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In his autobiography, Memories and Adventures, Doyle wrote that:

The Albert Hall was crowded. There were eighty competitors, each of whom had to stand on a pedestal, arrayed only in a leopard’s skin… The three men were all wonderful specimens, but one was a little clumsy and another a little short, so we gave the valuable gold statue to the middle one, whose name was Murray, and who came from Lancashire.

When Arthur Conan Doyle Judged A Bodybuilding Contest