The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16

mink OF would BE- 20 20 to Hot Springs.
Ark. and lie around there ana boiI nv
I self out IN the hot mud for about fgso
months BY that time my weight would
| be down all wight bat ] wouldn't be ready
20 . tssn.l. say ! wouldn't last little bit.
I Ailer had gone through that. I'd have
| TO go 10 C0orayio. or some other high
! ground. where the air is first-class and
/ ger "A horse and gun and ride and climb
/ the mountains and hunt and fish for two
or three months. That would make me
! tough and give me heart and power to
| stay But ] wouldn't be ready TO fight
| -, nave 70 give up eight or ten
| weeks TO hard walking. light dumbbell
eNerclse, Weight pulling. skipping the
| rope, etc But shall never do Ii again.
"One. great mistake fighters are apt to
| make Is 10 reduce too fast. and another
IS 70 mink that when they have got them
| serves INTO outside shape and their extra
! weight Is gone they are all right Well
1 say, they re all wrong. see? When man
lats up. ne gets fat on the inside, as well
/ - on the outside, and that makes him
] drink more and swells him up and that
/ ana the Tat inside ruins him for fighting.
/ " ne reduces after that. some of the in
| side rat stays and he can't last Why
| when fought Corbett, l worked sixty-five
| pounds of in fifty-iive days, and Of course
| ! wasn't In good condition. nor anything
4 IKE IT, while CQrbett was thoroughly fit.
| Ally measurements MOVE Well. 1 wear a
/ Zl-inch collar, my chest is as inches stom-
aenn a hips, 40. thigh 26, calf of the leg
| "Corbett2 Oh, he's well enough. but he
/ hasn't got a brain as big as that" and
1 A
4 ing, but he's been well steored by Brady.
| his manager, who IS a mighty level-headed
| fellow, though ] don't speak to him.
| knew Brady when he was a newspaper
| butcher on the railroad trains. He knows
| his business, see? But, say Corbett don't
know little. II he does. why did he make
| such fool OF himself the other day in
/ his talk about Fitzsimmons2 Well Cor.
| bett ought TO win the Fitzsimmons fight
| WIN it ever come of. Wen. that's another
| story.
/ The best young fighters to-day? Well.
/ ln'his class ! should say the Mysterious"
| smith IS as good as any now before the
/ public. In his class Maher has as good a
| chance as any of the rising pugiists, 7
| should say. He weighs from rs 10 176 Is
| i've feet eleven and a half inches tall, and
| has good reach and youth and first-class
| health in his favor.
| Say" said Sullivan. Tehemently. some
| dQlks may think its snap to fight a prize
| usht, Out II a,nt. You have to spend
| months Of torture getting ready for il,
/ your friends put up lot Of money on YOU.
| ana you have to run the risk of losing their
| friendship as well as your reputation and
/ your power to make money. II YOU do lose
| you amt In il any more. Even II YOU win
| you don't get much. Why, my bit after l
| whipped Paddy Ryan was only $500, in
| Guiding everything. No, no; It amt the
hShting that brings the money only I'm the
/ way OF reputation, so that folks will pay
/ 70 see you do exhibition work. suppose
| have earned about 81 Co., 900, all told though
| l dont know the figures exactly and, say,
| wish mad some of Il left now. Well
| most OF that | won in exhibition work OF
| one sort or another. That includes my
| dramatic work and all.
| How did my money go? Wen, various
! ways and tho eX-champion laughed saw
| agely, drank half bottle Of mineral wa
/ ter and relghted his badly chewed cigar
| a spent 2tV0 hitting and stocking up my
| washington street saloon here in Boston.
| II l hadn't been foolish, I'd have that
place now. Why l might had anything |
| wanted in this town. Some of the best men
/ IN Boston have backed me. / might have
! gone to Congress all right, as everybody
| knows, and was pretty well stuck on do
| ing it, too, one while But you know, when
| ] came TO think II all out and to realize
| that congressman gets only 5000 bones a
| boxing, why l couldn't see any good going
| to washington. But / have sometimps
sition.
| "Acting2 Well l like stage life first rate.
| put, say, to be good actor, YOU must be-
| gin young, and have the natural ability,
| just as 1t was with me boxing. The trou-
| Die with our American people is they don't
want to wait, and so they so on the stage
| and try big parts right away, and that's
why i!Xy we have so many bum actors.
| We'll now when | went on the stage
| didn't try to be anybody but John L. Sui
| Ivan. didn't copy nobody. just said my
lines and went through the business of my
| part. and that's all there was to it.
| wasn't any more nervous the first night
| went on than am noYd see? But l did
| hands. l didn't know What to do with
| them. No bother when l was talking. but
| when had to stand around and hear the
/ others talk my hands were in my way, amt
| they used to get IN my pockets. Well. 1
| told a professional friend of mine named
| Scott Marble about 1t. He asked me hadn' t
| / heard about furniture actors l never
had, but Scott Marble put me on at once
| Say, he says, it's like this. Now you
| stand still like a Stoughton bottle, while
/ the others talk, don't you. Well, you can fix
| everything all right by leaning on the
hna off aha ~ oh h.. ~
| ing up to picture on the wall and looking
! at it like YOU was the art critic of a news
paper or taking the corner of the table
cloth in YOUR thumb and forefnger ana
| feeling of it to sec how fine 1t is.
/ We'll, that was a great scheme II
| orked, and l didn't have any more trou-
| bile. But l don't expect to act much
more. ] don't want to do anything that
| means travel. I've been in two or thr &c
railroad accidents; once when l was so
ing to Australia the ship Mariposa ran
on a rock sixty miles from Auckland, and
when l was coming to Boston from Eu-
rope on the Catalonia we ran into fright
full storm and We're delayed for days. No
sir; | don't want to travel any more
What l want, as / told you, is a nice
little quiet hotel of my own where l can
be comfortable, ana get as fat as l want
to- and that I'm going to have.
Yes" and the corrugated brow smooth.
ed out and the thick lips relaxed into g
smile y have met good many big mer
in my time, and got to know them we'll
There was Roscoe Conklng, for instance
| When mad my place at fffty-ninth street
| and Seventh avenue, near Central park
about six months before the old man tooa
| sick and died from exposure during he
bli5aeard. he used to come in and see ms
quite often. He was quite boxer himself
for statesman. He was a mighty gooC
adviser, too, | tell you, and he gave IN,
many good points.
Il knew James G. Blaine, too and Xix aC
him, but he wasn't so easy to get at a.
Conkling; at least, not for me- though
know some people say different.
u met the Prince of Wales in Lordon
as Everybody knows, and liked him, too
Z He's a real decent chap, considering ev
erything."
, Speaking of his current theatrical per
: formances, John L. said he went into tn,
! venture because he was broke, and that in
that way he could get dollar or two
I which was much better than TO be kicked
2 down stairs.
Il don't have to so on but a few minute.
each performance, and I'll probably max,
$1,000 or 5000 OUT of the scheme, and ther
= l can decide what to do next / have some
? times thought of taking a few vounf
$ swells to train, as Muldoon does but I'm
= afraid couldn't do it. One thing I'm goint
to do pretty soon, and that is to learn how
| | to ride bicycle l was never on one o.
: the pesky things, but it looks easy. Al
! you've got to do is to keep that front whee
z straight and work your legs up and down