Sejarawan Olahraga Tempur dan Artis Bela Diri
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. However, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt memilih Menteri Perang dan mantan Gubernur Filipina
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, Jalan Hidup di Kesehatan dan Kekuatan (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 tahun sampai kehilangan miliknya
Sunday morning, Agustus 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
Dalam salah satu kebetulan yang aneh dari sejarah, Streetcar Presiden Uni Sherman C. Patterson ditikam oleh seorang masinis serikat bernama Edward Canty setelah perselisihan sedan. Pada saat beberapa lawan-lawannya di 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Mogok akan senang untuk melihat Dia dikirim pada kereta api luar kota, Patterson is stabbed by
William Muldoon, mantan detektif New York City, memenangkan Dunia Yunani-Romawi Wrestling Championship dengan mengalahkan Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon memerintah selama sepuluh tahun sebelum pensiun sebagai juara. Setelah pensiun, ia mulai mencari nafkah sebagai pelatih pribadi. Muldoon trained wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for his
On Monday evening, Juli 16, 1917, St. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 N. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. His “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, yang
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. Kakek
Tom Hyer won the American Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship in 1841. Like most prizefighting champions of the Nineteenth Century, he did not fight very often. Hyer normally paid his bills as an enforcer for political parties in New York. Semula, Hyer menggunakan bakatnya untuk Whig tetapi kemudian beralih kesetiaan ke Whig “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William
Pada tanggal 4, 1883, the Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion William Muldoon faced skilled French wrestler Jules Rigal in San Francisco, California. When the wrestlers stripped to their trunks for the match, it was obvious Muldoon’s power would prove a formidable challenge to Rigal. Muldoon stood around 6 feet tall and weighed between 193 dan 210 pounds during his career.
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, Dalam Line of Duty: St. Polisi Louis Who Made Kurban Ultimate oleh Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath dan Mayor 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. Louis