Certamina ludis Historicus et Martialis Artist
In July 3, 1905, Marvin Hart entered the fight for the vacant world title as a 3 ut 1 underdog. Jack Root who would be the first light heavyweight championship was the favorite to succeed the recently retired James J. Jeffries. Jeffries would referee this title match to replace him. Marvin Hart had recently beaten Jack Johnson. Widely considered the
Earl Caddock had a relatively short but storied professional wrestling career in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Making his professional debut in 1915 after winning three AAU National titles in amateur wrestling, Caddock only wrestled professionally until 1922. Autem, he would be recognized as world champion after defeating Joe Stecher in April 1917. Caddock would lose the title back
On March 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. In hoc film (affiliate link), longtime caelibem Lum Edwards vult fieri fortis
In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. Autem, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Professional fighting in the 19th Century enjoyed a poor reputation outside of
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Agricola” 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 pondo. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg wrestled in
On January 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, accipit eum
We included four or more martial arts in our academy’s curriculum. When I look at these arts, I see a distinct reason that I studied each one. These arts cover striking, iniecta, ground fighting and a practical self-defense weapon, the cane. I started studying Shotokan karate in the Fall of 1994. I switched to Taekwondo with my nephew in the Spring of 1995. Taekwondo brought
Eduard Mosblech is my maternal great-grandfather. Eduard was born in St. Ludovicus, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. Saepe ut Edouardus scribitur, sed quasi collatis auxiliis et custodia pronuntiatur, Eduard was as unique as his name. Certavi cum multa scribere de eo quod fabulas quas de eo audivi
Ut enim ad crimen publicae machina, Kansas urbem semper superabat St. Ludovicus. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas urbem quoque domum ad plures summus profile gangland shootings. St. Ludovicus’ postremo crimen duce captus fuit pro ludens cards. 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, April 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell usus est ut mechanicus ad