היסטוריון ספורט קרבי ואמן לחימה
Posts about miscellaneous history.
George Baptiste spent about twenty years serving as St. לואיס’ resident all-around athlete before taking over the company, Baptiste Tent and Awning, founded by his father Alexander Baptiste. Besides plying his trade as an occasional but accomplished professional wrestler, Baptise was a powerful swimmer. On August 11, 1900, Baptiste used his swimming skills to save another St. Louisan from drowning.
In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. אולם, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. לחימה מקצועית במאות ה -19 נהנתה ממוניטין עניים מחוץ
Johnny Reagan was an important fighter in the St. Louis boxing scene during the first decade of the 20th Century. Originally from Brooklyn, Reagan moved to St. Louis to train under Jack McKenna. McKenna based his operation out of St. לואיס, where his fighter primarily fought at St. לואיס’ West End Club. Reagan was a rising bantamweight at the time
On August 17, 1891, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. בתוך 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. לואיס. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. בתוך 1847, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "569" = bbox_w "832" = bbox_h "22" = fsize "21" = fweight "14" = אדום = ירוק "6", "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = "
יש אוליבר לאונרד קירק ההבחנה להיות המתאגרף האולימפי רק כדי לזכות במדליית זהב בשתי קטגוריות משקל נפרדים באותו המשחקים אולימפיים. אוליבר קירק השיג הישג זה בעיר הולדתו באולימפיאדה 1904. <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". לואיס אירח את האולימפיאדה השלישית במהלך 1904 עולמו של יריד התערוכה. Like the Paris Games four years before, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis gave
On September 15, 1919, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis citizens woke up to read about the death of one of their oldest citizens, Alexander Baptiste. Just a few months before his 101st or 102nd birthday depending on which source you believed, Alexander Baptiste passed away from intestinal disease. במשך שנים, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
קייט שופן, בת למשפחה צרפתית בולטת ומחבר הזמן מקומי, התמוטט ברחוב. לואיס 1904 היריד העולמי של באוגוסט 20, 1904. מאדאם שופן היה רק 54 שנים וסבלתי מדימום במוח או מפרצה. היא מתה בביתה בשדרות מקפרסון באוגוסט 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
בנובמבר 1908, three bishops and an abbot dedicated St. Francis de Sales Church, “the Cathedral of South St. לואיס”. Built to serve the growing German Catholic population in St. לואיס, the huge church would become the home to many families including my great grandparents, אדוארד ומגדלנה Mosblech, and their 14 ילדים. סנט. Louis Archdiocese dedicated the church
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 שנים, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley “The Michigan Assassin” Ketchel was exhausted. Ketchel took a vacation on the Missouri ranch of his friend Colonel R. P. Dickerson in an attempt to regain his strength and enthusiasm for fighting. Ketchel never returned from vacation as he was shot and killed at
כשזה מגיע לפוליטיקה מכונה ופשע מאורגן, קנזס סיטי תמיד outshone סנט. לואיס. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. קנזס סיטי הייתה גם ביתם של כמה כנופיות ירי פרופיל גבוה. <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". לואיס’ מנהיג פשע מאורגן שעבר נעצר על משחקי קלפים. We did have a Democratic party political machine around