Mwanahistoria wa Michezo ya Vita na Msanii wa Vita
Siku ya Alhamisi, Januari 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, moja ya St. Louis’ wanaume matajiri zaidi, mali isiyohamishika ya makazi inayomilikiwa na mali zingine zinazothaminiwa 2 dola milioni. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Louis. Yeye
Julai 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.” Hata kama Georges Carpentier
On Machi 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. Katika filamu hii (affiliate kiungo), longtime bachelor Lum Edwards wants to become a hero
Siku ya Jumanne, Januari 19, 1909, Dk. Benjamin Roller, Seattle daktari na pro wrestler ambaye alikuwa nzuri ya kutosha kushinda Heavyweight michuano ya Kaskazini, inexplicably aliamua kujaribu mkono wake katika mtaalamu ndondi. Mpinzani wake alikuwa rafiki na sparring mpenzi, “Denver” Ed Martin, ambao kushinda Boxing michuano ya Heavyweight rangi Dunia. Dk. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Mkulima” 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 paundi. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg aliyepigana katika
Januari 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, anamchukua
Tom Allen alizaliwa huko Birmingham, England lakini alipigana baadhi ya mapambano yake maarufu huko Amerika. In 1867, Allen alihamia St. Louis, mji mkubwa zaidi magharibi mwa Mississippi. Allen hakuwahi kuondoka na angetumia St. Louis kama kituo chake cha nyumbani cha kutoa mafunzo kwa mapambano ya zawadi. Allen alipigana zaidi katika pambano la kushindana kwa goli tupu kama ndondi ya Marekani isingekuwa
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. Mara nyingi huandikwa kama Edward lakini hutamkwa kama kuweka pamoja misaada na kata, Eduard was as unique as his name. I struggled with writing much about him because the stories I heard about him
Linapokuja suala la siasa mashine na uhalifu wa kupangwa, Kansas City daima outshone St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City ilikuwa pia ni nyumbani kwa high-profile gangland shootings kadhaa. St. Louis’ mwisho kiongozi wahalifu alikamatwa kwa ajili ya kucheza kadi. 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, Aprili 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell aliajiriwa kama mekanika huko