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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
I 1902, fremtidige verdensmester i sværvægtsboksning Marvin Hart var en stigende kandidat. Kæmper primært ud af sin hjemby Louisville, Kentucky, Hart blev matchet mod Kid Carter i Southern Athletic Club i maj 2, 1902. På 17-1, Hart vidste, at endnu en sejr ville gå langt i at sikre en sværvægtstitelkamp. Den Brooklyn-fødte Kid Carter havde til hensigt
På November 30, 1910, reports came from England that former World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion Jem Mace had died at 79 år. Mace was world champion from 1860 til 1862 and again from 1866 til 1876. After reportedly earning a million dollars in a career that spanned 1857 til 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest
On 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. I årevis, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Henry Moses Dufur specialiserede sig i krave-og-albue brydning, da Dufur kæmpede professionelt i 1870'erne og 1880'erne. Født i maj 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur kæmpede primært i det nordøstlige USA. Juni 27, 1878, Dufur kæmpede en returkamp med en wrestler ved navn Cox på Boston Baseball Park foran fem hundrede fans. Fem hundrede fans
Den August 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 i hvert fald, hvad jeg oprindeligt troede, og de fleste historikere har citeret. Moderne
Min bedstefars første fætter, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, var en af St. Louis’ flypionerer. Julius, der var kendt i familien som “Punks”, sluttede sig til Air National Guard i midten af 1920'erne. Han ville blive ansat som løjtnant. Julius fløj fly for både det militære og civile luftkorps. De fleste af mændene i hans enhed, som omfattede Charles
I den sidste uge af december 1902, William Rudolph, et nyligt hjemvendt minearbejder til Franklin County, og George Collins røvet Union Bank i EU, MO. De berøvet det natten, da ingen var til stede ved at sprænge sikker. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. 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. 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. Mr. 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 “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