The Washington times., 1928-04-05
BIG B|DEPSS
TOO HN1Hl Y
PRICED
BY Gene TunIley
ad,s Tfeavyweight Champion


MIAMI, Fla, April o..
Dear Gene Ny ambition is
TO- become the strongest boy
ii our. school and later to be
the strongest man in the
world. / am IA years old, but
/ can already lift more weight
than any Of the 16-year-old
boys Id the school.
our gym teacher says that my
chest and bieep measurements are
already those Of the average lS-
year-old boy. Would you please
give me q set of rules by which I
can develop great muscles and
realize my ambition to become q
strong mani"
i picked the, above letter out Of
the hundreds 7 receive every week
from boys all over the country, as
being especially worth while speak
ing about While hate to dampen
the ambition OF this fine. husky lad,
do want TO say to him and to all
boys: Don't try to become strong
men, in the sense Of cultivating
bullying muscles and power to lit
weights Or bend iron.
Every boy gets a great thrill
when he first begins to notice q big
goose egg rising on his upper arm
and he starts cuItivating i. I
don't know why, but big biceps are
always held as the sign Of strength.
Perhaps because they are the most
noticeable muscles Of the body, but
a..
index Of all-arotnd strength.
NV advice Cd boys whose mn
per arm muscles begin 20 show
unusual development Is TO let
them absolutely alone and on
che contrary. start Immediately
70 developing other muscles 80
that they will catch nm with the
0verdevelOped parts.
e very often happens that one
ct Of muscles or one part Of the
body gets ahead or the others in
development and the owner iranedi-
ateiy decides that he is built FOR
something or other such as weight
lifting, wrestling or some other form
% exercise that requires special
strength in one part Of the body.
Such man wrongs himself greatly
IS he pursues that form OF exercise
too closely just because he thinks
he Is especially fitted for it for he
simply becomes "lop-sided'' per-
son.
Over development BY exercise of
one single part Of the body Is worse
than no exercise at all.
The only road to real strength il
BY coordination of all the muscles
Of the body and the co-Ordination Of
the brain and the muscles.
All down the list OF boxers from
the past to the present there Is not
one who was q Strong man. in
the manner Of SandoW, whose wax
bust used to adorn the windows Of
cigar stores and attract the envi-
Gus gaze Of every boy who passed
By.
suppose that there are men
on every vaudeville stage and
in every circus who can bend
hOrseskOes and iron bars and
perform teats that would stump
any professional boxers who
ever existed. But I wouldn't
be afraid to climb into the ring
with any Of them, nor would
Trade my physique with them.
There was 4 great strong man
once in Germany named Breithart.
After the armistfce he used to
give exhibitions among the allied
soldiers and his feats Of strength
were incredible. When he ap.
peared stripped to his trunks one
would say ats first glance that he
was perfectly built man. One OF
his performances was to drive nails
into an oak board with his first
and do not think there was
any trick about IT. He could make
a GDrkscrew cut of a half inch
iron bar in a twinkIing. He was
simply a powerful man so far as
arms and shoulders went.