PERSONAL STRENGTH OF WASHINGTON.
Great commanders, as a rule, have not been notable for the possession of extraordinary physical powers. Washington was an exception, being a man of groat strength. In bis youth he -was once an onlooker at a wrestling contest, and growing weary of the sport threw himself at the foot of a tree to enjoy his book. By and by he was challenged to try a fall with the hero of the day. At first he declined, until, finding his refusal attributed to fear, he entered the arena, and without taking off his coat grappled with his opponent, and, after a brief struggle, hurled him to the ground vrith such force that the best vrrestler in Virginia was in much the same predicament as the Duke's wrestler when he tried conclusions vrith Orlando. Later on in life, -while watching some young fellows contending at throwing the bar, Washington asked to be allowed to try -what he could do, and grasping the bar, sent it flying through the air, to land many feet beyond the limit attained by any of the competitors. And still later, ■when he might be said to be getting old, he showed that he had not lost his strength of arm. Taking a morning ride, he saw three of his workmen vainly endeavoring to raise
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3227, 2 November 1881, Page 3
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