Cīņas sporta vēsturnieks un cīņas mākslinieks
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
Uz 1902, topošais pasaules čempions boksā smagajā svarā Mārvins Hārts bija uzlecošs sāncensis. Cīņa galvenokārt no savas dzimtās pilsētas Luisvilas, Kentucky, Maijā Southern Athletic Club Hārts sacentās ar Kidu Kārteru 2, 1902. Pie 17-1, Hārts zināja, ka vēl viena uzvara palīdzēs nodrošināt cīņu par titulu smagajā svarā. Bruklinā dzimušais Kids Kārters bija iecerējis
Novembrī 30, 1910, reports came from England that former World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion Jem Mace had died at 79 gadiem. Mace was world champion from 1860 līdz 1862 and again from 1866 līdz 1876. After reportedly earning a million dollars in a career that spanned 1857 līdz 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest
Septembrī 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. Jau gadiem, 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. On June 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
Augustā 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. Vismaz tā es sākotnēji domāju, un lielākā daļa vēsturnieku to ir citējuši. Mūsdienīgs
Mana vectēva pirmais brālēns, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, bija viens no Sv. Louis’ lidmašīnu pionieri. Julius, kurš ģimenē bija pazīstams kā “Punks”, 20. gadu vidū iestājās Gaisa nacionālajā gvardē. Viņu iecels par leitnantu. Jūlijs lidoja ar lidmašīnām gan militārajam, gan civilajam gaisa korpusam. Lielākā daļa vīriešu viņa vienībā, kurā ietilpa Čārlzs
Pagājušajā nedēļā decembrī 1902, William Rudolph, nesen atgriezies kalnraču Franklin County, un George Collins aplaupīja Savienības banka Savienībā, MO. Viņi aplaupīti to nakti, kad neviens nebija klāt ar putu drošu. 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