The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-09-22

though he made little attempt TO send
it home. Sullivan was beaten down
with heavy rights and let's, falling to
the ground He attempted to rise and
fight, but nature gave way and he fell
and was counted out and Corbett was
proclaimed champion of America by
Referee Duffy.
The ovation that Corbett received
was something tremendous and he
walked around the ring greeting and
hugging his friends. Sullivan made a
speech in the center of the ring say
ing he was glad an American got the
championship. He had fought once
too often in the ring.
TRAINING PUGILlsTS.
Believing the following particulars
as 10 the manner and methods of
training will be Of interest to those
who are concerned about such matter,
we publish the following:
The training of a pugilist is a diff
cult matter, and by no means pleas
ant one to the man who is going
through this operation. 1t requires
scientific knowledge Of anatomy-so
as to bring the proper muscles into
play; physiology, to know the value
Of different articles of food; and the
best mode Of treatment, and a master
full ability to be able to keep an OBJ
stinate and somewhat ugly tempered
man--as most pugilists are when in
training-completely under control
There are a good many fair trainers
in the United States, but it is doubtful
if there are half a dozen perfect ones.
Muldoon won a reputation for what
he did for Sullivan a few years ago,
but the science of training has made
progress since then.
The old style, which consists in
working and starving the pugilist near
ly to death, has gone completely out
of fashion, kilrain when he fought
Sullivan at Richburg, was the last
man trained in that way, and he en-
tered the ring in poor condition for
the fight. Under this kind of train
ing men frequently entered the ring
overtrained- "stale," as the English
well call it-more or less green and
unhealthy in color, having exhau sted
their wind and strength in advan ce Of
the fight. All this system is now
done away with and the training is
far more scientific, but none the less
disagreeable.
The pugilists abhor it, and it is
very hard to get them down to it,
and they declare tina, the purse they
win barely compensates for the discom
forts they go through. 1t is no easy
matter for man like Jack McAuliffe,
who has been living an easy pleasant
life, to give up every thing and have
to reduce himself twenty seven pounds
on I65. Jack swears tina, he will
never train again as long as he lives
and will retire permanently from the
ring. He knows that the era of big
purses is only just opening, and that
there is no profession that could offer
a man like him such handsome re-
turns as pugilism does, but he would
rather not do SO we'll and retire from
training.
Sullivan is VIGOROUSLY one of the
most difficult men in the country to
train. 1t took all of Muldoon' inhu-
ence and bullying to get him into
condition for the kllrain fight, and
his present trainer, easy, has had even
more trouble this last time. For a
while it looked as if Sullivan would
not train, and his friends from New
York had to go down to Long Island
and plead with him to get him to do
the work expected of him. An ap-
peal to his pride and picture of Cor
bctt gloating over triumph brought
Sullivan to time and he finally went
to work with his usual vim.
All the men training for the fights
before the Olympic have been at it
two months or more. A part of this
time has been only light training,
but the last month. The pugilists
must give up all liquors even to ale
hard undertaking for Sullivan, and
even McAuliffe, his bill of fare is
still more restricted. Even the amount
Of water he drinks is limited, for
nothing adds more to weight with less
solidity than water, and scarcity of
water in warm weather, such as we
have been having is not agreeable
His bread is stale, his tea or coffee
weak and cold and beeftea constitutes
the Chief article of diet He is al
lowed one fairly good meal a day,
but only of light and easily digested
food, and he is required to get up hun
cry from the table. If there is any
difficulty in his getting down to weight
as 1t was in the case of Sullivan and
McAuliffe, his bill of fare is still more
restricted, and while he is not starved
he is generally hungry. 1t is scarce
ly to be wondered at that the pugilists
are usually in SO ugly a mood from
the moment they begin training
There is good deal of badgering and
hard treatment about it.
The dieting part, however, is only
one feature of the preparatlon--is,
indeed, not the training proper. 1t
is to the hard work that he has to do
that Sullivan objects. He must get
up early in the morning and take an
eight or ten mile walk, no matter how
hot 1t may be, or how strong the sun
is shining. The latter part Of this
expedition is taken in hard run,
and as the pugilist is heavily clad in
sweaters and in Sullivans case had
lead soles to his shoes-he is in a mag
nlticent perspratlon by the time he
reaches home. There he is slowed all
glowing and sweating, between blank