Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-09-16
TAFT TRAINS HARD
and BOXES WELL
HIS REGULAR ROUND
TO REDUCE HIS WEIGHT.
How He Shapes Up With Great Pugi.
list John Undressing Early
Morning Gym Work-Dr. Bark
err His Trainer.

year and one month before John
Lawrence Sullivan was born in Pad
dys Hollow in Roxbury, Mass, the
latest celebrity in fistiana was learn
ing to talk in Cincinnati. BY the
F., time John l.. was eight years old
he was p terror, at fourteen he was
the ward champion. and at seven
teen he was licking all of the dubs
around Boston in purely scientific
way. BY the time he was twenty
John l.. was standing up with the
best of them and on the highway
to the championship of America.
Ever since that time John l.. has
been close to the spot light on the
stage of pugdom. Quite true,
young man named Corbett, now a
has been" put him out with a wal
Top to the jaw in New Orleans one
September day in 1892. But John l..
has never worn out, and only year
ago he was doing vaudeville sketch
as the mastodon and the elephant at
play with Jake Kilrain In the sQuar-
ed circle, at rs, so and IS cents n
throw.
John Ia Superior Found
John LIS superior In Drawn, al
though year and half older, was
not discovered as likely looking
lad for the game until a week ago.
Then the country shivered with de-
t1h ,.t
that President william Howard Taft
was doing his daily boxing bout with
DR.. Charles T.. Barker, his physical
instructor. It also leaked out that
the doctor, with his 100 pounds, on
ly got the better of the President
with his 305, by faster foot-work.
The President was born in Gin
cinnati on Sept. Is, 1857, John l..
first peeped into the day near Bos-
ton on Oct. Is. 1868. The Boston
lads parents were working people,
his father a puddler in a foundry.
Mr.. Tafts earlier entrance into the
world in Cincinnati was under more
suspicious circumstances. His ia
Their was Judge and was to be an
Acknowledgement of the United
States. william, as the boy was
named, later developed into BILL"
before he got to be will" 1t was
bill" in school days and "Bill" in
Yale except when "Wili' went to
dances and learned the waltz steps
which won him all of the suffragette
votes at Hot Springs, Va, and Au-
gusta, Ga.
John l.. had to fight to get along
and "Biil" Taft laughed his way
through life. His superior figure
was powerful argument against
battle when he was a youngster and
his good nature was too much for
the most pugnacious of his playfel-
lows.
Gettino Down To $50 Pounds.
The Presidents entrance into the
ring this late day is not intended to
edify the multitude or to furnish
amusement for DR.. Barker. It's one
and only purpose-and 1t is sue
ceeding-is to keep the Taft flesh
from going over the mark fixed by
DR.. Barker as the healthy line.
DR.. Barker wants to bring the
President down to 800. He once
had him to 270, but that was three
years ago. He has already dropped
him from 326 to 301, and he has
nearly month Of working yet be-
fore him. Giving DR.. Barker the
same trust that the President gives
him, and computing the Presidents
build on the basis of ESQ pounds. 1t
was good-sized man that was neg
lected in Cincinnati while John l..
was being trained Tor battle. The
last marks on John l.. Sullivan give
him 5 feet 10 1-2 inches of height
and 1876 pounds of flesh. John l..