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rATHLETICContest Promises To Be a Great Success.Winkelhoefer Bros. And Holt-grewe Are To Partic-ipate.All arrangements are completed for tbe athletic and vaudeville show to be given by Winklehofer Bros, and Henry Holtgrewe at the Globe operahouse Thursiay evening, April 17.Henry Holtgrewe of Cincinnati Is champion heavy-weight lifter of America and champion dumb-bell lifter of the world. He recently defeated Otto Ronaldo of New York. At the coming performance he will dupll-cat'1 the lifts by which be defeated Ronaldo: he will also lift a platform weighing 4100 pounds. Tom Winkle-hofer, the local strongman, will give an exhibition of his remarkable phjM-cal department and feats of strength, one of bis feats is to break a heavy iron chain with the muscles of bis neck. This chain has been ordered from JohnSpoerl's Hardware Co. and will b3 on exhibition before tbe show.Cooney Yocum of Cincinnati, will alsD give an exhibition of heavy weightlifting. Mr. Yocum Jb eighteen yearsof age, weigl s 130 lbs. and has twenty gold medals that he won at athletic contests in GtrmaDy. Henry Holt-grewe. champion bag-puncber of Ohio and Ills., will give an exhibition of scientific big-puncbiug. The vaudeville bill consist of Foogs, ►ketches and monologues by Henry Sucdkamp, Karl Kriegcrand Robert I'allert.
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Hamilton Evening Democrat
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Fri, Mar 28, 1902
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