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INCIDENTALS
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presented a variety strength show and Trophy Award Night at the Cheltenham High School. Howard Felt won the best physique title. The records of many of this club's members debunk theory that weightlifting and participation in competitive sports are incompatible. Robert Hanamirian, developing very quickly since he began weight training, is a member of the Cheltenham High School's track team, while freshman bodybuilders Ronald Gross and Barry Lieberman are members of the Elkins Park Junior High basketball team See that Rene Claytor got his photo in The New York Daily News when he won the Mr. New York City title at the Hanson Place Y.M.C.A., Brooklyn, besting 41 other contestants. ... See that Walt Baptiste and his wife now publish a very interesting little newspaper entitled You. It's devoted to healthful living all aspects of it, the spiritual and mental as well as the physical. If you've been wondering how Walt operates three outstanding health centers, here's a partial answer to the question: Charles Mallon operates the 224 Sutter St. Studio, Ken Kokogawa the 700 Van Ness Avenue gym, and Bud Brooks the 48 Golden Gate Centre. These are all men whom. Walt personally trained, who achieved outstanding physiques, and are now in a position to train others effectively. In November Walt will sponsor a big body beautiful show which will feature three physique events of national importance: the Professional Mr. America, Miss Golden Gate, and the Amateur Mr. U.S.A. contests.. Sanford Al-
corn, of San Jose, California, who won the title Boy Wonder of America this year, stands a mere 6 feet and weighs 196 lbs. at the age of 16. Sanford can do 561 sit-ups on a 45-degree board without stopping... The lifting meet held in San Jose, California, on February 5, 1955, was dominated by members of Ed Yarick's Gym. They placed first in every class except 123, in which the gym had no entry. Certainly a tribute to Ed Yarick. Outstanding lifting was done by Mitz Oshima, who totaled 670 in the 132-lb. class, and Tommy Kono, who totaled 920 lbs. in the 181-lb. class. Of course, fine lifting was also done by many of the other contestants as well. Incidentally, at this meet Mitz Oshima was named the outstanding lifter and Al Carrillo the most improved lifter. .. A year ago George J. MacDonald, who has been lifting for over 30 years, had his leg broken in an automobile accident-was in the hospital for 2 months and on crutches 9 months. No, George, who in 1926 became the first man from Massachusetts to total 650 lbs. at a bodyweight of 170, is not a partial cripple now. As a matter of fact, he's doing squats with 300 lbs. You just can't kill an iron man . . . While on the subject of injuries-Victor Nippert recently underwent an operation for the removal of a hernia he developed about five years ago while playing basketball. His doctor says it would have become strangulated long ago had Vic not engaged in systematic, progressive exercise. He permitted Vic to exercise
on the flat and incline bench one week after the operation. Four weeks after the operation Vic was putting up more poundage than before in his workouts, proving again that the weightlifter has better than average recuperative powers. Some jinx dogging Jose Avila -first he hurt his hand so that he had to stop training. When that healed and he had resumed training, he managed to injure his left shoulder while pressing. At present he cannot press, snatch,
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even place weights back of the neck and on the shoulders for squatting. Incidentally, did you know that Jose is quite a baseball player? Members of his home town team want him to play centerfield, and so Jose may combine weightlifting and baseball playing.
POSTSCRIPTS: Ed Fallen, presiIdent of the YMCA Barbell Club in Albuquerque, N. M., sends a clipping telling how police officer Eugene Casey credits barbell-built ruggedness with saving his life when he was wounded in a gun battle. The Albuquerque Tribune story quotes Casey, "I owe my life to the sport. I was told by doctors that my strong physical condition helped me recover from bullet wounds I received in the gun battle. I kept myself strong with weight lifting exercises." Casey was shot twice in the arm, once in the thigh and twice in the abdomen. Prexy Fallen also mentions that the Southwest Championships date has been changed from May 14 to June 18. It seems that Paul Anderson has pretty clearly established himself as the "strongest man" by just about any standards with his official 402pound clean and press. In a training session prior to making the lift Paul found a 500-pound bench press going harder than usual. When he checked, he found the weight was actually 515 and was overbalanced with five pounds more on one side than the other! Paul reports he is now able to continental and push-press 450 pounds "anytime" (!) and that he squats 10 repetitions with 700 pounds! Incidentally, JAM was quoted just a bit out of context in a recent TRUE magazine article about Louis Cyr. The lifts I said Paul would have trouble matching were such odd stunts as Cyr's finger lift. Anderson is so strong otherwise I believe he could top Cyr's best back lifts, and hand and thigh lifts anytime! . Alfred Carry, of Newport, R. I., reports finding a picture of one-time "world's fastest human" Charlie Paddock lifting a barbell. Paddock was a record-holding sprint champion. The picture, printed in an old newspaper, showed Paddock and Bebe Daniles (of movie fame) posed with their arms around each other and the free arms holding a barbell overhead. . . Joe Uhls sends a clipping from The Capaha Arrow, Southeast Missouri State College newspaper, which mentions a weight lifting exhibition by Marvin Rosengarten and John Timmons. Rosengarten pressed 270 and C&J 310 in the demonstration ... A note from Peter Brandwein, New York Times sports writer and editor of the authoritative Encyclopedia of Sports (A. S. Barnes & Company), mentions that New York University has given official sanction to the formation of a college weight lifting team.
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Len Rosenthal is team captain and Prof. Robert Harper is faculty advisor. Outstanding N.Y.U. lifters are Rosenthal, Mickey Cohen, Irwin Cohen, Jerry Slavin, Jules Birnbaum, Bill Stone, Jim Grossman and Stan Leotta. ... E. L. Shwetzer and Frank Wasman, of Gimbels stamp department in New York, send information about a new Turkish 20 kurus stamp showing Turkish soldier Seyid, who, according to military records, carried a shell weighing 607 pounds up a small staircase and loaded it in a cannon at a shore defense gun emplacement . . Jim Dick, manager of the York branch in Canada, sends news that indicates Doug Hepburn is making a success in his professional wrestling career. His first opponent, Fredo Marconi, was quoted as saying "That big gy just grabbed me and that was it. He just folded me up." Billed as the "Mighty Hepburn," Doug was to take on two men in a future bout The March 21 edition of TIME magazine mentions General Maxwell Taylor's interest in physical conditioning. Taylor, 53-yearold chief of the U. S. Far East Command, says TIME, "On a recent flight to Washington . . . exercised with dumbells in the plane aisle
PROBLEMS OF SAKSONOV
(Continued from page 15) geared-up to perform tremendous feats of skill and strength, he does not display the "dynamic approach" which is such a feature of Rafael Chimishkyan, or lifters of the past like the great Terlazzo, Shams and Fayad.
With his shaven head shining weirdly under the arc-lights, this tall featherwt with the massively muscled thighs is the personification of quiet controlled mental and physical determination. He is a good sportsman when he loses... and does not appear to be wildly enthusiastic when he wins. Whilst waiting for the final fateful hours to pass before beginning an important contest, I am told that "The Doktor," as he is sometimes called, will stow himself away in a quiet corner and pursue his medical studies by reading.
During the middle of 1954 the Russians sent a powerful w-lifting team to Egypt and the Lebanon to give demonstrations. Sakonov was there, and he reached one of the peak moments of his athletic carrer by making an official clean & jerk of 314 lbs. A few weeks earlier he had succeeded in ambition. realising an He bettered Popov's 1939 feather-wt snatch of 237 lbs by squat snatching a weight which turned out to be 238 lbs. (Note: Popov's lift was a USSR record not a world record, because in those days Russia was not affiliated to the F.I.H.)
was
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The only lift that Sakonov could not progress with, apparently, press. Occasionally he returned a lift of 214 lbs. . . but more often than not 209 lbs. was the best he could manage.
In view of the known press form of messrs Ivan Udodov and Rafael Chimishkyan during the final training sesVienna, before last years sions at world championship, this particular (Continued on page 66)
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