Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-03-30
k8H FIGHTERS 0VERNl)RK
Billy Madden Explains the De-
cadence of Champions
JOHN L. A BORN PUGILiST

1 Veteran Manager OF Boxers Gives
Safe AE.ice on Training-Corbett
Most Scientific Fi.hter-Too Much
Gymnasium Wors, Does More Harm
Than liquor.
The trouble with the majority Of
our scrappers, said Madden. the
veteran manager. is that they over
do things They work too hard when
they have their vitality ana youth
ard sap their strength 10 such an
extent thar by the time they have
been campaigning with the gloves
for, say, five years, ,hey are all in,
SO TO speak Over-indulgence in ex-
ercise is worse than paFtaking OF in
toyicatins liquors TO excess. Too
much gymnasium WORN has killed
more persons than booze, in my opin-
ion.
when Young. strong. husky fell
low elects 10 take up the precarious
business OF prizefghung for living,
he forgets everything else in his en-
thusiasm He has health on his side
and he desires 10 make muscle.
thinking that il viii accelerate mat
tiers in his march TO the top OF the
ladder He enters The gym. say, early
in the morning and plods away like
q Trojan for hours al a stretch. He
perspires, he grows weary, rests
and recuperates and goes over the.
entire programme again. He keeps
this up for days and weeks At-the
time he may not feel the strain that
he uneonsciously places upon his
nervous system. His hearts action
is quickened and an extra strain is
put upon this organ. which in the
end must surely collapse. He watches
his muscles grow. Some may have
widened few inches and he is ex-
tremely delighted
1t was Madden who took John L.
Sullivan in hand and helped the Bos-
ton boy TO achieve fame and fortune
in the ring. II was Madden who re-
vived boxing in America through the
medium of having Sullivan tour The
country meeting all Corners in four
round bouts.
Madden has been a trainer and
manager for twenty-five years and
was pugilist himself for ten years,
"a fighter should be champion un-
til he is thirty-seyen years old con
tinued Madden reaectiyely IT'S
pity that such youngsters as Terry
McGovern and Young Corbett should
be forced to meet their opponents in
the ring to-day as eX-champions.
Little McGovern has not as yet
reached thirty Corbett is many
years below this mark.
"a fighter should train but three
weeks for any mill. He may dwell
in the country and take things easy
a month before he starts his labors.
But he should have plenty OF sleep
and fresh air. Two hours in the gym
nasium, one hour in the morning and
one hour in the afternoon, are sufii-
cient let him so on the road and
indulge in a six to eight mile spin.
| Do not run the entire distance. Vary
the journey by walking or trotting.
according to the way one feels. Cut
out boxing entirely For the ordi-
nary citizen who wants some kind of
exercise one hour daily in the gym
nasium will suffice
"John l.. never made il a practice
to box while in very severe training
Jeffries and Jim Corbett did when
they were in the ring But it must
have injured them, for they had TO
abandon their title before they we're
81.
Sullivan dissipated or else he
might have been champion to-day.
Jim Mace-was champion of the world
at 40 years. Fitzsimmons was cham
pion at 81, and Joe Goss fought Pad
dy Ryan for the title at AZ Mace
| never cared to box while in train
ing, neither did Goss nor Ryan
FitZsimmons. in my opinion, is the
only pugilist before the public who
knows how 70 train properly That is
why he has lasted as long as he has
He understands his own physique,
the same as a good physician should
understand his patient.
"As 10 the development of pugil-
lists, there is not much to say. Some
trainers trust to luck in bringing a
fighter to the front, while others
work on careful and intelligent lines
If you have man that is the goods
give him plenty of scope. If he is
found wanting, look elsewhere for
some one TO take his place | disap-
prove of the fallacy that a man must
be over 6 feet to be successful, his
other qualifications being considered
Look at Joe Waleott. with his ) feet
and half an inch and weighing only
142 pounds in shape RE was able to
beat heavyweights. FitZsimmons
too. weighing 1913 pounds. had only
weighed $40 pounds, and he had TO
drink ten bottles of ale day to put
on seven poInds. There is only one
good pugilist in q thousand men in
troduced and one great champion is
developed once ia ten years. Fight
ers should train. privately. No pugil-
list likes TO be told in the presence OF
lot of sports what TO DO He wants
to convey the impression that he
knows il all. aud consequently the
Instructions that trainer would like
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