DONNY, I can't say anything too accurate about Grimek vs. Reeves way back then, mainly due to the fact that Reeves was a home-town-boy in the San Fran Bay Area (homie??) whom anyone who lifted heavy things kew about or had met or had trained with .... while Grimek was lifting heavy things back east someplace around York Pa with the likes of Hoffman, Starr, etc.
And I can sort of, kinda, but do not totally, remember that some extra activity was held to make that decision between Reeves and Grimek ... which reminds me that years ago when Pete G. was competing in the America .... there was a judging phase in which the contenders sat in a chair in a private room with the judging staff and responded to various questions.
Before anyone jumps to adverse remarks ... those questions were just simple questions to see how well the contestant would respond in public as the current Mr America.
In order to keep my usual excessive banter going ... I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Grimek and Mr. Hoffman and Bob Bernardski and sat with Mr Grimek during some Olympic Lifting Championships and he was definitely gruff and outspoken and possibly the first GetBigger of all times.
He would have fit in here pretty damn well!
I'll also briefly mention this ..... The Hawaii Olympic Lfiting Team headed by Tommy Kono beat the York Olympic Lifting Team at one time or another and I understand that Mr Hoffman got very upset.
But I was not there to verify it, so consider it to be a rumor only until another GetBigger who wasn't even born yet says, "Yep! It's true!"
