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Sam McVey would win the World Colored Heavyweight Boxing Championship in an era where the three best fighters were black and frozen out of the title picture. He started 1903 out so well, he would put pressure on World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Jeffries to give him a match. Jeffries refused to break the “color line” by giving a
У 1902, future World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Marvin Hart was a rising contender. Fighting primarily out of his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, Hart was matched against Kid Carter at the Southern Athletic Club on May 2, 1902. At 17-1, Hart knew another victory would go a long way in securing a heavyweight title fight. The Brooklyn-born Kid Carter intended to
Лістапада 30, 1910, reports came from England that former World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion Jem Mace had died at 79 гадоў. Mace was world champion from 1860 для 1862 and again from 1866 для 1876. After reportedly earning a million dollars in a career that spanned 1857 для 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest
On September 15, 1919, Вуліца. 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. На працягу многіх гадоў, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Henry Moses Dufur specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling when Dufur wrestled professionally in the 1870s and 1880s. Born on May 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur wrestled primarily in the northeastern United States. Чэрвеня 27, 1878, Dufur wrestled a return match with a wrestler named Cox at the Boston Baseball Park in front of five hundred fans. Five hundred fans
Жнівень 26, 1886, Эван “Душыцель” 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. Прынамсі, так я першапачаткова думаў і большасць гісторыкаў цытавала. Сучасны
Першы стрыечны брат майго дзеда, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, быў адным са св. Луіс’ піянеры самалёта. Julius, які быў вядомы ў сям'і як “Панкі”, У сярэдзіне 1920-х гадоў уступіў у ВПС Нацыянальнай гвардыі. Яму прысвоілі б званне лейтэнанта. Юлій кіраваў самалётамі як для ваеннага, так і для грамадзянскага авіякорпуса. Большая частка мужчын у яго падраздзяленні, у якую ўваходзіў Карл
На працягу апошняга тыдня снежні 1902, Уільям Рудольф, нядаўна вярнуўся шахцёр акрузе Франклін, і Джордж Колінз абрабавалі Union Bank ў Саюзе, Місуры. Яны абрабавалі яго на ноч, калі ніхто не прысутнічаў, падарваўшы сейф. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, Місуры. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
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. Вуліца. 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. Г-н. 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 “Алекс” Аберг. 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