The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-14

| kind of manner, convincing those two
| gentlemen, if nobody else. that he is no
| novice in the art of fighting at close
range The red haired pugilist did not
| seem to be much cast down because of
the fact, as alleged by Martin Julian,
/ that he would be greatly Handicapped
by Siler's rulings when he met Corbett
| in the ring. He capered about the gym
nasium laughing and apparently in the
most excellent spirits, and on every oc-
casion when he jabbed Hickey or
Stenzler 1t seemed to afford him the
greatest possible delight.
In the afternoon Fitzsimmons took
another short ride on his wheel and
wrestled a little with Roeber. He has
been doing very little wrestling of late,
and from now until next Wednesday,
when he steps into the ring, he will
| take even less of this violent exercise
| than he has during the last ten days.
This was all of the exercise taken by
Fitzsimmons- during the day. He is
nearly to the fine edge necessary to put
him into the ring in the finest possible
condition, and he and his trainers are
working very carefully to avoid draw
| ing his condition down too fine. The
probability is at present that Fitzsim-
mons will fight at not very far from
| the middleweight.
| Notwithstanding the fact that but
| five days remain before the champion
| ship battle, Corbett continued to-day
his vigorous training. He started in
| with a ten-mile run over the rough
mountain roads, accompanied by JEFF
fries and a sprinter or two, and follow
ed by a good-siZed escort of mounted
| newspaper men. For almost the entire
distance he kept up his swinging dog
trot, and emerged from his rundown
at the finish as fresh as a three-year-
old broncho 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 a
! half hour of wrist exercise, and follow
ed it up with a vicious punching of the
! bag in a chilly bath shed, where a
| gathering of fifty or seventy enthusi-
asts shivered in the draughts and ap-
| plauded his efforts. Five games of
/ handball with his brother Joe as a
partner, was the next number on the
| programme, and the champion, more
/ fortunate than yesterday, was put into
excellent humor by winning three of
! the five games. He then took on Nc
Vey for a three minute wrestling bout,
and left the big fellow badly winded
and somewhat bruised by the vigor of
the exercise. Without moments in
| PERMISSION Jeffries was given three
minutes Of hot sparring, and Joe Cor
! bett followed with similar amount of
the same work. Billy Woods was then
1 tal- i,,to bo fo int IA
style Of fighting which, according to
| the agreement entered intd between
Julian and Brady, is liable to be one of
the features of the fight Corbett proved
! himself able to make it very interest
| ing for his opponent in this sort of
work, and Woods punishment, in spite
o. his pneumatic armor, was unusually
severe.
| Each man was given four rounds,
Corbett taking no rest between rounds.
Trainer White, at the conclusion of the
days work, expressed his entire salts
| faction with the champions ability to
! beat FitZsimmons at close fighting.
| Corbett's training will be lighter
| hereafter, his trainers having decided
| to-day that the champion shall begin
| the "taperng off, process tomorrow
| The change will be a relief to the big
| fighter, and none the less so to McVey
Jeffries and Woods, who have been
! punched and hammered to the limit of
endurance in the vigorous work since
the court at Snaw's Springs was estab-
| lshed. The three big boxers who have
! given Corbett the greater part of his
| glove practice have had a decidedly
| interesting time stopping the blows of
| their employer, and none of them was
at all backward in expressing his salts
| faction at the announcement that the
days of bumps and bruises are almost
ever
The work, beginning with to-mor-
| row, will be lighter" said Trainer
| White tonight, and the difference in
the amount of it will be marked. Jim's
run tomorrow will be much shorter. l
| don't know just how far we will take
him, but it 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 now than he ever
was before, better than when he
whipped Sullivan, and better than most
of his enemies will believe until they
see him in the ring. Fitzsimmons
thinks he is taking on a dead one,' but
there are several kinds of surprises in
store for that gentleman. He will know
all about in a few days, however. Jim
will whip him, and he won't be more
q Io, IL dot, oft
all happy and all confident in this
camp Corbett's condition and work
are all that can be desired.
THE public will be excluded from
Jims boxing hereafter" White con-
! tinued, las 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
onto them, and intend to keep the work
strictly in the family. Monday Corbett
will do very little work beside the box
ing; in fact, nothing else but a short
run. Tuesday he will take short
walk after breakfast, and do a little
footwork in the afternoon, just as a
constitutional but will spend the
greater part of the day resting. So far
as hard training is concerend, that
was over when Jim quit work to-
night
The champion expressed himself as
delighted with the prospect of a light
ening of the work at his quarters
There is nothing particularly amusing
in the sort of training l have been do
ing" said Corbett, and it will be a
relief to get away from it. My condi-
ton is now all that my friends and my