The record-union., 1897-03-10
Will Work Hard One Day and Rest on
the Next.
Fitzsimmons Will Also Do Less Work
Than He Has Done in the Past
Dan Stuart Able to be About on
the StreetS-The Fighting Arena
Practically Finished.

CARSON, March 9.-From this time
until the time Of the fight Jim Corbett
will lessen what he has been going
through in preparation for the contest.
| When he does work, it VIII 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
Gay following. He will alternate the
work in this manner until he has fin
ished his training. This course has
! been decided upon by trainer Charley
White, who is bit fearful that keep
! ing 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
! fight" said White, lis to keep him
amused, if possible; to keep him liking
the work. Now Corbett is so fond of
work that if we did not hold him back
at times he would do too much, and
might make himself stale Jim is one
Of those fellows who always goes into
| things heart and soul, and he puts
more nervous energy 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 it, and
when once man has lost that he has
i begun to so back in his training. At
| least, that is my experience
"Corbett is the fastest big man on
| his feet that l have ever seen" con-
! tinued White. Il have seen Fitzsim-
mons in all his work, and L do not
think he is fast on his feet although
J he has a side step that is as quick as
| lightning. Anybody who thinks Fitz
| is not fast on his feet makes a large
| mistake, but at the same time he is
not as fast as Corbett, and when it is
! considered that Corbett is in some re-
| slects a larger man than Fitzsimmons,
| 1t can be judged that Jim must be a
| pretty clever man. in order to be faster
than F'itz, and that is just what ne
is. He is faster by a good deal. In
fact, he is just enough faster to lick
Fitz good and plenty.
| Corbett took to the road this morn
ing for the first time since last Fri
cay, and put in two and half hours
at it. He started out soon after break
fast in the company of Jeffries, going
in the direction of Empire. He COW
cred the roads at the rate of about
four miles an hour, and both he and
| Jeffries estimated that they had made
at least ten miles when they returned
I'VE would have made more than
that" said Jim, only the road was so
bad that we could DO nothing toward
king good tirpp do -;ct !, ,ic
eternal mud would dry up, and give a
man a chance to poke his nose out of
doors without getting his feet wet. This
! is hard country to train in, although
it may be good for lots of other things
After his returning run with Jeffries
Corbett took to the handball court,
where he put in short time playing
with his brother Joe. He then took
his bath and rundown, and sat down
1 to wait for dinner. After this was
over he sat around the place until after
> o'clock, when he started in on the
regular work of the day This was
rot one of the easy days, and Corbett
took in work in a very energetic fash
ion. He worked at his little windlass
until his forearms had lost nearly all
CT their feeling, and then went in for
the bag, punching it for over twenty
minutes without let up. AS he has
done so much of late, he paid partic-
ular attention to landing left hooks on
the bag, and he sent them in as fast
as the bag could swing back to meet
him. After this he turned loose on the
bag and hammered it almost to death,
keeping both hands going with amaz-
| ing 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 programme that has been
| described again and again. Corbett
practicing getaways and striking in
the clinches assiduously. At times he
V oud change the order of things, and
gCing for his antagonist with a rush,
would soon compel Jeffries or Edgren,
as the case might be, to take the de-
fensive as fast as he possibly could
Fitz put in a light day in honor of
the coming of his wife, and did less
work than usual. In fact from this
time Fitz will do much less hard work
than he has been doing His heavy
work is over, and he will do nothing
but enough exercise to keep himself
| in good condition and keep up his wind.
| This morning he took to the roads for
a time, covering about eight miles, and
| in the latter part of the morning he
sprinted up and down the yard at
Cooks ranch. An open space back of
the house affords a straightaway of
| 100 yards for sprint, and Fitz
getting at one end of this would go fly
ing down the entire length of the yard
and then turn sharply off to one side
and go tearing in among the trees at
the liveliest kind of a pace. In and out
among the trees he would run at top
speed TO increase his agility by making
quick, sharp turns around the tree
trunks At times he would make the
turns too abrupt, and down he would
come on the muddy ground. He kept
up this work for the better portion of
an hour, and it was hard work, too.
At its close. however, his wind seemed
to be in the best possible condition,
and he had not distressed himself in
any manner although breathing hard.
Mrs. FitZSimmons took a journey
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