Credit: Courtesy of John D. Fair
To recruit members for his weightlifting team, Hoffman offered $10 a week jobs in his oil burner plant, and offered training facilities, travel money for meets, and a gold medal for anyone who broke an American record, and a diamond studded gold medal for breaking a world record. By the late 1930s, Hoffman could boast that York had "the strongest [weightlifting] team in the world." In 1932 the York Oil Burner AThletic include included these members. Front: Dick Bachtell, Joe Florito, Henry Rhomasillo, Lou Schell, and Joe Miller; middle: George Brown, Art Levan, Bob Hoffman, Walter Good; back: Wally Zagurski, Beb Pentz, Reed Schwartz, Tony Mansicalco, and Bill Good. The York Oil Burner Athletic Club, 1932. front: Dick Bachtell, Joe Florito, Henry Rhomasillo, Lou Schell, and Joe Miller; middle: George Brown, Art Levan, Bob Hoffman, Walter Good; back: Wally Zagurski, Beb Pentz, Reed Schwartz, Tony Mansicalco, and Bill Good.
