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I i s v l y t j 1 r f 4 J k j j df Ch o who I s I rt ri u l CIP ff t Greece Y t CP d lt ye J b wH Pd I y I r ts yr-o yr t r far ro to JJ q OPP I IH H 1 J Jt BY JAMES ELVERSON EORGE thc I TI world famous wrestler has just juit 1 f entered a plea for the the athlete of f y t t. t today The Russian Lion thinks f that modern artists and sculptors err err in ingoing at r going entirely to to antiquity for athletic c t r 1 i F tt Th There rc are wrestlers boxers sprinters 1 1 tang and weight putters day to t today da says says H Hacken- Hacken whose whose fiRu figures es' es would compare 1 f t favorably with the best existing spec specimens mens r. r 02 01 Greek r ek s statuary 4 t f r r he The athlete of oft that day da owed much to contemporary art The Hercules and andr nd r. r r rhes us Ierg bristled with great sculptors sculptor i t. it Whose hose joy it was to to reproduce in stone 1 the thc bodi s of those famed for muscular i i prowess 1 I 1 do not think they were any better 1 S if i men plen men athletically than those of today today but but butt t ther work of famous sculptors famous sculptors has made r. r t bodi c s the tradition tradition for for strength and sr grace ce h Hence ce e ence nce we give them toda today the J I-J i t. t preference over the thc great s gr at athletes of the ther r- r pres present ht 1 I I think it would be well for 1 some some GOme ot of our twentieth century sculptors r l to m make k statute statues of some of oi the great athletes ath ath- f. f Ides letes of today so that future generations ma know what our best men looked like i 4 MODELS FOR MUSEUMS The idea has met with 1 general favor favor- Several prominent artists it would be admirable that have suggested l t. t to have a number of such statues placed the in-the in the British Museum The Greek idea has always typified fied all allS S 5 that was best in power united with sym sym- metry For centuries centuri s th the world strayed from and rind it has bas not been un un- uns r love lu athletics of a l s y 1 ft I N Nw w o u 00 1101 sus O 1 E aCc Ih t d I j r S l i F f r l r I tit til within the last two decades that the science e of physical t development has become become become be be- come recognized as os matter of first importance importance im im- im- im in na determining the future health and happiness of the people In other centuries there were occasional athletes but it has remained for the closing days oi ot the nineteenth and the opening da days s of the twentieth centuries to find in t the e United States a great Teat eat national turning to the production o of of better developed bodies The result is that in in every school and college can now be found hundreds of men who ho conform to the finest lines Imes of symmetry th that t the strictest student of classical beauty could lav lay down If the sculptor who is to make the figures for forthe forthe forthe the British Mu Museum eum she Id restrict his r S hr i j 4 Cr z 5 r y s a s b b W t df L U choice of subjects to the more prominent athletes he would still merely be reflecting reflect ing Ine- fairly the general athletic development nt of today Such men as Sandow or Coe are not isolated instances They merely represent types of the modern modern modern mod mod- ern athlete Ancient Greece would have been searched search search- ed far br and md wide to find a more perfect specimen than Sandow ow This famed strong strongman man Jn is the very perfection of masculine beauty The swelling rid ridges es of muscle on his chest are specially specialty to be admired They conform exactly to what the Greeks thought beautiful Similar rid ridges of oi muscle are to be found in hundreds of kneeling figures which have been d- d si signed by architects as the supports fortl for tl b h 11 J I d d y r f oF r f pillars and roofs in ornamental buildings m The Sandow habit of f pose which while it may be a bit painful to those who dis- dis ilke affectation affectation- nevertheless adapts him perfectly to pose for statues which must of necessity be done in the classical spirit Sandow in in any performance takes fifty poses that would serve as studies for statues statues stat stat- ues as completely classical as anything that ever came out of Ath Athens ns who ho pro proposed the plan of preserving in marble at athletes letes of today would himself serve as another admirable illustration but it might be necessary to somewhat var vary from his lines tines in order to get the desired classical result A PROFESSIONAL OPINION On this subject V. W. Hamo mo R. R IA A. A the thc sculptor of London ondon says sas There is is a line between art ut and por por- It is the line of idealism To make a statue of it it would be necessary to tone down the muscle-bound muscle figure We Ve cannot tell whether the originals originals nals from whom the Greeks Greeks' modeled their masterpieces were gnarled and knotted knotted knotted knot knot- ted but if they were vere the classic sculptors knew how to idealize and i ignore nore these defects Hence their works have survived until today As Mr is a l member of the Roya Royal Academy and one of the foremost sculptors in in the in-the the world it would hardly be in good taste to take toke exception to his opinion but hut it should be borne born in mind that all aU wrestlers become more or less lessI I I J muscle de ie Thc Their r work calls cans for brute strength rather than than suppleness There is J little or no demand for agility on the feet Some of the best wrestlers have been slow even fat men It is therefore a 3 reasonable certainty the wrestlers wrestler's of the olden times were gnarled and that the sprinters sprinters' were as gracefully built as those of today Take Shick hick the Harvard Harud champion for two years winner of both sprints at the His long le lean m body is is the perfect type of the greyhound It is is all muscle not a suggestion of fat yet the muscles do not show sho- s. s They arc are the thelong thelong long flexible kind Shick could serve as a perfect model for forthe forthe forthe the modern and not many bodies could be found in H Hellenic ruins that would better sl show ow the right equipment for rapid flight There ire are numerous bodies that could be be produced a as examples of limitless ss strength the Vulcan Hercules Jupiter types I IDEALS AMONG THE MODERNS James 7 J. J Jeffries champion he heavyweight heavy heavy- I I weight fighter of the world is as massive and huge hUfe as the most impressive of them The marvelous torso of the champion with its great breadth of shoulder deep lungs his arms and legs leg heavy enough h to be the trunks of trees huge hURe menacing fist and the stern face topping topping- it all ought to be kept for future generations just to show the type of giant California 0 tern of ancient Greece Grece would have hare deli ht- ht ed to put such a form into stone and n ne idealizing would be needed A perfect Portrait portrait por Por- or- or trait of those perfect yet powerful lines F would make a magnificent statue Ralph Rose the worlds world's champion shot putter is another who constantly suggests suggests' the classic When he poises and sends the theiron theiron r 1 iron missile hurling on its way he looks looVa like the living incarnation re-incarnation of som some famous monument of myth days dag In the football ranks are many whose physique merit recording to future generations gen gen- Shevlin and DeWitt Vitt of Yale and Princeton respectively famous gridiron heroes are splendid specimens of massive of-massive i strength so were Glass and ti Cutts of Harvard and McCracken and Woodruff of Pennsylvania Baseball abounds in superb specimens Lajoie is a picture of the lithe lathe loose hung huS R speedy athlete Bender Dender the Athletic 9 s r Indian pitcher is straight as a splint and the red color of his skin makes him loot look like lake a bronze statue Jack Chesbro the theT New T York American pitcher is built as aa though his strength would last a hundred years ears and while Sandow Mertes of the St St. Louis Nationals carries carries a bit too much weight to sa satisfy every demand of classical outlines his is nevertheless ne a body that carries a 1 profound sug suggestion estion of power the around all-around athlete athlete ath ath- Sheridan champion lete who can do anything from sprint to l put iut a shot has a body that tells the stor story of of strength and agility The homely homel Irish face of the big N New e 1 York ork patrolman would look a little out of place lace on a classic marble but save for t that at he would fit in any collection designed to preserve specimens specimens sped sped- mens of the twentieth century athletic beauty To the extent that it will encourage e e future fu- fu ft J ture generations to aim aim for highest ideals of physical manhood the plan is a good one a and d might well bo be tried here an in this countr country for the United States is becoming more and more a nanon nation na- na non tion OD of athletes r I I I I