The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-20

For strength ana activity c0mDln-
ed, muscles should ripple and never
knot, - says DR.. Roller, the great ath-
lete and wrestler That he has followed
his own advice is well exemplifed in
the picture on this page, for the Doctor
is caught by the camera while perform
ing a very strenuous exercise, yet,
while his muscles can be seen clearly
defined, they lie in heightened curves
and not in hard Jumps as is so often
seen on the professional weight litter.
The light, when this picture was TAX.
en-, was almost directly overhead and
would accentuate any knottiness of the
muscles, yet even under these conditions
the massive limbs show nothing but the
purest curves in their outlines.
It does one good merely to watch the
big athlete going through his daily exer
cises. He does all his work with so
much zest and pleasure that you can
see that he has no thought of tedium.
He makes a pleasure of his work and
thus obtains the greatest amount of
good from it.
DR.. Roller has one great ambition and
he is striving for the frlfillment of it
with all his mind and body. He wants
to defeat Gotch and become the recog
nized champion of the world in a line
of sport that is recognized as requir.
ing the greatest strength, the best edu-
Gated muscles and the finest endurance
of any other.
With this object in view he has come
to Honolulu where he can find the best
climate for strength gaining and the
services of Pete Baron, the wonderful
hn Of
the temperature is ideal for man who
wishes to develop his strength, accord
| ing to the Doctor, for the warm nights
preclude any possibility of muscle con.
| traction and consequent cramp, that
bane of the training athlete.
"That man Baron has great sys.
| tenn, - saws the Doctor "Medical man
| though I be I find that I was quite
wrong in several of my training meth
DDS. Pete has training down to fine
point and he has a veritable instinct for
knowing what and how much a man
should do and apportioning the right
amount and the right kind of work to
| him.
The athlete s day is strenuous one
| for anybody but man of such wonder
full strength, but he seems to enjoy it
and states that he wakes in the morn
| ing with pleasant anticipations of the
muscle developing before him.
On arising he goes through a series
of light calisthenics using a Whitley
exerciser for the purpose. This machine
he uses slowly and with keen mental
concentration ''You will find a lot of
men who pull the elastic too quickly -
he said and suited the action to the
words by waving his arms forwards
and back quickly. "This kind of stuff
is no good, it hardly Ioosens man Is
muscles. This is the way to do it, y
and the big man held his right arm
out and brought it forward slowly as
though he were dragging heavy
weight. while the magnificent pectoral
and triceps muscles stood out in a rip
ping mass of sf&ength.
/ After breakfast he takes a rest and
then goes down to the boat house where
| Pete gives him the order for the day,
Abdominal muscles are first attended to
and the Doctor lies on the floor and
raises his body and limbs alternately
while Pete stands over him with a
watch and times each movement care
/ fully.
| The quadrueeps and biceps of the
| legs are next worked out by a series
of runs up and down the stairs. This
not only loosens and develops the leg
muscles but also improves the wind and
the big man is putting financially when
| he is allowed to cease his elevator stunt
| After that the arm, chest and back
muscles are all visited and then the
Doctor does things with his neck. He
stands erect with his chin held fairly
high and his neck has the appearance
| of sturdy pedestal. Then he grits his
| teeth and lines of tendon spring out
| from chin to chest. Gradually his chin
deseends with tremendous effort as
though a rope held his head back and
| the lines broaden and deepen until the
chin touches the chest. Up again goes
/ his chin until his head is bent far back
still with the same concentrated effort
and the nape swells and bulges with
the contraction of the great muscles
beneath.
"The neck is one of the most yulner-
able parts of a man in wrestling, SAYS