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Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Ós rud é gur mheas lucht leanúna ach Clarence Whistler oilte go leor chun bagairt a dhéanamh ar a réimeas, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. On May 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, a
Dick Tracy Buaileann gruesome (1947) Is é an iontráil dheireanach i “B” sraith scannán. Ghlac Pictiúir RKO an tsraith ar aghaidh ó Pictiúir Poblacht, a scaoileadh an bunaidh serials Dick Tracy sna 1930í déanacha agus 1940í luatha. Pictiúir RKO scaoileadh an scannán a amharclanna Meán Fómhair 26, 1947. RKO brought Boris Karloff in to play Gruesome, 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 dócha go raibh an bhliain ba mheasa den saol Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman ar. Chaill sé an dá a iníon deich mí d'aois Ida Bealtaine Zimmerman agus a bhean chéile an dara Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Roimh bhás Parker sa Giraurdeau Rinn Tornado de 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909
Ar Eanáir 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 Samhain 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 children. An Naomh. Louis Ard-Deoise a thiomnaigh an eaglais
Tharla an Ilchomórtas Wrestling Idirnáisiúnta in dhá chéim idir Bealtaine 19, 1915 agus mí na Nollag 31, 1915. Bheadh caoga wrestlers iomaíocht sa chéad chéim den tournament lena n-áirítear an Domhain Greco-Roman Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. Bhí an dara tráthchuid 40 wrestlers lena n-áirítear suas agus ag teacht réalta Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. An
The few people who know about the prizefighter Paddy Ryan probably know him as John L. Sullivan’s victim. Sullivan beat Ryan for the Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship in 1882. Bhí Ryan ina throdaire maith ann féin áfach. Rugadh Ryan ar an Mhárta 15, 1851 in Ireland. His family emigrated to Troy, Nua-Eabhrac. Bhí aithne ar Ryan ar feadh a chuid
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. Níl sé soiléir ar tharraing gníomhartha Charles Sanders aird Printz, nó níor tháinig Printz ach ar Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Shiúil Printz suas go Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. Nuair a