The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-27
PHYSIQUE BY CoMPULsIoN.
sandow Wants Everybody Made Stalwart by Law.

Some two years ago Eugene Sandow. the strong man, offered medals for the best physically developed men n each county in England who should have followed his own system. Three were selected from each county as the recip- ients of the gold silver and bronze med als. Now the finals in this contest. for prizes consisting of statues in three met als. arc to take place in the Albert Hall. on the evening of Saturday, September H. The whole of the entrance money. without deduction. goes to the Lord phans of the war. So long an interval between the preliminarics and the fin als is due to the war. The physically ht, 1t seems, arc also physically brave and patriotic, and most of them went to the front. Many of Shadows in- structors. too. who are old army men, also obeyed the call of duty.
 bert Hall demonstrations in which men. women and children who have studied on the Sandow method will give massed drills. and Sandow himself will introduce sis to the movement in favor of com pulsory physical education for children of school age. That is one of MT. Sandow's pet ideas, and he hopes to see 1t realized He wants physica, development on Il proper plan to become an integral part of tho Board School curriculm. He Is concerned at the deterioration of phy- sique which is apparent cn every hand.
 The round-backed clerk and the lean and narrow-chested persons who are to be met with everywhere in the streets once they passed the portals of Sandow's S,focl in St. Jamess Street. There Is something to make one brace one's shoulders bact m the very appearance CTS one in. and there, is the same inn preston of beautiful proportion when one comes in contact with any of the management or with the editor of Sam nxzJ'0 fttI zfs Tt tu &N Xk~ latter that we are indebted for some opinions On the physicial culture ques- tion.
 why" he said, physical develop not get. enough men for Baden-Powelfs police. because they cannot fulhll the requirements of thirty-four inch chest. We ought to have physical education in the elementary schools: that is the great want. You can do anything with a child from i've to fourteen. MT. Sandow is very keen upon it.. tut he is quite dis years. but the only result so far has beel to move the Education Board to issue a wonderful pamphlet. In it they Now. it is curious that the very moment when the army at Aldershot is giving up marching drills the Board of Educa- tion Is adopting them. Our view Is that body movements. It may be interesting to say that at the Albert Hall demon- stration by board schools, the Hornsey sch2ol twhose headmaster is Mir liar borO took the highest position, the children having exercised on our sys- tenn. We have also trained the Shaftes- bury training ship and the Normal Col what the afflicted children can do. They cycle all over the country. and some are splendid swimmers"
 Your view is that there has been de-
 Not in height and weight, in which re- spect the average man beats the Greek athlete but certainly in health and gem eral fitness"
 But physical perfection does not al- ways beget health"
 We say 1t does under our system. If you have a friend who has incipent con ing, Just one instance: We have the Orphan Boys School at Watford. The lads are in a splendid condition of fit- ness. All last year there was only one case of illness In the school. Now, if you keep your arm in a sling 1t will deteri- crate. So will the body. If it does not receive proper exercise. We believe man ought to he always fit"
 "Oh. no. We do not believe in train- ing. MT. Sandow never trains. He eats. drinks. and smokes what he likes. He has always a cigar In his mouth. His rule is. Appetite modified by expe- rience. What does not agree with him he does not take. that Is all"
 we EOI the CamDrlCSe crew m COnOl- ton and they only lost the race by two feet. cErlsed by bad steering. The crew were not trained however. in the ordi- nary sense. They were as fit week after as they were the day of the race itself. You are always hearing of these highly trained athletes breaking up afterward. It is the wrong system"
 MT. Sandow believes in stomach breathing. does he not?'
 "Wcil. a good deal has been made of that, much more than he makes of 1t in apical breathing. You want the aplces of the lungs developed in a climate like | this if you are to combat the London | fogs the smoke, and the chemicals in | the atmosphere. Even if mans heart | is weak-functionally weak. I mean, not | say that gentls exercises l will improve his health, We claim to | make wonderful changes in mems health | and appearance. four or five hundred men for the army, | who could not get through because they | were under measurement We have only | had one failure. and that was the other | week when a man was referred on &C., | count of his chest measurement being a | little below the mark, though he was by the examiners to be a perfect Achilles. The reason was that the framework of his chest had become hardened. through swinging bar exer- cises, before he came to us, and. there fore. would not expand readily"
 But you have to be always exercis- ing in your system?'
 "Oh, no. A man would remain it for a year. should say. after he ceased