Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-08 | Page 5 | "Lift Me!" or Lift Me Not!" Lifting Craze is Latest Indoor Sport

FtlFT ME!" OR "LIFT ME NOTf') Lifting Craze Is Latest Indoor Sport' I Th'r game requires ilve vcraorr-. I One sits In a cnatr Knur lifters face him. two on each side, with hands folded, but forefingers forefing-ers extended, as illustrated above, j All five now do this; Starting with clasped hands at knees, raise hands above head, inhaling breath deeply-' Now down With hands, exhaling Be- peat this three nines, up and down. Fourth time UP, all take a deep breath and hold 1C The two lifters near the subject's shoulders place extended forefingers of ' their clasped iiands under his armpits.' I The other two lifters touch him slm-j llarly under the knees. Then. If all lour have touched him! at the same inataht, they call lift hun, ' Into the an on their fingertips as Ugly as a piece of paper Success increases with practice. ' The "lifting erase" is the latest Indoor In-door HPort In F.urope it has eclipsed i the ouija board. Johnny Coulon. the Utile American i boxer, started It. Kor a month he has baffled Paris seientlsts by defying the strongest nu n i.f Trance t... lit-him lit-him "He's nailed lo the ground. A thousand thunders:'" say the French Samsons Only one mi has "been able to 1 ft Coulon Emits I'laquette, form ; I champion welgSK lifter of France. B .1 ; "Fraud" says Coulon. "Plaquel e iolatcd tho rules." So Coulon and Plaquetts wLil moetj in unothf i , ..in, SCIENT1FM MARVEL. Professor Charles Nordmann halls Coulon as a marvel, opening new fields for scientific research into the pow-1 crs of the human wM. Coulon's method of defying efforts to lift him is explained and illust rated 1 herewith. Tho little boxer once raked in pei k of money In West Virginia oil 11 towns by betting that no one eould lift' 1 him DrilVrs and tool dressers who1 iould lift h quaVter of ton of steel couldn't budge- him. t GKDRGljl M .M'7T. COUlon'fl stunt resembles the Mage .sensation worked by Annie Abbott. I i the Little Georgia Magnet" twenty-; l five years ago. Scientists couldn't ex-i j plain her act. 11 Sugenc Sandow, strongest man ja' the world, tried 10 Lift br fuller Thui m New 'o-c City. Sepre-.r Dor 29, :84. ! Look at the illustration and read.!) how Coulon does it. Then see If you j i have the same power to defy strong lifters. I This reqUires two persons, a strong. I . .-m , ifter and a lightweight person to be ' e,i They face each other "l he lifter is supposed io use only he strength of his arms He graspi its opponent around the waist or un-e un-e the arms prepared to lift. The one to be lifted now uses Jotin-iy Jotin-iy (.""oulon's defense He places bis eft hand fingertips on the lifter '( neck ust under the right ear. He places us right lia'i'J fingertips OH the pulse : .: left wrist of the lifter as lllus-'.-i above. No mat'r TP he strains, the vould-M Titter cannot budge hi Opponent Op-ponent as long as opponent's fingertips emaln In designated positions The opponent can be lifted easily if ic breaks the contract bv liftinR his fingers.