Historik bojových športov a bojový umelec
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
V 1902, Budúci majster sveta v boxe v ťažkej váhe Marvin Hart bol stúpajúcim kandidátom. Bojuje predovšetkým zo svojho rodného mesta Louisville, Kentucky, Hart bol zápas proti Kid Carter v Southern Athletic Club v máji 2, 1902. Na 17-1, Hart vedel, že ďalšie víťazstvo bude znamenať veľký úspech v boji o titul v ťažkej váhe. Kid Carter narodený v Brooklyne to zamýšľal
Novembra 30, 1910, reports came from England that former World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion Jem Mace had died at 79 rokov. Mace was world champion from 1860 na 1862 and again from 1866 na 1876. After reportedly earning a million dollars in a career that spanned 1857 na 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. 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. Po celé roky, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Henry Moses Dufur sa špecializoval na zápasenie goliermi a lakťami, keď Dufur profesionálne zápasil v 70. a 80. rokoch 19. storočia. Narodený v máji 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Dufur zápasil predovšetkým na severovýchode Spojených štátov. Júna 27, 1878, Dufur zápasil v odvetnom zápase so zápasníkom menom Cox v Boston Baseball Park pred päťsto fanúšikmi. Päťsto fanúšikov
Augusta 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. Aspoň to som si pôvodne myslel a väčšina historikov to citovala. Moderné
Prvý bratranec môjho starého otca, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, bol jedným zo sv. Louis’ priekopníci lietadiel. Julius, ktorý bol v rodine známy ako “Punks”, v polovici 20. rokov 20. storočia vstúpil do leteckej národnej gardy. Bol by poverený ako poručík. Július lietal na lietadlách pre vojenský aj civilný letecký zbor. Väčšina mužov v jeho jednotke, medzi ktoré patril aj Charles
Počas posledného týždňa decembra 1902, William Rudolph, Nedávno sa vrátil baník Franklin County, a George Collins okradol Union banky v únii, MO. Oni ho vykradli cez noc, keď nikto nebol prítomný, vyhodiť do povetria bezpečné. 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. Pán. 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