Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-24
AUSTRIAN SAMSONS.
Two Giants and Some of Their Won
derful Feats.

Two Giants and Some of Their Won
derful Feats.
The New York Spirit of the Times
publishes the pictures OF two Austrian
athletes. Here are the records of the
two giants:
Herr Staehr is member of the Her
cules Athletic club, of Vienna. His per-
sonal statistics are as follows; Age, 81
years; height, 5ft.7Ain. weight, 2531s
lbs. neck, 1734in upper arm, straight,
l63lin. bent, iSsin. forearm, straight,
l3Ain. bent, l4Ain. thigh, 261sin !;
cali, 1714in. chest, natural, 4314in. in
flated, 46n.
His best performances have been as
follows: Tossing up barbell weighing
245 1bs., with both hands, once from
ground to shoulder and three times from
shoulder to full arms length above the
shoulder, at Vienna, December 8, 1885.
Pushing up bar bell weighing 2l0 81
lbs., with one hand, from the shoulder
to arms length above the shoulder, at
Vienna. December 8, 1885.
Pushing up three times dumb-bell
weighing 109.6S lbs., with one hand,
from shoulder to arms length above
the shoulder, standing in the position
of soldier-body erect, shoulders level,
moving only the right arm, at Vienna,
December 8, 1885.
Pushing up twenty-five times dumb
bell weighing 1096S lbs., with one
hand, from the shoulder to arms
length above the shoulder, at Vienna,
December 8, 1886.
We have been unable to maintain
Herr Tuerk's personal statistics, but he
is nodded On such generous proportions
as befit member of the Hero ules club.
His best performances have been as
follows:
Tossing up bar bell weighing 315 25
lbs., with both hands, from the ground
to shoulder, and then from shoulder to
full arms length above the shoulder, at
| Vienna, September 15, 1891.
Tossing up bar bell, weighing 266 81
| lbs., with both hands, once from ground
to shoulder, and then pushing it up
| fairly twice from shoulder to full arm 8
length above shoulder, at Vienna, Sept.
Is, 1891.
Tossing up a bar bell, weighing 266 81
lbs., with both hands, from ground to
shoulder, and then pushing it up fairly
from shoulder to full arms length above
shoulder, at Vienna, Sept. Is, 1891.
Tossing up bar bell, weighing 167. 80
lbs., with one hand, from ground to
shoulder and then from shoulder to full
arms lenght above shoulder, at Vienna,
Sept. Is, 1891.
With dumb-bell weighing SO s3 lbs.
in the right hand, and dumb-bell
weighing l5035 lbs. in the left hand,
tossing up the dumb-bells from ground
to shoulder, and thence to full arm g
length above the shoulder, at Vienna,
Sept. Is, 1891.
With dumb-bell weighing 1873 80
pounds in the right hand, and dumb
bell weighing l27 80 pounds in the left
hand, tossing up the dumb bells from
ground to shoulder, and then pushing
them up fairly from shoulder to full
arms length above the shoulder, at
Vienna September 15, 1891.
Herr Tuerk's six feats were performed
at meeting arranged by his club ex-
pressly for that purpose. The officials
who w ighed all the bells and noted the
fair performance of each feat were Vic
tor Silberer. editor of Allgemeine Sport
zeitung; M. Albrich, gymnastic in
structor of the Vienna Turn-verein
Gustav Roehrner, gymnastic instructor
of the Vienna 6re department; Professor
Friedl and Franz Zobel.
Each OF the performances is superior
10 anything ever done by other anna
teurs in any country.