Baxter Calmes

Name: Baxter Calmes
Alias: Kansas Ring Butcher
Birth Name: Baxter D. Calmes
Hometown: Wichita, Kansas, USA
Birthplace: Oklahoma, USA
Died: 1962-10-29 (Age:53)
Height: 180cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

• January 16, 1929 -- won the Oklahoma-Kansas AAU LHW Championship under the name Joe Baxter, outpointing Orville Hardin. (Hutchinson News, Jan 17, 1929)

• March 8, 1929 won Western AAU 175 Title with points win over Roy jacks at St. Joseph, MO.

According to his page on the Find A Grave website, one Baxter D. Calmes was born on July 25, 1909 in Stephens County, Oklahoma and died on October 29, 1962 in Wichita, Kansas. The text of his obituary from the October 30, 1962 edition of the Wichita Eagle can be found on the page. According to the obituary, Calmes was "well-known heavyweight fighter in the Wichita area during the early 1930s" and a retired independent oil operator. He was survived by his widow, mother, son and two brothers, Robert L. and Kermit W.

Baxter Calmes was the brother of boxer, Bobby Calmes.