The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-07
BY BATTLING NELSON.

10 avoid becoming has been" follows:
BY BATTLING NELSON.
The subject of this article is:
How to keep from becoming has been
A has been is a person who has lost his
grip.
He is all in
That doesn't mean that he is old.
1t means he has started rolling down
the hill when he ought to be at the top
A champion who has fought one fight
too many and then tries to begin ali over
again is a has been.
and won q lot of coin and then gets
caught in the next squeeze ana loses all
he made, and who tries to get on his feet
again by playing long shots ana puts ana
calls, is a has been.
Lawyers, doctors, statesmen, financlers,
ball players, fighters, presidents, report
ers and bootblacks all over the land dread
the time when they will join the down and
outs.
There are some things a man can't stay
at and keep at the top Of his class.
Fighting is only one of the things.
Any game that requires man to live
all the time on his nerves will eventually
slow him up and cause him TO lose his
punch.
The question is, how can we keep our
selves keyed up to high pitch with the
least tax on our energies and thus remain
at our best the longest possible time?
I want to say right here that / know
of no panacea that can cure has been.
Has Been Never Comes Bacc.
The general rule is that nobody ever
comes back from has been land. That's
why when a man loses his fortune or
champion gets knocked out his friends
all desert him. They know that it's mil
lion to one that he doesn't come back.
And the world has no use for dead
one
The shrewdest thing a man can do to
retain his powers is to begin conserving
them before they show any signs of de-
cline.
Give your health as much attention
when you are sound as a dollar as you
would if bad symptoms were developing.
Mollycoddle yourself.
l mean just that.
After every fight, whether il is in the
ring OF in the office at your daily tasks,
use every precaution to restore the It's
sues, the nerve energy and the wear and
tear on your body which you have lost.
When race horse comes back from
hard race look at the way they groom
They baby the animal.
They battle him, fix him a nice soft
bed, give him the best kind of food, watch
carefully lest he oveTfeed or overdrink.
They see that he gets good, undisturbed
rest.
Well. if a race horse needs that kind
of attention. don't you think a man re-
quires some kind of attention?
MUST Gat ana sleep well.
Now here is something 1 want TO tell
you.
No man who can sleep well and eat
we'll is ever sent to a sanitariun1 or to
West Baden or any other place where
they patch up broken-down has-beens.
If a man is normally constituted and
gets enough work and exercise to make
him tired and also, lots of fresh air he
ought to be able to sleep from eight to
ten hours every night. And this he
ought to do. And the first three hours
of his sleep ought to be before midnight
Late hours do more to break a mans
health than anything 1 know of except
the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants
or other excesses of that nature
The bad effects of liquor are so well
known that l am not going to touch on
that subject.
And next to sleeping a man ought to
give unusual attention to his food
1t pays to be finiCky.
1t pays to insist that ones food is thor
oughly cooked.
1t pays man to study his system and
to learn what agrees with him and what
he cannot digest.
Then there is the curse Of pastry.
You don't find many top-notchers who
eat pie.
Go to a convention of has-beens and
watch them at lunch.
They all dring coffee.
They ali eat in hurry as if the last
train was going in few minutes.
They eat everything that is bad for
them and then top it off with pie.
Cut Out the Pie.
I haven't eaten dozen pieces of pie
in my life.
They all drink coffee
| don't smoke or chew or drink
Since / have been fighting reflect on
the number of champions who have drift
ed into the oblivion of has-been land.
No matter what you do you cannot re-
tain your physical and mental powers nm
less you eat well and take plenty of ex-
ercise in the open air
A man who does that is not going to
be a has-been.
There is one thing in favor of Mr.. Has
Been.
At one time he was the real goods.
He has a much better record than Mr.
Never Was.
His only trouble was that he neglected
TO keep surplus of health; ne souandered
his reserve fund.
He owled around too late at night: he
didn't have time to take proper exercise.
he bolted his meals; drank too much COT
fee and smoked too many cigarettes or
cigars. -
If he had started moIlycoddIing himself
when his powers were at their best he
wouldn't have struck the toboggan So
soon.
MEAT CHOPPER WHO