THE BOGARDUS-MILLER MATCH.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1305, 25 May 1878, Page 3

THE BOGARDUS-MILLER MATCH.

Gilmore’s Garden was well patronised, the spectators being chiefly interested in the proposed '‘main strength and grip” match. As preliminaries to this main event were several athletic performances. A walking match of one mile, for boys, brought to the fore a thirteen-year-old youth, named Abraball, who was announced in winning 8.29 i. A nine-year-old boy, Hargreaves by name, taking second prize. Two Gra.'co-Romau wrestlers, named Hess and Ambrose, tried their skill ; Hess winning two successive falls. Some juggling and knife throwing followed, after which appeared W>n. Miller, the Australian athlete, and Captain A. H. Bogardus, the celebrated pigeon shooter. Then were seen two kegs of lager bier. Mr Miller eyed the kegs ; they might be a bier to his hopes, but were not in any sense “small beer.” To offset the kegs was any amount of cold iron; huge dumb-bells. Captain Bogardus eyed these with aversion, but he was not struck dumb. However partial he might have been to ordinary belles he did not regard these bells with favor. At once he protested, but his protest was not sustained, Miller then began by putting up 1101 b dumb-bells, one in each hand. Bogardus then protested again, on the ground that the dumb-bell < xercise was a matter of practice and scientific adjustment, bat the referee decided to sustain Mdler’s effort. Bogardus carefully washed his hands with soap and hot water, and then proceeded to pick up the two lager bier kegs by their chimes—one in each hand, of course—and walked nearly half way across the stage with them, Each keg weighs about 1151bs,

Miller was called upon to show the same power. He shook his head. His friends yelled “Try it.” He tried it, but failed. His bauds do not compare with those of Captain Bogardus in main strength and grip. Miller then put up 165 pounds of single dumb-bell, followed, after four efforts, by ISO. Both hands were required to get the latter to his shonlder, when, after it was balanced, he succeeded in straightening up his arm. As the Captain had no scientific training, he could not poise and adjust his muscles in the requisite shape ; therefore, he declined the feat. But he did pick up the two heaviest dumb bells, weighing respectively 193 and 1651b5, one in each hand, and trotted around the stage with them. After this he proceeded to accomplish his second task, which was done by taking a lager bier keg in his right hand, thumb and fingers gripping the chime, and placing the keg on top of its fellow, repeating the operation with his left hand, and supplementing this double performance with another, wherein he lifted each keg from the floor and placed it on the top of the table. Mr Miller did not essay the feat. As each stood credited with two performances the referee decided the wager to be drawn. Captain Bogardus objected to the decision on the ground that the “grip” stipulation had not been complied with. The audience were, as a rule, inclined to the Captain’s views. Glass-ball shooting by Eugene Bogardus, a boy thirteen years of age —he broke 24 out of 25. Captain Bogardus then smashed 101 balls in 6min. ISJsecs, missing one ball only in a lot of 102. —“Turf, Field, and Farm ”