Some of Saxon’s best feats were also impromptu, and sad to relate, performed in the back room of saloons. I even understand that he once broke my personal record of 87 beers in one day. It was a fact that his contract called for 100 bottles of German beer per day as an allowance for the trio. Warren Lincoln Travis, the great back lifter, once told a group of us in New York that he manufactured a bar bell for Saxon which weighed well over 400 pounds. When Arthur arrived to take delivery of the bell, Travis rolled it out in the middle of the floor fully loaded and said, “Let’s see you fool with that.” Saxon squatted in front of the weight, lifted it up the back of his legs, bent over and let the bell roll up his back to the neck (the Bendover), then straightened up and jerked the weight to arms’ length overhead. Try that one, you puny boys of today!

-Are Men Getting Stronger?
by Harry B. Paschall (1940)

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