Sporting and Athletic Records

130 DUMB-BELLS AND WEIGHTS has lifted 987lbs (8cwt. gilbs.) clear of the floor; with both hands he has lifted 1897 1 ji lbs. or nearly I7cwt. Finally by using his back* legs, and arms he is said to have lifted off the trestles on which it rested a platform upon which there was nearly 2 tons of live weight (l ton 18 cwt. 44 lbs.). Turning to amateur performances the most noteworthy are those of W. B. C URTIS, American, E. L. L EVEY and W. P RANCE, British, and W. T UERK, Austrian. Apparently any one of these men has been able to take a hundredweight in each hand and raise thetwo hundred­ weights simultaneously above his head. Undoubtedly the greatest feat of strength ever performed by an amateur was W. B. C URTIS' harness lift, when under conditions of absolute fairness and of trustw r thy observation, he lifted I ton 8 cwt. 103 lbs.about two inches clear of the ground, Light and Medium Dumb-bells In each of the following performances the dumb-bell was put up with one hand only from the shoulder to arm's length above shoulder. Weight of bell lbs. No. of times put up Time H. M. S. Name Place Date 4 4 1,000 6,000 745 ( 59 53 1 |E. C. Stickney (P.) Lynn, Mass, 22 June '85 TO a 8.43 1 4 34 0 H.Pennock (P.) New York 13 Dec. '70 12 14,000 — A.Corcoran (A.) Chicago, 111. 4 Oct. '73 25 O *3- — G. W.W.Roche(A.) San Francisco 25 Nov. '75 SO 94 — A.A.Hylton (A.) 9 May '85 5 1 80 — G.M.Robinson (A.) „ 29N0V. '83 A Not less than 25 times ineach minute.