Word: rohrer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strong Willie Rohrer of Brooklyn was the most popular because they knew him. but strong Al Manger of Baltimore was the hero because he broke three records. After he had done so, the women (there were eight present) purred "Wunderbar, wunderschön"?and wished Al's nose were not big like his muscles. Big muscles, by that time, had grown commonplace...
Strong Al Manger and strong Willie Rohrer had one rival for attention, little (118-lb.) Robert Knodle of Hagerstown, Md., who broke five records in his class. But, as usual, the heavyweight class seemed more interesting...
There are two ways of approaching a weight which you are about to lift. Willie Rohrer likes to stalk about it, eye it suspiciously. He creeps toward it, grasps it. Softly he snorts. He waits, sometimes five minutes, as though to catch gravity off its guard. Suddenly he yanks at and lifts it (a steel bar weighted at each end by iron discs) high above his head. Last week, he lifted successfully every weight he tried...
...last week's contest Rohrer's record was to raise 170½ lb. in the one-arm snatch. In the one-arm clean and jerk he lifted 198 lb. and then later, feeling yet stronger, he lifted 203½ lb. This did not constitute a record because he did it on his fourth attempt (you only get three tries), and because in Switzerland lives a man who once lifted 230 lb. with one hand...
Cocolobo Bay Club, millionaire retreat on a Florida key. He met many Kansans at a reception given in his honor by S. B. Rohrer. old Topeka resident, now promoting real estate in Florida. He was the attraction that brought 300 men to another reception, at Harvey S. Firestone...