Историк боевых видов спорта и боец
On Thursday, Январь 23, 1902, Улица. Louis awakened to the news millionaire A. Deane Cooper was found murdered in the Vista Bathhouse at Franklin Avenue and North Grand Boulevard. Cooper, один из св.. Луис’ самые богатые люди, принадлежащая ему жилая недвижимость и другое имущество стоимостью 2 миллион долларов. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Луис. Он
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.” Хотя Жорж Карпентье
Марта 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. В этом фильме (партнерская ссылка), Давний холостяк Лам Эдвардс хочет стать героем
Во вторник, Январь 19, 1909, Доктор. 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. Доктор. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Фермер” 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 фунты. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Берг боролся в
Января 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, берет его
Том Аллен родился в Бирмингеме, England but fought some of his most famous fights in America. В 1867, Allen moved to St. Луис, 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. Луис, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. Часто пишется как «Эдвард», но произносится как «сочетание помощи и защиты»., Eduard was as unique as his name. Мне было трудно много писать о нем, потому что истории, которые я слышал о нем,
Когда дело доходит до политических машин и организованной преступностью, Канзас-Сити всегда затмевала St. Луис. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Канзас-Сити был также является домом для нескольких громких бандитских перестрелок. Улица. Луис’ последний организовал лидер преступление был арестован за игральные карты. 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, Апрель 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell was employed as a mechanic at