RIVAL TO SAMSON

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1931, Page 6

RIVAL TO SAMSON

LOS ANGELES WONDER. YOUTH

DRAWS CARS WITH TEETH,

Arthur .Santell, a Los Angeles youth tears two telephone books of 2436 pages each in half with apparent ease. He drives 20-penny nails through a 2in.-, plank and three sheets of metal wifli't his bare hands. He wraps a quarterinch steel bar around his neck. He pulls three automobiles containing 28 persons by his teeth. Santell is only 19. What will he do when be gets his growth ? He is a student in the Los Angeles junior college. He twists whole decks of playing cards with his fingers, just to keep in prac- I tice, and snaps 2in. skid chains to get up an appetite for breakfast. | Santell may go back to school, and > then again he may go into vaudeville. The odds are on vaudeville. The youth says he was born strong and did the rest himself. “The ability to perform these feats,” j he says, “is a gift like music or painting. It is something inside of you. ;

Frankly, my strength is due to making my whole anatomy as strong and capable as it can be made by proper diet, correct exercise and watchfulness.” Santell says he has no system for being strong, but he knows a lot about being healthy. 'The rest is—the gift.