This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...so far as is known and so far as record goes, the nearest to physical perfection of any living man. It will be a good thing for young men and for boys to study Sandow. It will fill them with ambition to be like him and may add to their wealth, which, in his case, he thoroughly deserves. "SAXDOw's INCREASING STRENGTH. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...so far as is known and so far as record goes, the nearest to physical perfection of any living man. It will be a good thing for young men and for boys to study Sandow. It will fill them with ambition to be like him and may add to their wealth, which, in his case, he thoroughly deserves. "SAXDOw's INCREASING STRENGTH. "An interesting fact is the constant increase in Sandow's strength. He is very much more powerful now than he was when he went to London a few years ago and easily defeated Samson and his pupil, Cyclops, then reputed to be the two strongest men in the world. That particular contest, which was umpired by the Marquis of Queensberry and Lord De Clifford, attracted one hundred thousand Londoners to the neighbourhood of the Aquarium and packed that institution as it had never been packed before. It is difficult to find in history any man to compare with Sandow, unless one goes back to the far-oil" days when Samson was edited by Delilah. Thomas Topham, the famous strongman of England, may have been as good a man as Sandow in actual brute strength; but he was very much bigger in build and far less interesting as a demonstration of the possibilities of muscular development. Topham is the man who, according to tradition, pulled successfully against two horses, carried off a sleeping watchman in his sentry-box to leave him in a graveyard, lifted three casks of water at one time weighing eighteen hundred pounds, and lived in terror of a very small wife. The New York Herald, of Sunday, June 18th, also devoted a number of columns to Sandow's advent in the New World, with an interesting, though necessarily brief, account of his career. Having ourselves dealt, in the preceding pages, with the biography, our extract from the Herald will be confi...
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