Taisteluurheiluhistorioitsija ja kamppailutaiteilija
After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. Kuitenkin, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt valitsi sotaministerin ja entisen Phillipinesin kuvernöörin
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, Way to Live in terveyttä ja voimaa (affiliate link) by Georg Hackenschmidt. Georg Hackenschmidt set many weightlifitng world records before focusing on professional wrestling. Hackenschmidt would win the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1901. Hackenschmidt would reign as undefeated World Champion for 7 vuotta omansa menettämiseen
Sunday morning, Elokuu 12, 1900, St. Louis Police arrested four former Transit Line streetcar workers for blowing up the Olive Street line on Maryland Avenue between N. Taylor and N. Euclid Avenues on the previous night at 11:00 p.m. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
In one of those strange coincidences of history, the Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson was stabbed by a union machinist named Edward Canty after a saloon disagreement. At a time when several of his opponents in the 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
William Muldoon, entinen New Yorkissa etsivä, voitti World kreikkalais-roomalaisen painin mestaruuden voittamalla Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon hallitsi kymmenen vuotta ennen eläkkeelle mestari. Jäätyään eläkkeelle, hän alkoi tehdä elantonsa personal trainer. Muldoon trained wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for his
Maanantai-iltana, Heinäkuu 16, 1917, St. Louis Poliisi Julius H. Petring määritetty North Market Division tuli vuokratalo klo 2301 N. Market Street. Petring kysyi haltija William Dietrich vuokrata tilaa hänelle ja hänen vaimonsa. Hänen “vaimo” oli hänen äskettäin eronnut tyttöystävänsä Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring oli tapaillut Freda Hagenmeyer, jotka
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Lee” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Jules”, Julius Johannpeter. Grandpa lived with Uncle Jules from the time he left Missouri Military Academy in 1932 until he married my grandmother, Alvina Ellis nee Mosblech in 1938. Ukki
Tom Hyer voitti amerikkalainen Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship 1841. Kuten useimmat prizefighting mestareita yhdeksästoista vuosisata, hän ei taistella kovin usein. Hyer yleensä maksanut laskut enforcer poliittisten puolueiden New Yorkissa. Alun perin, Hyer employed his talents for the Whigs but would switch allegiances to the “Know Nothing Party” hänen ystävänsä William
Kesäkuuta 4, 1883, kreikkalais-roomalaisen maailman Heavyweight Wrestling Champion William Muldoon kohtasi taitava ranskalainen painija Jules Rigal San Franciscossa, Kalifornia. Kun painijat riisuttu runkoihinsa ottelua, oli selvää Muldoon valta voisi osoittautua valtava haaste Rigal. Muldoon seisoivat 6 senttiä pitkä ja painoi välillä 193 ja 210 pounds during his career.
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, Tehtäviin kuuluvana: St. Louis Poliisit Who Made Ultimate Sacrifice Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath ja Major Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. With his hair parted down the middle and a big mustache, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Ludvig