Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Op September 15, 1887, a muscular man stood in the First District Police Court listening to Judge Cady. As he looked out between eyes almost swollen shut and a busted lip, he waited to see if justice would be done. It was as Judge Cady told the beaten man, “$10 fine for disturbing the peace. $100 for resisting arrest. You
Op November 30, 1910, verslae kom uit Engeland dat die voormalige wêreld swaargewig Prizefighting Kampioen Jem Mace by gesterf het 79 jaar oud. Foelie was wêreldkampioen uit 1860 te 1862 en weer vanaf 1866 te 1876. Na bewering verdien 'n miljoen dollar in 'n loopbaan wat gestrek 1857 te 1909, Jem Mace brandarm gesterf. He was laid to rest
Op September 15, 1919, St. Louis citizens woke up to read about the death of one of their oldest citizens, Alexander Baptiste. Just a few months before his 101st or 102nd birthday depending on which source you believed, Alexander Baptiste passed away from intestinal disease. Vir jare, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
“Terrible” Terry McGovern proved to be a rare fighter at the turn of the Twentieth Century. While smaller boxers packed no power in their punches, McGovern, who scaled between 110 en 126 pond, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. Op Julie 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at
Augustus 26, 1886, Evan “Worger” Lewis met the British Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the legitimate wrestling era, other wrestlers feared the powerful Lewis because of his stranglehold. Lewis employed a carotid arterial strangle known as the rear naked choke in Judo. Ten minste was dit wat ek oorspronklik gedink het en die meeste historici het aangehaal. Moderne
My oupa se eerste neef, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, was een van St. Louis’ vliegtuig pioniers. Julius, wat in die familie bekend was as “Punks”, het in die middel-1920's by die Air National Guard aangesluit. Hy sou as luitenant aangewys word. Julius het vliegtuie vir beide die militêre en burgerlike lugkorps gevlieg. Meeste van die mans in sy eenheid, wat Charles ingesluit het
Gedurende die laaste week van Desember 1902, William Rudolph, 'n onlangs teruggekeer mynwerker Franklin County, en George Collins beroof die Unie Bank in Unie, MO. Hulle beroof dit oornag, wanneer niemand teenwoordig deur die blaas van die kluis was. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
Terwyl 'n paar akteurs gespeel Charlie Chan voor Warner Oland en 'n paar uitgebeeld Inspekteur Chan na Roland Winters, die hoof van die Earl Derr Biggers’ Charlie Chan film aanpassings plaasgevind tussen 1931 te 1949. Warner Oland begin speel Charlie Chan in die swart Camel (1931). Na sy dood, Sidney Toler started playing the role of Charlie Chan in the
On February 10, 1897, 60-year-old William H. Stewart, a civil engineer, died in St. Louis City Hospital. Stewart passed away from a morphine overdose. St. Louis Police originally thought it was a case of suicide or accidental overdose. Stewart lived with his son-in-law F.C. Bennett at 2634 Dickson Street. Mnr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
Estonia gave birth to three of the greatest wrestlers of the first two decades of the 20th Century: Georg Lurich, George Hackenschmidt and Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. As part of the Russian Empire at the time, Estonia contained a number of elementary and high schools with superior physical education programs. Lurich and Hackenschmidt both started out as weightlifters and transitioned into