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Legacy posts about St. Louis history with a particular emphasis on building and police history.
Tom Allen urodził się w Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 but he became famous as a heavyweight bare knuckle prizefighter in America. Settling in St. Louis around 1867, Allen won the American Heavyweight Championship in 1873 and held the title until 1876. He returned to England for a year before returning to St. Louis for good in 1878. Back
In March 1893, gazety w całym kraju doniosły o proponowanym meczu pomiędzy obecnym mistrzem świata w boksie wagi półciężkiej Jackiem McAuliffe a instruktorem boksu z Saint Louis Mike'iem Mooneyem. Chociaż mecz wydawałby się dziwny, ponieważ Mooney był tak lekko traktowanym pretendentem, przynęta $2500 prawdopodobnie strona sprowadziła mistrza do stołu. Skorygowana
Johnny Reagan was an important fighter in the St. Louis boxing scene during the first decade of the 20th Century. Originally from Brooklyn, Reagan moved to St. Louis to train under Jack McKenna. McKenna based his operation out of St. Louis, where his fighter primarily fought at St. Louis’ West End Club. Reagan was a rising bantamweight at the time
W sobotę, Kwiecień 9, 2022, the Franklin County Missouri Historical Society invited me to give a PowerPoint presentation on the Union Missouri Bank Robbery of 1902. The book covers the robbery, the investigation, two nationwide hunts for the fugitive and a daring break from the St. Louis City Jail. Two daring robbers, not yet 23 lat, pulled off
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 lat, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley “The Michigan Assassin” Ketchel was exhausted. Ketchel took a vacation on the Missouri ranch of his friend Colonel R. P. Dickerson in an attempt to regain his strength and enthusiasm for fighting. Ketchel never returned from vacation as he was shot and killed at
Abe Attell bokser był trudny. Dwukrotnie zdobył Mistrzostwo Świata piórkowej Boxing. On i jego brat Monte pierwsi bracia, aby być mistrzem świata boksu w tym samym czasie po Monte wygrał Mistrzostwa Świata koguciej. Abe Attell won his first title when he was based out of the West End Boxing Club in St. Louis, MO.
Monte Attell was the younger brother of World Featherweight Boxing Champion Abe Attell. Monte would always be stuck in the shadow of his older brother but was a talented fighter in his own right. Monte would win the World Bantamweight Boxing Championship during his career and establish himself as a world class fighter. W 1904, he was a 19-year-old up-and-coming
Podczas swojego pierwszego biegu jako mistrz świata w wadze piórkowej, Abe Attell miał siedzibę w St.. Louis, Missouri. Oprócz obozu w St.. Louis, Attell kilkakrotnie bronił swojego tytułu w St.. Louis’ West End Athletic Club. At the time, St. Louis był największym miastem na zachód od rzeki Mississippi w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Urodzony jako Abraham Washington Attell
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 “Siekać” w St. Louis during the 1904 Targi na świecie. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
St. Louis, at the beginning of the 20th Century, had a prominent professional boxing scene. Abe Attell, although born in San Francisco, was based in St. Louis. On February 1, 1904, Attell defended his World Featherweight Boxing Championship against frequent rival Harry Forbes. Forbes was also a regular on the St. Louis boxing scene. Forbes defeated Danny Dougherty for the