Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-04

defects in condition has made every one
of the puglists anxious TO be the last
man to get here; and it is probable that
unless the Olympic CLUB had hurried
them up not one of them would have
come TO New Orleans until the very day
Of the fight.
The club has had its agents watching
and inspecting them and Is able to re-
port that with two exception, Jack Nc
Auliffe and Jack Sicily, the men are in
better condition than they have entered
q prize ring before; and the two Jacks
are in good condition, but have met
with some setbackS.
HARD TO KEEP THEM DOWN.
The trainining OF pugilist is a diff
cult matter, and by no means pleasant
one TO the man who is going through
this operation. Ii requires scientific
knowledge of anatomy-so as to bring
the proper muscles into play; physlol-
ogy. TO know the value of different ar
ticles OF food; and the best mode Of
treatment, and masterful ability TO be
able TO keep an obstinate and somewhat
ugly tempered man-aS most pugilists
are when training-completely under
control. There are good many fair
trainers in the Uuited States, but it is
doubtful II there are half dozen per-
feet ones. Muldoon won n reputation
for what he did for Sullivan few years
ago. but the science OF training has
made progress since then.
The old style, which consisted in
Z ha ~
~ to death, has gone completely out OF
fashion. Kilrain, when he fought Sui
Ivan at Richburg, was the last man
trained in that way, and he entered the
ring In poor condition for the fight.
Under this kind OF training the pugilist
more frequently than not entered the
ring stale" as the Eng
lish will call it--more or less green and
unhealthy In color, having exhausted
his wind and strength in advance OF
the fight. All this system Is now done
away with, and the training is far more
scientific, but none the less disagree
able.
The pugilists abhor II, and it is very
hard TO get them down to 1t, and they
declare that the purse they win barely
compensates for the discomfOrts they
20 through. IL is no easy matter for a
man ike Jack McAuliffe, who has been
living an easy, pleasant life. to give up
everything, and have TO reduce himself
Of pounds on l65. Jack swears that he
will never train again as long as he
lives and will retire permanently from
the ring after the present fight. He
knows that the era Of big purses Is only
lust opening and there is no profession
which can offer a man like him such
handsome returns as pugilism does; but
he would rather not DO so well and get
away from training.
Sullivan is VIGOROUSLY one OF the
most difficult men in the country to
train. II took all OF MuIdOon's iu-
! fneuce and bullying 70 get him into
condition for the Kilrain fight. Aud
his present trainer, Casey. has had even
more trouble this time. For awhile it
looked as though Sullivan would not
train, and his friends from New York
had 20 90 down TO Long Island and
MEAD with him to get him TO do the
work expected Of him. An appeal 10
his pride ana picture OF COrbett gloat-
| ing over a triumph brought Sullivan 20
time. and ne finally went 10 work with
! his usual vim.
HOW IT Is CONDUCTED.
All the men training for the fights be-
| fore the Olympic have been at 1t two
months or more. a part OF this time