Physical culture . isrecord to a local paper, that the editorwill be glad to arrange an especial oc-casion for repeating the feat of endur-ance at some public place. The con-testant can then duplicate his feat andcan forward to us the newspaper articlereferring to it. This would be the mostvaluable method of verifying the claimsof the winning contestants. Test No. i consisted in raising onthe toes as high as possible and return-ing to the floor. Eugene Frizzell, ofUtica, New York, has outdistanced allcompetitors in this event. On April 18,before various witnesses, he raised onhis toes twenty t
Physical culture . isrecord to a local paper, that the editorwill be glad to arrange an especial oc-casion for repeating the feat of endur-ance at some public place. The con-testant can then duplicate his feat andcan forward to us the newspaper articlereferring to it. This would be the mostvaluable method of verifying the claimsof the winning contestants. Test No. i consisted in raising onthe toes as high as possible and return-ing to the floor. Eugene Frizzell, ofUtica, New York, has outdistanced allcompetitors in this event. On April 18,before various witnesses, he raised onhis toes twenty thousand times. Threehours was required for this remarkablefeat. The second best record was madeby Emery B. Wolf, Taneytown, Mary-land. He performed the exercise 2,193times. Neil McFarland, of Pittsburg,was third, with 200 times. In Test No. 2, the weight was raisedwith the strength of one leg alone whilethe toe of the other foot was graspedby the hand, as shown in the illustra-tion. There was only one record of any. Test No. 2 Test No. 3 Test No. 5 Test No. 6 81 82 PHYSICAL CULTURE value made in this test. Samson Dem-mick, of 106 Broadway, Detroit, repeat-ed this exercise 76 times with the leftleg and 75 times with the right leg. in Test No. 3, there was only one com-petitor who made a notable recordVVendehn Kueller, Jr., of Utica, New*ork, reports that he performed thisexercise before witnesses 4,600 times,and the test took one hour and five min-utes. There was no competitor in test No. No. 5 consisted in bringing thebody from an inclined position to a sit-ting posture as shown in the Stutzrihn, of Rochester, New York,repeated this exercise 1,500 times. Thiswas the only record worthy of note madein this contest. Test No. 6 consisted of shooting thefeet out backward until the weight rest-ed upon the tips of the toes and thepalms of the hands, then returning tofirst position. There were no especiallygood records in this test, though G. Jory, o
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