The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 9, 1899, Page 18

THE AN FRANCISCO CALL I0US ALASKAN CUSTOMS: PEOPLE, MINES AND DOGS They are coming in contact with old min- | them home with enough to live on for He bholted {t.with YN m Dece er, is commonly occupled by from six to ten not been glven any. ! ey ons be to two or more fami- such evident enjoyment that I felt quite ers and prospectors who have spent | life. Mis o P rewarded for the sacrifice I had made. vears in the country and still search- [ One old gentleman remarked this morn- I 3 3 5 e taissio done a great ing for that rich claim that 18 to send |ing that he had been in cold countries iy ele fon of ti work in E At WORN —~OUT. men w se people River npression that vould do to gc lower ma peaple with the i vast we @ Lively Fight stagger under, and then the cold went ematically to work and froze him from “inside out.” was a place » intended to get out of as soon as he “ould get enough cordwood cut to pay his 5 furs he could discovery of the Nome seems to have be dent hree wn in me here wr md appears now the America ited on Nor 50 from St. Mich sixty miles from Golovin L party now it was so cold that men who are p we would taking out about $100 There is no end of troubl [§ locations by proxy. try where TRAINING . FOR THE : his period of preparat t a fight is more like play than work. excreise, however, s often®of the v - After a long an [ ng in a sprint of 500 he skips the rope before Lath, rub down and massage 8 rprised that any one his fancy wouid the nt time the various after his task on the road Jeffries’ method of training varles little methc are tions that are being widely dis- ques- from that of other pugili When preparing for his fight with Fitz- cussed by all who are interested simmons_he boxed with Jim Daly and The result Tommy Ryan, punched the bag, exercised of the J 'ns fight would With the medicine ball and the wrist ma- seem to warrant belief that his Chine, ran, red handball, rowed on the method of preparing t was & Safin his Wrong ¢ but Lar not listen ant to him. mons, his bouts to any siions. He has his own with his trainers were more scientific than explanations to account for his defeat and rough-and-tumble. They did not attempt his training system does not appear as to hit him hard. and he used no force fa the blows that landed upon them. All his one of them. In fact the training ques- 08 DOV o0 Ig0rCs o NG bag, and tion is one over which expert opinion dif- fers ds greatly as upon almost any con- cetvable subject. Charlle White, who has handled many pugilists in his time, says that Corbett needed more training than any man he ever knew. At the same time he is of the opinion that the ex.champion over- did the matter. He Insisted upon taking long runs, he made his boxing bouts as long as possible and discontinued them only to commence a long seance with the bag. He wrestled, he ran any distance without tiring, and yet, after all, he did, not have sufficlent vital force to enable him to stand up before Fitzsimmons. Sharkey, on the other hand, does no such stunts. He has often sald that he Q14 not think a whole lot of training nec- essary. “I'm usually willing to fight,” he sald, “and I don’t find much trouble in getting ready for it. Distance doesn’t count. I'm always fit, and I always play to make the pace hot. Hard work hard- ens a man, and I like to do plenty of A minute’s rest counts for a whole Jot. A man who has lived right can.not only get his wind back, but his strength. He's as good as when he started, or should be. As for me,.I like long work, Quick work, and lately I've had a disa- greement with my trainers because they Wanted & limit. They sald I wanted to do too much work and pull down too fine, but it was just fun for me to make them take exercise, and I kept at it. I tell you there's nothing like feeling in right good Then work lsn't work, and noth- ] o) { \\(“// 1 ]2 '] v L 21 W' g a—y"(/f.‘;//‘lf ' ' ) A *) shape. - / e % e vou. You're not afrald of any- == W Rt ing fires you " Xou'co mel etmild of ey \ 1 / are going to wrestle, box, run or do any ol RN mtzsimmons' friends insist that he did not follow out his old methods when he prepared for his fight with Jef- fries, and one thing at least is certain— in the use of alcoholic beverages during the training perlod Bob stands practically alone. His habit of drinking ice water Wwhen in a perspiration is another thing that most athletes avoid. At the same time he trains hard. He slugged the bag for long periods, he boxed furiously with Dan Hickey and Yank Kenney and he had Aafly runs, covering a distance of from to ten miles at a speed that would e rendered an ordinary man speech- / il V7 5145 ',,7<A~ = H,',/'//"‘(*,Z’: ’(fi 'GUNI\‘- Arcr R the same time the then-champion was not particular as to what he had to cat. The only thing that troubled him = * s to get enough to satisfy his appetite, Porterhouse steak, four or five slices of veal, potatoes, bread and butter in un- Kid Lavigne Believes formed by men working at 1 of fifteen or twenty members éntatives with iwch to locate iistrict. In this ver been on the s a dozen g dis- s0 have been St. Michae who have sent over rep: e power of attorney r them in eve arriva . where it is re- has been m vkuk River \p stream fro 300 off the Yu 10 miles about e boats n th rs' supply of pro- one: so they are est they will be ex-Governor « 1 as cook of last summer for a trader at the in the Team. mouth of the Koyukuk and people who tested his skill say he is an artist in the culinary line. The United States mail service Is blamed and . too, for many of the disappointme f peaple here. con- its provisions. 1 down the river although the to be a Michael, be- eds and hundreds of river longing for news from d I believe I voice the sen- > number when I say nt ought to give this attention. The service mmer when naviga- 1A McNAUGHT. e put in the energy that Fitzsim- dis to his sorrow. °s has always been care- réily, as a man must do ly, but he always at a time when he could His beverages are water, aringly, and weak tea als igne is another pugllist who s not believe in overtraining, and he tttle difficulty in getting into fighting His experience with Walcott, who ed too bard to reduce his flesh, has him not to try to get down too ne’ and there are few among the ter weight men who come into the in a better general condition than Lavigne. He is always careful in what he eats and drinks and he is regular in his hours, and this regularity does not conflne itself tg his hours of sleep. A certain form of exercise i{s taken at a certain time every day, and while he does not exercise as violently as some of the bigger men, he is unsparing of his efforts s trainers discover any point in which a defec Lavigne has always been his own worst critic and was never known to leave the ring perfectly satis- fied with the work that he has done. As the natural result, his training is on as faithfully as possible. in Mederate Training.