Modern Samsons.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1037, 15 January 1892, Page 10

Modern Samsons.

Sampson McCann, an Irishman, breaks silver dollars between his fingers and chains capable of sustaining 6000 pounds. Eugenie Sandow, a German, only weighs 202 pounds, but is credited with having put up a 312-pound dumbbell with one hand.

Paris was recently astounded by the feats of Apollon, a 25-year-old Frenchman, who weighs 250 pounds, and who can lift three horses, hold 100 pounds out at arm’s length, and play catch with a 160-pound weight.

Irving Montgomery, an American, breaks strong chains and sti'aps with his hands and by chest expansion with remarkable ease. His exhibition partner, Cyclops, is a giant who thinks nothing of running about with three big men and a 150-pound dumbbell, ox* of breaking a heavy iron ring by the contraction of his biceps.

Loxxis Cyi*, a French-Canadian, is six feet high, weighs 300 pounds, and has lifted 4000 pounds of pig-iron with his hands and back, and without using harness. Shouldering a 300-pound barrel of cement with one hand, luting 516 pounds with one finger, balancing his wife upon his chin, and raising with his back a platform holding a 23_pound dumbbell and twenty men (aggregate weight 3337 pounds) are among his everyday feats.