The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-25
' A PRIZE-FIGHTER's DIET.
John MOrrissey's Food and Drink When
Training FOR the Fight with Heenan.

From the New York Sun.
"My friend" he continued, Hyou can't
imagine the torment a man has to go through
when he is fitting himself for a prize-tight.
But then, after that is all over, neither can
you have any idea of the glorious feeling that
a man experiences when he gets himself in
perfect condition. 1t is worth all the trouble
and suffering that one has to 60 through. Every
thing in the world looks different to him from
what it does when his system is clogged up
with bile, and he is carrying around a guam
Lty of flesh that is only a burden to him. 1t
is almost impossible TO get a man when in
such a condition into a bad humor. He feels |
like a young colt, and wants to kick up his
heels and have a good time with everybody
and everything he meets. Oh, yes, indeed, l
do wish 1 lad the time to once more 90
through a regular training. l know it would
fix me out all right. But l can't so there's
no use talking" he said, regretfully.
"But l can, SENATOR replied, sand if you
will only tell me what to do I will try it. You
know l am not well, and believe it will do
me good"
The bury, good-natured Senator looked at
Inc in a ~quizzlcal way and then gave that low
peculiar whistle which all who knew him in
timately will remember so well when he was
astonished or amused at anything.
"You'n try it, said he. "Why, my friend,
you don't know what you're talking about.
You wouldn't 60 half through with it before
you'd weaken. Oh, no. A man has got to
have something more for an incentive than
you have before he'd ever go through with
such a course. But" continued the Senator,
''there is one thing you can do, and it will do
you good If you stick to it, and that is to live
on a prize-fghter's diet for three months. Do
you believe you could do that ?"
81 will try it," said, "if you will tell me
what it is"
"Well, then, take a pen and some paper
and l will tell you and you can write it down.
But l don't believe you will do even this"
Having secured the paper and ink Mr.. Nor
rissey dictated to me as follows:
First-Tako a black draught. Any drug
gist will put it zap. Ali prize-tighters take
this when they begin to train for a fight.
You'll find it the liveliest dose of medicine
you ever took.
Second-Be sure and get at least seven or
eight hours of good sound sleep every day.
Third-In the morning when you first get
up drink a glass of hard cider with a raw egg
in it. If the cider is not to be had then use
sherry wine, but | prefer the cider. Then
start out aud walk briskly for a couple of
miles. When you come back take a sponge
bath and rub yourself dry with a coarse towel.
Rub until your skin is all aglow.
FouIth-For breakfast eat a lean steak,
cooked rare, and stale bread. Use no milk,
no sugar, nc httttel, anu ITO potatoes, VIII the
exception of about once a week. If you
wish you can eat a baked c. roast potato in
the morning. Drink spa"nglv Of tea and
coffee. Tea is the best.
Fifth-For dinner eat rare roast beef and
stale bread. Use no potatoes OR vegetables of
any kind with this meal. For change rou
can have occasionally a mutton chop, but
without tat.
Sixth-For supper. u lean steak Or a NUT
ton chop without fat. DO not eat any warm
biscuit OF warm bread at any time. Stick to
good, wholesome stale wheat bread. Eat no
pies, cakes or pastry of any kind, anu use
pepper, salt and all other Seasonings very
sparin9ly.
Scyenth-Use 10 stimulants of any kind.
Do not smoke. Drink sparinsly Of water.
Do not cat berries or vegetables OF any kind,
excepting occasionally a raw onion.
Eighth-If you feel weak in the mernins
before breakfast, it comes from :hc bathing,
and it should be discontinued for Il few days.
ssThere, my friend,' continued the Senator,
YOU have the diet of a prize fighter when III
training, without the exercise that goes with
it. If you will follow it for three months Ill
,,,or,pt.a vou ~ i'll faA1 murh hotter than wan