The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-04
READY FOR THE BIG MILL.
ugv STORY OF TIE PRELIMINARY
WORK OF THE SLUGGERs.

e.,a,tific Knowledge Of Anatomy
nd Physiology Necessary to Make
Good Trainer-Ovsr Training TO Be
,.o;ded-The Sluggers Late IN Ar
irving.
Nrw ORLEANS, Sept. a-The big pugilis-
A.. carnival of the Olympic Club begins to-
GROW night, and for three days New Or
1a.,s will give itself over wholly and solely
- nugilism. By Wednesday the great
+orrneneut at New Orleans-a variation on
.hot az Ashby de Ia Zouche, which Sir
T.I,ar Scott so poetically and rapturously
S...ribes. but the same IN principle-will
- decided and the vfctors crowned
and rewarded. The heavy, light
~ feather weight championships Of
America will be settled, and we will
snow. in P. r. parlance, who are "the best
-rsnn in America; and some millions Of dol
las which enthusiasts in 1.-THE manly art Of
,osdefensen have wagered on their respect
Ivs favorites, will have changed hands. 1t
vii be determined, also, whether it is posi-
ble TO make the prize ring as refined and
rasDsctsble as the Olympic Club thinks it
can be made, for dozen other clubs are
.wsitinR the experiment here, and will fol-
low in the footsteps of the Olympics If the
Aybts 20 of well, without scandal of any
hind and leave handsome money balance
behind.
The OlympIcs have awakened to the fact
Abst their pugilistic carnival is Of greater
magnitude than they Imagined. They
thought they would have everything In or
der IN q month; but they have got through
with great difficulty.
To put their arena in condition for the
hebt cost more and took longer time than
tbsv expected. The roof and the galleries
had to be rebuilt; and this rough work was
not completed until Wednesday. The
carpenters are still engaged in the
arena, arranging the etorations within,
and 1t will be close Craze to get every
thing in 1rst-class order by tomorrow.
The electric clock which was to ring out the
seconds, to call the pugilists to their rounds
and announce when one of them was
Knocked out could not be completed in time,
and the club will have to depend on the old
style electric gong, which has frequently
given rise to confusion in the past.
All the rest OF the programme, however,
will be fully carried out. The club has
some rs, 900 tickets yet to dispose of, and
b
and tomorrow, no less than five ticket
Offices have been opened in central Iocali-
ties in the city. For the convenience OF the
visiting journalists, who are already here
70 the number Of a couple of hundred, with
probably as many more to arrive In the
next two days, two new bureaus have been
established, where all the information the
club possesses about the pugilists, their
location, condition, standing, etc., Is
L
lished O third news bureau of their own in
the rotunda of the ST. Charles hotel, where
they oongregate in the afternoon and talk
prize ring and nothing else. News, gossip,
Scandal-nothing escapes them.
1t is the presence of 80 many newspaper
men In New Orleans which has made the
pugllists hesitate about coming here In
advance of the fight. Never
have they been 80 late in
arriving. McAuliffe and Sicily will not
come over until tomorrow, and MoAulife
fights the same evening. Corbett arranged
TO arrive Tuesday morning, but the club
has begged him to reach here a day earlier,
as there is big crowd with him who will
be prevented from attending the Myers
McAulitfe fight tomorrow night if the train
waits until Tuesday.
Ia former affairs the pugilists have al
ways been on hand week or 30 in ad-
vance of their appearance in the ring, 60
survey the field and accustom themselves
to the change in climate, and the Olympic
Club has urged this early arrival because It
enabled the fighting committee" to see the
men and learn whether they were "ft" aud
good condition. Sullivan, however who
has fought here twice before, once in sum-
mer, set the example Of not coming early.
He ridicules the idea of scclimat zation,
and thinks pugilist who comes down here
and fights at once is in better condition
than one who trains here-not so Likely to
be cut Of order. All ne wants ia couple
OF days to get over the fatigue of railroad
travel.
Formerly some little inoonvenience was
snnered from the pugilists picking up
weight on their way down here After a
man has trained down it is astonishing how
everything goes to fat the moment he stops
his training. To days OF rest will easily
ADJ five pounds. to his weiRht-and
these five pounds are just 80 much handi-
cap to him in the ring. This difficulty,
however, has been obviated by the
nttlng up. OF training quarters" on the
cars Sullivan, Corbstt aud Myers are pro-
Vaed with everything they need on their
Nlp mere. Their private coashea on special
prlzs fight trains are as comfortable and
grand as any railroad magnate In the ooun-
uy can boast Of. They have their bath
looms reception rooms, their gymnasiums
u'ted up with every appliance for training,
30 mat when they step from the cars they
VIII Dc In perfect condition to enter the ring
at once.
., Is probable that the pugilists stay away
ron here, Notwithstanding the Olympic
Sluos request to the contrary, 80 as to
escape the oorros uondents aud the excessive
auG somewhat oppressive adulation of the
, moo, From the day the pugilist arrives
9 9uu! the fight comes Off he is a hero
decidedly too mnch of a hero. When Sulli-
va Nau was here before for the Kilrain fight,
SNIf was night and day, q crowd OF from
LOgV TO 400 in front of his boarding house
y. a. haInpert street, 50 obstructiuR passage
suaV the police had to interfere and fire.
Sueaty dlspsrse them. Il was impossible
a aol am TO take walk or an airing in the
o,sSulng. he could escape the mob only by
lung from place to place in carriage, and
SSsen then the ganlins ran alongside the
HOTses with 'hurrahs for Sullivan"
~ possible that the pug1list likes this
aIlAif aVlon at first, but 10 soon grows Cd
p'oSSiVe moreover the temptations of the
Ivy aud OF friends and enthusiasts is SO
saeAs Vhat the trainer has to keep strict
s "aycu over his pupil lest be fall from grace
~ ,ue last moment. Finally, the advantage
zen MS antagonist to study his weak points
~ ueIects In condition has made every one
,,ot 1us Pugliists anxious to be the last man to
SI nere and 1t is probable that unless the
~ ttLuPlo Club had hurried them up not one
~ sueh would have come to New Orleans
N' ~, she very day of the fight.
, Ane club has had its a0enta Watching and