Povjesničar borilačkih sportova i borilački umjetnik
Posts about miscellaneous history.
George Baptiste spent about twenty years serving as St. Louis’ 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. Kolovoza 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. Međutim, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Profesionalne borbe u 19. stoljeću uživale su lošu reputaciju izvan zemlje
Johnny Reagan bio je važan borac u St. Louis boksačka scena tijekom prvog desetljeća 20. stoljeća. Podrijetlom iz Brooklyna, Reagan se preselio u St. Louis trenirati pod Jackom McKennom. McKenna je svoju operaciju temeljio na St. Louis, gdje se njegov borac prvenstveno borio kod St. Louis’ Klub West End. Reagan je u to vrijeme bio u usponu bantam kategorije
Kolovoza 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. U 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. U 1847, the
Oliver Leonard Kirk ima razlike kao jedini olimpijski boksač koji je osvojio zlatnu medalju u dva odvojena težinske kategorije na istim Olimpijskim igrama. Oliver Kirk postigao ovaj podvig u svom rodnom gradu na Olimpijskim igrama u 1904. St. Louis vrijeme bila domaćin trećeg Olimpijade 1904 Svjetskom sajmu Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
On September 15, 1919, St. 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. Godinama, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Kate Chopin, daughter of a prominent French family and at the time local author, collapsed at the St. Louis 1904 World’s Fair on August 20, 1904. Madame Chopin was only 54 years old and suffered a brain hemorrhage or aneurism. She died at her home on McPherson Avenue on August 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
Studeni 1908, three bishops and an abbot dedicated St. Francis de Sales Church, “the Cathedral of South St. Louis”. Built to serve the growing German Catholic population in St. Louis, the huge church would become the home to many families including my great grandparents, Eduard i Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 djeca. St. Ludovika nadbiskupija posvetila crkvu
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 godina, 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
Kad je riječ o politici strojeva i organiziranog kriminala, Kansas City je uvijek sjajila St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City je također dom nekoliko high-profile mafijaškom pucnjavi. St. Louis’ Posljednji vođa organiziranog kriminala je uhićen zbog kartanja. We did have a Democratic party political machine around