Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Paul Pons war der griechisch-römischen Ringkampf-Champion von Frankreich in den 1890er Jahren. Er gewann ein Turnier in den Folies Bergère-gewinnen, bevor ein Turnier in Russland 1898. These victories allowed him to claim the World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship. Pons aktiviert auf dieser Bekanntheit durch die Eröffnung einer Fitnessstudio zu trainieren Ringer und starke Männer. Pons’ victory was particularly remarkable because of
In 1934, Charles Arthur “Hübscher Junge” Floyd beendet seine kriminelle Karriere in einem East Liverpool, nach einem Ohio Maisfeld mit FBI-Agenten und lokalen Strafverfolgungsbehörden herausschießen. Jedoch, Im Dezember 1925, er war Häftling Nummer 29078 am Missouri Penitentiary. Die 21-jährige Floyd hatte gerade den Kroeger Grocery und Baking Company Hauptbüro auszurauben verurteilt worden
Am 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, which killed
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
On 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
Wenn der 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. After
In the second surviving Sherlock Holmes film (affiliate link) starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, zwei Verbrecher Gefängnis entkommen. Sie suchen, um Rache an den Männern exakt, die Doppelquerte eine der Kriminellen, Jonathan Smalls. Smalls sagte zwei der Wärter seinem Gefängnis, wo ein großes Vermögen versteckt war. The wardens find the treasure, have a
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,
Im Spät 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 “Bauer” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Jedoch, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Von 1902, George