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Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Since fans only considered Clarence Whistler skilled enough to really threaten his reign, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. May 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, qui,
Dick Tracy Gruesome Cornelius (1947) quod sit ultimum in introitu “B” film series. Pictures RKO accepit a series super Republic Pictures, dimisit autem illis qui in nuper 1930s et mane 1940s originale Dick Tracy serials. Pictures RKO dimisit in theatris ad film on September 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 est forsit pessimum anno vitae Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman. Et ipse periit, et decem menses, et ex secunda uxore, filia Ida May Zimmerman Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Ante mortem Parker in Capo de Giraurdeau Turbo 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909
On January 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
Novembres 1908, three bishops and an abbot dedicated St. Francis de Sales Church, “the Cathedral of South St. Ludovicus”. Built to serve the growing German Catholic population in St. Ludovicus, the huge church would become the home to many families including my great grandparents, And Eduard Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 filii. In S.. Aloisii archidioecesis ecclesiam dedicavit
Et factum est in duobus temporibus LUDUS International palaestrica inter May 19, 1915 et December 31, 1915. Et quinquaginta in certamen luctandi esset primum et exspoliatus nec Mundus Champion Graeco-Romanae Aleksander “Alex” Åberg. Secundum autem quod praesenti 40 athletas quoque, et venit Stella Ed “Strangulatam” Lewis, qui quondam in a tournament in mense Novembris 22, 1915. In
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. Carl erat vir bonus in sui juris etsi Pugnator. Carl Martii natus est 15, 1851 in Ireland. His family emigrated to Troy, Novi Eboraci. Ryan notum fuit per manum eius
On the evening of June 1, 1879, St. Louis Police Officer Charles Printz was walking his beat near 505 Marion Street on St. Ludovicus’ South Side. Non liquet si actiones Caroli Sanders attentionem Printz allexerunt, aut Printz mox incidit in Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Printz ambulavit ad Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. When