The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-02-24


Well, they go into It to mako money.
Rowell, the great English pedestrian. has
made !. good thing out of walking matches;
SO has Fitzgerald, who wound up 61O miles at
the Madison Square, in May, 1884, and
cleared over $1,000. Albert has mado money
since he began walking, and he will probably
make more before he gets through. The
training depends on the man. Rowen used
to get up early in the morning and spend
most of the day in walking over powders and
craos in a hilly country. He ate whatever
he wanted. Dieting isn't practiced SO much
as it used to be- It is getting to be a pretty
we'll established fact now that whatever the
man wants is good for him.
Generally each man who goes into walk
ing match has booth built alongside of the
track. where he can eat and sleep while the
contest is in progress. Here his trainer hangs
ont. and here is where he dives in to catch
catnap occasionally. Some of them have
great trouble in sleeping, while others get to
sleep before their clothes can be taken OIL.
Some of them sleep while they walk. Strokel,
+he Austrian, who, by the way, is another
fnnny walker, went to sleep Oh tho track
during this match and was run into by an
other ned Strokcl made things lively for
few minutes after this.
Rnt to return to the booths. Some of them
aro models of ncatness. while others ere en-
tremely untidy. When they are neat there
is USUALLY woman in the case. There IS as
much difference in trainers as can be. When
a man comes off the track his trainer will
str;n him and rub him down with a hard
towel. and then to bed After he has slept
an hour or SO he is walked up, and here is
where the trouble begins.
Those who have difficulty in getting down
TO breakfast at the proper time every morn
;no will appreciate the feelings OF a man who
hoe walked several hundred miles, moro or
lcss. and who is pulled out Of bed just whcn
he is in full swing Here the trainer comes
to the front. He humors, he caJoles, no
scolds. ho tights his man. He pulls out his
1ocs and starts him off, Tom Cox, the young
Irish,nan, is one of the hardest meil 10 seai'
after a rap. He will fight like tiger:
When he is asleep hc looks like dead man.
Durin. one OF my visits to the recent match
his friends were holding a bogus wake over
hir:. Fitzgerald, who is another !flshliisl'
is like !, big baby in the hands CT ms trainer
The want Of sleep is what tells Ill tlese wiz ~
;nr contests. Each man had to cover 90
miles in order to get back his entrance zee,
ard IN order to do even this he Woa'd ns.Ve ~
average over three and half miles an nous' :
F;tzperald, in his famous walk IN ie, w. t.'
aged over four miles an hour, a11d .ul - ~
whole six days he got but twenty ~ noua -
sleen. Rowell, who walked oo: hliies, ~
hnt twenty-six hours sleep. Aloef1' - - - n'.
rocent walk in Philadelphia, averaged 1nlse ase
honrs ~ Of sleep in the twenty-four during 'n'
six days. ,o., : man oets
4,.o,,n;, he looks more dead than alive:
' Naturally, during contest like this, unlike NH
.,,a a ,,sr;od M Of training, what man eats has
onod e deal to do with the matter and only .ne
goDa ost oa nourshing foods are taken Albert 1ast
aon1 aoqtbng besss stronger than coffee Rowe' on
5 the contrary, when he was in this tsnnsh coun5''
declared that no man could i've '''''uA