Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-06
HIS TERRIBLE LIFT.

suppose that good deal Of my strength and
activity is due to training and hard work. Nc
man can keep strong unless he uses his muscles
regularly, and almost anybody can build him.
self up from a weak fellow who il no good into
frst-class man. OF course man who Is born
strong has q vast advantage over one who il
born sick or delicate.
In my own case had very healthy parents
and was, am told, q very good specimen of q
baby and a child. Ihad little or no sickness in
my early life, or. in fact, at any time. was q
very strong and healthy boy as far back as
can remember. i always had a great love fol-
open-air sports and exercise. Fortunately for
me it took the form of a taste for games and
exercise which demand quickness Of eye and
limb rather than mere brute force. There is a
lesson in this which applies to the parents OF
children, to men who are weak and desire to
grow strong and to the ambitious members OF
city gymnasiums as well as to boxers, wrestlers
and other professionals.
MUSCLE AND STRENGTH.
ANY mans muscles can be developed in two
ways. He can work for mere bodily strength
or for active energy. Most people labor under
the false impression that strength means huge
muscles and the power to lift big weights and
that everything different means weakness.
They are partly right and partly wrong. They
are always disappointed when they see first
class boxer for the first time. He looks small
and insignificant according to their precon-
ceived notions. The men they like to look at
are the performers in the circus or the mu-
scum, men who pull horses backward and lift
heavy barrels with their teeth.
BIG MACHINES.
In this respect there are hundreds Of men
who are stronger than I am. "Strong-arm''
Kelly, who used acknowledgement dumb
bells; Gus Hill, who swings an Indian club
weighing as much as an average man; Mile
Angela who lifts and carries half q ton;
Professor Frank Herreshoff, brother of the
great boatbuilder, who raises two thousand
pounds from the ground, and lot of others are
much stronger in this way than any prize
fighter, dead or alive. But such people are
only big machines; they can do the line of bust
ness in which they work and train, but nothing
else.
GOOD MEN SPOILED.
There are lots Of clever young men who are
ambitious who go into gymnasiums and exer.
else faithfully with heavy dumb-bells and clubs
until they have developed big muscles all over
their bodies.
Then all of q sudden they find that they are
no match for a man half their size in boxing
wrestling, running, jumping, rowing, swim
ming, or playing athletic games. Generally
they blame themselves for the inferiority anc
are disappointed. 1t is very seldom that they
realize that II Is their training and not theil
bodies that they ought to blame. In this man
ner many splendid specimens Of manhood, who
would excel in general athletics and make
great records in all the games they entered
convert themselves into heavy ox-like fellow
who can do nothing but lift, pull, and draw.
sULLIvAN's YOUTH.
/ did not fall into this mistake. I liked
sparring. running and such sports, and when
went to work i got into trades where mar
must be quick rather than strong and where ht
Is in the open air good deal of the time and
is always doing something with his muscles
When was eighteen was about as tall as
am now, but was smaller in other directions
i measured about So or 81 inches around the
chest weighed about 10 pounds and was about
81 inches about the waist