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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
I 1902, fremtidige verdensmester i tungvektboksing, Marvin Hart, var en utfordrer i vekst. Kjemper først og fremst ut av hjembyen Louisville, Kentucky, Hart ble matchet mot Kid Carter på Southern Athletic Club i mai 2, 1902. At 17-1, Hart visste at nok en seier ville gå langt i å sikre en tungvektstittelkamp. Den Brooklyn-fødte Kid Carter hadde tenkt å
November 30, 1910, rapportene kom fra England som tidligere World Heavyweight prizefighting Champion Jem Mace hadde dødd på 79 år. Mace var verdensmesteren fra 1860 til 1862 og igjen fra 1866 til 1876. Etter angivelig å tjene en million dollar i en karriere som strakte seg 1857 til 1909, Jem Mace døde pengelens. 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. For år, 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. Juni 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
August 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis møtte den britiske Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon i 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. Det var i hvert fall det jeg opprinnelig trodde og de fleste historikere har sitert. Moderne
Min bestefars første fetter, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, var en av St. Louis’ flypionerer. Julius, som var kjent i familien som “Punks”, sluttet seg til Air National Guard på midten av 1920-tallet. Han ville få oppdrag som løytnant. Julius fløy fly både for det militære og det sivile luftkorpset. De fleste mennene i enheten hans, som inkluderte Charles
I løpet av den siste uken i desember 1902, William Rudolph, en nylig returnert miner å Franklin County, og George Collins ranet Union Bank i Union, MO. De ranet den over natten, når ingen var til stede ved å blåse opp safen. 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