St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
LANES FAULKNER,


have trained hard all this week and feel
like fighting cock. How do l train?
Well, l go to bed early in the first place
and get good sleep. Then l get up at
O'Clock and take a two mile walk before
breakfast. After an hour or so rest l run
and trot five miles, take cold shower bath.
and am rubbed down good and hard; then l
swing clubs and dumb-bells. After dinner l
walk six or seven miles and then rest
After supper l take another walk. To my
mind good outdoor exercise is the best
thing to put man in good trim. You see,
l am fully developed, and l only need such
exercise as is necessary to bring my muscles
up to the proper tension and strengthen my
wind. commenced training young, in
1871. when l was but 16 years DID, and for
a number of years did nothing but train
constantly. You see it is different in En-
gland. AS soon as you show that you have
capability as runner, fighter or wrestler,
some bOokmaker is sure to take you up. He
will give you trainer, and like as not
send you off to some little town in the
country, where you will train for six months
or more perhaps. Then he will give you
what they call trial horse That is, he
will have you fight or wrestle as the case
may be, on the quiet. with some
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is in you. If you make good
showing he will back you in match, and
will bet his money on you on the side. You
see the boekmakers bet there on sporting
events just as you do here on horse racing.
If the match 1 had with the Jap the other
night had taken place in England you would
have seen the bookmakers standing upon
chairs all over the house, offering bets as to
who would win this or that fail. How did
| learn that could wrestle? Well, as l
said, when l was 10 years old I went into
Turkish bath house at Manchester, En-
gland. where 1 was born and raised. Alf
Greenfield, the pugilist who fought Burke
at Chicago last year, was with ME. One
of the attendants was big fellow who
weighed over 200 pounds. He thought he
was good deal of wrestler, so after we
had stripped, the proprietor. for joke, said
to this fellow, Here are two wrestlers,
which will you try first Greenfield"
was a big IMAM so the attendant said,
Il try the little fellow meaning me. For
the fun of the thing, l commenced to
wrestIe him. Pretty soon l got sort of
hp-lock on him, and although he
weighed 200 pounds, / threw him over my
head into the air. He came down head
first into swimming bath. This raised a
Dig lduSn dG Ills 6ApclloO, VI COuioO, duu
Greenfield told me that l ought to learn to
wrestIe, and got Joe Acton to teach and
train me. The first mate h had was with
Moses Hyam, which l won. We were
backed for e5 apiece, but great deal of
money was bet on the outside. l kept
right on training and wrestling and won
eighteen matches, and the championship of
England for light-weights at catch-as-catch-
can, which held for four years while
was there, and still hold, for that mat
ter, as l have never been de-
feated by man in my class
at catch-aS-catch-ca I came to this
country in 1883 and first defeated Sam
Barry at Oak Point, n. Y, and then won
the tournament gotten up by Joe Acton at
Philadelphia, in which defeated four men.
have had about fifteen matches in Amer
lea with first-class wrestlers and any num-
Der with men don't count as amounting
to much. Bibby and Tom Cannon de-
feated me in Gr3co-Roman and Rabshaw
at collar and elbow. They were all
heavier than l and were all out ofmy class.
I wrestled with Evan Lewis at his homein