"In Johnson, Cyr met the foeman most worthy of his steel, and a man who by
reason of the great courage he showed in their contest endeared himself to
the heart of the Canadian. Louis always claimed that Johnson was the
strongest man he ver met in contest. The Swede was a large, finely built man
of over two hundred pounds, with a pair of twenty-eight inch thighs and the
rest of his measurements in proportion. He was the first man in the world
ever to do a two hands clean and jerk with three hundred twenty-eight pounds,
and later raised three hundred and thirty pounds in the same manner. On
October 16, 1892, in St. Petersburg, Russia, he made a one-arm press of two
hundred and fifty-five pounds, using a dumb-bell"
