The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-22

question of training, which Is very import
ant from an athletic point of view.
IL a general vote was taken as To who
worked the harder in training, COFbstt ana
Sullivan, or the college football players oil
the East. the pugilss would. IN all prop
ability, get the verdict. and this IS because
the general public have verv slim idea OF
what a college young man Will aeeomrilsh
when be is trying to get fit for particular
game.
The herculean efforts of the prize-ighter
In training would be regarded as very soft
SNAP by a college athlete. In fact. the lat
ter would consider himself too well on II he
was allowed by his trainer or coacAAr 10
while away his time in humping sandDGEs,
toying with Indian clubs. running NJ ease
twenty miles or so In an afternoon ana tneh
sitting down TO a hearty meal with hall
dozen bottles OF ale to wash the porter
houses" down, we know.
This Is, in the rough, the course OF treat
ment that the pugllist receives White
he Is undergoing training, but what
Yale or a Harvard or a Princeton man does
is entirely different, II the words OIL the
famous coacher. MeClung. who visited this
coast recently. are TO be credited.
About ten years ago, when intercollegiate
football began to be popular in this c0un-
try. very little attention was given to
training. AT that time 1t was the custom to
select only those men who seemed peeu-
Harry fitted for a particular liae OF sport.
football player was chosen because be
wss big and strong, and no one cared very
much whether or not lie ate pie and smoked
cigars and drank beer. Nowadays, II Il
Yale athlete In training was seen doing
any of these things his friends would i'm
mediately stamp him as being weed which
should be plucked from the team
As time wore on and contests between
the different colleges increased, and as re-
suit the various athletic organizations were
.aft radt nd IN FIN n a II
letic government, men had 10 train, and
eventually training was brought to a SCI
ence whicD meant to the cubs supremacy
in any of the branches of sport they con-
tested.
AS emulation grew more active, the next
step of the college athletic educators was to
put the athletes through modern course
of callsthenicS, the idea being to Increase
the lung power and to make the Contestants
strong in those parts where they were weak
Those who had charge Of the boys soon
recognized the fact that something else be-
sides local treatment was necessary, in
order to bring out a mans full efficiency Ia
any special braneA-ef athletics
The present system of training Is a de-
vel0pment Of the idea, and on the hYpOthe-
sis that since an increase OF preparatory
work has resulted in better teams In the
past similar increase should have like
result in the future the captain OF a team
keeps piling on the work every year untii
none but the stuTdiest constitution and
most indomitable will can stand the strain,
hence the exciting contests on the football
field now witnessed.
There can be no comparison between the
preliminary work done by the professional
and the collegiaD.
They are OF an entirely different character,
and that of the college man is much more
severe Moreover, the latter is governed
by an unwritten but perfectly understood
code of training laws-a code which is OBJ
served in all of the largest colleges in this
country.
The preparation of the pugiiSt, OIL the
other hand, depends altogetheF on the indi-
vidual ideas of the trainer, who, II he Is
person OF judgment, will carefully deter
mine just what sort of treatment his charge
requires, and act accordingly.
While the change In the method of train
ing college athletes has taken place rapidly,
it will be noticed that there is scarcely any
perceptiDle difference 10 the manner of hand
day from that observed a generation age.
When Sayers and Heenan trained for
their fight over thirty years ago they did
about the same thing Corbett and Sullivan
were required to do.
The former was slightly overturned for
his go" at Sullivan al New Orleans. This
fact was scarcely apparent during the bat
tie, however, for Sullivan was suffering
from an entirely different complaint.
Every enc is familiar with the manner in
which they trained. but there are compare
lively few people who know what co.,
lege athlete must endure for a precariOus
and, in many instances, fancied glory.
III. J. GEARY