Alexander Baptiste Passes at 100

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På 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. För år, 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 och 126 pounds, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. På Juli 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at

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Evan Lewis Strangles Tom Cannon

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På Augusti 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” 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. Det var åtminstone vad jag ursprungligen trodde och de flesta historiker har citerat. Modern

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Julius I. Johannpeter, Air Pioneer

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Min farfars första kusin, Julius I. “Joe” Johannpeter, var en av St. Louis’ flygplanspionjärer. Julius, som var känd i familjen som “Punks”, gick med i Air National Guard i mitten av 1920-talet. Han skulle få uppdraget som löjtnant. Julius flög plan för både den militära och civila flygkåren. De flesta av männen i hans enhet, som inkluderade 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” Åberg. 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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