Alexander Baptiste Passes at 100

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Września 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. Przez lata, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate

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“Terrible” Terry Shows His Power

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“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 i 126 funtów, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. W lipcu 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at

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Evan Lewis Strangles Tom Cannon

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Na sierpień 26, 1886, Evan “Dusiciel” 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. Przynajmniej tak początkowo myślałem i większość historyków cytowała. Nowoczesny

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Julius W. Johannpeter, Pionier powietrza

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Pierwszy kuzyn mojego dziadka, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, był jednym ze św. Louis’ pionierzy samolotów. Julius, który był znany w rodzinie jako “Punks”, wstąpił do Lotniczej Gwardii Narodowej w połowie lat dwudziestych XX wieku. Zostanie mianowany porucznikiem. Julius latał samolotami zarówno dla wojskowego, jak i cywilnego korpusu powietrznego. Większość ludzi w jego oddziale, w tym Charles

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Chief Desmond Discovers Murder

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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. Panie. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.

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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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