Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
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Þegar Wladek Zbyszko ferðaðist frá Bandaríkjunum til Brasilíu í ábatasama ferð
Hver er mesti lögmæti atvinnuglímumaðurinn til að glíma í Bandaríkjunum? How do
Apríl 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
Í seint 1909, Stanislaus Zbyszko ferðast til Bandaríkjanna til að skora heim Heavyweight glímukappi Frank Gotch. Áður en fundur Gotch, Zbyszko tónleikaferð til Bandaríkjanna og berjast mörgum staðbundnum wrestlers allan fyrri hluta 1910. Zbyszko myndi ferðast 37,000 kílómetra. Snemma í ferð hans, Zbyszko hitti Frank Gotch í fötlunar leik. Zbyszko sigraði Gotch, sem var
My second great-grandfather August H. Elker was born in Hanover, Germany on May 22, 1848 in the year of revolutions in Europe. Whether related to the revolutions or not, August’s family travelled to America in 1854. After landing in New York City, the Elker family made its way to St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis had a large German Catholic community, sem
Oliver Leonard Kirk has the distinction of being the only Olympic boxer to win a gold medal in two separate weight classes in the same Olympic Games. Oliver Kirk accomplished this feat at his hometown Olympics in 1904. St. Louis hosted the third Olympiad during the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Arthur Wontner is arguably the best film portrayer of Sherlock Holmes. His fifth and final outing as Holmes in Murder at the Baskervilles (1937). The film was released in the United Kingdom in 1937 but was not released in America until January 15, 1941. Wontner was excellent as usual but Murder at the Baskervilles is the weakest offering in the
Á fimmtudaginn, Janúar 27, 1904, Tom Jenkins varði bandaríska glímumeistaramótið sitt gegn upprennandi glímumanni frá Iowa. After the first fall, aðdáendurnir áttuðu sig á því að þetta var erfiðasti leikurinn á c Frank Alvin Gotch, the Humboldt, Iowa farm boy who would defeat Georg Hackenschmidt for the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908, was Jenkins’ challenger. Jenkins hafði sigrað Gotch's
After several months of wrangling, Clarence Whistler met Duncan C. Ross on Monday, Nóvember 7, 1881 in a best three-out-of-five falls match. Two falls were to be conducted in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, which both men were considered adept at. Two falls were to be conducted in collar-and-elbow wrestling, which was a Ross speciality. The final fall would be conducted in Greco-Roman
The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935) is an adaptation of one of the Ellery Queen novels. Two cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, who wrote a number of detective novels under the pseudonym of the title character. Í þessari mynd, Ellery Queen is taking a vacation to California with his friend Judge Macklin. Of course, they are not long into their
In December 1920, robbers killed Patrolman Charles Daly at the entrance to his home in the 4000 block of Forest Park Boulevard. St. Louis Police aggressively investigated the murder but it was never solved. Prior to his death, the Daly name was already well-known in St. Louis. Charles Daly was the son of professional prizefighter Dan Daly, who fought in
Sigur Sherlock Holmes (1935) is one of the five Sherlock Holmes films starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes. Director Leslie S. Hiscott adapted the Sherlock Holmes novel The Valley of Fear but added to the story to give Professor Moriarty and Col. Sebastian Moran roles in the story. Verulegur hluti myndarinnar er endursögn á
Þó frægur fyrir að berjast við John L. Sullivan í síðasta heimsmeistarakeppni verðlaunabardaga sem keppt var undir berum hnúareglum, Jake Kilrain tók einnig þátt í mörgum hanskabardögum. Verðlaunabaráttan var að breytast úr reglum um beina hnúa yfir í hanskabardaga samkvæmt reglum Marquess of Queensberry (snemma áhugamanna- og atvinnuhnefaleikar) seint á 19. öld. Eins og Sullivan, Kilrain myndi berjast í dúr