George Baptiste Dies

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Fuq Diċembru 1, 1938 fuq 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 sena. While enjoying robust strength his whole life, Baptiste’s doctor discovered he had stomach cancer in June 1938. The doctor operated on Baptiste but was unable to remove all the cancer. Baptiste had been living at his country home

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Qtil fi 2912 Washington

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Il-bini huma biss munzelli ta 'bordijiet u briks mingħajr l-istejjer li huma mwaħħla magħhom. During November 1912, St. L-Uffiċjal tal-Pulizija ta’ Louis Arthur Huddleston inqatel mill-qattiel Albert Whitefield li ngħata l-parole. Whitefield kien sorpriż lil martu tal-liġi komuni, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for

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Counter-Espionage (1942)

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Columbia Pictures’ Lone Wolf series, starring Warren Williams as Michael Lanyard, is one of my favorite “B” serje film. Williams played the debonair jewel thief, who somehow always ends up helping the police solve a series of crimes. Counter-Espionage (1942) begins with Lanyard stealing top secret plans from Sir Stafford Hart’s safe. Scotland Yard’s Inspector Stephens rushes to the scene

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Ad Santel Brings The Pain

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Ad Santel gained his reputation as a dangerous catch wrestler from his frequent bouts with judoka from Japan during the 1910s and a story from the second George Hackenschmidt training camp for the Frank Gotch rematch. According to legend, Frank Gotch paid Santel, a skilled submission wrestler, $5,000.00 to injure Hackenschmidt’s knee in training. Filwaqt li din l-istorja tista’ jew tista’

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Irish Giant Bashes Wormald

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Ottubru 29, 1868, “Irish Giant” Ned O’Baldwin and English prizefighter Joe Wormald met in a bare knuckle prize-fight outside of Boston in Lynnville, Massachusetts. O’Baldwin stood 6’06” tall and weighed around 220 liri. Possessed of a violent disposition, O’Baldwin had the perfect attitude for the ring but poor social skills outside of it. Il-partitarji taż-żewġt irġiel waslu fihom

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Marvin Hart Jirbaħ Titolu Vakanti

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Fuq Lulju 3, 1905, Marvin Hart daħlu fil-ġlieda għat-titlu dinja vakanti bħala 3 li 1 underdog. Jack Root li tkun l-ewwel kampjonat heavyweight dawl kien il-favorit li tirnexxi l-James J reċentement rtirati. Jeffries. Jeffries kieku referì din il-logħba titolu sabiex jissostitwieh. Marvin Hart kienet riċentament imsawwat Jack Johnson. Widely considered the

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