Povjesničar borilačkih sportova i borilački umjetnik
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
U 1902, budući svjetski boksački prvak u teškoj kategoriji Marvin Hart bio je kandidat u usponu. Bori se prvenstveno iz svog rodnog grada Louisvillea, Kentucky, Hart je igrao protiv Kida Cartera u Southern Athletic Clubu u svibnju 2, 1902. Na 17-1, Hart je znao da bi još jedna pobjeda bila u velikoj mjeri u osiguravanju borbe za naslov u teškoj kategoriji. Kid Carter rođen u Brooklynu namjeravao je
Studeni 30, 1910, Izvješća došao iz Engleske da je bivši svjetski prvak u teškoj kategoriji profesionalni boks Jem Mace je umro na 79 godina. Mace je svjetski prvak iz 1860 to 1862 i opet iz 1866 to 1876. Nakon što je navodno zaradio milijun dolara u karijeri koja je trajala 1857 to 1909, Jem Mace umro bez novca. 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. Godinama, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Henry Moses Dufur specijalizirao se za hrvanje ovratnikom i laktom kada se Dufur profesionalno hrvao 1870-ih i 1880-ih. Rođen u svibnju 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur se prvenstveno borio na sjeveroistoku Sjedinjenih Država. Lipanj 27, 1878, Dufur se hrvao u uzvratnom meču s hrvačem po imenu Cox u bostonskom Baseball Parku pred pet stotina navijača. Petsto navijača
Kolovoza 26, 1886, Evan “Davitelj” 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. Barem sam tako prvotno mislio i većina povjesničara citirala. Moderno
Prvi rođak mog djeda, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, bio je jedan od sv. Louis’ pioniri aviona. Julius, koji je u obitelji bio poznat kao “Punks”, pridružio se Zračnoj nacionalnoj gardi sredinom 1920-ih. Dobio bi čin poručnika. Julius je upravljao avionima i za vojni i za civilni zrakoplovni korpus. Većina ljudi u njegovoj jedinici, koja je uključivala Charlesa
U zadnjem tjednu prosinca 1902, William Rudolph, Nedavno se vratio rudar Franklin županiji, i George Collins opljačkao Union banke u Uniji, MO. Je opljačkali su tijekom noći, kada nitko nije bio prisutan puhanjem po sigurnost. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
U veljači 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. G.. 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