El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-29

back with the rapidity of thought hi
would catch O'Donnell square in the
face as that boxer eagerly followed
him up drawn on by the feints. The
whole affair did not consume a second
and it reminded youth of a train O.
powder after the match had been ap
piled. 1t alone was well worth the
admission fee.
| Five years ago Corbett pressed you
as a man the texture of whose flesh and
muscles was finer than that of any imam
you had ever seen. The difference
was something like that between fine
hardwood and rough. soft pine. You
finest kind of spring steel covered with
silk and that those of the average
fighter were as a chunk of railroad
| iron sewed up in piece of bear skin.
| That impression of Corbett does not
| come to you now with such force. He
has to a certain extent coarsened. His
gain in physical robustness may have a
compromising effect on his nervous
system, which it was said was so high
| ly strung that it hurt him. All this
may be so, but some how or other |
| would rather have the slender, nervous
joyous, boyish Corbett. with the elo-
quent knees, the shifty head and the
flashing fists than the big strong man
with the powerful loins and tired eyes
hand in yawn.
To me it looks as if Corbett needed
training less than rest, complete rest
out in the country, where there was
not theater or postOffice within 200
miles. He appears tired out with the
business he has to attend to. He is
money maker and slave of mammon
to just as great an extent as any man
that ever left Wall street to blow his
brains out.
l know that Corbett in training and
Corbett out of training are as different
as day and night. A couple of months
rest and training would without doubt
work wonders with the big fellow. He
is looking stronger than ever from the
point of view of a cannon ball juggler.
His muscles are more in evidence than
[ have ever seen them in his off season.
His eye is brighter and his step elastic
He looks well. But to save your life
you cannot help admitting the impress
sion that he is not so fast aud that if |
he is be cannot carry his wonderful |
speed as far as he did when he laid the |
pride of Boston low.
Corbett's speed has been the wonder |
of the ring Nothing like it has ever
been seen in heavyweight, and it is
doubtful if his equal in this point was
ever seen at any weight. Then the
perfect condition in which he always
turned up for his fights enabled him to
carry this phenomenal speed over a
long distance.
Corbett cannot carry his speed unless
he is in perfect condition. At least
the distance he carries it will be in
ratio with the condition he may be in.
1t is pretty certain that he has the
speed. Now he has got to have the
condition to carry it if he has got to go
a journey with Fitzsimmons and wants
TO win.
The greater mans speed the finer
condition he should be in, as great
speed requires great effort to sustain
Y ou can take locomotive built to go
sixty miles an hour, and if there is
defect in her you will shake her to |
pieces. a poor boiler will not stand the
pressure: neither will an unsound |
Wheel Everything must be sound to |
larry great speed, Corbett is far faster |
han F'itzsimmons: hence he must, if
lie wants to use his great gift be in
much better condition than his dull
opponent: who can founder
comfortably along in his own ungainly,
azy and deadly effective way. And if &
Mr.. Corbett wants to get into this kind ]
If condition, he will at once quit the n
Dad and go into training which, in his I
ase, should mean rest.-Sheridan, {.
n St. Louis Republic. Jan. 20. |