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Chester Gould skapte Dick Tracy tegneserien i 1931. Opprinnelig publisert gjennom Detroit Metro, stripen flyttet til Chicago Tribune der det gjorde papiret og Gould rik gjennom syndikering. Det var bare et spørsmål om tid før Dick Tracy debuterte på lerretet. Ralph Byrd played Dick Tracy in four 15 chapter serials
Som jeg har skrevet i flere innlegg, de beste tungvektsbokserne mellom 1900 and 1919 ble de afroamerikanske bokserne tvunget til å kjempe mot hverandre for “Farget mesterskap”. Selv etter at den store Jack Johnson endelig brøt fargelinjen og vant World Heavyweight Championship, han ville bare forsvare tittelen mot hvite kandidater. As a result, de tøffeste utfordrerne
Også kjent at The Sleeping Cardinal, Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour (1931) er den første Sherlock Holmes film med Arthur Wontner i tittelrollen. Filmen handler om en ung mann, som har vært utro på broen for å gjenvinne sin tapte formue. Professor Moriarty bruker informasjonen i et forsøk på å utpresse den unge mannen Ronald Adair, portrettert av Leslie Perrins.
November 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney forlot St. Louis Country Club, da hun ble oppsøkt av to afroamerikanske menn. Den lysere mannen fortalte Mrs. Stickney for å overlate juvelene hennes, ellers ville han ta dem fra henne. Av frykt for hennes sikkerhet, Mrs. Stickney ga mannen hennes smykker, verdsatt til $17,000.00, and $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
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
On September 15, 1887, a muscular man stood in the First District Police Court listening to Judge Cady. As he looked out between eyes almost swollen shut and a busted lip, he waited to see if justice would be done. It was as Judge Cady told the beaten man, “$10 fine for disturbing the peace. $100 for resisting arrest. You
November 30, 1910, rapportene kom fra England som tidligere World Heavyweight prizefighting Champion Jem Mace hadde dødd på 79 år. Mace var verdensmesteren fra 1860 til 1862 og igjen fra 1866 til 1876. Etter angivelig å tjene en million dollar i en karriere som strakte seg 1857 til 1909, Jem Mace døde pengelens. 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. For år, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
“Terrible” Terry McGovern proved to be a rare fighter at the turn of the Twentieth Century. While smaller boxers packed no power in their punches, McGovern, who scaled between 110 and 126 pounds, possessed tremendous knockout power. “Terrible” Terry often finished his opponents in the first four rounds. Juli 1, 1899, Brooklyn based McGovern met Chicago’s Johnny Richie at
August 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis møtte den britiske Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon i 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. Det var i hvert fall det jeg opprinnelig trodde og de fleste historikere har sitert. Moderne