In 1910, John Ennis beat the record set by Edward Payson Weston: ‘I’ve got a pair of good Irish legs, and I thought I could turn out as good or better a stunt myself’
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Wherever you had clusters of well-to-do folks in the earliest decades of the 20th century, so-called athletic clubs sprung up. One of those was the 1915 Minnesota Athletic Club, which now houses the Hyatt Centric Downtown Minneapolis Hotel.
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When Edward Payson Weston strode into Amsterdam in 1910, the New York Times reported that Weston received “the merriest reception which has been accorded him at any place during his walk across the continent.” Weston, born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1839, started America’s fascination with lo