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HIS PHYSICAL TRAINING SYSTEM ADOPTED IN THE BRITISH ARMY.
ОглавлениеIn military circles throughout England, Mr. Sandow has been paid similar compliments, and has had the honour of having his system of physical training recommended for use in the training schools of the British army, through the agency of Colonel Fox, Inspector of Gymnasia at Aldershot, an enthusiastic admirer of Sandow, and a warm friend.
Since his arrival on our shores, Sandow has been the recipient also of not a little interested scientific attention, and been the subject of much wonder and admiring comment. In his exhibitions at the New York Casino, in the Tremont Theatre, Boston, and at the Trocadero, Chicago, he has drawn, nightly, thousands, the sincerity and heartiness of whose plaudits have emphasized the wonder and dexterity of his feats. Nor have athletes, amateur and professional alike, been either backward or grudging in their praise; while to anatomists and the medical faculty in general, Sandow appears—if one may venture the phrase—as a standing miracle. The New York Athletic Club have also paid him the undisguised tribute of admiration, one of its distinguished members having spoken of him as "the most perfectly-developed man he had ever seen." Another member of the Club remarks: "I have seen athletes with almost as big muscles, but never one with the all-round development Sandow possesses. There is nothing abnormal, moreover, in his development. The nearest approach to a deformity, if a natural muscular development may be termed a deformity, is in the abdominal muscles. The like of these I have never before seen in a human being."
Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, Director of Applied Anatomy, Physical Training, and Personal Hygiene, at the Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard University, has compiled an interesting Anthropometric Chart of Sandow, recording accurate measurements of the different parts of the athlete's anatomy, and prepared a professional paper on him for the Press. In the latter he observes:
