Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-11
DOCTRINE OF GOOD
HEALTH LAID DOWN
BY "BILLY" SUNDAY
Evangelist, as Athlete, Fol-
lows Closely Rules of Diet
and Exercise Tnculcated by
/ Mike Murphy.

.,u,v" Sunday breaches the way to
-,.,,,,ai aalvatlon. But he also breaches
4 h,s life the doctrine of good health,
a. his auditors did but know It they
..n,6 do themselves quite as much phys
~, oood by copying some of the methods
.shicb he keeps himself in perfect
..,cal condition as they can profit
.r,ritually by his sermons.
nn,ly" Sundays system of physical
,-.inins. the way he gets himself into
.hsna and stays on edge, is the identical
method by which the late Mike Murphy
ss'rs,onsd and trained his championship
ssssntbsil and olympic teams. BILLY" Sun-
~, ana his trainer, Jack Cardiff, have
s.r,sd the Murphy system in all its essen
~ And the average man could get
sIrtusilv the Same results by following
X. Murphy-sunday method of physical
condition.
aBiily" Sunday exhausts himself in
-av that the average athlete could not
stand for any length of time, but phys
,o,Iiy Sunday Is an abnormal man and
an endure twice as much as most men
n his age. For the average man a
t,a,ner is an extravagant luxury. Mike
wprnhy always told his athletes that they
eculd get the same results in after life
bv looking after their own physical con-
ALTON that they did while in training with
4 trainer and q rubber.
Sundays perfect physical condition is
duo to his practice of three of the Muir
phy precepts for good health:
First. Clean living and a simple diet.
Second. Plenty of sleep.
Third. Exercise, common sense bathing
and massage.
RULES OF DIET.
Sunday owes much of his good health
10 his simple diet. He doesn't overeat,
and therefore isn't subject to all the ills
that are sure to follow violation of this
arst rule of good health. Neither does
A. smoke, and while he can tolerate a
man who uses tobacco in the form of a
plne or a cigar, he has furious hatred
foP the cigarette.
Nike Murphy was always preaching to
his athletes on the evils of overeatlng
and the use of cigarettes. During the
last few years of his life Murphy pre-
pared for publication his book on "Ath-
ietlc Training" which contained the re-
suits of all his experiments and investi-
cations covering a period of 30 years.
'iBilly" Sunday believes in getting 10
hours of good sleep every night. And
Nike Murphy always insisted that his
athletes should retire regularly and get
the same amount of sleep each night.
BATHS AND MASSAGE.
But the most interesting part of the
Mike Murphy system and the feature of
"Blly' Sundays daily work which ap-
psals most to the general public is his
insstenoe upon the daily routine of cold
and hot baths and the massage which
follows them. Reading reports of how
Jack Cardiff, his trainer, handled Sunday
In these particulars would lead one to
believe that such a system of training |
Is out of the reach of the average per- |
SON But Murphy in his book outlined |
system by which the average person |
could take the same treatment - baths, |
deep breathing, massage and all-in 10 |
minutes day BILLY" Sunday devotes |
more time than this to his treatment
but that is because he is under such a |
tremendous strain.