The herald., 1897-03-10
AT CARSON
Both Men Ready and Have Let Up on Heavy
Work

CARSON. New, March 9.-From this
time until the day of the fight Jim Cor
bett will lessen the work he has Deem
going through in preparation for the
contest When he does work it will be
as heavy as anything he has gone
through up to the present time, but he
will take it easy on one day and harder
on the day following. He will alternate
the work in this manner until he has fin
ished his training. This course has been
decided upon by Trainer Charles White,
who is a bit fearful that keeping at one
kind of work too steadily will tend to
make Corbett tire of the work, or rather
tire of the constant repetition of the
same work day after day
'"The way to train a man for a figh.,"
said White, lis to keep him amused If
possible, 10 keep him liking the work.
Now Corbett is so fond of work that If
we Gid not hold him back at times he
would do too much, and might make
himself stale. Jim Is one of those fsl-
lows who always goes into things heart
and soul. and he puts more nervous en-
ergy into his training than any man
l have ever known. He would do so
much If we would allow it that he would
tire of the work. When l say tire DO
not mean that he would sulk and not
care to do anything, but that he might
lose relish for the work. and when a
man has lost that he has begun to 20
back in his training. AT least that is
my experience.
"Corbett is the fastest man on his
feet that I have ever seen" continued
White. II have seen Eitzsimmons in all
his work, and I do not think that he is
as fast on his feet as Corbett, although
Fitzsimmons has a side step that is as
quick as lightning. Anybody who thinks
that FitZsimmons is not fast on his feet
is making large mistake, but at th,
same time he is not as fast as Corbett,
and when il is considered that Corbet;
is in some respects a larger man than
Fitzsimmons it can be judged that Jim
is a pretty clever man in order to De
faster than Fitzsimmons, and that is
Just what he is. He is faster by good
deal. In fact he is just enough faster
to lick Ftz good and plenty"
Corbett took to the road this morning
for the first time since last Friday, and
put in two hours and q half at it. He
started out soon after breakfast in the
company of Jeffries, going in the direc-
ton of Empire. He covered the roads a
the rate of about four miles an hour
and both he and Jeftries estimated that
they had made at least ten miles when
they returned.
I'VE would have made mere than
that" said Jim. but the roads were SO
bad that we could do nothing toward
making any good time l do wish this
eternal mud would dry up and give
man a chance to poke his nose out OF
doors without getting his feet wet. This
is a hard country to train in. although 1t
maybe good for lots of other things.
After his returning run with Jeffries,
h.
where he put in short time playing
with his brother Joe. He then took his
bath and rub down and sat down to
wait for dinner. After this was over he
sat around the place until after 3 o'clock
when he started in on the regular work
of the day. This was not one of the
easy days and Corbett took in work in
a very energetic fashion. He toiled at
his little windlass until his forearms
had lost nearly all their feeling and then
went in for the bag, punching it for over
twenty minutes without a let up. AS
he has done so much OF late, he paid
particular attention to landing left
hooks on the bag and he sent them in
as fast as the bag could swing to meet
them. After this he turned loose on the
bag and hammered 1t almost to death,
keeping both hands going with amazing
speed. Then he hurried away to the
handball court where his four trainers,
Jeffries, McVey Edgren and Woods
were waiting for him. 1t was the same
old program that has been described
again and again, Corbett practicing get
aways and striking in the clinches ASST
duouely. AT times he would change the
order of things and go for his antagonist
with rush which would soon compel
Jeffries or Edgren, as the case might be.
to take the defensive as fast as he pos
sibly could.
Fitzsimmons put in a light day in
honor of the coming of his wife, and did
less work than usual In fact from this
time Fitzsimmons will do less hard work
than he has been doing. His heavy work
is over and he will do nothing but take
enough exercise to keep himself in good
condition and keep up his wind. This
morning he took to the road for time.
covering about eight miles and in the
latter part Of the morning he sprinted