Person · athlete and boxing instructor
H. Osynski
H. Osynski
A Bialystok Jewish athlete who organized boxing training and competed publicly.
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... One young man, H. Osynski, was considered a
latter-day Samson. For him lifting weights of fifty
pounds was like picking up a piece of balsa wood. His
dream was to spar with other husky men in town and
eventually with professional athletes. Osynski organized
a group of energetic boys to study the art of boxing. He
taught them how professional boxers fight, which parts
of the body may be struck and which ought not to be
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