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Rh, succeeded in learning to do fairly well over fifty different movements and combinations."

Kansas City, Mo.

Carl Betz, Supervisor Music and Physical Training, Public Schools: "Your book, Tumbling for Amateurs,' which you have announced, will undoubtedly be hailed with delight by thousands of young American men who seek and find recreation in this particular kind of exercise. The photographs that will illuminate the pages of your book will be of intrinsic value to amateurs, who usually have no expert teacher to explain to them minutely each step of the exercise. If the element of danger in tumbling is greater than is consistent with the needs of physical education, as some claim it is, then your book, giving such minute instructions, and photographs of the body passing through the different stages of each exercise, cannot fail to reduce that danger to a degree which every interesting gymnastic exercise must contain. I therefore cheerfully recommend your interesting and timely little book to all who may wish to learn and practice the delightful pastime of tumbling."

St. Louis, Mo. William A. Stecher, Secretary Technical Committee, Nord Amerikanischer Turnerbund: "I think that your undertaking is a very commendable one; for I believe that the greater the control a person has over his body—and tumbling undoubtedly increases this—the better off he is. I wish you all success."

Milwaukee, Wis. Frank Pfister, M.D., Editor Mind and Body: "Received your favor of the 7th inst., and congratulate you upon the idea of publishing a manual on tumbling, for nothing recommendable exists in that line."