The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-14
Sharkey Will Train a Little
To-Day, and He May Attend
Church.
CORBETT WILL TAKE IT EASY
The Sunday Programme of the PugiliSts
Will Comprise a Little Work
and Much Rest.

The programme for James J. Corbett' 8
day now has several regular features and a
few variations. The regular things are
training 20 get into condition, and,
strangely enough, strawberries. The vari-
atoms are the amusements which he seeks
in the evening.
The champion takes breakfast with his
father every morning. Both look forward
to the daily meetings with much pleasure.
1t has been a long time since the world s
champion heavyweight pugilist has sat
in the grateful shade of the paternal roof
tree, especially since he won the honors
that he now wears. Of course Corbett
pere is very proud of Corbett fills, and he
will have the best seat when ''the boy
faces Sharkey in an attempt to put him
out in four rounds before the National
Athletic Club one week from next W ednes-
day night.
The champions daily training prac-
ticalIy begins with the morning meal in
Hayes Valley, as it is down on the regular
programme Of exercises. George Green,
otherwise known TO fame as young Cor
bett, one of his trainers, meets the cham
plon every morning about $3.50 at his
hotel-the st. Nicholas. They take the
car up Hayes street and hearty meal is
leisurely disposed of, interspersed with
plenty of conversation. Green does not
act as the audience at the morning meal,
either. He is right in the middle of it,
the same as Corbett
The champion is passionately fond OF
straw berries - strawberries and cream,
straw berries and sugar or simply straw
berries alone. But he is not permitted to
Qa he nd iI1c.
cious fruit to the fl |, because he is in
training, and is being dieted and restricted
to some extent in what be eats and drinks.
To deceive this Unsuitable appetite for
straw berries Corbett does not begin his
breakfast with them. The cause is that if
he started in on strawberries he is not
likely TO want or have room for anything
else, so the berries come last, and the end
OF the break.as table is redolenu of their
fresh, sweet odor. 1t see ms to permeate
the steak or chops and eggs which come
first and give them sort of a strawberry
flavor. Corbett Is permitted coffee for
breakfast.
After the morning meal is over they take
the cars for the Olympic Athletic Club on
Post street, where Corbett is training. By
that time it is likely to be IL or 11:30
O'Clock, and after climbing into their
trunks, for that is about all they wear, the
champion and Green get leisurely down to
b.
up to considerable active work before the
gymnastics are over.
The exercise concludes about o'clock.
Then the cham pion takes plunge in the
big saltwater tank, and after a good rub
down gets into his clothes, takes his
walking stick and goes out into the
crowded streets. He spends the remainder
of the afternoon at his brothers saloon
chatting with friends, OF takes 9 short ex-
cursion to the Cliff House, or some other
resort.
In the evening he dimes with Mrs. Cor
bett. He has pretty much what he likes
for dinner. Later they 90 to theater or
some other place of amusement. The Cor
bett day closes with supper after the
play, for midnight in great city finds the
champion pretty close to bed when he has
the serious and somewhat uncertain bust
ness of a pu Lilistic encounter before m.
Yesterday he went throu b the u ual
bag-punching and machine exercise before
the usual number of interested spectators.
Green says Corbett is limbering up and
that he got around on his pins and worked
with his arms in better style than he has
done yet since he began to train. The ex-
ercise was not very violent yesterday ow-
ing to q little medicine which the cham
pion took. There is nothing alarming in
the fact that he took pill or two.
The sparring was omitted yesterday.
OcuLUAn2
Young Corbett' took the place of it.
This being Sunday the gymnasium will
be the scene OF a little exercising IN the
forenoon only. The afternoon will be
spent in rest or pleasure. Corbett may 90
10 church, but he had not decided yester-
day what church he would attend.
Thomas Sharkey attracts bigger crowd
of spectators daily while he is in train
ing from 80 to o'clock in the Acme
Club in Oakland. The doors are kept
looked and a guard stands at the head of
the stairs, but they slip in somehow. Elk
preston of opinion among them is to the
effect that the sailor lad is physically well
endowed for the serious contest that he
has undertaken.
Sharkey is working hard and is deter
mined to get into the best possible suape
if diIigent, conscientious training will do
it. He kept a tow | handy yesterday to
wipe away the great beads of perspiratlon.
He played hand bali and punched the bag
with a vigor that excited the admiration
of all beholders. He has a good left, and
If he gets in on the cham Dlon with one OF
the right-hand drives or swings that
stunned tie ball, the champion is likely to
find himself groggy. That Sharkey is
going to try to do just that thing there is
no room to doubt
He is training not to run away, but to
fight, ard it is fighting that the sailor lad
he wants is one or two good cracks at the
cham pion, and if he lands on the cham
pion's body as he expects 10 Sharkey
saws it will be all over with Coroett.
He raised his training somewhat yester-
day by taking a small dumbbell in each
hand and striking out into the air at an
imaginary foe. All the blows were
directed slightly upward as though TO
strike a chin a little higher in the air than
his own. He also took some dumbbell ex-
ercise.
Trainer McMath says Sharkey will
likely attend church this morning. He
will train about an honr in the renoon.
Trainer Needhsm says Sharkey is get
ting into fine shape and that he is feeling
fit to make hard fight.