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causes death of Sigmund Breitbart in Berlin at 42, causes Eugene Sandow's death in London at 58, "world's strongest man

EUGENE SANDOW 
Q~eel' mem()ries mutter and stir at the news 
Sandow is dead. Pondering hi.. rei~n, one is 
back in an almost forgotten age, the plush-aild­
pl·etty age of Ylctoria. of which Sandow was as 
authentic a. part as G-eorge Coxey. 1t \Vas an 
age which called a leg it "11mb:' tin age wWah 
regarded an exposed ankle liS I\. felonv and an 
exposed calf as a caplial o~nse, al~d yet J 
ent stark mad over muscle, Dure, ewelllngj 
JDUScle. True to its 1de:1Js, it spoke 110t of San­
dow's legs, 'his ar&118. his great heaving chest, 
but of his deltoid, pectoral and dorsal develop­
ment. or his triceps and .hIs bleeps. 
FIrst Boston too,1t 111m 'J\1. then C;hlcago, then 
• ·ew York, al:1.d ~.he papel·s published his fae.e, 
along with LJ'dla Pin.kbam's, alld not only his 
faoe but the image and llkeness or · his Hef­
c~lean body. ·Wherever he went mobs palt 
d,glla1'8 to see, and after ·tha mobs had laake ' 
theIr Ml--there were private seances to whicl 
nIce people went, first in secret, then in brazen 
bravado. Always la,,! S 1\-er(l present, and al­
ways their polite runur.ement wag l'e~orded in 
tM despatches. But though Rl\lazed, they tar­
ried. and tJlOUgl1 ('oyty feal'(u1 for a Lime, they 
managed to repress their teTror and test the 
gl·p-al muscles \l'lIb a dl'lIcat.ely gloved foretingsr 
Oth'!l" men ,per\lu,l>!\ b.lI.ve been stronger: Br~lt 
bMt, 'I'\'bo bas ,just Illed; Rolando"', who repea.t-, 
adly challenged Sandow; the l·ed-bloode<l be-men 
of our own day, with hair on their chests, wh~1l' 
Mr, BerJ:\arr MacCadden seems to t1tl'n out by 
tbe score hy means of his we'll-lmown science of 
pbyscultl)pathy. But heside Sandow {hey are all 
base prel(ln·liel·s, Sandow was no mero (lamb-bell 
lifter, be was the personfiicaUou of the tl·~nSCeJI ­
deutal muscllhll· (Esthetic. It booted little bow 
Dlllch be coulr\ net, or whether he could 11ft' any­
thing at all; ,ons a,Uendedhis exhibitions to look; 
and be exalted bJ nUf beaut... .. And 
R. N., lItaspeth , N . Y.- Eugene Sandow was 
""oerally accredj(e~./with bein ' t be strongest 
",, 'm Q his day. :7~/(, - .., 
TWO SAMSON OF TEUTONDOM. 
!Sigmuud Breitbart, whom New 
York remembers as bending Iron bars 
Rud hn ndling borseshoes like wish­
onl'S, at !:.be J-lippo<lrome anll else. 
~,"hel"l'. died ill Berlin Sunday at the 
ngc of 42 just beclluse bis foot bad 
been scratcbed by It rusty llal1, 
Eugene SandOw. "the 
stl' nge t man," n. nutl.e of Koenl"'s­
\.l!'rg. wbose e~hjbitinn!l in Americ 
aeHed 11,im some $150,000, pussed away; 
in Lou(lon yesterday, H e Was Os. 
His (]('u til is uttr ibuted t o the after­
(,ffects of a u}otor uccident inj\l ry 
Dine ~·ear Ilgo. 
Oomment by Chauucey M. "Depew, . 
l1y- M. Cleruenceau, by our ow~ Johu 
Sandow, Once Called World's 

Strongest Man" Dies Suddenly 

London, Oct. 14 t4')-,Eugene I(,OUl'se of trl.l.lnlng-. Hi!> activities In 
SaUtlo , once ll.nJ.lea as "the world'sw
stron<rellt man" die'd I!uddenl)' today
..'
In ltooelon, wllcre he bad recently 
l)uilt ~'P a lIracUce as a health 
speciullst. It 1s believed dea.th WM 
due tp Ute etfects of a motor acc.l­
dant In which he W,\8 U1JUl·ed some 
years ago.
Like Sigmun<l 13I'e1tbart, whom be 
preceded as "~lle wOI'ld's BtrOngeat
man" and who die<l in Bet"lin only 
fhls wcelt, Bugane, Sandow V/uJ> of 
German nationnllLY. He wall born 
at Koenig/lburg In 1867,. and Is said 
to hliVIl been (I·"n In hfll youth.
Determined W develop himself 
phy$1<'8,l1y, he lJegal1 !L 6turly of the 
hll1nu n !Jody hy ,·llIltlllg the 
mml(;lImfl and latel· look a courSe 111 
anM{!m>'. 
BCJiltcd IJ()mlol1 "Snmpaon ," 
'l'he Illory fa told tha,t <l.t tho half­
'way !llage of ),1.8 Ilevplupment., younr. 
fla,nuoW :,;telJped f'·OHl the 11 u"i nee 
IOU. pIlLtt<)1"111 111 l,onrl!Jll uno I f'~'JLe!'l 
a proreHlllonal stro[\~ man 1'1),10(1 
"I'lampson:' "h" h:ul 188\10(\ a. chal ­
I nite 10 any nn.. who wOllld ,·onLGHt 
wllh hlm,tn " f'E'at of ~t.l·englh, 
:';111'1<\0',," W/ll' a great eXllOlH'llt <If 
phY~iI';11 ,·lIltul"e fv!' the ayerac;o 
tn"l1 anrl dulmerl a.ny one ~ollld be­
I!ODle strong who undlll",vent 1'115 
ll,1l8 direction weN l'ecognlzed In 
England in 1n 11 with 11k lLPI,,·lnt­
ment hy l'oyal warrant a~ pl'.)Ce,;sorlie phySical culllll'e to King George, 
The careers of B,·eitba.rt and San­
dow were slmlla.l· 111 many resp",!'!.>" 
f<1though Sa.ndOw, w)lo was to year«~lc1er, bad passed his prime by thet~Ule Breltbart achlevE/li lnternatlonul 
notice. 
Both gave exhlblUon, In the Unlterl 
I3tatos as well l;l~ on the Contlnen) . 
Tholje by Bl'e! llart. who hit Imn 
chains In two and periormfld slmUru 
feats, were Jlerhavs the mo,'" :wee-
IAculal', although It has been I'e­
mil rl{cd th~t. Sandow might bave 
dono lhese thlng'l\ It lhc-y hnel bM)1 
suggested to lllin. 
('hl'lIt Expansion J4 IIl<·hes. 
S/lndo\\r, however, was- l10t aM hu·ge 
ILl! Brpil ha.l't, who stood !lix '''et. oue 
lrlf'11 to Sa ndO)V'1; five f!'et ('lght, and 
wno we4ghed 225 pOI,In.I$ to fhe barf> 
196 at which Sandow tiJ'll'eri the 
bellm. 
In 18113 . during: Iln e'Xhlhillnn I<J\ll 
in I hiS (:(Jlllltl·~·, SnnoolV Wtlil P." 
lnl1ll1(>(l by D,·, ::;arg..,nt of -H'II"Var(1 ! 
University. wh<! pI'OnU1l0NHl him u 
perfect J)hyi('o;'.l "r"",lmen. IUs 
welllhL vI tl1a( time waH unly- 180. 
whh'h hI'! nLlriiJllteu 1'0 lhe llr)\ 
wf"(.;th<"r. TIl." ('he$t I'Xp>lnsion wall 
(oun,l to be lit Inches, 


Two Samsons of Teutondom

2 Man hand balancing

F.P. Celaya, Mex

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Madison Square Garden, first winner of physique contest in America, Bernarr Macfadden, Albert Toof Jennings, May 11, 1873, Harvar

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Two Fine Specimens

Two Samsons of Teutondom

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F.P. Celaya, Mex

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