Show n I HAN PS 11 UK KE HAMS HELP A ATHLETES TH lETES By Robert Edgren I I r i t I a t tA A Aa i r 7 W f Wi 1 7 t e 4 f I iAu r s u t o BRI U t II A I GRIPs T THE BALL H A A d i 60 Y A cD FORWARD An Y 1 I I v I. I j J f J f J u r PolI IM SUE lE i-lE I ISCU TILDES TILDE'S loA Q A WT r. TILt S EN-S ro I Ra t AS Y FoR 1 C oN II S 5 Z t 1 Q RAC i O a I I r rM rr rol r k ol I. I M It r r t rw NE Or Ot fo it foA A F ST F t f or j J I. I i I J os o IMMO t KNUCKLES A I L I E eves THE rOLL FiLL GRIP GRI E BOB Bee oB 51 11 THE EC T AND A PO POWERFUL H HANDS t oi 0 HiS I 5 HARD I Ea i W ABE V I IH H WAS ThAT ALL ALU H H HIS i TC M R Ie A KNUCKLE 5 LANDED it Lo E BALL THAN A AT Ai ot cp ANY A Y a Monster Hands Have Proven Great Aid to Stellar Stella Athletes Athletes' Most of the Stars of Today Have Been Given Edge in Competition Through Unusually Mass Massive ve Fists and Hand Muscles I H HANDS ANDS have a great deal to do with success in sports The Th billiard players player's hands lands have to be he extremely supple yet firm Willie Villie Hoppe sacrificed his interest in in many other othel sports to save sav his hands and keep them in condition for billiard play He likes like baseball boxing and other sports but for years vears has been forced to content himself with looking on Schaefer's hands are as delicate as Hoppes Hoppe's and since he began playing billiards as a i small boy he has taken care of them If It Schaefer could do whatever he wanted to aside from playing playing- billiards he would choose choos handball as his favorite sport But he doesn't dare dire to Hitting a hard or even a soft ball bail would ruin his hands and keep him out of ot a fortune He cant can't even play tennis or golf gol except very ery rarely because he would develop muscles that would work against his Is delicacy of touch But r for nearly all l aa athletes l 1 i a pair of bl big strong hands s is a winning asset t. t Muller Carries j t VV val 1111 t Great Hands Brick M Muller Moller Is famous as a football tackle and for his ability to make forward forward for tor- ward passes of more than sixty yards yard handling the football very much as 1 It if it was a baseball throwing low am and straight Muller is six feet tall strongly strong strong- ly built and has such huge hands that tha he e can fairly rl wrap h his fingers a aroun around ea a f football That Is part of the e secret secre e of his s speed and d accuracy y l-y In delivery holder J Jim Duncan worlds world s r record o home for tor the discus throw who earned a lIeutenants lIeutenant's s commission at the front fron during the war and Is now In France has the biggest hands I ever saw o oan on onan onan an amateur athlete His little finger Inger is as thick and strong as an ordinary str tr sISa i ln mans man's a s thumb His palm is broad r an and thick and bunched with muscles HI Ills fingers are long The never slips from his grip although he gets et the record distance with a tremendous whip and gives a speeding whirl to th the missiles with a a. a tug of the fingers Julian who weighed 14 pounds and put the pound 16 shot over his forty five i hands d fi feet acquiring u spent I Ini ni b bunched years developing muscles muscle re of ot thumb and fingers that gave hint a great flip as as the shot left his fingertips finger finger- tips I T Terrible Knockout i Stops Career I Tom Carroll greatest o ot of all professional pro pro- weight throwers has a ao hand th that t measures a Just six inches across o s tire knuckles I As a an ordinary 7 big mans man's hand measures only 3 Inches It can be seen that Carroll has ha a powerful engine to give the final fina to any weight he throws He tried boxing once but after aner Knocking out a couple of men by dropping dropping drop drop- ping his huge paw on their chins h he gave it up for fear he might kill someone some some- one The first professional heavyweight heavy heavy- weight he boxed was knock knocked d out fo for tor twenty-four twenty hours John L L. Sullivan had thick hands hand wide across the knuckles and wit with very heavy wrists Jeffries had th lt lc wrists but his hands were not large larse In proportion to the rest of his P v Bob Fitzsimmons had very big bis hands hand and very small feet He wore wor wora a a No 6 shoe There was a peculiar thing about abou 1 hands that I have ne never neverseen seen lIeen In any other fighters fighter's maulers mauler when his fist 1st was closed th the knuckles knuckle formed a straight line Usually th the tho knuckle of the second finger er standout stands stand out farthest and the third knuckle knuckl nearly as far tar When I first noticed this I tho ht Fitzsimmons' Fitzsimmons knuckles had been battered battered bat bal back by much hitting although this was before FItz began begin his hands but he told me they alwa ahva always s 's were level He thought this had something some some- son thIn thing to do with his great reat hitting pow pow- POWer er as the blows were landed with al all four tour knuckles Later when he fought Jeffries th the second time Fit Fitz broke the tha first tw two t knuckles of his right and drove e them back out of line He broke them again arai on Gardner He lie drove drove- th the i first tw two knuckles of his left hand back by hitting nitting nit hit ting Jeffries In tire same tl fight ht bu bunot bit bu not so far tar His Ills hands never were much muc good for fighting afterward Youn Young Corbett had hands like John L. L Sullivans Sullivan's s and he could hit lilt Th The only great reat fighter I can remember I who wh had really small hands was Jimmy JImm Britt James was handicapped h b by hi his small hands which were little larger than a n. girls girl's He lie was a plunging aggressive ag ag- ag- ag fighter tighter and threw everything Into his pouches but because of til Ills small hands was not effective when hitting at the head and had to depend on body fighting Dempsey has large thick Lands which he developed by working In mines lumbering and road building when a II boy Of the football players Eddie riddle Hart liar of Princeton had one of or the largest and the thc stron strongest est pairs of hands If It he ever reached a runner there was no wriggling lin out of ot his grip because he could hold any man if ho he only got prot ot a abit abit abit bit of the Jersey between his thumb and finger Shaking hands with Eddie is like putting your fingers into a II avice vice A. A Yale Tale player once tol told l 1 me that afta after after aft- aft er a Yale-Princeton Yale game every manHart man manHart Hart tart had laid his hands on was decorated decorated deco deco- rated with black bl-ack and blue marks There Is III a story about Peter Great of ot Russia who was said to beable bo be able to bend a a. gold coin between h's hs fingers If Peter could do that Eddie can Thomas Had Hands Like a Net Hans Wagner Vagner famous Pirate ballplayer ballplayer ball ball- player for tor many years had hid a n huge pair of hands hinds He was one of or the greatest shortstops that ever lived When he spread his big hand in front of a speeding ball It was PU all off orf lie He never missed It was like knocking the he thA ball Into a net Having a pair of bl big hands Is a great help elp to a golfer goUer Abe Mitchell the English player has huge hands and hI he lp takes a 0 full tull grip on the club with both of them Mitchell Is credited with being the lon longest est driver In En England land and nd perhaps the longest In ht the world He ie takes tale a fairly short swing and a short follow tollow through finishing his I drive rive like an in Iron shot His Ills powerful wrists and hands give him much of ot the distance W. 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T Tilde worl worlds world's s 's tennis ChamIon champion Cham- Cham pion Ion wears an 8 83 JlovE Tilden Is over six Ix feet tall but his hands are lar large e In n proportion He lie uses a heavy racquet with a handle measuring five and one one- half alf inches around the rip grip The average average av- av rage grin is about four foul and five five- eights Inches Norman Brookes of A Australia uses a weighing only thirteen ounces with a 1 four our and ott half inch grip A big hand hind is an advantage ad In swimming swimming swim swim- ming minI It In is like using a org K paddle In n driving I a a canoe Norman Ross floss and Duke two of ot the worlds world's best jest known swimming champions have large arge broad hands hanels Iv Ive I've noticed d that thit many of the tho Hawaiian swimmers although although al- al though hough always trimly built have large wide hands and ret fet They are brought up In inthe the water ater and nd can m swim as soon as they can walk Their hands develop on the same principle that changed the seals seal's make- make UP p Seals eals als were once dogs but thousands thou- thou sands ands of years ears In the water have turned their legs to flippers nippers according to o the evolutionists Wrestlers Have Large arge Hands Handsor Of or tha th wrestlers nearly all have large arge hands and small heads The large hands ands are aro good for taking grips and i out th the t small heads are US use useful fug in ln slipping l lOne One of he most useful hand handsel yR f I r Ive I've ve seen Pairs oj 1 hands C on an athlete lately latey belong to Joe Ruddy of f the New York o Ath- Ath l letl letic club clu 1 h TI Being a swImmer boxer water polo player laer handball player j 1 t wrestler and anel bowler RUddy had ply developed phenomenal Sped a pair l t for of nan hands mass ss i and that power are e sim- sim simply l i e coT Talked about Joe last a wee el with lt a polo ia II i Colu Columbia v ater polo player who h had i d tried out with Joe In in the the N N. Y A. A C C. C v Jank tank The proposition was tl that at the thess Columbia player could wear Toe To out oute under e water e They went to the tho bottom bot 1 torn tom of f the tank and were seen e entangled there for tor about three minutes U Finally the college player playe shot UP to the thA surface But before he lie te could draw a 1 breath he was Jerked under water water wa ter again and when Rud Ruddy Rudd came up n half halt a minute later he had to o cro go Q down and anel bring his man to the surface I r thought he was done for when ho he stopper stopped moving and let 50 go o said i the college boy and andI I started started up Just Justas I b t as I was going to gr grab grab b a big breath I T felt Joes Joe's hand n close o e on my ankle I and i J down oln I went with I a ej j Jerk k What did ld t b feel like Say I thought Id I'd b been en till l gra grabbed bed by an octopus f t lit o R Copyright ht 1922 Bell Syndicate F 1 J. J |