Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-08
JOHN LIS TRAINING.
Programme of Work That the Pugil-
ist Daily Goes Through.
HE Is In GOOD CONDITION.
Baseball bagnates Dissatisfied About the
Twelve Club Plan.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS OF TIE DAl
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcHl
LONG BRANCH, Aug. 7.-As there have
been so many conflicting reports about John
L. Sullivan's condition in training q we'll
known authority on sporting matters visited
here to-day and sends out the following
account of his visit:
Ne reports as to the big fellows good
condition that have been received have
been overdrawn. He looks to be in great
form. and, barring badly blistered heel,
he is The greatest source of wonder to
those who have seen him within the last
few days is what has become of the
corporation" which was SO noticeable
even when he left for Bay Head. It's
gone; that's certain-tbat is, the greater
portion of it.
Another favorable condition about the
big Bostonian is the appearance of his skin.
Except where the sun has turned him brown
his cuticle is of a light pink, clear and glow
ing.
We have all been told of what Sullivan
eats, and as the menu varies but little it is
scarcely worth while celebrating on that
point. Weak tea, chops, steak, stale bread
and very few vegetables comprise his bill
of fare. The breakfast hour is o'clock,
two hours after he to.ses off the bedcovers
and stretches himself into wakefulness.
Lots of Very Rough walking
Those two hours are spent In walking
walking over the rough but picturesque
Shinnecock Hills, accompanied by Casey
and Ashton: The party does about 10 miles
before breakfast. proceeding which, as an
appetizer, beats cocktails all hollow. The
route is gen orally to the lighthouse and re-
turn, and on the way, if you are enough of
a pedestrian to accompany him, the big
fellow will point out the various points of
interest to you, tell you who lives in that
pretty little cottage over there, or that
Austin Corbin owns most of the land here
abouts
The blistered heel interfered somewhat
with the walks yesterday, however John
has been bothered with them almost ever
since he began walking, but hitherto they
have been trifing. The one on his left foot
they always come on the same foot-now,
however, is worse than the rest. 1t is an
inch square and the foot is raw and swol-
len. 1t is painful, too, but despite that he
took his walk Tuesday morning.
He started away with a decided limp,
like spawned horse, 'as he put 1t but the
limp soon wore away, and ere long he and
Ashton were striding along at a brisk clip.
John L. has had hard luck with that foot;
not long ago mosquito bite was rubbed
and irritated until it developed into boil,
and now hardly has that gone when an un-
comfortable blister comes.
Bag punching follows the morning meal,
and here is where the big fellow reduces
weight. As he plays careless tattoo upon
the leather sphere the perspiration streams
off in chunks. For about 80 minutes, gen.
orally, he doesn't give the bag seconds
rest, now hitting it series of quick, light
taps and then giving it such powerful
smash as to almost send it crashing through
the ceiling. If Corbett ever gets one of
those on the point of the jaw, well-hut
Corbett saws he won't get one on the jaw or
anywhere else. 'His right hand might as
we'll be cut off as far as landing on me is
concerned" says Jim.
John L. Wonderful Skipper.
Rope-skipping Is one of Sulliyan's favor
ite pastimes and he can give cards and
spades to all the soubrettes and serio-conlics
in the profession at that amueement. He
went it $40 times the other day without
slip or pause, now and then VARYING his
step from both feet together to sort of Jig
movement This exercise is for the legs
Sullivan is said to have small legs His
lower limbs taper more than Corbett's and
look smaller below the knee. At the hip
they appear larger.
While Sullivan is bag-pounding and rope
dancing in the barn back OF Canoe Place
Inn, people from the country around, and
city people who come on yachts to see him,
crowd in on him, blocking up the door and
keeping out the air, but he doesn't mind it;
he says it helps him to perspire more freely.
Sullivan's mode of entrance and exit to the
barn is by means of an iron ladder, which
he skips up and down like sailor
After he has been soused with several
buckets of water, been rubbed down, an
ointed with witch hazel, fed and told few
stories-for John l.. is no mean raconteur-
he takes another jaunt cross-country, and on
his return tosses huge ball called a medi-
cine ball. probably because medicine is su-
perhuous when it is used. This latter in
strument is leather-covered sphere weigh
ing several pounds and about foot through.
Sullivan handles it as if it were a tennis
ball, throwing it overland, between his legs,
alternating with each hand separately and
then with both, and in all imaginable ways
Another rundown and it is supper time.
After sufficient time has elapsed the party
puts down to Peconic Bay in a rowboat, and
John L. takes his daily plunge. This is one
of the things he lives for He is an ex-
cellent swimmer and can claim undisputed
superiority over his rival in that respect.
BY o'clock it is as quiet about the quaint
old Long Island tavern as it is at A. M. in
most places, and by $50 the lights are all
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