The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-10
TOP OF HIS PROFESSION.
VIII Hughes, a Native Of McConnellsbnrg,
Occupies High Position as
Physical Cuiturist.
HIS THE LEADING PLACE IN pHILA.

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adelphia, is an institution well
known to the people of education
and culture in the Quaker city.
1t is to this place that college |
professors, teachers, ministers,
students, men of leisure, clarks
ladies as well as gentlemen, go
to take advantage of thessplendid
opportunities for the scientific
development of the muscles of
the human body, and to acquire
skill IN the art of manly self.de-
tense.
This is not a mill for the grind.
ing out Of pugihsts and prize
fighters, and yet the skill that
one may acquire here is such that
it would both.r some of the clev
er knights of the ring to get
chip off the shoulder of one who
has had training at the Eighth
street establishment.
Now this is not an advertise
ment. We are led to speak ofthe
place because the noted proprie
tor IS a native of McConnellsburg,
aud started out to win fame by
taking a good sized birch In his
hand and entering one of the pub.
lie schools of Fulton county as
teacher. He succeeded well
enough that his services were in
demand in counties paying larg
er salaries, and on up he went
until his health failed. This led
or drove-mm INTO the study
OF Physical Culture, and changed
the plans of his life. But the
change was much to his advan-
tage in every way, and to the ad.
vantage OF thousands who have
received great benefit from his
teaching and training along the
line of Physical Culture.
BY this time we have you
guessing. Well, the name of the
gentleman is William Findlay
Hughes, or he will be more ia.
mlllarly remem bered by his old
chums and schoolmates here as
VIII Hughes. He was born here
more than half a century ago, and
as a boy, possessed a brilliant IN
tellect; and, as many boy has
cause to remember, Will was a
scrapper of no mean ability.
From the Philadelphia Record OF
a recent Issue, we clip the follow
ing:
philadelphia is probably the
only city IN the world that has a
teacher of boxing who gave uI
the teaching of the ordinary col
lege branches for the purpose OF
making a life study of boxing
and impartng that knowledge tC
others. Some years back William
Flndlay Hughes was prominent
tea her IN one of the leading mi
nor colleges. OVerstudy marred
his health and he was forced tc
z devote a portion Of his time to ex
ercise IN order to repair his fail
ing physical strength. Looking
3 about for suitable form of exer
else he became interested in box
ing. He found the study of self
defense so interesting and the ex
: ercise of boxing so beneficial t.
himself that he determined Il
I give up school teaching and de
vote all his time to the. manly art
, Professor Hughes has probably
a givon more thought and study t.
boxing than any man who hal
ever taken 1t up IN America. AT
= ter studying under such well
, known professional boxers ant
!. teachers as Domlnick McCaffrey
William Mclean, Robert Colbert
4 and other well known profession
n ais, he read vol aciously every
: thing that was ever printed ol
! boxing that he could lay hold OF
Il In order to thoroughly under
}, stand the muscles of the bod,
d and the best methods of exercis
2 ing them, he took course unde
y Professor Sergeant, the grea
athlehc authority OF Harvard I'm
9 verslty, and then added to thi
u work the benefit of q course i
I anatomy at Jefferson College
Hvan with all this studv and In