BEING A GALLERY OF PICTURES AND ' BIOGRAPHIES OF OUTSTANDING OLD TIME STRONG MEN VOL. NO. 1WERY great strong mon owes nome credit, at least. to the man wha distovered hin or instructed TROMP VON fii ia the fron gine. If-Arno. Saxon Be aay sel caw, Gua eng he ay srouldnt have had any Arthur AND wean o yace Pceek fuer HERMAN Ter ire eaigat never Reve ade ees weit hailn't invited young Ha train in his private gym we mi have had our "Russian Lion.” If the Cairo roorchant, Abd. Hasacumi, hadn't miereated El Said. Nossier in weight ing we might never have ha any yptian team, Likewise Herman Ger Monarch of Ste owes hin id popularity; mentor Diggelen: Von Diggeler, 2 South African, also ocovered the great Max Sick, changed hia name to Maxick and brought him tv England and inte world-wide prom: inenee. Himself a reriowned strong man, Von Diggeleri still is active dit the srt and often writer health articles 1 is by profension an engineer: Qn his arm i tattooed the engineers’ insignia of a Kammer and calipers which somewhat te nembles the Soviet hammer and sickle and his pet aversion in ciplain, siati Communiat ROFESSOR ATTILA pawsed on many of hi ga secretn to Slegmimd Klein. whe, alome with Sandow, wan a pupil of the Professor, though at a much later date. Many of the weighty that dow anid Rolandow used rest in Kicin’s gym and wien one heft they cannot help tut appreciate the pawer of the oli Most f ihe stalwart old timer ete keen’ ad¥ocates of ditmbell training, using them more frequently than the barbella, which for jong time were called “Two Handed Dumbells." Klein alwayn favored the dumbell and he is one-of the few men in the world today who can press 10 times in succeesion — two 100 Ih. dumbella{ PROF OR ATTILA NE of the most remarkable thing: any of the old timers still Hving today in their amazingly well preserved! condition. Mout of them physically can still be looked on aa young men, Otto Arca, John ¥. Smith and Oscar Matthes are ‘hu that have themselves everlasting yauth by we of the most striking examples. wigster is Geotge Rolandow living in New Yo ther pupil of Attila and many. strength fans considered him to have a physique equally as good as Sandow. One of Rolandaw's ent lenown featn ina biel aomersault, while hofding two 56 pound bells in his hands nted Klein with a dumbell that is quite famous today and js known ay the "Rolandow Dumbell” which weighs 209 pounds Iran Men always speak reverently of auch ofd time weights 9 as the Rolandow and! Cyr ‘belle that sow rest in many of America’s gyms, If they could only speale what ey could tell Lovers of strength shonid honor these sometimes crude masses of a aa mute evidence and mighty monuments to'the power and glor ‘of the men who went before us, the Mighty Men of Old who laid the OLANDOW — foundations for weightlifting, finest sport in the warldJ London's bene Manic Halt young German cizsus perfarmer nat watching the great Sandow. "How much doen he get for that?" he asked the cecupant of the next seat, "He gets at least 200 quid overy wight.” That started the bees buzzing in the bonnet af Aro. Saxon, a minor circus tumbler touring Efgtand. ‘When his contract expired he went back to Germany. At a weight. lifting club in Leipsig he ciet two young huskies, Doth lifters and wrestlers who scemingly had no plany for the. future. He asked the bays—Oscard Hilgentetdt, age 20, and Otto Hennig, only 19- yo have a beer with him, Over a ‘stein of Pilsner in a Tittle heer-garden around the comer he told) them of the fabulouw earnings of Sandow Arno had in mind a strong man «rio, ax up to this time the I ing performers bad volo acts. He liad never met Ono or Or and it was just pure coincidence that he selected them, of all athletes in Germany, to be his partners. Such are the whims af fate, for Otto, later to be known as Arthur Saxon, net 2 world’s record in weightlifting that has never, asd perhaps will ever, be beaten. They priicticed fet kéveral rontha, working up Het. then Ket forth for mertic England. The British putilic were clamoring for strong men; Arno knew some theatrical agent, and it wasn't long before they appeared across the footlights. They billed themaclven as: “The Saxons, A ‘Tria of Muscular Marvels.” Although the ktreng men appearing om the wtage at chat time had a large asdortment of dumbells and barbells which they liited during their performance, by far the greatest part of their act war taken up with supporting feats, harness lifting, brealing chain brealeiny pants of showianship." The Saxons however did net profess to be able to break chains ‘ot coins or anything of the sort. All they modestly claimed was to Litt overhead weights which scaled exactly aa they: asserted,’ For you seg, strong men announcing. th TSA bells marketl fully, one hundred pounils more than they weighed The Sasvcs nat only Hfreit prodigious weights overliead but jaggled bout as if they were toys ‘Part of their performance consiited of tossing kettle hells to each other. They threw them about like ene woukl w rubber bail, but those kettle hells were real weights un? the favorite one that Arthur would juggle weighed 119 pounds. In later years as the ghty Arthur's strength increased he was able to bent frees 400 payinds te overhead and toss it from one hand to, the other. ‘While in Britain, Oscar left’ the trio to’ form’ an act of hia own and be wus replaced by an English a, named Somerton. Little # lmown of Somerton it he must have been able. to perform some very worth while feats of strength or _he wouldn't have rated the Saxons. Later Adolph Berit took Somer- ton's plice Then Arno; the founder, struck out for himself and left the management fo Arthur, who immediately wired heme to Leipzig for his brother Herman, Herman was by far the handsomest of te trio and had one of the finest physiqued of the day. At the age of 1%, weighing 168 pounds, he cleaned and: jerked 207 pounds. In practice he bent pressed © menducious habit of im ly in excess of what they actually sealed. Tt way not uncommon to find barbell amt durm-