Borrokako Kirolen Historialaria eta Martzial Artista
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
Urtean 1902, etorkizuneko Munduko pisu astuneko boxeo txapelduna Marvin Hart goranzko lehiakidea zen. Batez ere Louisville jaioterritik borrokan ari zen, Kentucky, Hart Kid Carterren aurka jokatu zuen Southern Athletic Club-en maiatzean 2, 1902. Etan 17-1, Hartek bazekien beste garaipen batek bide luzea izango zuela pisu astuneko tituluaren borroka lortzeko. Brooklyn-en jaiotako Kid Carter-ek nahi zuen
Azaroaren on 30, 1910, txostenak ohi Heavyweight Prizefighting txapelduna Jem Mace zuela hil zen Ingalaterratik etorri zen 79 urte. Mace munduko txapelduna izan zen 1860 arte 1862 eta berriro bertatik 1866 arte 1876. Milioi dolar informatzen irabazten duten spanned karrera batean ondoren 1857 arte 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest
Irailaren 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. Urtez, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Henry Moses Dufur lepoko eta ukondoko borrokan espezializatu zen Dufurek 1870eko eta 1880ko hamarkadetan profesionalki borrokan aritu zenean.. Maiatzean jaioa 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur Estatu Batuetako ipar-ekialdean borrokatu zuen batez ere. June On 27, 1878, Dufur-ek itzulerako partida jokatu zuen Cox izeneko borrokalari batekin Boston Baseball Park-en bostehun zaleren aurrean.. Bostehun zale
Abuztuaren On 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis britainiar Borroka txapelduna Tom Cannon ezagutu Cincinnati, Ohio. Legitimoa borroka garaian, Beste wrestlers beldurgarri boteretsuena Lewis delako bere stranglehold. Lewis carotid arteria strangle bat Judo biluzik atzeko choke bezala ezagutzen okupatuak. Nik behintzat hori zen hasieran pentsatu nuena eta historialari gehienek aipatu dute. Modernoa
Nire aitonaren lehengusua, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, bat izan zen St. Louis’ hegazkinen aitzindariak. Julius, familian bezala ezagutzen zena “Punks”, 1920ko hamarkadaren erdialdean Aireko Guardia Nazionalean sartu zen. Teniente kargua izango zen. Julius-ek hegazkinak egin zituen aireko gorputz militar zein zibiletarako. Bere unitateko gizon gehienak, Karlos barne hartzen zuena
During the last week of December 1902, William Rudolph, a recently returned miner to Franklin County, and George Collins robbed the Union Bank in Union, MO. They robbed it overnight, when no one was present by blowing up the safe. 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