Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16
.HARvARDSTRONG
MAN A WEAKL|MC
FEW YEARS AGO.
Hardwich, in Winning Strength
Test, Shows More Physical e.
fciency Than Any PugiIist,

~ AbIBRlLSfE, MASS.s NOV. 10
Huntington Hardwic5<. a New
England youth, who won Hsr-
varGs strength test, showed more
physical efficiency than John l.. Sulll-
van. Jeffries ssndow and other noted
physical giants ever did in their
prime, and the Crimson strong man
only a few years ago took up athletics
rs last resort TO improve his
health.
Hsrd-wiok recently passed Or. Dud-
isy Sargent's strength examination
with 1869 points. over 300 points
more than Jack Johnson's best. Yet
he Harvard marvel weighs but 174
POUNDS.
The latent physical wonder. while
very muscular, is not overdeveloped,
and Dr. Sargent, who has examiner
nearly every prominent strong man
during the last decade, paid Hard
wick the following tribue: He has
more physical efficiency than any
man I ever examined"
Winning strength tests Is nothing
new for Tack" Hardwick, az he is
affectionately known to hundreds of
Crimson students Last year he won
The title OF Harvard's strong man,
but this season he surpa ssed his own
Efforts and made the best showing Of
any athlete at Harvard in recent
Years.
Is WoII Proportioned.
"Hsrdwick is splendldly proper
tioned young man." said Harvards
celebrated physical instructor. and
his figures for the annual examina-
ZION We're; Height s feet III
inches; weight, TIA pounds; reach, Is
inches; neck, 1874 inches; chest. 80
inches: waist. SI.4 inches; calves, 1873
inches; thighs, 22.7 inches; biceps, 1873
inches: forearm, 1913 inches; lung
capacity, 900 cubic inches; back
strength, TIA pounds: leg strength
combined, 1.166 pounds; grip OF right
hand, 165 pounds: grip of left hand,
i43 pounds.
"HardwiclSs showing was all the
more remarkable" declared DIR, Ssr-
gent, because he didn't train for the
tests. In the past athletes have prac-
ticed strenuously the exercises On
which the tests are based.
Thus when HardwiclE chinned
himself but ten times, other boys or
Tar less strength have been able by
strict training TO do this feat about
iifty times Had Hardwick done this,
ne would have added many points to
his score"
Years ago Hnrdwick gave scant
do haNnTntncY r
Yards strongest student, The young
ster. often under doctors care, was
weak and puny. He cared little 70:
physical exertion.
Was Far From Robust.
Even when entering Groton to pre-
rare for Harvard, Hardwick was stu
far from robust. But he hadn't been
at Groton long before he cultivated
passionate fondness for games. The
aouth carefully husbanded his
strength by scientific training, and
eventually little knots OF muscles be-
> gan appearing over his body. He
quickly gained strength and stamina.
Entering Harvard, the future phys
ical marvel went in for football, base
ball and track athletics, the three
major sports at the Cambridge insti-
tuition. Because of his ruggednesr
and strength, Hardwick doomed ur
most conspicuously in football. The
strenuous gridiron sport gave the
muscular youngster free play for his
tremendous strength. and he made
The best use of II.
Last year he was one OF the great
est halfha ckS Harvard ever produced
as well as an All-American selection
Against Yale. HardwicR fully outdiC
himself Seldom is such phenomena
PLAYING seen on football 1eld.
The star back was always in the
midst OF the battle. He handled some
Of II e biggest men on the Blue clever
rs II they were pigmies. On the at
tack he was generally the buffer fol
he man carrying the ball.
Terror TO Yale Eleven.
Defending his own territoy, Hard
wick was terror for the Yale team
Time and again Blue runner woult
20 crashing into the Harvard strons
man and recoii like he had run tul
tilt into stone wall,
Last spring Hardwick decided Y
,ome out for the baseball team, H'
easily made the varsity. Playini
n the second game against Yale, M
goungster walloped out long home
.un that drove IN the winning ru'
md. enabled the Crimson TO win th'
anne and series from Yale.
The husky athlete stil continued
lemesis for the Ell, when n the dua
meet with Yale last spring pc wo!
many points for Harvard with won
lerful throwing of the weights.
Hardwick is confident he vii
steadily improve in the field events
and is keen to become intercollegiate
- So. 90. d.