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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
Fil 1902, Il-futur Champion Dinji tal-Boxing Heavyweight Marvin Hart kien konkorrent li qed jogħlew. Jiġġieled primarjament mill-belt twelidu ta' Louisville, Kentucky, Hart kien imqabbel kontra Kid Carter fis-Southern Athletic Club f'Mejju 2, 1902. Fil 17-1, Hart kien jaf li rebħa oħra kienet se tagħmel triq twila biex tassigura ġlieda għat-titlu tal-piż tqil. Il-Kid Carter imwieled Brooklyn kellu l-intenzjoni li
Fuq Novembru 30, 1910, rapporti ġew minn England dik li qabel kienet Heavyweight Champion tad-Dinja Prizefighting Jem Mace kien miet fi 79 sena. Mace kien champion tad-dinja minn 1860 li 1862 u għal darb'oħra mill- 1866 li 1876. Wara Allegatament jaqla miljun dollaru fil-karriera li spanned 1857 li 1909, Jem Mace miet penniless. He was laid to rest
Dwar Settembru 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. Għal snin, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Henry Moses Dufur speċjalizza fil-lotta tal-għonq u l-minkeb meta Dufur ilella professjonalment fis-snin 70 u 80.. Imwieled f'Mejju 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur ġġieled primarjament fil-Grigal tal-Istati Uniti. Dwar Ġunju 27, 1878, Dufur ġġieled partita tar-ritorn ma’ wrestler jismu Cox fil-Boston Baseball Park quddiem ħames mitt partitarju. Ħames mitt partitarju
Fuq Awissu 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis iltaqa il Wrestling British Champion Tom Cannon fil Cincinnati, Ohio. Matul l-era lotta leġittimu, wrestlers oħra beżgħu l Lewis qawwija minħabba ħakma tiegħu. Lewis impjegat strangle arterjali karotide magħrufa bħala l-ċowk mikxufa wara fil Judo. Mill-inqas dan kien dak li oriġinarjament ħsibt u l-biċċa l-kbira tal-istoriċi kkwotaw. Moderna
L-ewwel kuġin tan-nannu, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, kien wieħed minn St. Louis’ pijunieri tal-ajruplan. Julius, li kien magħruf fil-familja bħala “Punks”, ingħaqad mal-Gwardja Nazzjonali tal-Ajru f’nofs is-snin għoxrin. Kien jiġi kkummissjonat bħala Logutenent. Julius tajjar ajruplani kemm għall-korp tal-ajru militari kif ukoll ċivili. Ħafna mill-irġiel fl-unità tiegħu, li kien jinkludi lil Charles
Matul l-aħħar ġimgħa ta 'Diċembru 1902, William Rudolph, minatur lura riċentement biex Franklin County, u George Collins insterqu l-Unjoni Bank fl-Unjoni, MO. Huma insterqu matul il-lejl, meta l-ebda wieħed kien preżenti mill blowing up-periklu. 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” Åberg. 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