AN OFFER BY SANDOW

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 118, 14 December 1905, Page 4

AN OFFER BY S AN DOW

♦ The phenomenal success of the New Zealand football team has induced Mr Eugene Sandow to offer to tram a team which he guarantees will be as much the superior of the New Zealand team as the New Zealanders are to the ordinary English dub. The triumph of the New Zealandera he regards as the triumph of physical culture conducted on the right lines. Many members of the team have used his system for several years, and they are all men of perfect all-round developmennt — not developed in one particular direction. " If a team takes up my suggestion I shall train them in the same way as if they were cricketers or golfers or anything else," he told an Even ing News representative on 2nd November. "The training is the same for all games and exercises ; it is a storage of power in the men that is wanted, not the development of any particular set of muscles. «• If my scheme is agreed to, I should like to select the team myself. The men must, of course, be crack players, and I should get a football expert to advise me on this point. " It would not do to select any London club team as it stands, for the players must be perfectly sound if they are to benefit by my training and as a rule, amateur athletes are not careful enough about themselves. They do not take proper exercise in their off seasons, and when they begin to train again the machinery does not work smoothly, and they are liable to strains. " The members of the team must also be, for the most part, big men, of from 12 to 15 stone, although sometimes an 11 stone man is stronger than a heavier one. " The team selected, I should give them my personal instruction for six months. At the end of that time I guarantee they would simply paralyse any other team, and would beat any combination that could be brought against them. "By this time my system is acknowledged by almost every athlete whose name carries weight to be the true one ; and I shall be extremely clad if this crucial test of it is made."