The herald., 1897-03-14

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In the afternoon Fitzsimmons took
another short ride on his wheel and
wrestled a little with Rober. He has
been doing very little wrestling OF late,
and from now until next Wednesday.
when he steps into the ring, he VIII take
even less of this violent exercise than ne
has during the last ten days He isnearly
to the fine edge necessary to put him
into the ring in the finest possible con-
dition, and he and his trainers are work
ing very carefully to avoid drawing MS
condition down too fine.
Notwithstanding the fact that but five
DAYS remain before the championship
battle, Corbett con Eiued today his Wig
orous training. He started in with ten
mile run over the rough mountain roads
For almost the entire distance he kept
I'D his swinging dog trot, and emerged
from his rundown as fresh as S-year-
old bronco. A few hours rest and a by
no means light luncheon put him in
shape for the hard work of the AFTER
noon. He began it as usual with half
hour of wrist exercise and followed II
I'D with a vicious punching of the bag.
Five games of handball with his brother
Joe as a partner was the next number
on the program. He then took on Nc
yey for a three minute wrestling bout.
and left the big fellow badly winded
and somewhat bruised by the vigor of
the exercise. Without a moments in
termission Jeffries was given three min
utes of hot sparring and Joe Corbett fol-
lowed with a similar amount Of the
| same work
| Billy Woods was then taken into the
arena for practice in the style of fight
! ing which. according to the agreement
between Julian and Brady, is liable to
make 1t very interesting for his oppo-
nent in this style of work. and Woods
punishment, in spite of his pneumatic
armor, was unusually severe.
| Corbett's training will be lighter here
after, his trainers having decided today
that the champion shall begin the ia
pering OFF, process tomorrow. The
change will be relief to the big fighter
and none the less so to McVey, Jefferies
and Woods, who have been punched and
hammered to the limit of endurance in
the vigorous work since the court at
SnaW 3 DDTluBS was CStoOAiShta' az
three big boxers who have given Cor
bett the greater part of his glove prac-
tice have had a decidedly interesting
time stopping the blows of their en-
pIoyer, and none of them were at all
backward in expressing his satisfaction
at the announcement that the days OF
bumps and bruises are almost over.
1.-THE work. beginning with tomorrow,
will be lighter" said Trainer White to-
night, "and the difference in the amount
of it will be- marked Jim's run tomor-
row will be much shorter. don't know
Just how far we will take him, but 1t
will be nothing like the ten miles he has
been doing daily. He will continue his
boxing. paying particular attention to
the breakaways, but there will be fewer
rounds and more resting between them.
The handball playing Will be cut away
down. as will also the wrist exercise and
the bag punching. Our man is better
than ID ever was before. better than
when he whipped Sullivan and better
than many of his enemies will believe
until they see him in the ring. Fitzsfm-
mons thinks he is taking on "a dead
one" but there are several kinds OF sur
prises in store for that gentleman. He
will know all about it in few days,
however. Jim will whip him and he
won't be more than a week doing 1t,
either. We are all happy and ali con:i-
dent in this camp. Corbett's condition
and work are all that can be desired.
'Drhe public will be excluded from
Jim's boxing hereafter" White con-
tinued, "as we have some new blows and
that sort of thing which, we want to
practice. OF course. we don't want the
people in the other camp to get on to
them, and we intend to keep the work
strictly in the family. Monday Corbett
will do very Mttle work besides the box
ing, in fact nothing else but short run.
Tuesday he will take a short walk
after breakfast and do little foot work
in the afternoon, just as a constitu-
toral.' but will spend the greater part
of the day resting. So far as hard
training is concerned, that was over
when Jim quit work tonight"
The champion expressed himself as
delighted with the prospect of a light
ening of the work at his quarters.
There is nothing particularly anus
ing in the sort OF training l have been
doing" said Corbett, "and it will be a
relief to get away from it. My condi-
tion is now all that my friends and my
self could wish, and / shall do just
enough work from now on to maintain
it. am ready to fight right this minute,
and there is not the faintest doubt in
my mind that 1 shall win the battle"
A story was current during th~ after
noon to the effect that Fitzsimnons had
declared that he would not agree to the
decision of Julian at the conference yes
terday to the effect that the e. Astruc-
tion of rules made by Siler should gov
ern the fight. The story proved without
foundation however.
Fitzsimmons said that he had no in
tention of making any more objections.
Il have given in on the subject he
said. "and there is nothing more to be
said in the matter. We will fight as
Sler ruled l am standing by what
Julian said"
Among the visitors a Corbetts train
ing quarters this afternoon was William
Muldoon, the wrestler. He stood around
the handball court watching Corbett at
his work, and after the champion had
concluded his exercises, Muldoon, AL
Smith and Billy Madden We're invited