Istoricul sporturilor de luptă și artist marțial
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
În 1902, future World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Marvin Hart was a rising contender. Fighting primarily out of his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, Hart was matched against Kid Carter at the Southern Athletic Club on May 2, 1902. At 17-1, Hart knew another victory would go a long way in securing a heavyweight title fight. The Brooklyn-born Kid Carter intended to
Noiembrie 30, 1910, Rapoartele au venit din Anglia că fostul campion mondial la categoria grea Prizefighting Jem Mace a murit la 79 ani. Mace fost campion mondial de la 1860 la 1862 și din nou de la 1866 la 1876. După relatărilor câștigând un milion de dolari într-o carieră care a durat 1857 la 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest
Septembrie 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. De ani de zile, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Henry Moses Dufur s-a specializat în lupte la guler și cot când Dufur a luptat profesional în anii 1870 și 1880.. Născut în mai 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur a luptat în principal în nord-estul Statelor Unite. On June 27, 1878, Dufur a luptat într-un meci retur cu un luptător pe nume Cox la Boston Baseball Park în fața a cinci sute de fani. Cinci sute de fani
On August 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. Cel puțin asta a fost ceea ce am crezut inițial și majoritatea istoricilor au citat. Modern
Vărul primar al bunicului meu, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, a fost unul din St. Louis’ pionierii avioanelor. Julius, care era cunoscut în familie ca “Punks”, s-a alăturat Gărzii Naționale Aeriene la mijlocul anilor 1920. Va fi numit locotenent. Julius a zburat cu avioane atât pentru corpul aerian militar, cât și pentru cel civil. Majoritatea bărbaților din unitatea lui, care l-a inclus pe Charles
În ultima săptămână a lunii decembrie 1902, William Rudolph, un miner recent a revenit la Franklin County, și George Collins jefuit Banca Union în Union, MO. Ei au jefuit peste noapte, atunci când nimeni nu era prezent prin suflare până la seif. 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