Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-08-03 | Page 12 | Appetite Proves Costly to Weight Lifting Star

Appetite Proves Costly To Weight WeightLifting Lifting Star BERLIN Aug 3 UP The UP-The The long quest of the United States for an Olympic weight-lifting weight victory was crowned with success today but Antonio personal crusade for a world record in international competition had foundered on the rocks of his own appetite The handsome young oung Italian from York Pa brought America its first Olympic gold medal in that sport port last night with an aggregate of pounds on the three lifts which compose the competition In Inthe Inthe Inthe the snatch he lifted pounds which was a new record in the featherweight class and in the press he hoisted i. 2031 His clean and jerk was pounds But the featherweight class with Its pound weight limit has al always always always al- al ways been very hard for to make and more than once he has been forced by avoirdupois to compete compete com corn pete in the pound class ImmedIately Immediately Immediately Imme Imme- after alter the weighing in yesterday yesterday yes yes- esterday es morning which he just managed managed managed man man- aged to survive rushed away in search of ot a dining room Free at last of ot months of gastronomic gastronomic gastronomic gastro gastro- restriction he ate enough food to make up for almost all that he had lost Then came the lifting at the Deutschland Halle and new record in the snatch in which tho the weight must be pulled from Crom the thc floor to stiff arms overhead in I one motion As a matter of course the officials weighed the huge dumbbell tor or barbell used and also put on the scale Weighted with steak etc the disma dismayed ed American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean saw the balance go well over the pound mark The record was then refused official sanction Second to was Saleh of Eg Egypt pt with an aggregate of pounds and third was Ibrahim of oC Egypt with John Terry powerfully powerfully powerfully power power- fully muscled New York negro fInished finished finished fin fIn- sixth with American lifters fared not so well wellIn In the lightweight pound BB-pound class in which John of oC York Pa could do only fourth with 70 pounds well pounds well under his usual marks Mesba of ot Egypt won von this event with l pounds including a phenomenal phenomenal phenomenal phe phe- clean and jerk of pounds a new worlds world's record Fein of Austria also lifted pounds but had to take second place because because because be be- cause he weighed some four ounces more than the Egyptian Jansen of oC Germany was third with and Bob Mitchell of oC York Pa finished eighth with ith