Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Am Montag, März 5, 1900, St. Louis Polizisten Thomas Meagher und Thomas Degnan genommen Männer, die East St raubt. Louis Vorsitzender der seine Waffe. Ed Sullivan, a 22 jährige transiente, beraubt ein East St. Louis Polizist seine Waffe, Schmuck und Besitzungen Ende Februar 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “the Benicia Boy”. Despite an 0-1-1 record as a professional fighter, Heenan claimed the World Prizefighting Championship based on a draw with Tom Sayer in an 1860 English prize-fight. Heenan’s first professional fight had been with the reigning World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey’s last professional fight
Frank Gotch took the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Tom Jenkins in December 1903. Gotch intended on following up this triumph with a match for World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from George Hackenschmidt. Gotch wanted to meet “Hack” in St. Louis during the 1904 Weltausstellung. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
Am Samstag,, März 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Louis’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Moran und die Detectives
On a March night in San Francisco, heavyweight contender Marvin Hart proved pure aggressiveness could sometimes win a decision. After 20 rounds of boxing, referee Greggains, the only judge, awarded the decision over the great Jack Johnson to Hart. Hart met Johnson on March 28, 1905. Johnson entered the ring as the betting favorite. Er trat auch als einer von
H. H. Holmes war ersten bekannten amerikanischen Serienmörder in der modernen Definition des Wortes. Holmes betrieben “die Murder Castle”, ein Hotel in Chicago während der 1893 Weltausstellung Chicago. Holmes schließlich sechzehn Morde verurteilt werden, kann aber mehr als ermordet haben 100 Menschen bei seinem Betrieb des Hotels. What is less well known is that St.
Ich im September habe meine Frau bei der Hochzeit meiner Schwester 1995. Ich Tam als beste Freundin meiner kleinen Schwester bekannt war 10 Jahre, aber ich habe nicht wirklich, sie zu sehen, wie die Frau, die sie bis zum heutigen Tag im späten September geworden war. I actually got to know her better because I was on wolf duty this day although it
Charlie Chan im Treasure Island (1939) ist die dritte Twentieth-Century Fox Film mit Sidney Toler als Charlie Chan. Inspektor Chan und Jimmy Chan, von Victor Sen Yung spielte, fliegen zur Weltausstellung in San Francisco 1939 als der Film beginnt. The bumpy ride is making Jimmy very nervous. Mit im Flug ist auch Charlies Freund Paul Essex, played
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, The Way to Live in Health and Strength (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 years until losing his
Sunday morning, August 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