Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Op April 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Op Oktober 20, 1916, Ad Santel, 'n bekende "haker" of vaardige voorleggingstoeier, met Taro
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Geboue is net hope planke en bakstene sonder die stories wat daaraan geheg is. During November 1912, St. Arthur Huddleston, Louis-polisiebeampte, is deur die moordenaar Albert Whitefield vermoor. Whitefield het sy gemeenskaplike vrou verras, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for
Op Dinsdag, November 5, 1901, St. Louis Police captured Ben Kilpatrick and Laura Bullion for their part in the Great Northern train robbery in Montana on July 2, 1901. Before the case was settled, Kilpatrick would serve 10 years and Laura Bullion would serve three and a half years in the Missouri Penitentiary but it would take several weeks for
Columbia Pictures’ Lone Wolf series, starring Warren Williams as Michael Lanyard, is one of my favorite “B” film-reeks. 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
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. Terwyl hierdie storie kan of mag
Op Mei 5, 1898, Yusuf Ismail het met Tom Jenkins in Cleveland gestoei, Ohio. Ismail het eers ses maande lank deur die Verenigde State getoer in die vroeë deel van 1898. Ismail het minder as tien wedstryde gestoei, maar 'n pad van vernietiging agtergelaat wat tot vandag toe onthou word. Ismail het 'n kragtige indruk gemaak deur beide Evan "Strangler" Lewis maklik te verslaan. Ismail het ook 'n sterk gemaak
Die Vampire Bat (1933) is 'n genre buig film hoofrol Lionel Atwill. Oënskynlik, it is a horror film but is actually more of a mystery. It would fall into the “B” movie category, 'n kort film bedoel om die voorgereg vir die hoof film op 'n dubbel wetsontwerp te wees. Majestic Pictures produced the film, which was directed by Frank R.
Op Oktober 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 pond. Possessed of a violent disposition, O’Baldwin had the perfect attitude for the ring but poor social skills outside of it. Aanhangers van albei mans het opgedaag
Op Julie 3, 1905, Marvin Hart entered the fight for the vacant world title as a 3 te 1 underdog. Jack Root who would be the first light heavyweight championship was the favorite to succeed the recently retired James J. Jeffries. Jeffries would referee this title match to replace him. Marvin Hart had recently beaten Jack Johnson. Widely considered the
My second great-grandfather George Washington Story was born in August 1843 to Gilford Dudley Story and his second wife Nancy Jane Story nee Womack. George was born in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois, USA. He was the fourth of Dudley’s and Nancy’s nine children. George Washington Story married his first wife and my second great-grandmother Malinda Davis on November 26, 1863,
Op September 16, 1932, RKO Pictures released The Most Dangerous Game (1932), a film about a big game hunter becoming the hunted. Joel McCrea plays big game hunter Bob Rainsford. Rainsford is on a yacht off the South American coast discussing his latest hunt, when another guest asks him, “Do you ever think how the tiger felt?” Rainsford laughs at