Historiador de esportes de combate e artista marcial
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 picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, The Way to Live in Health and Strength (link de afiliado) 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 anos até perder o
Sunday morning, Agosto 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, um ex-detetive de Nova York, venceu o Campeonato Mundial de Luta Greco-Romana, derrotando Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon reinou por dez anos antes de se aposentar como campeão. Depois de se aposentar, ele começou a ganhar a vida como um personal trainer. Muldoon trained wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for his
On Monday evening, Julho 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, que
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Sotavento” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Viga”, 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. Avô
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. Originalmente, Hyer empregou seus talentos para os Whigs, mas iria mudar lealdades ao “Know Nothing Party” with his friend William
Em junho 4, 1883, the Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion William Muldoon faced skilled French wrestler Jules Rigal in San Francisco, Califórnia. 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 e 210 pounds during his career.
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, No cumprimento do dever: St. Louis agentes da polícia que fizeram o sacrifício final por Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath eo Major Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. Com o cabelo repartido ao meio e um grande bigode, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis