Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-03-04 | Page 1 | Deaf Mute Athlete Hears after Heavy Electrical Shock

r IL till ElijI C I IS elf raw n S t rIlia a 5 T- T t r a i I IS It t 4 S ki d l L t tI I 4 I C i C c t i iC C U The cell hon houe a acks at t the U Itell talc dJup Un om barracks m Itans La cr left lert Var Warden den V L Diddle U Lower L I right The main gate I IS S Deaf Mute Athlete I Hears After Heavy Shock NEW N MEW EW YORK March Paul 4 4 Paul Berlenbach New York middleweight king and reigning sensation of the indoor season has had one of the most remarkable careers on record Thrust into the limelight witha with a record rec record ord of 23 consecutive knockouts in amateur and pro pro- professional professional professional ranks critics predict that he is only on the threshold ofa of a great ring career and hail him as a second Stanley Ketchel a terror in middleweight ranks 15 years and more ago Bel lenbach ch was w 0 as born boi n na a deaf mute but at ot the age ae of 18 IS he sud- sud suddenly sud suddenly denly ac hearing an and ond speech 11 e ealS eais ago whilo serving as an instructor In n a 0 Westchester county I Institution for or dear mutes mute Berlen- Berlen anI I I bath baCh one da went to the aid Id of a whose kite became entangled In an electric wire Ire 12 II feet from the I I ground Climbing a n pole Berlen- Berlen Berlenbach Berlenbach bach released the tho kite but In so doIng came In contact with the heavily charged wire He tell fell to the ground unconscious and those who ho came canie to his aid old believed him dead rust aid however ever revived hin and aua to his astonishment he found I his sense ene of at hearing normal Medi Medical cal col Interest t wn was attracted and til b nub sequent treatment also alo developed his speech a rl rise to pugilistic fame fomo within less les than a 1 year hu has been spectacular and all the moro more remarkable because he I Is one of the tho few formet former wrestlers wrestler to ae ac- ac ac acquire quire prowess prowess He lie won on the t Olympic middleweight wrestling championship at Antwerp In 1920 1020 Berlenbach turned hi his hia attention I to the tho ring and as an amateur hung up 13 straight knockouts He Ha has added ton straight knockouts to his string as a professional his hia 1 let let- lat est et occurring last Int night when he Jimmy Darcy Darey of Port Fort Port Port-j I Iland land Ore Oro i I 00 oo