. Rod and gun . have seen far more rather small-muscledmen muscle-bound, especialjj^ in factories,where the men have had to do a form oflabor entailing the frequent use of oneset of muscles, and but little use of others. It is more common to find the bicepmuscle-bound, as laborers or artisansoften use this muscle more than the tri-cep. I have seen this in foundries, wheremen carry heavy objects, using the bicepsbut seldom having any work bringing inthe triceps. As to weight-lifting. I can mention alarge number of famous weight-lifterswho are anything but muscle-bound; in-deed, weight-lifting,
. Rod and gun . have seen far more rather small-muscledmen muscle-bound, especialjj^ in factories,where the men have had to do a form oflabor entailing the frequent use of oneset of muscles, and but little use of others. It is more common to find the bicepmuscle-bound, as laborers or artisansoften use this muscle more than the tri-cep. I have seen this in foundries, wheremen carry heavy objects, using the bicepsbut seldom having any work bringing inthe triceps. As to weight-lifting. I can mention alarge number of famous weight-lifterswho are anything but muscle-bound; in-deed, weight-lifting, in some forms, en-tails great quickness of body, limbs andeyes. Sandow can vault into a horsessaddle without using stirrups. Haecken-schmidt, who holds many records, is asquick as a panther. Apollo (Wm. Ban-kier). of Scotland, somersaults over chairswith a half hundredweight in each muscles of these men are enormous,but equally developed. Phvsical culture of today is so scienti- 63 ROD AND GUN IN CANADA. fie that our weig-ht-lighting, wrestling orboxing champions and others are twicethe men produced twenty-five years in muscle and better on science,and far quicker. Such men as alreadymentioned, also Eberle, Cyganiwietz, Fa,-dontay, Gotch, Jefifries, were unknown aquarter of a century ago. Our fathers thought a chest measure-ment of forty-two inches and an arm of fif-teen and a half inches enormous. Themen I have mentioned average eighteeninches in the arms and forty-eight inchesin the chest, Jefifries being sixteen inchesin arms and forty-four inches of chest,whilst Cyganiwietz is fifty-eight inchesin the chest and twenty-two inches in thearms. Sandow, Hackenschmidt, Saxon,are all about eighteen or nineteen in thearms, and from forty-eight to fifty-twoinches in the chest, yet so beautifully pro-portioned are they that the last three areat least twelve or fourteen inches less inthe waist. The weight-lifthig records, wrestling, are such as were undreamt o
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