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3AILY ENTERPRISE -_ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, RMA TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW — Jack Milliard, 16-year-old Ca- the bar if he loses control. The 147-pound Bledsoe youth beganwood High School athlete, hoists 520 pounds in an unofficial working out with weights about a year and a half ago as partbench press while three other students stand ready to catch of the football program.16-Year-Old Cawood High Weight -ifter May Be A Record-BreakerBy SPRINGER HOSKINS tongue-in-cheek perhaps, was lifting coach, it is doubtful if usual feats as doing push-ups. , . . . . that Jack should reserve the Jack will be making any such with 100 pounds of weights onJust good IS Cawood summ(r gf |9?2 fo(. competltion p„ns his back and running up an.^ C ,0°, ,S «• i ye I.0.! v* in the Olympics in Germany. Rather, he’ll continue to work down the stairs in the Cawooiline weig ei. . at in Lacking the opportunity to de- with the weights in his own High gym with a 200-pound felc o t(soe. velop under a skilled weight way and perform such other un- low athlete on his back.According to Dean Eagle, firts editor of the Louisville urier-Journal. the heavy ight record in the Olympic als for the bench press is ! h/4 pounds.^ast week, this writer and a ten or more other people ua led as young Miniard lifted pounds in a bench press.’he Olympic record in his ight class, incidentally, is 1/5 pounds, it present, no one really knows v good young Miniard is be-ise he is largely a self-taught ight lifter who has never had opportunity to compete in official meet of any sort, oo. there is no one locally i is knowledgeable enough »ut weight lifting to know ither or not his style meets official standards for the eh press.ack got into weight lifting at beginning of the 1968-69 ool year in an effort to build his weight enough to play ball for the Trojans While vood High has the usual com uent of coaches for the reg - sports program, none of n have a background in ght lifting.». Jack has proceeded pretty •h on his own. gradually ding up to the point that he handle 520 pounds on an un •ial bench press, ord of his feats with t h e ?hts spread and Billy K.■ard. who is with the Title I [ram in the Harlan County »ol system, wrote the Louis-sports editor recently tor mation on bench press iec. Howard told Eagle in his ARMING UP — Doing push-ups with two 50- pound weights on bis back is one exercise Minii about what Miniard was ard usually goes through before trying the 52o-pound bench press. He also carries fellowsg. and Eagle’s reply, with weighing up to 200 pounds on his back as lie runs up and down the stairs in the school gvm.
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Harlan Daily Enterprise
Harlan, Kentucky, US
Tue, Feb 17, 1970
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