Alexander Baptiste Passes at 100

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Sur septembro 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. Por jaroj, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate

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“Terura” Terry Montras Lian Potencon

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“Terura” Terry McGovern pruvita esti malofta batalanto ĉe la ĝirado de la Dudeka Jarcento. Dum pli malgrandaj boksistoj plenplenigis neniun potencon en iliaj stampiloj, McGovern, Kiu grimpis inter 110 Kaj 126 Funtoj, Posedis treegan knokaŭtan potencon. “Terura” Terry ofte finis liajn oponantojn en la unua kvar rondoj. Sur julio 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at

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Evan Lewis Sufokas Tom Kanono

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Sur aŭgusto 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis renkontis la britan Luktadan Ĉampionon Tom Kanono en Cincinnati, Ohio. Dum la laŭleĝa luktada epoko, Aliaj luktistoj timis la potencan Lewis pro lia stranglehold. Lewis utiligis carotid arteria sufoki sciita kiel la malantaŭa nuda sufoki en Judo. At least that was what I originally thought and most historians have quoted. Modern

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Julius W. Johannpeter, aero Pioniro

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My grandfather’s first cousin, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, was one of St. Louis’ airplane pioneers. Julius, who was known in the family as “Punkuloj”, joined the Air National Guard in the mid-1920s. He would be commissioned as a Lieutenant. Julius flew planes for both the military and civilian air corps. Most of the men in his unit, which included Charles

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Russian Civil War Snags Aberg and Lurich

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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

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