The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-03

go 10 bed about O'Clock at night and get up
at 6 or z O'Clock in the morning. l say no.
go to bed when l feel like it and get up when
become sick and tired of the bed tlaughter[ and
not before. Then l feel like work"
A,question from the audience made Corbett
smile. Well" he said, Gas rule they don't
give you anything to drink. Now, drink
what like. claim q man who works from
morning until night is entitled to do anything
he wants to do or thinks he needs. He ought to
feel what is doing him good"
GAS for myself, one morning about three days
before my fight with Mitchell got up and did
not feel a bit like working. said to my trainer
Bill CHATS Billy Delaney, Bill, have been
working too hard and feel bit stale and slow
He said, Yes, Jim, you have been working
pretty hard So ! said guess won't work to-
day, but tonight I'll booze little. Laughter
and applausel After dinner, late in the even
ing, said to servant, Bring in a quart OF
champagne
They held up their hands in holy horror and
said, What on earth do you mean, Jim? l
said, Never mind; bring me a quart of cham
payne and bring, it quick [Laughterl The
servant brought the champagne and drank it
all. Everybody said, ooh, he'll lose the fight,
sure, now and they were distressed to death.
Then, to cap it all, about O'Clock l ordered
another pint and drank that. Then 1 went TO
bed. That was two days before the fight /
woke up the next morning and felt better than
ever did in my life. felt just like working
felt like sweating it all out. And 1 was never
in better trim in my life than on the day I
fought Mitchell.
"When l am training get up in the morning
and have big plate OF apple sauce, some oat-
meal, eggs, chops, tea and dry toast. Then |
rest about an hour, and next take some very
light exercise, probably only with the pulley
welght-Just little arm work. For lunch |
have bite of cold roast beef some cold pota-
toes and possibly bottle of beer, for when a
fellow is working they get kind of feverish in
side. During the afternoon take some pretty
stiff exercise; IN fact, get down TO hard work,
punching the bag, sparring, running, etc. Late
in the evening l eat dinner, after good rub
down with alcohol and short rest. For this
meal have about the same menu as the aver
age hard-working human sits down to-a plate
OF soup, roast beef, few vegetables and now
and then, plate of rice or bread pudding. Oc-
casionally / smoke Il cigar after dinner, and
though don't believe in it, still don't think
smoking in moderation does me any harm.
Sometimes at night, about / O'clock, Il have a
small bottle of champagne and wafer cracker.
I think this helps me to sleep. Now, l don't
want you TO think that am q wine-drinker or
a high liver"
Corbett said that most of his hard fights took
place when he was an amateur. But" he
added, "the hardest of my fights believe, was
with Joe Choynski. fought Peter Jackson for
four hours. | was not hit much in this match,
and neither was he. Both of us were scientific,
and it was more matter OF endurance than
anything else. The police finally stopped the
fight at the end of sixty-one rounds. Well, we
won't talk about who had the best of it, but
Jackson fell on his way to the dressing room.
At the end of that mill my arms were very
tired, but my legs were as much rested as they
are now"
The next question asked was what the cham
pion considered the most important factor in a
fight.
''Speed is the thing" was the reply. "You can
take man of average physique and muscle
and let him acquire speed and he will give YOU
as much as you want in the way of a fight |
get my speed in punching the bag with nv
arms and in sparring with my trainer or some
one else for my legs. In sparring tell my
companion to try his best to knock my head of,
and then l try to keep out of the way of his
blows. l punched the bag for forty-six minutes
one day just as some of you have seen me
punch it at the theater"
Mr.. Corbett said football as q sport was
"great," and was warmly applauded. An all
round football-player was necessarily pretty
good athlete, but Mr.. Corbett intimated that
ootball-playing was rougher and more danger
Gus than prize-fghttng. He liked it, though,
because 1t was rough and rugged. 1t made a
man out of fellow.
EDO you expect to fight Jackson?" came the
question from the audience, and everybody
waited eagerly for the answer Mr.. Corbett
smiled and drew up his magnificent frame in a
scarcely perceptible but very significant man.
ner. Then he became serious and said with an
air of conviction:
"No. l don't think Jackson will fight me-
He had one opportunity to whip me and did
not, and then he had the chance to fight me
again, which he failed to accept, so | think
there will be no fight. | am very well satisfied
with my record. have been making money
and have saved it, and after my coming fight
with Fitzsimmons expect to retire from the
ring -