Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1915 — C. P. Wright Enters Ranks of Athletics—Some Demonstration. [ARTICLE]

C. P. Wright Enters Ranks of Athletics—Some Demonstration.

If any one tells you that C. Parm Wright is about all in physically you can deny it and base your denial on his performance of last Saturday. He was crossing Washington street at the postoffice comer when a tourist automobile traveling at about 15 miles an hour came across the bridge and was on Parm before you could say Jack Robinson. Parm had no chance to escape by jumping either way and he had no time to think, but lis wits worked with lightning rapidity and' he placed his hands on the raliator of the car and with the activity of a high school athlete drew his body up and sat down on the radiator. The car was brought to a rtop and Parm was as comfortable as though he had had all morning to get into the position. Had he failed to make the leap he would have been knocked down and probably killed. When Mr. Wright was a young man in Rensselaer the practice was to sit on the counters of the stores and evidently he had acquired the method of springing on the counter so well that it returned to him in an hour of need. He is a veteran of the civil war and about 70 years of age but has a little “pep” in reservation when needed, as he so well demonstrated Saturday.