MODERN HERCULES
SOUTH AFRICAN MAJOR TEARS TENNIS ^YLL IN TWO. Capetown, Saturday Can the other Dominions produce a Samson to challenge the South Afncan Hercules, Major Mcllwaine Robmson, of Capetown? Here are his qualifications: — _ Tears a tennis ball in two with nis hands. Draws a 10-ton lorry and a 30-ton lorry together with his hands. Punches more than 20001b with his But Major Robinson is modest, and he vouches for the greater strength of Mr. H. Libauer, a garage worker of Rondsbosch. He has seen Mr. Libauer take a pad of cotton wool m the palm of his hand, rest the head of of six-inch uail on this pad and plunge the nail through a board 3 inches thick. Major Robinson explains that he can only drive a nail li inches into the wood.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 451, 8 February 1933, Page 3
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