Ιστορικός Μάχης και Πολεμικός Καλλιτέχνης
Την Πέμπτη, Ιανουάριος 23, 1902, St. Louis awakened to the news millionaire A. Deane Cooper was found murdered in the Vista Bathhouse at Franklin Avenue and North Grand Boulevard. Cooper, ένα από το St. Louis’ πλουσιότεροι άνδρες, ιδιόκτητα οικιστικά ακίνητα και άλλα περιουσιακά στοιχεία που αποτιμώνται 2 εκατομμύρια δολάρια. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Louis. Αυτός
Τον Ιούλιο 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” Κι ας Ζορζ Καρπεντιέ
Τον Μάρτιο του 19, 1942, RKO Radio Pictures released the second film starring the Old Time Radio comedy team Lum and Abner. The Bashful Bachelor (1942) starred Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards and Norris Goff as Abner Peabody, the owners of the Jot’Em Down Store in Arkansas. Σε αυτή την ταινία (affiliate link), longtime bachelor Lum Edwards wants to become a hero
Την Τρίτη, Ιανουάριος 19, 1909, Ο Δρ. Benjamin Roller, a Seattle physician and pro wrestler who was good enough to win the American Heavyweight Championship, inexplicably decided to try his hand at professional boxing. His opponent was friend and sparring partner, “Denver” Ed Martin, who would win the Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Ο Δρ. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Γεωργός” Burns twice but was mostly thought of as a good lighter wrestler. Berg held the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in the late 1910s and competed for the Middleweight Title, which was contested at 158 λίρες. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg wrestled in
Τον Ιανουάριο 26, 1934, United Artists released Palooka (1934), a feature film based on the popular comic strip. Stuart Erwin plays Joe Palooka but Jimmy Durante steals the show as his manager Knobby Walsh. Joe Palooka is the son of former world boxing champion Pete Palooka. When Joe was a baby, his mother Mayme, played by Marjorie Rambeau, takes him
Ο Τομ Άλεν γεννήθηκε στο Μπέρμιγχαμ, Αγγλία αλλά έδωσε μερικούς από τους πιο διάσημους αγώνες του στην Αμερική. Σε 1867, Ο Άλεν μετακόμισε στο St. Louis, η μεγαλύτερη πόλη δυτικά του Μισισιπή. Ο Άλεν δεν έφυγε ποτέ και θα χρησιμοποιούσε το St. Ο Λούις είναι η βάση του για προπόνηση για αγώνες με έπαθλα. Ο Άλεν πολέμησε ως επί το πλείστον σε αγώνες με γυμνές αρθρώσεις όπως δεν θα ήταν η αμερικανική πυγμαχία
Eduard Mosblech is my maternal great-grandfather. Eduard was born in St. Louis, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. Often written as Edward but pronounced like putting together aid and ward, Eduard was as unique as his name. I struggled with writing much about him because the stories I heard about him
Όταν πρόκειται για την πολιτική της μηχανής και του οργανωμένου εγκλήματος, Κάνσας Σίτι έχει επισκίασε πάντα St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City ήταν επίσης το σπίτι σε διάφορες υψηλού προφίλ πυροβολισμοί συμμοριών. St. Louis’ τελευταίου ηγέτη του οργανωμένου εγκλήματος συνελήφθη για χαρτιά. We did have a Democratic party political machine around
21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, Απρίλιος 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Ο Merrell εργάστηκε ως μηχανικός στο