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Ерл Кадок имаше релативно кратка, но историска професионална кариера во борење во доцните 1910-ти и раните 1920-ти.. Правејќи го своето професионално деби во 1915 по освоени три титули на ААУ во аматерско борење, Кадок се бореше само професионално до 1922. Сепак, тој ќе биде признат како светски шампион откако го победи Џо Стечер во април 1917. Кадок би ја изгубил титулата назад
On Thursday, Јануари 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, еден од St. Louis’ најбогатите луѓе, сопственост на станбени недвижен имот и други средства во вредност од 2 милиони долари. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Louis. Тој
On July 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.” Even though Georges Carpentier
Март 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. Во овој филм (Филијалата линк), longtime bachelor Lum Edwards wants to become a hero
On Tuesday, Јануари 19, 1909, Д-р. 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. Д-р. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Земјоделец” 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 фунти. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Берг се бореше во
Од јануари 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, го зема
Том Ален е роден во Бирмингем, England but fought some of his most famous fights in America. Во 1867, Allen moved to St. Louis, the largest city west of the Mississippi. Allen never left and would use St. Louis as his home base to train for prizefights. Allen fought mostly in bare knuckle prizefights as American boxing would not be
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. Често се пишува како Едвард, но се изговара како спојување помош и одделение, Eduard was as unique as his name. Се борев да пишувам многу за него, бидејќи приказните што ги слушнав за него
Кога станува збор за машина политиката и организираниот криминал, Канзас Сити отсекогаш засени Свети. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Канзас Сити е исто така дом на неколку од висок профил во мафијашки убиства. St. Louis’ последните организиран криминал лидер беше уапсен за играње карти. We did have a Democratic party political machine around