A WEIGHT-LIFTING DISCUSSION.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11102, 22 October 1901, Page 2

A WEIGHT-LIFTING DISCUSSION.

_.' -~-" ■•■■ - 18FB/SU& 1 ' so "th», press.") - - I , . , »XJNEDIN, October 2L -i In, a. letter to the Press- Mr W. JL Oibb- -writes: —"The weight-Hfting • performance-, by "■ Mr J?. A. Hornibrook, in C_ristchurch, .viz,} .raising a 65K> dumbbell in each! hand, and pressing -from the , ahouider to aa-ms 5 length above the head i.twreii times >ia very far from being th 3 record Mr Hornibrook claimed it to' be. IT. L. JDuncan, of Dunedin fchaanpion - weight-lifter of New Zealand), .-Reforms a feat similar,to this when exercising nearly every nighb- r witth a 751b, bar bell in eachhandii end=.p! , es«e8 r theiu to, .arms' length ' not only seven times .but twelve, times/ .« simultaneously > and thinks,-nothing of it. Will Mr Hornibrook please loot up the ■Claiest; records-performed by Prance? - He .will find that fee has, instead of raising two raised a 112Jfc <temb»beil in each hand in the same mauneariftrstiines simultajiecmslyv Mr.Hon_ibrook does not .require to,refer to England for weightlifting ,reoor4s,, as Duncan can perform some astonishing feats of strength ,with ' heavy Ibar bells which should be quite as - \ muoh as Mr Hornibrook could digest. There "are also' many others- in Dunedoi - who can with ease perform tlids same feat - - , of Hornibrook's." - -'"■*? I*'. ; i-- ■■>■■■ '■■>-■ ' * i. , •'-■..'