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handed lift to the extreme surprise of tliis particular lifter, who could hardly manage to raisc one of these dumb-bells (which had a thick handle) up to his knees even. At one time thcre was con-siderable disputc as to the authenticity of my different perform-ances. To satisfy their rea<lers, the well-known magazine, Health and Strength, sent a special representative to test my weights. He brought his own scalę with him and tested every weight beforc and after it was lifted. At tliis particular test performance I succeeded in raising 314 pounds with the right band from the shoulder, snatching 190 pounds with one band, jerked a bar beli weighing 340 pounds from the shoulder with both hands, and holding in the right band a weight of 267 pounds. I brought oyerhead with the left band an awkward ring-weight weighing 119 pounds. These feats were mentioned in an articlc which appeared in Health and Strength for Octobcr, 1903. The same gentleman came unexpectcdly to the Grand Musie llall, Claphani Junction, and weighed my bar beli after I had lifted it at my performance and found it to baftxactly 300 pounds. It appeared to surprise him greatly. 1 may say that cver sińce I have had the support of the Health and Strength Magazine as the “strongest mail on earth.”

A feat which never fails to surprise my friends is that of raising two 56-pound stjuarc weights in each hond above the head in a clean lift.

The best lift I have yet performed was at Stuttgart, in Germany. on December 12th. 1905, where in the presence of a num-ber of weight-lifters and a representative of the leading sporting paper I pressed with one hand 370 pounds. The local “strong man” wished to test the weight and was allowed to do so, but could not raise it to his knees with both hands.

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