Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-02-25
SPORTING LETTER.
Jim Hall Training for the Fight
 Of His Life.
His Peculiar Afternoon Exercise
 Cline His Trainer.
NEw YoRK. Feb. 9. 1893.

If eyer a prze fighter trained Q
 though his very life depended upon Ih
 re ult of his efforts, that man is Jin
 Hall, who will fight Bob Fitzsimmon March s, before ths Crescent Athletic
 club of New Orleans. MIny of th
 leading sYorti 2 men of this city an
 vicinity are beJtIrg heavily On Fitz {,
 win, but they are liable to get sadly left for If Hall fights a. faithfully and earn | estly as he rans he will come pret P | near convincing the gay Robert tha he knows more than a little bit abOu the game. Hall IS training a Lake wood
 \. J., and when party of New Yorker dropped down there yesterday he Wa out n the road, as he spe ds fOu hours each morning running and walk
 ing at intervals. He got back about tbt
 mldd of the day and was thorough,
 rubbed down by JOhn Cline who, by tn, way, is working like beaver to make
 winter of Hall. He pays particular at
 tentiOn to Halls stomach, which Is now
 as hard as piece of steel. Each day
 that he ruus hIm down from two to thre.
 minutes are spent in pUnchi lg Hall iu
 the stomach, over the heart agd abOu'
 the ions. At 1 o'clock they dine anC
 the manner in which Hali slows away
 food wOu d cure a regiment of inyalids.
 Cline believes ia letting a man eat to hIs
 hearts content of everything that is
 good for hIm, as he says, 1t gives him
 foundation to stand his training without
 fee ing It's effects. After dinner Hall rests until 3 o'clock before taking hIs afternoon exercise, which consists of Cline jumping on hIs stomach with both feet while Hall has hands and feet on the floor, with bis body curved like a bow. After which they stars in on
 wrestling, boxing. raising weights, work ing on ladders, using the wrist mach inc, and also raising 50-pound dumbbells. by means of harness aud rully line, first with the band secured about IS fore head and then his jaw Next they tbrow the ball from both sides, under their legs and over their heads. His head was then bound up in a tight Tit ting hood, methng on the order of those worn by the white caps. and he skipped the rope over 3500 times with out a single trip, after which he was thoroughly rubbed down, aud at : o'clock ate another hearty meal and spent the remainder of the evening. up tIll 9 o'clock, playing on the piano and singing. He retlres sharp at 9 p. m. every night and 2 ts up just as promptly at 6 q. m., when he takes a short run be- fore breakf St Cline is one of the hardest workers aud most faithful trainers in this country and he has Jim Hall looking like thoroughbred race horse and as hard as rock. The men who have visited Hall at his training quarters will all go stone broke if Fitz- simmons should happen to win the fight, as they are going their bottom dollar on Hall. The battle will doubtless be great one and we'll worth a journey to New Orleans to see.
 As might be expected, the moment Dick Burge set foot on English soil he gave Jack McAuliffe black eye, and he would have blackened the other one if he had not been afraid his people would not stand it. He had to give McAuliffe a little credit of being fighter, so long as Jack held the title of champion of America, consequently the worst Dick could say was that Jack was afraid to fight hun, and squirmed out of battle On account of five pounds, and in that way the chance of fighting for S50,O0O, the largest purse ever offered, was lost. Burge hed very poor memory and failed to rem ombfr anything that reflect ed upon his character, so far as that fa- nous scheme to lay down was concern sd. Mcdonald held Burge down to an