The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-29
BARRY IN
TRAINING
Young Pugilist in Fine
Trim for Fight With
Weday.

It's almost as interesting to watch
Dave Barry train as to see him fight.
Barry is down to 159 pounds now and
he will have no difficulty in weighing
in at 15S pounds.
No one would take Barry for prize
fighter to see him in his street clothes
or for that matter when he is in his
training trunks. He looks like young,
good hatured, rosy checked college
student with not a care in the world.
But he can fight. Barry is only boy,
he is just twenty-five years of age ard
even more youthful in appearance.
| Even when he is trimmed for fighting
he doesn't look like pugilist. He lssa
mere pigniy in comparison with his
| trainer, Billy Woods. Woods's muscles
stand out on his arms and legs in Rig
! Jumps. Barry has a smooth, white arm
and anyone who has not seen him use
| that terrible right would hardly believe
him capable of doing a hard days
manual labor.
he can get around tall, agile man
with astonishing rapidity. He has been
sparring daily with his trainer, Woods,
and Toomey, the patrol wagon driver,
both of whom are very tall. But the
little prize fighter has no difficulty in
getting around them. Yesterday he
spared with both men. alternately for
half an hour, steadily, and winded both
Woods and Toomey several times, while
at the end he was as fresh and cool
as if he had been enjoying an after
| noon automobile ride. In the morning
Barry generally sprints for few miles,
| taking a couple of hours exercise in
| this manner. He has been running in
the neighborhood of the Hawaiian Ho-
| tel beach annex lately. In the after
noon the lad takes an hours hard work
| in the gymnasium in care of Billy
| Woods. He punches the bag for half
an hour at a time and gets in some
| terrific punches. Anyone in the neigh
| borhood of Woods's gymnasium yester-
day afternoon about three o'clock
would have thought that the fleet had
| opened it's guns on the town. Barry
| gets some good exercise out of the
punching bag and he is an adept at this
| form of sport. The pumps, the dumbbells
and the lift pulleys next give develop
| ment to the little fighters muscles
and this is followed by some real eX-
ercise in sparring. Neither Woods or
Toomey stands any show with Barry,
and he knocks them around at will.
Woods gave him some special pointers
yesterday on action in clinches, or
rather in punching his opponent when
he is holding. Barry. is able to take
| care of himself either in a clinch OF
| in an open fight. He is unusually ac-
| tive on his feet and when he starts in
| to fight, he does it with a will. He IS
| business all the way through and wants
to fight all the time. When he was
| Sparring with Woods and Teomey yes
| terday, both men We're winded three o,
four times, while Barry kept on fight
| ing, and could have continued for hall
| an hour longer.
After the hours training in the aft
ernoon Barry gets the usual rub dowr
| and shower and then he is ready fol-
| anything. Woods says he is in the pinf
of condition, is trained down to whir
| Weday and can eat or drink what h
pleases without affecting him. Barry
is a clean, clever boy and he is not TAX
ing any chances. He intends to wiz
| Friday nights fight and his admireri
say he will do It,