. Old Boston boys and the games they played . t he had hunted big game in Africa;belonged to a hunting club there and thata certain mark was put upon each member ii6 OLD BOSTON BOYS as a means of identification in case ofdeath in the jungle. It may be supposedthat this did not tend to diminish our in-terest in him, and I have often wonderedif he ever returned to Africa, and wasfinally identified by the very mark uponwhich we had gazed. Dr. Winship, whom many will remem-ber as a wonderful lifter of heavy weightswith a shoulder harness, opened a gymna-sium on Washington Street, next door tothe B
. Old Boston boys and the games they played . t he had hunted big game in Africa;belonged to a hunting club there and thata certain mark was put upon each member ii6 OLD BOSTON BOYS as a means of identification in case ofdeath in the jungle. It may be supposedthat this did not tend to diminish our in-terest in him, and I have often wonderedif he ever returned to Africa, and wasfinally identified by the very mark uponwhich we had gazed. Dr. Winship, whom many will remem-ber as a wonderful lifter of heavy weightswith a shoulder harness, opened a gymna-sium on Washington Street, next door tothe Boston Theatre, which, after the Tre-mont Gymnasium had closed its doors,several of us attended. Dr. Winship seemed to take a fancy tome, perhaps because I could beat him atvaulting and taught him a few little trickswhich he had never seen. He was one of the very few men whocould pull himself up to his chin by onelittle finger. It is a wonderful feat, and therecord is six times in succession. He coulddo it, however, but once, and had to do it. Mudge Austin H ? KW ,»*-•?*& ii M ma i ^. % WS^^ ^-T^H M jg^ 1 1 ^^H| Julio Taylor BiishnelKimball Coe Heard Mudge McDuff MullenBlanchard
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