Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportskunstner
Paul Pons var den græsk-romerske Wrestling Champion Frankrig i 1890'erne. Han vandt en turnering på Folies-Bergères før vinde en turnering i Rusland i 1898. Disse sejre gjorde det muligt for ham at kræve verdensmesterskabet for græsk-romersk wrestling. Pons kapitaliseres på denne berygtet ved at åbne et træningscenter for at træne brydere og stærke mænd. Pons’ sejren var især bemærkelsesværdig på grund af
I 1934, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd ended his criminal career in an East Liverpool, Ohio corn field after a shoot out with FBI agents and local law enforcement officers. Men, in December 1925, he was inmate number 29078 at the Missouri Penitentiary. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
Oktober 16, 1920, Special Officers Preston Anslyn and William A. Moller were following two burglars in the 3800 block of Juanita Avenue during a heavy fog. One or both burglars shot the officers from a gangway as they walked onto the lawn of a house, where they thought the burglars entered. The officers both suffered fatal wounds, som dræbte
I’m continuing with watching some old Alan Ladd movies that I first saw thirty years ago on American Movie Classics (AMC), when they showed classic movies. I recently watched Appointment with Danger (1950), which was as entertaining as I remembered it. Paramount Pictures released Appointment with Danger (affiliate link) in London in 1950 but didn’t release it in the United
Running a pawn shop has always been a tough business because you constantly have to be on the look out for thieves attempting to pawn their stolen goods in your shop. In the late 19th Century, police detectives worked with pawn shops, as they do today, to try to stop the fencing of goods. In August 1885, future St. Louis
Den December 15, 1903, about 2:00 o’clock in the morning, George Harding, the clerk of the Erie Hotel, was busy working in his office. Used to working alone, Harding had relaxed his vigil and didn’t notice three large, hard looking men enter the hotel at Fourth and Clark Streets. His attention was arrested, when the first man entered his office
When the 1915 New York International Wrestling Tournament restarted in October 1915, a mysterious masked man sat at ringside demanding an entry into the tournament. Prior to the masked man’s arrival, the tournament had been lightly attended. The attraction of the masked man sitting at ringside attracted both fan and newspaper interest. Crowds started showing up for the matches. Efter
I den anden overlevende Sherlock Holmes-film (affiliate link) starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, to forbrydere er flygtet fængsel. De søger at hævne på de mænd, der dobbelt krydsede en af de kriminelle, Jonathan Smalls. Smalls fortalte to af vagterne i hans fængsel, hvor en stor formue blev skjult. The wardens find the treasure, har en
During March 1891, George Baptiste travelled from St. Louis to Detroit to take part in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling tournament. While primarily a Greco-Roman wrestler, Baptiste would compete in the dominant American style of catch-as-catch-can. The 26-year-old Baptiste was an accomplished amateur and professional wrestler. Entering the Detroit tournament, Baptiste had lost only one match as a professional. The year prior,
I slutningen af 1902, Harvey Parker, a professional wrestler who began wrestling in 1900, travelled to St. Louis to challenge the local wrestling community. Parker may have thought St. Louis to be an easier town than “Farmer” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Men, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Ved 1902, George