The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-10
MADE Of MUSCLE
Farmer Burns Worlds Cham
pion Wrestler for Two Years
MUSCLES LIKE CABLES
Love Letters From Home and
How He Lives.

Next Thursday night, at the opera
house, Farmer Burns and Morad Ali, the
Terrible Turk, will give wrestling tour
nament They offer so to any local ANA
teur they can not throw in fifteen min
utes and s25 for any four local amateurs
they can not throw in one hour. If any
Of the amateurs gets a fall out OF his
opponent in that time he gets the money.
Both Farmer Burns and Morad Ali are
here and attended the show at the opera
house last night.
Il am 80 years DID," said Mr.. Burns to
the Eagle last night, land L have never
lad d headache, toothache, backache, or
4 corn. 1 have never known a minutes
sickness in my life.
81 never smoked a cigar, drank cup
of tea or coffee or a drop Of liquor in my
life. and never used a profane word.
Did you ever see man with that record
before?"
Meyer"
'Wel, sir, you ought to try it. You'll
feel better, sleep more soundly, eat more
and enjoy the taste Of your food much
more. You won't get up with bad taste
in your mouth, no appetite, headaches,
feeling mean enough to fight.
But there are people who never smoke
nor drink, nor use tea or coffee or swear,
who have herds Of headaches and brown
taste in the mouth and no appetite in the
morning They lack one thing. Open air
exercise. OF course take more exercise
than the man in ordinary occupations
needs I run eight or ten miles every
day. 1 usually get out to a race track
and run twenty times around a half mile
track every day. Then 1 battle, rub my
skin with towel and 1 enjoy life. Take
hold of that muscle
Mr. Burns put his left arm around and
the Eagle man took hold Of it. 1t was
like the big hose on the fire wagons when
a four-inch stream of water is being
pumped through a half-inch nozzle The
strongest grip of the ordinary man could
make no impression on the muscles.
When the muscles are drawn it is fifteen
inches around Mr. Burns arm at the
biceps muscle. All over his body the
muscles stand out like hard welts till he
looks like a bundle of rigid tendons He
weighs 16S pounds and is feet 10 inches
tai. He has been wrestling for thirty
one years at odd times when he was
boy and regularly since he was - years
CID. lie has wrestled 5000 matches in
this time of which he has won more
than AGO. Mr.. Burns held the champion
ship cf the world for two years, from
1895 to 1897. The man who threw him
was Tom Jenkins, man who worked in
ba or nd NIaa
two men met in Cleveland and when
they clinched it was one hour and ff-
teen minutes before either man fell Far
mer Burns has won fortune in wrest-
ling. In pulling, feet TO, on stick he
has never been lifted, having pulled up
men who weighed from $50 to 400 pounds
He is a very pleasant gentleman, has
wife and four children in Chicago.
ITO show you how well I stand at
home" he said, I'm show you some let
ters." Then he took out nicely written
letter from his Oldest girl who is 10 years
old, and passed it over 10 the gentlemen
present. Then another letter from an
other child, one from a boy Of in his
own hand, in which the little fellow
thanked his papa for some presents. ask
ed him to come home soon and signed
himself "Papa's Sweetheart" Mr.. Burns
had five letters in all. These are nv
love letters he said. as he folded each
one carefully and put them all back in
his pocket
When Mr.. Burns is training for a hard
match he eats steak and toast and drinks
hot water. He runs fifteen miles each
day, takes a bath and has his muscles
cd ~ an
name Farmer Burns because he went
into Chicago with a pair of overalls and
straw hat on and moved down the
army Of silk hat and high collared pro-
fessionals like whirlwind would mash
down a fallow Of dead reeds.
Morad Ali the Turk is six feet and
three inches high and a powerful man.
He once smoked cigarettes, but Farmer
Burns roasted him til he cult it.
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