Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 18, 1909, Page 28

K THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 18, 1909, HOW OLD FICATERS TRAINED Bix Months of the Most Orlelliu‘ Work Not Unusual. DEAD TOUGH MUGS IN VERY FACT o Practice to Harden Hands, Faves Bare Knuokle Encounters. NEW YORK, April 17.—"It was nothing unusual for prizefighters of the old school o train hard for three months in prepara- ‘tion for a battle,” sald an old New York sport at A& training camp in Weschester fhe other day. “Nowadays you boys think you're doing a pile of work if you traln for three week. “Some of the ol fighters took six months éven to get into condition, putting them- through @ severe gruelling that would make the present day pugilists 1l &nd weary. The [first thing an old timer 4ld was to take that awful physic known as the ‘black draught,’ composed of senna feaves, bruised ginger and licorice root. This was put in a half pint of water and allowed to stand by a fire for three hours, then strained, and when cooled the follow- fng morning, sal volatile, tincture of senna “and tincture of cardamom were added. “Then it was corked up tight and put in a coql place, after which a fighter took A wineglass of the stuff every morning and évening. It was a horrible thing to fake and hardly fit for a mule. “The old fellows used to have to harden their hands, faces and bodies when they fought with the raw ‘uns in order to make the skin as tough as & rhinoceros hide to withstand the blows from bare knuckles. This was a long, tedlous job. Many fight- ers used;a mixture of rocksalt, lemon juice, vinegar, horseradish and whiskey. It took two months of rubbing with this stuft be- fore the skin got good and hard for a s vere mill. “There was ho lively bag to punch in those days. Instead they used a' big heavy . bag weighing about 200 pounds, filied with sand, which hung within a foot of the ground. on thé end of a long rope. Punching this ungainly bag was slow, hard welves work, vet a fighter kept at it for a couple | of hours until he was exhausfed in body and limbs. Daily Round in Training. “The road work In the old days also was ‘the limit. The fighter often went from thirty to fifty riles a day in the broiling sun with his tongue hanging out for the want pf a drink. He usually ran five miles, then walked five, and so on until he wound up at his training quarters completely fagged out. Hers is a day's training schedule in olden time: 3 & m-Got dp and took a smart run for three or four mil 8 m.—Rubbed down with alcohol and s of sherry and egg. a. m.—Rested for one hour. 8 a. m.—Breakfast, generally consisting of two mutton chops or a small steak, to- matoes or celery and tea. “9 to 10 a. m.-Dumbbells and clubs for half an_ hour. “11 a. m.~On the road for a ten-mile walk and run, 13, m.—Light rub down. p. m.—Dinner. ~Soup, chicken or beef or bolled leg of mutton with bolled onlons, green peas, corn, bottle of Bass' ale or glass of sherry, fruit, but no ples or puddings. m.—Sparring with trainer and sand bag for one or two hours. m.~Twenty-mile trot on the road un; r 7 p. m. Then a rub down. "7 . ‘m.-Supper. Cold( lamb or fish, celery or water uress, and tea; a vety light meal. 0 p. punching “3:80 p. il 6 o 8 p. m.—8hort stroll for a mile of .two, then @ light rub down. “§ p. m,~To bed for eight hours' rest. “Thie was about the way “fleenan, Mor- rissey, Sayers, Yankee-Sulllvan, Jem Mace, Tom King, Hyer, Coburn, McCool, Aaron Jones, Jim Doane, Ned O'Baldwin, Tom Allen and a bunch of the old fellows got Into condition in the days of hard fist battics fighters were not afraid of tough work N 3 Dan Donnelly “The greay Irish fistic hero, nelly, who Whipped Cooper and other Eng- lish fighters on the Curragh of Kildare, : “77 ” Humphreys’ Seventy-Seven breaks up Grip and COLD “Winter lingering in the lap Bpring” develops a fine crop of Colds, causing an increased demand for “Seventy-seven.” Carelesa people change their garments too soon and Colds are the inevitable resuit. A dose of “Beventy-seven” hhn’n the first chill or shiver Will break up the Cold, 26¢, or malled. Humphreys' Homeo. Medicine Co., oor. “Willlam and Ann Streets, New York. when of QUAKER MAID 1t Was the | TDan was a great favorite in his day. They | | Standing: Isham. Clevenger NEBRASKA Coach], Vifqualn. Sitting: ( i Meyer, Swan [Captdin], Simonds, Kuns. AM ESLEYAN UNIVERSITY BASKET BALL had his own peéullar methods In training {for a mill. Donnelly kept a popular porter house In Dublin, where all the leading sports of the country got together, for crowded the champlen's bar /when he was preparing for a battle just to see him ex- | ercise. “Ome of hiz great stunts was 'to Arthk gallons of water and then jig In a large rooms upstairs until the sweat ran from his body In streams. He kept the Jigging up for hours, too, to the great delight of his admirers, who came from miles around to sea the endurance of the wonderful Irish pugilist. Dan, like many other good fighters, fell a /victim to the bottle and passed In his cheoks before he reached middle age after a strenuous career in the prizering. “Jem Mace was a faithul {rainer and never entered the ring unless he was fit and well. He seldom drank, and at the age of 7 now he.is wonderfully well preserved. Sully & Poor Trainer. “The hardest man to handle while train- ing was John L. Sulllvan. During his ten years of success as champlon T never saw him but once in what I would call good form, and that was when he was pitted agalnst Herbert Slade, the Maori, in Madls son Square garden in 188, Mace had I ported Slade from Australia 'with a flourish of trumpets, and as Sulllvan knew that Jem was a shrewd judge of fighters he decided to take no chances, So John L. got into fine condition under the careful handling of Joe Goss and Pete McCoy. “Slade lasted only three rounds before Sullivan, who was fit to fight for his life that night. When he got” blg and fat Sullivan became slow and lazy, and con- sequently a1 not want to work. Billy Muldoon got the credit for putting him in fine form for his long fight with Jake Kilrain 'in 1889, but Sulllvan was hog fat, clumsy and like an elephant oh that oc- casion. Muldoon worked hard enough to get Sullivan right, but ey were not on the friendliest terms all that time and John L. fréquently threatened to wallop [the famous health artist. In fact, nearly {all of Sulllvan's training was farcical, for | he generally did as he pleased and worked | as Httte as possible, v | Fits a Real Worker, | “Fitzsimmons was one of the hardest workers 1 ever saw while training” He was always restless and on the go. It was as | matural for the Cornishman to work and |train as for a duck to swim. Why, he used to wear out half @ dozen bags, | punching them Hke a wild man hour after hour, He was on the roed bright and early, and with his remarkable speed and staxping he used (o run his trainers’ heads ot “To stop at some blacksmith's shop and make a bunch of horseshoes was real fun for Robert. In his boxing bouts at quar- | ters he generally wore down several husky follows, for it was impossible for him box Hght and easy. T saw Fits every now | and then get half soaked with gin flzzes | and other fancy drinks hutithe next morn- | Ing he was up witk k and out on the road for a five tem-mile run, re- turning to the querters feirly, dripping { with perspiration. | “Then he took a cold bath nnd showed | up for bresitast like a new ran, glowing with health and in great spirits. When some other fellow in the camp drark too much at night and had a big noodle in the morning Fits used to laugh and say: “ ‘Why don't yer run you're bloomin' ‘ead hott like me?' “This is what thee & made Fitz a wonderful fighter, because he was always in the finest fettle. Even when Bob was out of training he was dlways on the jump, work- ing away at something that provided plenty of exercise. If he couldn't do anythin else he jumped in and did a lot of sweeping, cleaning and household work to beat the band ‘When he was the heavyweight cham- plon of the world 1 used to see him cook 8 big dinner for' his family, wash the dishes, dust and beat the rugs, make the beds and do other chores about the house, Big Jeft Is Lasy. “L see where Jim Jeffries says he is & great worker while training. That may be true, but he miways seemed to me to be lazy, as if training was a hardship for him. He lacked the dash and spirit that willing workers show and always went at the task in a half hearted way. 1 used to think he was one of the slowest bag punchers I ever saw, and when he started out on the road he was generally in poor bumor. plodding along like a man going on & disagreeable errand. He seldom broke into & smart run or showed any enthusiasm’ in his work. 5 “Jeft said recently that he made it a practice of getting up at 6 in the morning He's dne of those fellows who usually get up with a grouch, and for the first half hour he's on his feet he lsn’'t a pleasant person to meet. After a cold bath and a rubdown Jeff thaws out and after a good breakfast he's all right, ready to take or play a joke. The bollermaker does his road work shortly after breakfast and comes back as hungry as a bear and with @& terrible thirst. “But he knows that drink of any kind will put on flesh, so he gargles his throat and_ swallows as little fluid as possible. An hour after luncheon he may bang the bag and exercise with the medicine ball half an hour. Then he takes another rest before sparring a few rounds, when his day's work ls practically at an end. In the evening Jeff eats a big dinner, after which he is In fine humor and spends a few hours chatting with his cronies, hunting and dogs being his favorite topics. But the big fel- low seldom discusses the fight for which he Is in traning. He doesn’t care to keep it in his mind all the time. “It's true that Jeff has never entered the ring cat of condition. He's too careful to take a chance. Why, even when he agreed to face such a second-rater as Jack Munroe he trained faithfully and was in fine form for that one-sided affair. The bollermaker has the bilg bump of caution, end you can bet all your coln that he will not face Jack Johnson unless he's in prime condition and knows that he can go the Toute mecessary to win back the champlonship. “I know that Jeff dreads the hard work he'll have to do to get right for the big coon, for he detests training and would rather’ fight half a dozen battles than go through a course of sprouts to get/tit. Jeff realizes, too, that the task_will be tougher than ever now that he's been out of the game four years and has, of course, grown that much older. Jeff wants plenty | of time so that he can work himselt into form, but nobody can hurry him, for he's one of the slow but sure kind of fellows. Little Jim Driscoll’s Way. ““What a peculiar little man Jim Driscoll s while training! The English feather- welght champion is a sort of go-as-you- please chap in his work. Driscoll’ has knocked the tar out of all traditions by his 0d4d methods. He's like the Quaker, who walts for the spirit to move him This lttle Johnny Bull does his work when and how he feels like it, with no particular system. One morning he'll be up with the blooming robins bright and early, sprinting on the road, while probably the next day he'll take it easy, eating breakfast in bed like a lord. But Jim always does the same amount of work each day, even If it takes him until midnight to finish his quota. He's not one of those early to bed and early to rise boys. He may go to the theater one night and spend the next tnrkm[ like & beaver In his gym, punching the bag, swinging the medicine ball, skipping the rope and boxing at top speed. Jim de- clares, however, that he never shirks hard work and does not need the services of a trainer to coach him. “Another little fellow who is still more erratic in his training methods is Aurellio Herrera, the Mexican, who has done some tough milling In the far west. He smok clgarettes constantly while preparing for a mill, varying the monotony with big black cigars. He trains hard one day and lays off ths next. The Mexican eats any- | thing and everything and has no regular system of working for a battle. If he had followed some steady-plan T think he would have been a far better fighter, for he's certainly shown that nature has been very kind to him when he's taken such chances with himself. Ola-Timers the Best, “If you will take the trouble to look over the history of pugilism I think youw'll find that the best fighters were the best work- ers while in training. The old timers used to say that a course of long, severe training was a better test of a man’ ness than a contest in the ring. Dempsey, Jim = Corbett, Tommy Ryan, George Dixon, Joe Choynski, Jem Carney, Danny Needham, Joe Goddard, Peter Jack; son, Frank Slavin, Solly Smith, George Dawson, Tom Tracey, George Lavinge, Frank Brne, Jimmy Barry, Alec Gregiains, Young Mitchell, Billy Myer, Jimmy Britt, Abe Attell, Joe Gans, Dick Hyland, ‘Yerry McGovern, Packy McFarland, Leach Cross, Battling Nelson, Stanley Ketchel, Willie Lewis, Tom Sharkey, Jgee Walcott, Jack Jackson and a host of other great fight- ers have all trained faithfuliy and have al- ways entered the ring fit. =~ ' “No fighter ever took such chances as Jack McAuliffe when he was lightweight champion. The morning of the day he met Billy Myer at New Orleans in 1802 Jack was ten pounds overwelght and Diok Roche, his backer, was so enraged: that he was golng up to the Olymple club, declare the match off and forfeit the $,000 he had up, but McAuliffe wouldn’t hear of sucl a thing, declaring that he'd be in the fln: that night at weight and wallop Myers into Sleepyville. And so he was! He went out on the road that morning, workeds off the ten pounds and got into the ring that night looking all to.the good. “McAuliffe put up such a great fight that Myer, who never, had a look in, was knocked out in the fifteenth round. Jack knew when to quit, too, and gracefully handed over the lightweight championship belt to George Lavigne. McAuliffe never had a decision against him— & remarkable ring record.” BIC DEMAND FOR TROTTERS Figures Higher as Training and Rac- ing Season Approaches. SALES ARE A BIG SUCCESS Offerings WiNl Find Resd and Migher Prices Than 1 Former Eventa of the Year. Buyers the NEW YORK, April 17.—The demand for trotting horses apparently keeps at higher figures as the training and racing season Approaches, the sale repomas showing trom all parts 6f fthe country that higher prices ruled in recent sales than late in the fall or during the Winter. The prosperous showing of trotting horse sales is not confined to the east. west or south, as has been the case in the past, for reports from the Pacific ocoast are equally encouraging and demonstrate be- yond all doubt that the futurs of harness racing In that section of the country looks prosperous and bright enough for horse- men to Invest heavily in prospective win- ners, while the demand for breeding steck is just as brisk. One of the biggest sales of the year was recently held at Pleasanton, Cal, in whioh | the feature consignment was from the Nutwood Stock ferm, the home of (he | foted sire, Nutwood Wilkes, and the re- | sult of the first day, of which an eutheéntio | report has reached the east, shows that the | general average was 3460 per head sold. As In the case of other sales thers, too, the demand for wellbred youngsters prop- erly engaged in futurities, of which there | are several for Pacific coast bred horses, the demand was s brisk and prices ruled equally high. A number of younsters sold | trom %800 down to the 31000 mark. while | brood mares brought as much as they would anywhere else. Prices Advance. This steady increase of demand for trotters at advance prices is a certain in- dication for the success of the los scheduled for next month and still closer to the racing and training season. The two galés to be held under the man- agement of the Fasig-Tipton company, dne in Cleveland and another at Readville; also one by the Chicago Sales company, will draw, as they have in the past, a number of racing prospects, from winter and spring training grounds, and all are expected to become record events, judged by the de- mand {n <he near past. The sales will open right in the midst of training and breeding seasons and the offerings will find readier buyers and higher prices than in the former events of the year. Advance reports from training stables show that few of the leading trainers have #meugh trotters and pacers for the sea- son's training and racing, consequently they will be first on the market to grab up almost any thin, and everything whioh looks a likely prospect for something worth the trouble and expense of training. Nearly, all of the stakes, both for Grand Circuit and smaller chains of meetings, are now announced that the total amount offered 1s 8o much larger than In former years, that horsemen, particularly active trainers, will be anxious to secure material enough from which to select their winners at a higher cost than in the same sales of previo b2 P Ay W PR NAVAL CREW HAS BUSY SEASON Races Are on the Schedaule for the Oarsmen. ANNAPOLIS, April 17.—Nine races. have been arranged for the naval acaderay oars- men, according to the rowing schedule re- cently unnounced. The varsity crew will row in four of them, three are for the plebes, or fourth class men, and the second and third crewe have ‘one each. All the races will be over a two-mile course. 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