The Iron Man

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 14

The Iron Man

Holds Two Planes with Engines Full On DAILY STEEL MASSAGE Slavko Barta, formerly an amateur boxer and wrestler of great strengt"recently gave an unparalleled disput of muscular force at the ' leß Airdrome, writes the Vienna correspondent of “The London Observer Standing with his legs apart, Ban took hold of the mooring ropes ot t* airplane, one an Austrian passeK _ plane, the other a German spo >- model, and held them to the 6 rbU .°.j even when the engines were at pressure. After a few minutes * this exertion be had to rest. _ performance was then til exhaustion temporarily Oter . him, and the doctors had to be c A brief halt was enough for w to recover, and the performance resumed, this time the feat bein.j. ( ]j firing of a cartridge fjom a w between the teeth, first _ g, ground, and th9n from great is the concentration nece to bring off this dangerous tasa, Barta, that he hardly n ° tic ® vjj' sound of the detonation. Since ( 1923, he has fired no fewer tnan • cartridges in this way. h i e aBarta has already a conside come from a champagne fa® ’ jjj estate, and a cinema in Za be ’joe=. ona who did not possess, » eS . a heart and nerves of iron te : dure the “steel massage ne himself, consisting of a vig ? l ? he jjeai hammering of the back or and chest with a solid iron 'gttfi two years the “iron man .. en 00 no meat of any kind, and alcoholic drink. ( „plude ># His future engagements m „ appearance in a foreign ni (*ei American tour, for which he promised a fee of £12,000.