. Old Boston boys and the games they played . Mudge Austin H ? KW ,»*-•?*& ii M ma i ^. % WS^^ ^-T^H M jg^ 1 1 ^^H| Julio Taylor BiishnelKimball Coe Heard Mudge McDuff MullenBlanchard. Roberts Streeter Spring Bacon Unknown Kendrick DeanPlummer Dr. Codman GYMNASTS AT TREMONT GYMNASIUM OLD BOSTON BOYS 117 every day, as a skip of a day made itharder to do next time. When his little finger, hooked on to astrap, commenced to stretch and straightenwith his dead weight upon it, it alwaysseemed as if the tendons must give way ;but he did it without much apparent effort. He carried the heavy weight sys
. Old Boston boys and the games they played . Mudge Austin H ? KW ,»*-•?*& ii M ma i ^. % WS^^ ^-T^H M jg^ 1 1 ^^H| Julio Taylor BiishnelKimball Coe Heard Mudge McDuff MullenBlanchard. Roberts Streeter Spring Bacon Unknown Kendrick DeanPlummer Dr. Codman GYMNASTS AT TREMONT GYMNASIUM OLD BOSTON BOYS 117 every day, as a skip of a day made itharder to do next time. When his little finger, hooked on to astrap, commenced to stretch and straightenwith his dead weight upon it, it alwaysseemed as if the tendons must give way ;but he did it without much apparent effort. He carried the heavy weight system,however, to extremes, and died a compar-atively young man. As we all know now,this system of exercising is dead wrong,and will probably never again come intovogue, except with professional strongmen, or with those working for some par-ticular record in that line. Dr. Winship invented a dumb-bell whichcould be graduated from twenty pounds upto one hundred and four, one of which Iowned for years. During these days the Civil War was infull swing, and although boys sports, to-gether with the various amusements of theday, went on much as usual, still there was ii8 OLD BOSTON BOY
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