Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-24
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when began fighting planned
my life for several yeads to come.
1 am going toS be fighter, and moth
ing but q fighter,i told myself Pm
going to study fighting the way q sur.
geon studies anatomy 1t may take
q four:YeaT courSe and then perhaps
q postgraduate course TO bring me to
the top. but I'll be champion II its
in me. In any case, I'm going to give
my whole attention to building myself
up into a perfect lighting machine.
"To day have Tom Kennedy as q
sparring partner. IL Tom had started
with my ideas and had started with
his I'd probably be his sparring part
ner. Tom is big enough, fast, clever
and courageous, But his system Is
wrong. He trains hard for fight.
If he isn't satisfied with the showing
he makes he says to himself: 'Pshaw,
I'm not going to fight any more? Then
he stops training, eats and drinks
what he wants, keeps late hours and
gets out of condition When he's fat
and loggy some friend comes along
and tells him he might as well come
out again and fight some new fellow
who's just coming up. You can lick
that guy, sure says Toms friend.
Then Tom jumps into hard training
and nearly kills himself taking on the
fat and trying to get into shape again.
Result, he never viii be half the man
he should have been. ssszs4sq
with me it's different. From the
moment, said to myself I'm going
to be fighter made study of my
mind and nay body. i fixed the linn
its of my diet made regular
schedule of light exercise. / made it
a rule to get enough sleep every night.
It's hard, when everybody else is ont
for a little racket, to say No, no.
You'll have to excuse me. 1 go to bed
early But / do it. And when l roll
into bed say to myself: This is
better, after ALL The result Is / al.
ways sleep the moment lie down,
and I'm never tired. = f.. -.
ri keep up the regular exercise all
through the intervals between fights.
I'm never out of training, and / never
rack myself with entertaining. The
athlete who lets himself get fat and
then periodically sweats the fat of
with hard work throws away his vi
tally He never can build up as he
should My system has built me up.
II I'd trained like other fighters I'd
have been weighing about one hun
dred and eighty pounds now when in
condition to box. But I've developed
and rounded myself out, and I've
come up in the last couple of years
from one hundred and eighty pounds
to two hundred and seven pounds
stripped, and all lean muscle. / have
! all the vitality and endurance and
recuperative power because I've had
! plenty of sleep, exercise, plain food
! and no drinking or other dissipation.
= "And I've learned a lot about fight
ing by studying it, too. go to see
other fights, and when ] see some lit
tie useful trick adopt it and prac.
tice it. I've studied Johnson, and
know, his style and how to beat it.
Condition is going 10 be q great
thing in this Johnson fight. He'll be
trained down and he'll look good,
/, He's full of confidence He thinks he
! needs only to glance at any other
fighter to make him fall down. Hell
expect me to he afraid of him, and ]
won't be. That's the first count
against his chance to win.
! @Hem find me hitting harder than
/ he. hits. The same blow that downed
Palzar would have downed Johnson.
! These blows are going to cut John
son. He has been lat several times