Mr Allphin

Mr. Anneberg

Mr. Allphin

Mr. Annoberg

Mr. Allphin

Mr. Annoberg

Mr. Allphin

mA

woight of the body makes for a very heavy pull on the hands. It
is the possibility that my hands might slip off thet I fear most.
To prevent slipping I use chalk on my hands. Thoro is o practica.
limit to the number of rovolutions that it is advisable to attemp.
Six or seven rovolutions is as much as I have ovor tried.

Frank, I saw you put on an individual act once between halves at
ono of our home basketball games. Will you pleaso tell us what
you include in this act?

Mr. Allphin, this act depends a lot on the type of floor I heve
and the facilitics. Gonorally I begin this act by doing several
types of hand stands in a chair. Thon with six wooden bricks I
walk on my hands and pile these into difforent kinds of piles.
Then by placing one foot on a rost, I stand on my head and play a
trombone or violin solo» This always gots a laughe My next stunt
perhaps is the most difficult. Standing on my hoad again I drink
a quart of water. The difficult part of this trick is to rolax
the innor muscles of the throat to allow drinking and to tense tho
outside muscles onvugh to hold the body in an inverted positione:
The climax to my act is a tap danco that I do on my handse Ro
contly I have made some rings to use on my fingors to beat out the
taps. Tap dancing up side down is gotting to be an onsy stunt for
mc ROWe

Frank, have you thought of any new stunts that you would like to
do? oe :

Yos, Mr». Allphin, I am working on a rollor skating stunt. ' 7% is
a difficult foat ond:perhaps will: tako me several months to por=
fect ite I have made my owm skatos and have beon practicing two
months alroadys I hope to have it ready for public approval by
the ond of the school year.

Mr. Allphin, toll us something about tho gymnastics you saw dur-
ing your Physical Education Travel Tour in Europe in the summer of
1936."

The most intorestine oxhibition of gymnastics that I recall secing
was at Praguo,: Czechoslovakia. Our hotel joined the exercise ficld
of tho largest Sokol Gymnasium in the city... It was hore the Oly=-
mpic Gymnastic Toam was practicing and having tryouts to dotermine
who would represent their vountry in the Games at Berlin. The
Sokols work out-of-doors whon possiblo. Covers for the difforent
pieces of apparatus are provided to protect the apparatus when

not in uso and during inclomont weather. The men wero working out
for five hours, from 8:30 oem. to 1:30 pemay and did not soem to
be fatigued at the ond of thoir drill. One of tho members was 35;
anothor 36, and the balance were betwoon tho ages of 22 and 30.
This scoms to indicate that if an individual wishes to take up
gymnastics and practices regularly, he can indulge in this activity
a number of yoars boyond tho forty marke

That is cortainly interosting«. Toll me, did you see any exhibit-
jons at the Gamcs?

Yes, I saw sovoral gymnastic exhibitions at tho Games in Borlin,g