he is (1) not any one of the other three if he wants to be a promoter; (2) not one of the other three if he wants to be a manager; (3) not one of the other three if he wants to be a matchmaker; (4) not one of the other three if he wants to be a wrestler.

On record with the NY solons is such an oath made by Rudy Dusek. Mr. Dusek, whose wrestling honesty is shorter than his breath, swore that he was only one of the four types (of criminal).

However, it has been established that Mr. Dusek has a better than casual interest in nearly every club operating in the five boroughs of New York City. He personally books and promotes the shows, for instance, at Sunnyside Garden in Long Island City, the Park Arena in the Bronx, and the Broadway Arena in Brooklyn.

It has been established that Mr. Rudy Dusek receives the money that comes in for the show at each of these three arenas, that he personally pays off the participants and, when needs be, he himself wrestles.

In other words, Mr. Dewey, Mr. Dusek is a first class violator of the rules, regulations and laws of the State of New York, and should be behind bars. He should have been behind them years ago, because he stages fake matches with a troupe of phonies he controls, and to whom he goes into the tank whenever he needs to round out a program, or when he wants to save the price of a performer.

It is inconceivable that Mr. Eagan's good henchmen are unaware of this situation. It is quite conceivable that they dilberately overlook Mr. Dusek's fancy didoes because he hands them a cheroot every once in a while. It is quite conceivable that Mr. Eagan's henchmen don't care a hoot how the people of the State are rooked.

It is a good sport for Mr. Dewey, if he has the courage to match his better than fine wits against the conniving thievery of the likes of Dusek and the others who have made wrestling in New York State -- and the rest of the nation -- a racket equal to any Mr. Dewey broke up in his DA days.