Identifier: indianclubexerci00kehorich (find matches)
Title: The Indian club exercise : with explanatory figures and positions : photographed from life : also, general remarks on physical culture : illustrated with portraitures of celebrated athletes, exhibiting great muscular development from the club exercise ...
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Kehoe, Simon D
Subjects: Indian clubs
Publisher: New York : Peck & Snyder
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in business pursuits,at present merchandising in Brooklyn. Though we have styled him Professor,he does not make the manly sports a profession, but only a pastime, and hisinstructions in the Club exercise have always been imparted gratis. The Club exercise, as practiced by Mr. Russell and Mr. Dermody, differsomewhat in style, the former being particularly proficient in the entire practice,and all the difficult movements, with Clubs of medium weight, while the latterexecutes several very difficult movements, peculiar to himself, with Clubs ofheavy weight. We may take occasion here to remark, that there are personagesof Club notoriety, who, by falsely representing the weight of the Clubs theyuse, have led the public to understand that it is a common thing to use Clubsweighing firom thirty to fifty pounds each. A pair of Clubs weighing thirtypounds each is rarely used, and there are but one or two men in this countrywho can perform more than a few simple movements with thirty pound Clubs.
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TIMOTHY DERMODY. If any one thinks he can reftite this statement, and has seen performances wheregreater weights have been used, let him, on the next occasion, weigh the Clubshimself, instead of taking the figures for granted, that may be given or markedon them. It is a general failing—if it may be called a faiUng—for the athlete tobe proud of his strength, and to be in no wise backward in exhibiting it atevery favorable opportunity. This is all right and proper, provided no deceptionis used, which, we are sorry to say, is too often the case, and the conscience,with the weight of the Club and dumb bells, is easily stretched. Scripture says,The glory of a young man is his strength; but it also says, A false balanceis an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his dehght. Perhaps no institution on the face of the globe has turned out any betterGjTnnasts or stronger men than the Olympic Club of San Francisco, California;yet they lay no claim to such remarkable performances as w

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