Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-05-15
PHYSICAL CULTURE
Boxing the Very Finest Kind of Exercise.
How Blaine should Train - About


There is likelihood OF stirring
times in the English ring when Jem
Hall and Joe Choyinsh get on the
other side. As intimated all along, the
Hall FitzSimmOns match is DO match
at all, and there is hardly a doubt that
Hall will seek a go with Ted Pritch-
ard The talk Of Ted's coming here to
take Halls place against Fitzsimmons
is not thought TO amount to much. The
Englishmed seem averse TO sea trips,
and no doubt he will prefer to fight 10
his country for a much lesS-sized purse
than he can get here. No doubt Char
ley Mitchell, in his desire to strengthen
himself with the Olympic Club, will do
all he can to prevent match between
Hall and Pritchard, but my private in
formation Is that Mitchell hasn't much
OF pull with the sporting magnates
OF London, and Pritchard, OF all men,
has little reason TO defer to his wishes.
Joe Choyinski said, shortly before
starting on the Germanic, that he was
willing TO go against any OF the big men
on the other side. | have no doubt that
Joe would giya a pretty good account OF
himself with Jem Smith or Joe WannOp,
but l don't think he will do to pit againt
Charley Mitchell or Paddy Slavin. To
my mind Hall Is the stiffeSt man of the
pair and that is the opinion OF 90 per
cent. OF those who saw Jim aud Joe In
their opening bout at Niblo's Garden.
In that encounter Hall had ChOyinski
very grOggy, and il looked as though he
could put him out in another round.
BY the by, friend of mine informs me
that ChOyinski told him last week that
he could put Fitzsimmous to sleep in
four rounds. II this is so, what chance
would Fitz have with Hall at catch
weights.
The New York sun last Tuesday led
it's first page with an account, ever half
a column long, OF Governor Flower in
Training. the opening paragraph read
ing as follows: Governor Flower is
rapidly developing into scientific
boxer. He has trained down twenty
two pounds, from 240 to 21S, and peo-
pie who knew him as he was during the
campaign and when he came to Albany
are all wondering at the change. A
man comes around every evening to the
Executive Mansion after dinner and
boxes with the Governor for an hour,
and rubS him down afterward. Besides
that the Governor has other gymnaStlc
exercises, which have hardened his
muscles and made him walk around
straight, with his shoulders square and
head up in the air, and his lungs filled
with fire air, which is an Albany spe-
cialty." After telling Of the for
mer life of the Governor, Of his
bilious tendency and his fondness
for cigars, his method Of training is thus
described; He gets up at 1880 in the
morning aud makes = simple breakfast
Of a little fruit, beefsteak and coffee.
One morning he takes beefSteak and an
other Shad. He sits down awhile after
breakfast and reads the newspaper.
Then be walks half mile to the Capt.
toll aud works at the bills until o'clock.
At o'clock he goes back to the Execu-
tive Mansion and eats a little brOiled
chicken or some other kind OF bird
and bit OF toast. Then he walks again
TO the Capitol and remains there until 8
or o'clock. when he walks back to the
Executive Mansion and makes q dinner
on soup, roast beef and few vegetables
with no desert or pastry of any kind,
He drinks nOthin but water and coffee al
his breakfast, aud he is reducing the
coffee After dinner he reads for
awhile, and az about 9 o'clock he boxes.
In his boxing he makes speciality OF
the straight right and straight left,
with the result that the muscles OF his
arms have become hard and his
shoulders are getting more square and
firm. After boxing for an hour he is
rubbed down and goes to bed. Besides
boxing, he works dumb-bellS Of light
weight through the regular dumb-bell
exercise, and he leans against door or
bar and pushes himself back several
times in order TO expand his chest"
The article further ftateS that Gov
ernor Flower says that as the result of
his training he never felt better IN his
life. l believe him.
The importance Of physical culture Is
daily becoming more apparent The re-
suit OF the athletic exercises OF our col
legianS is the production OF remarkably
fine looking young men, and am firmly
OF the opinion that IL would be a good
thing for themselves and for the cOun-
try, too, II our leading statesmen would
devote twO-thirds OF the money they
now pay to medical doctors for pills and
potions, TO good intelligent trainers,
who would teach them how to live
properly and keep them from getting
i'm. Think the right kind Of trainer
could help Jim Blaine wonderfully.
The American Premier is as keen
as brler and as smart as a
whip, but is the victim OF not unusual
form OF hypOehondria- His liver
is sluggish, II not torpid. His diges-
ton is bad. and he tasks 1t badly at
times. Any physician will tell you that
when a mans feed is improperly digest
ed his brain suffers as we'll as his StOm-
ach. Blaine can walk ten miles day
and not benefit his liver much. What
he needs, more tqan anything else, is
care In the kind aud amount OF his
meat and drink and lively company In
his non-busineSS hours. II, instead OF
walking, he would take up horseback
riding in company with friend whose
mind habitually looks on the bright
side Of things, the change would De
most beneficial. he should sink the
shop the instant he leaves the State
and a dozen hearty laughs
a day would do him more good than as
many doses Of calomeL AT his age, and
with the habits Of life he has had, be
cannot stand violent exercise, but mild
canter of five miles on staid
horse. morning and evening, topped on
bv good rough toweling, then the
hand rubbing In OF q gill OF common
whisky by a trainer who knows tnat
"the laying on Of hands" OF scripture
means the rubbing BY hands oy good