Хенри Мосес Дуфур Реминисценцес

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Хенри Мозес Дуфур држао је светског шампиона у рвању овратником и лактом у тешкој категорији током 1870-их. По 1855, Дуфур се повукао из професионалног рвања да би наставио своју професију кројача одеће са пуним радним временом. Чак и током своје рвачке каријере, Дуфур је радио као кројач. Дуфур је дописнику Бостон Глобеа рекао да је рођен у Ричфорду, Вермонт у јуну 5, 1943. Овај датум од

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Dan Daly Beats Ed Kelly

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In December 1920, robbers killed Patrolman Charles Daly at the entrance to his home in the 4000 block of Forest Park Boulevard. Свети. Louis Police aggressively investigated the murder but it was never solved. Prior to his death, the Daly name was already well-known in St. Лоуис. Charles Daly was the son of professional prizefighter Dan Daly, who fought in

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Tom Allen Fights Bill Davis

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У 19. веку, most states banned bare-knuckled prizefighting and professional gloved boxing. Police often arrested fighter, managers, and promoters to stop prizefighting. A unique aspect of geography turned St. Louis into an ideal fight venue to get around the authorities’s activity to stop professional prizefighting. In the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois, the river’s current created a handful

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Was Lewis or Gotch Better?

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У јануару 1921, Ad Santel started a minor controversy by claiming Ed “Давитељ” Lewis was a better wrestler than the late Frank Gotch. Santel trained with both Gotch and Lewis, so Santel 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.

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Павле Понс, Кафу рвања Старс

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Павле Понс је грчко-римским стилом шампион Француске у 1890. Он је освојио турнир у Фолиес-Бергерес пре победе на турниру у Русији у 1898. Ове победе су му омогућиле да освоји светско првенство у грчко-римском рвању. Понс капитализује на овом озлоглашености отварањем теретану да тренира рвача и јаких мушкараца. Pons’ победа је била посебно изузетна због

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Pretty Boy Floyd’s St. Louis Robbery

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У 1934, Charles ArthurPretty BoyFloyd ended his criminal career in an East Liverpool, Ohio corn field after a shoot out with FBI agents and local law enforcement officers. <Спан ббок_к = "289" ббок_и = "553" ббок_в = "56" ббок_х = "20" фсизе = "14" фвеигхт = "3" црвено = "255" зелено = "255" плави = "255" алфа = ", in December 1925, he was inmate number 29078 at the Missouri Penitentiary. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office

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Suspects But No Murderers

анслин-моллер-пд

Октобра 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, који је убио

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Appointment with Danger (1950)

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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. Парамоунт Пицтурес је објавио Аппоинтмент витх Дангер (аффилиате линк) in London in 1950 али га није објавио у Сједињеним Државама

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Detective Desmond Closes Pawn Shop

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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. Лоуис

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Willis Hall Gets 99 Years for Murder

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На дан 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

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