Some Points Of Interest In His Life.
When I was 21 years of age I was actively involved in an amateur weight lifting meet in The Victoria
Young Women's Christian Association and Young Men's Christian Association that was located at
851 Broughton Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada,V8W-1E5. This Y. building was a brand new building at the time that I was a member in the year of 1968.
1. This weight lifting meet took place about the year 1968.
2. I, Murray S. Fenwick, was a member of The Y. at the time.
Readers Beware!
Some of the athletic coaches in The United Kingdom are very well trained to do their job. All of The Y's Coaches that did oversee this particular weight lifting meet were authentic amateur coaches who
were licensed to coach Olympic Wrestling, Olympic Gymnastics, Olympic Weight Lifting and what-
ever else needed a coach around The Y. at that time.
3. I was asked by at least 5 of these Y. Coaches to compete in "This Amateur Power Weight Lifting
Meet".
4. I was right in The Y. when one of the main gyms on the main floor was set up for this specific
weight lifting event.
5. The gym used was the gym on your right when you faced both gyms that were located on the main
floor of The Y.
6. The Y. Coaches were busy for several days setting up for "This Power Weight Lifting Meet".
7. The Y. Coaches did set up a nice platform to lift weights on.
8. The Y. Coaches did put good barbells on that platform.
Get This Readers!
The brand new and very hard to get "Spring Scale" now enters this specific weight lifting picture here.
9. The Y. Coaches put barbells as well as a very hard to get brand new "Spring Scale" on to the
weight lifting platform. The brand new "Spring Scale" was from the nation of Russia or Poland
or some place like that.
10. The brand new "Spring Scale" was designed for the power weight lifting event called "The Dead
Lift".
11. It came to be my turn to do "The Dead Lift". At the command of The Y Coach I went up on to
the lifting platform.
12. I, Murray S. Fenwick, did decide to make my "Dead Lift" with this brand new "Spring Scale".
I decided to try out the brand new "Spring Scale" that was very much chased after and thought
to be such a weight lifting prize because it was so very hard to get from Russia or Poland or some
other country.
Readers:
Whether the competitor used the standard barbells or the brand new "Spring Scale" to do their "Dead
Lift" with was left up to them. Both pieces of equipment were accepted in The Y. by The Licensed
Coaches in The Y. as authentic.
13. I, Murray S. Fenwick, picked up "The Spring Scale Handle" and adjusted my position and stood
ready for the Y's Coaches command to lift the weight.
14. Then all of The Y's Coaches gathered around and watched as to how much weight I was going
to lift on this brand new "Spring Scale".
15. The Y's Coach said to me to lift "The Spring Scale" now and I did.
16. Up and up I lifted "The Spring Scale".
17. All of The Y's Coaches were very surprised as to how much weight I did lift on that brand new
"Spring Scale".
18. All of The Y's Coaches very carefully took a turn to look at the amount of weight that I lifted on
that "Spring Scale".
19. I was told by The Y's Coach who was commanding my lifting to hold "The Spring Scale" as
steady and as best that I could at the highest spot on "The Spring Scale" that I could lift "The
Spring Scale" to and to hold it at that position.
20. I obeyed The Y's Coach.
21. At least 5 Y. Licensed Coaches did study very carefully my highest holding position on the
brand new "Spring Scale" that was designed for "The Dead Lift" event.
22. I was then ordered by The Y's Commanding Coach to lower the weight down.
After a short time it was decided by the Y's Coaches, at least 5 of them, that I did lift 1166-1169
pounds on the brand new "Spring Scale".
Readers Take Note!
The "Spring Scale" was brand new.
In The United Kingdom "Spring Scales" are accepted as legal weigh scales and are sold all over the
countries of The United Kingdom for the measuring out of goods sold through different kinds of
stores.
Therefore The United Kingdom does accept "The Spring Scale" as accurately made for the job of
"Power Weight Lifting" with.
My, Murray S. Fenwick's, power weight lifting at this Y. Weight Lifting Meet did set a new world
record.
My, Murray S. Fenwick's, new world record that I set at this Y. Power Lifting Meet has never been
beaten.
A word to the wise.
The coaches present and the specific coach who did command me, Murray S. Fenwick, at this weight
lifting meet were so very hard on me, Murray S. Fenwick, about lifting the weight properly and holding the weight in the proper lifted position for a specified period of time that he had a very hard
time doing exactly what the command coach did demand out of him. I, Murray S. Fenwick, had to
hold the weight in the lifted position for quite some time in order to please the coach commanding me. Those coaches were so very hard on me that I almost broke my back right out but I did make this
world record lift.
Those 5 Y. Coaches were very careful about what they did note in their note books there on the lifting platform and did carefully enter my world record into The Coaches Books. Then The 5 Y
Coaches did enter my new world record into The Y.W.C.A.-Y.M.C.A. record books which were
at this time kept in the desk drawer of The Head Y. Coach in His desk in His office in The Y.
Readers:
The numerals 1166-1169 on "The Spring Scale" that I used to lift this "Dead Lift" world record with
are very easy to make a mistake with when the weight lifter is having a hard time holding such a heavy weight in the proper lifted position and the needle indicator on "The Spring Scale" tends to
vibrate a little. This fact is understood by The Y. Coaches and my new world record was written
down in The Y. books of records accurately enough.
The Y. Coaches were very careful to make proper notes about the weights used and the weights
lifted at these kind of Y. weight lifting events.
Also The Y. Coaches were very careful in weighing a weight lifter himself-herself on a very accurate
weigh scale that they had in The Y.
My own weight when I was weighed in for this weight lifting event was I weighed under 149 pounds.
I am not very small.
I am not very big.
I am about middle sized.
In height I am about 5'8" tall.
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