Jack Pfefer was more or less opposition to Al Haft, because there was a man named Cliff Maupin that owned the booking office in Toledo, Ohio. Pfeffer always loved to irritate the established promoters. Lillian Ellison (Fabulous Moolah) will verify this.
There were two burlesque houses in Toledo -- one down on Front Street and one on River Street. Every wrestler that worked for Pfeffer would go to the burlesque houses free of charge. There was a girl stripper that worked at one of those houses -- an Indian, Princess Bonita.
At that time, Pfeffer brought an Indian named Indio Cherokee into Toledo and booke dhim as Lone Eagle. He got Bonita to work in his corner and beat the drum for him. Bonita and Lone Eagle eventually got married.
At the time, Pfefer was billing Buddy Rogers as his World champion, and we were drawing tremendous crowds at the Sports Arena in Toledo. One night, Pfefer was giving Rogers and Lone Eagle the finishes. He told Rogers that he'd be getting the best of Lone Eagle in the third fall. Bonita would start beating the drum and that was the signal for Eagle to make the comeback and beat Rogers. Rogers got very indignant and said, "Alright, Jack. You want me to put your Indian over? I'll do it."
Rogers got in the ring and mopped the ring up with Lone Eagle. After slamming him four times, he picked him up the fifth time and fell over backwards with the Indian on top of him for the three count. In the second fall, Rogers did the same thing. He put Lone Eagle over two straight. Rogers stood up in the middle of the ring, dusted his hands off, went back to the dressing room.
Pfefer was screaming and hollering the whole time. Pfefer could cuss more vile than anything you ever heard. Rogers just ignored him, got his bag, turned to Billy Darnell, and said, "Come on, Billy. Let's go." They walked out and went over to Al Haft.
