WEIGHT-LIFTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 96, 26 April 1938, Page 20

WEIGHT-LIFTING.

RECOUPS BROKEN. Thp first riffieiiil stn-URth |p-i nWtlfr thf auspices ~f ilir NVw /.calami AmilH-ur Weight -lil'teiV Asseciaf lon was lirhl at New" Plymouth recently. Mr. .1. Kllloll. rounder and honorary sc-rn-lary nf Uio association., arrived from Auckland specially In rei'erce tlir mat ell lu-tweeu I - ., llolisoii. Stratford, middle-weijrlit cliainpinii of Tarannki. and C. A..Meier. Wan a. light-hcavy-weight rliiiiupltiii <>>' Tamnalcl. 'rhis contest was lu-ld Hi cat.-h wciu'hts ami resulted in a win f.ir Mei'-r with a total of r.-J.llb on ilie lliri'c (Hynipii , lifts. ltolison's total of 47111b was very good, con siderins lie was giving away a stone in body weight. Meier registered Hie following successes in spcciiil atteinpls oil ci.uhl New Zealand iimatour records and one Ausiralian record, previous records being in parentheses : ■-- l.ett-band curl. C.Jlb (C.llb). light heavyweight: lrfl-lumd snatch. 1 40111 ( 1 I'M Mb i. lisrht heavy-weight record : lei i liaiul snaleli. 14olb ( I:! I i 1111. heavy-weighl : two hands clean and .jerk behind nrn-k. UI IHi (l'.ililbl. liSht-liravyweiglil and h'-a vv- weight : leflband dead lift. .-il'-Jlli Clufdbl. liulii -lieav.v ■ weight and heavyweight : Ivvi. hands deiid lift, ntiolb (4<.11.M1i1. Wghl heav.v-wei-.Mit and lieiiv.v-weishl. The latter als., eonstiuiten a new Australian and New Zealand light-heavy-weight record, the old one having stood at 4!171b since !!>:.'!•.