Arizona republican., 1916-08-14
LUDAY LANCER HAS
 HARD TIME KEEPING
 IN TOP CONDITION
IRepubIIean A. p. Leased Wlrel

lhepuOliCdn A. r. Leased WlFel SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12-That the worle's championship does not achieve the distinction without a lot of hard work nor maintain his hon. Ors without constant hard training, Is exemplified in che case of Luday Longer. the Los Angeles star. Langer is said to be a hard and faithful worker in the matter of conditioning himself A typical day in the routine of preparation for a meet which the champion undergoes is about as fol- lows:
 Al eight o'clock in the morning he appears on the beach in his bathing suit and takes a. long run on the hard sand. Then for nearly two hours he plays in the surf infulging in all manner of Pastimes that Will strengthen him. such as dragging an eight foot surf boat out through the breakers. lying flat on it and then paddling it with his arms fo ra half mila CT more.
 His beach work IS topped off with a couple of fast dashes in thu tank. He lunches heartily at noon. Until two o'clock he rests and then goes to the gymnasium at the Los Angeles Athletic club where he works on the machines and plays handbah for two hours At 1: 30 he again dons his bathing suit for a couple of fast sprilts in the tank.
 Langer believes that rowing is an excellent exercise for strengthening all the muscles of the body and he expected to include it in his training.
 Talk of a revival of a tug of w1r in San Francisco is meeting with considerable encouragement fe's years ago the knights of the cleats engaged in an international tourna- ment which lasted d week. The at . tendance came fully up to the eN pectation and it was believed the sport would be continued. For some reason it was not taken up except tc he added as a feature event at oc- casional large picnics or outings
 Plans now under consideration in- clude an international pull for eight teams. a second division to be made of teams of labor organizations, and a third division composed of clubs and fraternities. These pulls, IL l' rroposed to stage in the open aii arena within the next few months.
 In order to do away with any like nhood of the men straining themselves the innovation of allowing an interva of at least two nights between con tests Will be tried out. m the pas teams have been required to pull or successive nights. resulting occasion ally tn some participant being over come by the exertion. Teams already have begun systematice training. A the last internationals, the German an6 Canadian teams made particularly i'm pressive shOwings.
 Under the system to be inaugurateC there will be four pulls on the frs night with winners meeting winners and losers meeting losers in the sec ond round The third and final rOunt will be decided with the runner-up il each round. and the losers pull agains each other.
 Directors of the Spokane Countr! club have obtained the necessary prop erty to increase the length of the gol course between 400 and 800 yards. Tn length of the course now is slightl. under 500 yards, and while man. championship courses are no longer the course that approximates $500 t' s.700 yards has been found to be near CT the ideal
 Pacific Coast golfers who hav played over the Spokane Country clul links will be pleased to learn that tn distance between some of the holes vii be increased. While the general opin ion of visiting golfers has been mos favorable, it always has been qualifie by the criticism that the course was trifle short. Work on the extension of the course will not be undertake until next fall in order not to interfer with the summer play.