Marvin Hart se dubbele oorwinning

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In 1902, toekomstige Wêreld-swaargewigbokskampioen Marvin Hart was 'n stygende aanspraakmaker. Veg hoofsaaklik uit sy tuisdorp, Louisville, Kentucky, Hart is in Mei teen Kid Carter by die Southern Atletiekklub geklop 2, 1902. Op 17-1, Hart het geweet dat nog 'n oorwinning 'n lang pad sou help om 'n swaargewig-titelgeveg te verseker. Die Brooklyn-gebore Kid Carter was van plan om

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Alexander Baptiste Passes at 100

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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

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Dufur teken met Cox

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Henry Moses Dufur het in kraag-en-elmboogstoei gespesialiseer toe Dufur in die 1870's en 1880's professioneel gestoei het. Gebore op Mei 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur het hoofsaaklik in die noordoostelike Verenigde State gestoei. Op Junie 27, 1878, Dufur het 'n terugkeerwedstryd met 'n stoeier genaamd Cox by die Boston Baseball Park voor vyfhonderd ondersteuners gestoei. Vyfhonderd aanhangers

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Evan Lewis Strangles Tom Cannon

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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

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Julius W. Johannpeter, Air Pioneer

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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

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William Rudolph and Union Bank Robbery

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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

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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. Mnr. 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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