The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-19
ATHLETIC
CHAMPIONS
How They Attain Fame
and Then Lose It
Again.

Inc question or how championship
are won and lost is very readably treat
ed as follows by Charlie LANCE in tn,
Salt Lake City Sporting World:
To be strong one mustn't necessa
rily be an athlete in the accepted tern
that you must join a gymnasium and
practice hours each day with the par
aphernalia.
All one has to do to keep strong is
to observe proper rules of living. Prop,
| er food and proper rest. 1t is lack of
food and sleep that breaks men down.
, There is no good reason why man
can't be strong and vigorous at fifty
| as well as at twenty-five.
What wrecks so many men in sports
is lack of ambition. Take Young Cor
bett as an example or even "Jim' Cor
EFT. Both were gifted with good build
to begin with. Both strove to be cham
pions. During the years they struggled
up to the top they worked conscien-
tiously. 1t was a case of early to rise
and early to bed. They built them
selves by proper wholesome food and
exercise.
Both attained the very top. Flushed
with victory they rested on their laur-
els. They lost their determination that
had made them king pins. They were
susceptible to homage. They accepted
invitations to dinner. Then came the
stage. People told them they were I'M
beatabie. They began to believe it
themselves. They believed it was I'M
Il
Both thought they could go the prim-
rose path as long as their pleasure suit
ed and stop whenever it was necessary
to go into training for a forthcoming
contest
They soon found that it wasn't the
same man in training. Try as they
their wind from their night life. Both
are now in the twas class.
Right here we had an instance of it.
liver Lawson, the world champion, was
defeated by Samuelson. Lawson
thought more of enjoyment than train
ing. He had been champion so long
he held himself impregnable. He fgur-
ed Turkish bath, try out and a rub
down was all he needed to defeat any
of them, no matter how much "out -
his gayness had put him. Samuelson
was fired by ambition. His whole body
and mind were conferred to beat Law
son ana beat him handily he did. Why
should some declare it was auke ~
Hash It Samuelson just a much right
to be champion as LawsonF
IF Jim Corbett had kept himself in
the same physical condition as he was
the dav he whipped Charley Mitchell
he would have been champion today.
There is no good reason save his own
foolishness why he went back.
A man is like an engine. Every part
must be kept clean and active to get
the most speed out of it.
man wouldn It abuse his high class
After he has run his
touring car at heavy speed he has 1t
cleaned and gives it rest. |
AS a result it always responds to high |
speed when called upon. Why then |
should man after gruelling contest |
expect himself to be so constituted that |
he could go on round of pleasure with |
out harm.
Above all a man should not lose am
bition. He should strive to live as
clearly at the ladder s top as when he |
was at the bottom. The proper. theory |
of life is to make stepping stones of
blocks.
I am as good wrestler and pugi-
list today as I was twenty years ago
and far better tactician. Anyone /
can do the same if they will follow
proper schedule. Above all, man
shouldn't dissipate.