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Show FEATS OF TRICK JUMPER. Qua Neuberg Leaps on Eggs and Razors Ra-zors With Impunity. Pew athlotlc fonts show the stuff ma,n Is mado of bo thoroughly as Jumping, pnrtffularh" trick Jumping Almost every 'muscle In the body Is called Into play In this sort of oxer clse. Jt Is lntoicstlng, therefore, to find at Elizabeth, N, J., a young man who has recently boon doing somo ro ' markable feats In trick Jumping. He Is dus Neuberg. In our Illustration with his little iour-ycar-old boy on the chair, ho Jumps up on the lad's legs Just where ithey hang over the- top of tho chair .and then off. At least, that Is what ho appears to do, but, as a matter of fact, ho docs not put any weight .at all on tho boy's legs. His Jump Is one continuous movo -nient, but ho has hecomo so skillful that he Is able, In making tho leap, to bring his feet down lightly on the child's body without" losing hU balance, thus making It scum as though two Jumps wcro actually in-volvcd in-volvcd In tho feat. Our illustration shows him In the .-act of Jumping over a table threo feet 1 . high, lighting, apparently, In the itff courso of his leap on the small of ! r the little boy's back. Among other things, he Jumps In .and out of r.n ordinary barrel with' tho Jumps on and Off the Boy Without . Hurting Him. ' rJjk (ad standing Inside, and leaps over I v ' a tub of water, touching his feet to the water so lightly that the soles are icarcoly wet. Tho most nerve-racking stunt that -he does, and probably the most difficult, dif-ficult, Is to jump over a table In his bare feet and touch the sharp blades of razors fastened In the top of the table without ovon so much ns scratching the skin on his feet. He docs the some thing with a basket of eggs, Jumping apparently on tho eggs, without cracking ono of them. He also puts several lighted candles can-dles in a row and In one Jump snuffs out every ono with his feet. The candles aro arranged about a foot -apart and there, aro half a dozen or thorn. He also puts a barrel at ono end of a fairly high tablo aud then, placing his boy on the tablo, Jumps ovor hlra Into tho barrel. Tho most difficult thing about his tricks Is, of course, tho moving of his feet during Mm Jump without being thrown off his balance For an ordinary or-dinary .Jumper tho moving of his feet during the leap hinders progress, but when tho knack of handling tho feot In tho proper way is once obtained, it assists, II anytnlng, In covering the .ground. Neuborg is only about 6 feot C inches inch-es tall. Ho weighs 135 pounds and laa a line muscular dovolopmcnt. Ho makes It a faint In training nover to ride on a trolley car Unless ho ha to go farther than twenty-flvo blocks He thinks that wnlklng Is about the best exercise that he takes. fl t.Mps Upon the Boy's Outstretched Legs Without Disturbing Hln Balance. |