The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-13
WALKS On
HIS HANDS
Feat of Traveller
at the Hotel
Annex.
WAS AWARDED
SANDOW MEDAL
Finest Specimen Of Developed
Manhood to Appear in Con.
test at Crystal Palace.

Walking down the flight OF steps
leading from the Hotel Annex lanai to
the sandy beach OF Waikiki, his feet
elevated in the air, and then walking
back up the steps to the lanai in the
same topsy-turvey way, is the feat of
one Of the most wonderfully developed
young men who ever donned a bathing
suit in the Hawaiian Islands. On sew
eral occasions visitors at the Annex
have been rewarded with the unusual
sight. The young man is Samuel s.
White, Sd, of Germantown, Pa, who
took the Sandow medal in 1899 in the
Crystal Palace. london, for being the
best developed man in the United
Kingdom.
Mr.. White graduated from the Ger
From there he attended Princeton Uni
versity two years. When the Spanish
war broke out he served with the First
Regiment OF Philadelphia in the South
ern States. In the summer of 1899 he
visited the Passion Play at Oberam-
mergau and took a long cruise in the
Mediterranean in a yacht which had
been purchased from the Khedive Of
Egypt. Later he toured Europe. Hay
ing won the Sandow medal for physical
Mr.. White may also be considered one
of the strongest men in the United
States. The medal. which Mr.. White
carries as a fob, is of heavy beaten
OF Grecian coin, on one side of which
is a profile view of Sandow. On the
reverse Is an inscription showing IL
was presented to MT. White for physi-
cal development, the best that came I'M
der the observation of Sandow him
self
In early boyhood Mr.. White began
the systematic training which has re-
suited in piling upon his shoulders,
chest, back and arms. masses of mus
Gle AS a youngster he walked up and
down stairs ON his hands. his sturdy
legs hanging in graceful curves over
his head. As time went by he excelled
in sprinting, swimming and jumping
fences His figure retained graceful
outlines and there is little today in his
appearance when clothed to indicate
unusual strength. Last evening as he
danced on the lanais at the Hawaiian
Hotel at a farewell dance given in
honor of Admiral Merry, few knew him
TO be a young Hercules. His well knit
figure was something to admire, but
generally he presented the appearance
of an ordinary English college athlete.
Rodin. the famous French sculptor,
has chosen Mr.. White of all other mag
nificently built men to pose for several
statues he is now chiselling and model
ling. They represent him as Hercules
and other heroic personages of the
periods of Roman and Grecian
times, and he is also at work on a
bronze statuette of Mr.. White who pos |
ed as Hercules especially for this prod !
uct. When finished IL is TO be present !
ing forward to the time when he can ,
again be in Paris and receive the ,
trophy from the sculptor's hands.
While in Japan recently the young
Sandow was greatly admired by the
native artists who blocked to see him
and ask for pOsings. that they might
10 their canvasses the grace
ful curves of his body and the huge
punches of muscle which stand out like
whipcords on his shoulders and arms.
Mr.. White is a guest at the Moana
Hotel. Waikiki. having arrived in Ho-
lolulu from Japan on the America Ma
Tu He will depart for the coast in
he Gaelic and spend few weeks in
Southern California, afterwards jour
leying on to his home. thence again
across the pond to Cambridge and
finally to Paris. He will study art
here.