Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1916 — BREAKS' CHAIN WITH CHEST [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BREAKS' CHAIN WITH CHEST

Walter Alvin Boyd of Louisiana, Mo., was the strongest man at the Harvard summer school—of—physical education. He exhibited his great chest power by breaking a chain by his chest expansion which, it is claimed, ten men were unable to, break with their hands.’ Boyd is thirtysix years of age, married and has three • children. He weighs 202 pounds, has a normal chest measurement of 42 inches and an expansion of 14 inches. On his farm In Missouri ‘he devotes two nights a week to the instruction of boys in physical development. He attended the summer school in order to pick up the latest ideas in physical culture to impart to the boys.