Võitlusspordiajaloolane ja võitluskunstnik
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
Sisse 1902, tulevane poksi raskekaalu maailmameister Marvin Hart oli tõusev kandidaat. Võitles peamiselt oma kodulinnast Louisville'ist, Kentucky, Hart mängis maikuus Southern Athletic Clubis Kid Carteriga 2, 1902. Juures 17-1, Hart teadis, et järjekordne võit aitab raskekaalu tiitlivõitluse kindlustamisel palju kaasa. Brooklynis sündinud Kid Carter kavatses
On November 30, 1910, aruanded tuli Inglismaalt, et endine maailma raskekaalu prizefighting Champion Jem Mace suri kell 79 aastat. Mace oli maailmameister alates 1860 kuni 1862 ja uuesti 1866 kuni 1876. Pärast väidetavalt teenida miljon dollarit karjääri, mis kestis 1857 kuni 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. Juba aastaid, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Henry Moses Dufur spetsialiseerus kaelarihma ja küünarnuki maadlusele, kui Dufur 1870. ja 1880. aastatel professionaalselt maadles.. Sündis mail 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur maadles peamiselt USA kirdeosas. Juunil 27, 1878, Dufur maadles Bostoni pesapallipargis viiesaja fänni silme all vastumängu Coxi-nimelise maadlejaga.. Viissada fänni
August 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis kohtus Briti maadlus Champion Tom Cannon 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. Vähemalt nii ma algselt arvasin ja enamik ajaloolasi on seda tsiteerinud. Kaasaegne
Minu vanaisa nõbu, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, oli üks St. Louis’ lennuki pioneerid. Julius, kes oli tuntud perekonna “Punkarid”, liitus Air National Guard keskel 1920.. Ta oleks tellitud kui leitnant. Julius lendas lennukid nii sõjaväelaste ja tsiviilisikute õhu korpuse. Enamik mehi oma üksuse, mis sisaldas Charles
Viimase nädala detsember 1902, William Rudolph, Hiljuti naasis kaevandaja Franklin County, ja George Collins röövitud Ühispangas liidu, MO. Nad röövisid ta üleöö, kui keegi oli kohal puhub kuni ohutu. 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