St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
Training of a Giant for Battle and the
Fights He Has Already
Won.
Electing Officers and Completing It's Bust
ness, the Session of Odd Eel
lows Ends.
Many Important Matters in the Usual
Great Grind by the
Council.
The Milling situation NJ alters Small
in Size but Great in
Interest.
PREPARING FOR 4 MILL.
Training OF the Peoria Giant E0f
His Fight With Wilson.

Training OF the Peoria Giant For
His Fight With Wilson.
A GLOBE reporter yesterday morning,
while taking breakfast at leading resta'l-
rant. observed an athletic young man at
lacking mutton chops with relish when
aDpeared to be almost ferocious, While a
small mountain of toast before nm was
dwindling away with great rapldity. w 10
is the eater?" asked the reporter ho'ullls
in the direction of the muscular gorlnan-
diZer
..Don't Won know?" answered the waiter.
ssWhy. that's Patsey Cardiff, who is going
10 fight Wilson. He's training; that's what
makes him eat So \ few minutes later
the reporter took occasion to congratulate
Mr. Cardiff upon his robust appetite and
evident freedom from dyspepsia. ~ on q
EAT too" said Patsey, IF you took six
mile walk on an empty stomach
every morning. This statement, OF
nOurSe led to series OF
questions as to the manner in which candi-
dates for the prize ring are prepared Tor
their battles, which Patsey answered as
follows:
I'm the morning I get up at six o'clock
and take a sherry and egg, after when
start out in log of six miles. When l get
back | am rubbed down and have little
rest. and sit down to breakfast, generally
eating mutton chops, toast, ETC.. with very
little tea OF coffee After an hours rest L
take an eight mile walk which brings he 10
the fair ground where I run mile good and
hard and take bath. Then [ walk back to
the city and get dinner, which generally
consists of rare roast beef washed down
with pint of ale. In the afternoon L go
up to DuplesS's gymnasium and hit the Dali
for couple of hours OF so. The Dali IS d
common Rugby foot bail suspended from
platform three feet over my head, ana When
l pound away it bounds back. The harder
I hit the quicker it returns, and to keep the
bail going is the hardest work l know OF.
This is splendid exercise for the wind and
the arms. That's about all l do. l sit
around. eat supper and go to bed at 5
O'Clock so as to get plenty of Sleep"
Cardiff is a sturdy Irish lad weighing
about $50 pounds and standing feet 10
inches in his stocking feet. He is very
gentlemanly in appearance and has bright,
Intelligent look rather than the dead
tough" expression of most puglllStS. tie
is ONLY % years old. but isn't green 'un,
as can be judged from
HIS RECORD.
His first fight was with Richard Dunn at
Bloomington, ILL.,. in April, 1884, and Ar.
Dunn was ''done" in just three rounds.
His next was with jim GOOGe, the English
pugilist who was brought from England to
meet Sullivan. The fight took, place at
Peoria and lasted four rounds. when GOode
was knocked out Cardiff next met Ed
Crooks at Battery D in Chicago, in July,
and knocked him out in four rounds. Two
matches of four rounds each with James
McLarney, in which Cardiff was victorious,
followed soon after Cardiff then met Billy
Bradburn out at the Buckingham, in Chi
cago. At the close of the third round Mr..
Bradburn laid in his corner twenty minutes
before he came to. Cardiff next went to
ST Louis and met James King. whose
weight was over 200 pounds, and
made him quit in three rounds.
lie next met Barney Smith at st. Paul.
Poor gloves and a poor referee made the
match draw. Cardiff then went East
with Mccartney and spared in many OF the
leading cities, and bested Kelleher and Gabig
at Philadelphia. All of these fights took
place during 1884, and i'll each one Cardiff
was victorious, never having been knocked
down. In his coming fight with Wilson he
expects to meet hard man, and ii he falls
to win it will not be through lack OF deter
minatiOn or preparation on MS part. Capt.
James II. Dalton arrived from Chicago yes
terday. and under his direction the course
Of training above outlined is to be con-
tinued.