Sam McVey Puts Pressure on the Champ

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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

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Kushinda mara mbili kwa Marvin Hart

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In 1902, Bingwa wa baadaye wa Ndondi wa Uzito wa Uzito Duniani Marvin Hart alikuwa mshindani anayeongezeka. Kupambana haswa nje ya mji wake wa Louisville, Kentucky, Hart ililingana dhidi ya Kid Carter kwenye Klabu ya Wanariadha Kusini mnamo Mei 2, 1902. At 17-1, Hart alijua ushindi mwingine utasaidia sana kupata pambano la mataji mazito. Kid Carter aliyezaliwa Brooklyn alikusudia

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Old Champ Dies Penniless

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Novemba 30, 1910, reports came from England that former World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion Jem Mace had died at 79 umri wa miaka. Mace alikuwa bingwa wa dunia kutoka 1860 kwa 1862 na tena kutoka 1866 kwa 1876. Baada zimeripotiwa kupata dola milioni katika kazi hiyo ilikuwa imewekwa 1857 kwa 1909, Jem Mace alikufa penniless. He was laid to rest

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Alexander Baptiste Passes at 100

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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. Kwa miaka, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate

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Dufur Draws with Cox

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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

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Evan Lewis Strangles Tom Cannon

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Juu ya Agosti 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. At least that was what I originally thought and most historians have quoted. Modern

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Julius W. Johannpeter, Air Pioneer

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babu yangu binamu, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, alikuwa mmoja wa St. Louis’ waanzilishi ndege. Julius, ambaye alikuwa anajulikana katika familia kama “Punks”, alijiunga Air National Guard katikati ya miaka ya 1920. Atakuwa utakamilika kama Luteni. Julius akaruka ndege kwa wote wawili kijeshi na za kiraia corps hewa. Zaidi ya watu katika kitengo chake, ambayo ni pamoja na Charles

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William Rudolph and Union Bank Robbery

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Wakati wa wiki ya mwisho ya Desemba 1902, William Rudolph, hivi karibuni alirejea Miner kwa Franklin kata, na George Collins kuiba Benki ya Umoja wa katika Umoja wa, MO. Wao kuiba mara moja, wakati hakuna mtu alikuwepo kwa kupiga juu ya salama. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff

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Chief Desmond Discovers Murder

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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.

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Russian Civil War Snags Aberg and Lurich

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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

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