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Aprila 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
V januarju 1921, Ad Santel started a minor controversy by claiming Ed “Strangler” Lewis was a better wrestler than the late Frank Gotch. Santel trained with both Gotch and Lewis, so he did have an insider’s knowledge. Was he right though? Gotch was the last Undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Gotch won the title by defeating the great Georg Hackenschmidt.
Paul Pons je grško-rimske rokoborbe prvak Francije v 1890. Je osvojil turnir v Folies-Bergeres pred zmago na turnirju v Rusiji 1898. Te zmage so mu omogočile naslov svetovnega prvaka v grško-rimskem rokoborbi. Pons kapitalizirane na ta slava z odprtjem telovadnico trenirati rokoborcev in močne moške. Pons’ zmaga je bila še posebej izjemna zaradi
V 1934, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd končal svojo kriminalno kariero v East Liverpool, Ohio koruzno polje po ustreli ven z agenti FBI in lokalni policisti. Vendar, v decembru 1925, je bil zapornik številka 29078 na Missouri kaznilnici. 21-year-old Floyd je bil pravkar obsojen zaradi ropanja glavno pisarno Kroeger Živila in peko Company
Oktobra 16, 1920, Special Officers Preston Anslyn and William A. Moller were following two burglars in the 3800 block of Juanita Avenue during a heavy fog. One or both burglars shot the officers from a gangway as they walked onto the lawn of a house, where they thought the burglars entered. The officers both suffered fatal wounds, ki je ubil
I’m continuing with watching some old Alan Ladd movies that I first saw thirty years ago on American Movie Classics (AMC), when they showed classic movies. I recently watched Appointment with Danger (1950), which was as entertaining as I remembered it. Paramount Pictures je izdal Sestanek z nevarnostjo (podružnica povezava) in London in 1950 vendar ga ni izdal v Združenih državah
Running a pawn shop has always been a tough business because you constantly have to be on the look out for thieves attempting to pawn their stolen goods in your shop. In the late 19th Century, police detectives worked with pawn shops, as they do today, to try to stop the fencing of goods. In August 1885, future St. Louis
Decembra 15, 1903, about 2:00 o’clock in the morning, George Harding, the clerk of the Erie Hotel, was busy working in his office. Used to working alone, Harding had relaxed his vigil and didn’t notice three large, hard looking men enter the hotel at Fourth and Clark Streets. His attention was arrested, when the first man entered his office
When the 1915 New York International Wrestling Tournament restarted in October 1915, a mysterious masked man sat at ringside demanding an entry into the tournament. Prior to the masked man’s arrival, the tournament had been lightly attended. The attraction of the masked man sitting at ringside attracted both fan and newspaper interest. Crowds started showing up for the matches. Po
V drugem preživelem filmu o Sherlocku Holmesu (podružnica povezava) starring Arthur Wontner kot Sherlock Holmes, dve kriminalci so pobegnili iz zapora. Skušajo maščevanje za moške, ki dvojna prečka enega od kriminalcev, Jonathan Smalls. Smalls povedala dva od redarjev svojega zapora, kjer je skritih veliko sreče. The wardens find the treasure, imeti a
During March 1891, George Baptiste travelled from St. Louis to Detroit to take part in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling tournament. While primarily a Greco-Roman wrestler, Baptiste would compete in the dominant American style of catch-as-catch-can. The 26-year-old Baptiste was an accomplished amateur and professional wrestler. Entering the Detroit tournament, Baptiste had lost only one match as a professional. The year prior,