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Dominant champions like William Muldoon often had to accept handicap conditions to get fans interested in watching them wrestle. Eftersom fansen bara ansåg att Clarence Whistler var skicklig nog att verkligen hota hans regeringstid, Muldoon would often generate interest by either performing feats of strength or taking on the challenge of handicap conditions. På maj 5, 1885, Muldoon met Matsuda Sorokichi, som
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) är den sista posten i “B” filmserie. RKO Pictures tog serien över från Republic Pictures, som släppte den ursprungliga Dick Tracy följetonger i slutet av 1930-talet och början av 1940-talet. RKO Pictures släppt filmen till teatrar på September 26, 1947. RKO tog Boris Karloff in för att spela 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 under 1979, “Sjöman” 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 var förmodligen det värsta året för Parker Lonzo Bator Zimmerman liv. Han förlorade både sin tio månader gamla dotter Ida May Zimmerman och hans andra hustru Mellie Bollinger Zimmerman. Innan Parkers död i Cape Giraurdeau Tornado av 1949, he would bury two more of his children. Both of them were adults. I can only imagine how hard 1909
På Januari 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. Medan brittiska
På November 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. The St. Louis ärkestift invigde kyrkan
Den internationella Wrestling Tournament skedde i två etapper mellan maj 19, 1915 och december 31, 1915. Femtio brottare skulle tävla i den första fasen av turneringen, inklusive Världs grekisk-romerska Champion Aleksander “Alex” Åberg. Den andra delen hade 40 brottare inklusive upp och kommande stjärnan Ed “Strangler” Lewis, who joined a month into the tournament on November 22, 1915. Den
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. Ryan var dock en bra fighter i sin egen rätt. Ryan föddes i mars 15, 1851 in Ireland. His family emigrated to Troy, New York. Ryan var känd under hela sin tid
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. Det är inte klart om Charles Sanders handlingar väckte Printz uppmärksamhet, eller Printz snubblade precis över Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Printz gick fram till Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. När