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Title: The Indian club exercise : with explanatory figures and positions : photographed from life : also, general remarks on physical culture : illustrated with portraitures of celebrated athletes, exhibiting great muscular development from the club exercise ...
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Kehoe, Simon D
Subjects: Indian clubs
Publisher: New York : Peck & Snyder
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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expertswimmer, and attracted crowds to the Battery baths, to witness his performancesin swimming. When but fifteen years of age he became a member of the weU-known Crosby Street Gymnasium, founded by Professor Ottignon, from whichinstitution nearly all the noted Gymnasts of this country are graduates. YoungRussell made remarkable progress in the various gymnastic exercises, and wasparticularly fond of the Art of Self-Defense, making very rapid progress insparring, under the tuition of the renowned Ottignon, and was his favoritepupil. After the old Crosby Street Gymnasium passed into other hands, andthe well-known and elegant Gymnasium of Professor John Wood was erectedon Twenty-eighth Street and Fifth Avenue, Mr. Russell joined the classes ofthe latter, where he has ever since been enrolled as a member. For the pastlew years, being still quite a young man, he has been actively identified withour principal base-ball and boat clubs, and is always on hand when any hardwork is to be done.
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J. EDWARD RUSSELJ- 22 Mr. Russells favorite exercise is the Indian Clubs, in which he excels,having won the Champion Medal, at the great Gymnastic Tourney, at IrvingHall, on the first of May, 1866, presented to the best performer with theIndian Clubs, by Mr. Kehoe. The Club exercise was the principal feature ofthe evenings entertainments, and several celebrated experts with the Clubscompeted for the medal and the championship. The decision of the judgeswas unanimously in favor of Mr. Russell, and to him was awarded the medal,which is an elegant afiair, of which the holder may justly be proud. It is ofsolid gold, and the work of Tiffany & Co., of New York. The followingengraving is a fac-simile of it.

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