Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportsutøver
Paul Pons var den gresk-romersk bryting Champion i Frankrike på 1890-tallet. Han vant en turnering på Folies-Bergeres før de vant en turnering i Russland i 1898. Disse seirene tillot ham å kreve verdensmesterskapet i gresk-romersk bryting. Pons kapitalisert på denne beryktet ved å åpne et treningsstudio for å trene fribrytere og sterke menn. Pons’ seieren var spesielt bemerkelsesverdig pga
I 1934, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd avsluttet sin kriminelle karriere i et East Liverpool, Ohio maisåker etter en skyte ut med FBI-agenter og lokale polititjenestemenn. However, i desember 1925, han var innsatt nummer 29078 ved Missouri Penitentiary. Den 21 år gamle Floyd hadde nettopp blitt dømt for å rane Kroeger dagligvare og Baking Company hovedkontor
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 drepte
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 ga ut Appointment with Danger (affiliate link) in London in 1950 men ga den ikke ut i USA
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
Desember 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. Etter
I den andre overlevende Sherlock Holmes-filmen (affiliate link) starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, to kriminelle har rømt fengsel. De søker å hevne seg på menn, som dobbelt krysset en av de kriminelle, Jonathan Smalls. Smalls fortalte to av wardens av sitt fengsel hvor en stor formue ble 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,
In late 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. However, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Av 1902, George