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Show WRESTLER GRUHM ARRIVES IH AMERICA Shoves Three-Hundred Pound Dunib-Bell High Above His Head. NEW YORK. Nov. 4. A second HacketiSChrnldt, Ferdinand Oruhn. a Herman, Is here in search of weight-lifting weight-lifting and cntch-aa-catch-can wrestling honors. Judged by appearance appear-ance and his feats of strength, he is. to put It tersely, a wonder. Keeping Himself In Condition. Just now Gruhn Is keeping himself !n condition at the Broadway gymnasium gymna-sium of Prof. Alllla. the noted strong man and athlete of a decade ago. At-llla At-llla has coached some of the strongest men In the world, but he says he never say Oruhn'i equal He is. with the possible exception of "Hack." the only i ornbin.itlon of a Weight-lifter &hd wrestler that has ever appeared before the puhllc Oruhn performed SOnfS feats of strength this week which broke all he weight-lifting records heard of. Perhaps the best was thai of shoving a 300-pound dumb-bell over his head as high as his arms could reach. There was little of the trick-lift about this feat. Pkklng the long and awkward bell from the floor, Qrohn, With a mighty hoist, got It high upon hla chest, and then, bending his body backward until It scented tha'. something some-thing must give, he shoved the massive piece of Iron all the way DP over his head. His whole body quler d and hi must leg bulged out as If they would K-,... 1. I, Ik. rbl,. Tcyed With Another Bell. Another dumb-bell thai Gruhn toyed With Was Ihe 160-POUnder He raised this two rjr three times 'th cither hand, and paid it ix easy. As a wrestler, be would he i worth:' Foe 01 Tom .Tenklns, who Is due here shortly from Europe. Gruhn wants to meet the American hamitfoti and has J'iOOo posted with Atllla for baiking In Mich a match. Close Friend of Great "Hack " The rii wiomer Is a close friend of the great HackenSchmldt. Ho trained with him when "The Russian Un" began wrestling, and says he once threw him, but this was during a training "out and al eatch-as-cnU h-can (tyle, wltli which "Ha k" was not familiar at the time. Qruhn is catch-as-t at i i champion r.f Kngland. and In i9l)2 was second it. Ihe c.mpiitlon ol ih. mu im .-chanipliiiishlp. .-chanipliiiishlp. He also holds th. British Brit-ish weight-lifting record of :9i pounds. He has beaten this, however, since He Is 2'J years old. and was born In London Lon-don f German parents. He weighs -0s pounds. His measurements are; Heigh;. ,i feet 11 Inches: chest. !'-.. inches; iiiceps, 17 Inches: forearm, il inches, neck, 19 Inches, and thigh L'7 Inches. He 3 built along the same lines as rlaVttenschmldt. |