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Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Gan fod cefnogwyr ond yn ystyried Clarence Whistler yn ddigon medrus i fygwth ei deyrnasiad, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. Ar Fai 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, sydd
Dick Tracy Yn cwrdd erchyll (1947) yn y cofnod olaf yn “B” cyfres ffilm. Cymerodd RKO Pictures y gyfres drosodd o Weriniaeth Lluniau, a rhyddhawyd y serials Dick Tracy gwreiddiol ar ddiwedd y 1930au a'r 1940au cynnar. RKO Pictures rhyddhau y ffilm i theatrau ar Fedi 26, 1947. Daeth RKO Boris Karloff mewn i chwarae erchyll, one of Dick Tracy’s arch
When thinking about African American history month, I thought about the first great Black wrestler that I saw personally. When I started watching wrestling in St. Louis during 1979, “Sailor” Art Thomas wrestled regularly on Wrestling at the Chase, our local weekly wrestling show. Wrestling at the Chase aired every Sunday at 11 a.m. on KPLR Channel 11. Although Thomas
When Frank Gotch retired as World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion after beating Georg Lurich in his last match, promoters scrambled to find a successor. Samuel Rachmann tried to put forth his own champion by hosting the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament in New York City. Rachmann wanted his challenger Aberg to win the tournament and be recognized by the public as the
1909 oedd yn ôl pob tebyg y flwyddyn waethaf o fywyd Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman yn. Collodd ei ddwy ferch ddeg mis oed Ida May Zimmerman a'i ail wraig Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Cyn marwolaeth Parker yn y Cape Giraurdeau Tornado o 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909
Ar Ionawr 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. While British
Ar Dachwedd 1908, three bishops and an abbot dedicated St. Francis de Sales Church, “the Cathedral of South St. Louis”. Built to serve the growing German Catholic population in St. Louis, the huge church would become the home to many families including my great grandparents, Eduard and Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 plant. St. Louis Archesgobaeth cysegru yr eglwys
Digwyddodd y Twrnamaint Reslo Rhyngwladol mewn dau gam rhwng mis Mai 19, 1915 a mis Rhagfyr 31, 1915. Byddai hanner cant o wrestlers cystadlu yn y cam cyntaf y twrnamaint, gan gynnwys Byd Greco-Rufeinig Hyrwyddwr Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Mae'r ail randaliad wedi 40 wrestlers gan gynnwys hyd ac yn dod seren Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. Mae'r
Mae'r ychydig o bobl sy'n gwybod am y Prizefighter Paddy Ryan yn ôl pob tebyg yn ei adnabod fel John L. Dioddefwr Sullivan. Sullivan guro Ryan ar gyfer Pencampwriaeth Pwysau Trwm Prizefighting yn 1882. Ond roedd Ryan yn ymladdwr da ynddo'i hun. Ganed Ryan ar Fawrth 15, 1851 yn Iwerddon. Roedd ei deulu ymfudodd i Troy, Efrog Newydd. Roedd Ryan yn adnabyddus trwy gydol ei
On the evening of June 1, 1879, St. Louis Police Officer Charles Printz was walking his beat near 505 Marion Street on St. Louis’ South Side. Nid yw'n glir a ddenodd gweithredoedd Charles Sanders sylw Printz, neu mae Printz newydd faglu ar Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Cerddodd Printz i fyny i Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. When