The Washington herald., 1921-08-21
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY SECRET OF SUCCESSFUL TRAIN
Charlie Paddock, Sprinting
Champion, Sets Example
,oaxt Track Star Never Allows Himself to Be
come Tired. Dempsey and Carpenter
Follow Same Plan In Their Work.

resting for the purpose OF storing
vitziity for the fight. July found
him in perfect condition
The little work he did In the
training camp was just to study q
lighting method to oppose Demp-
sey's well-known attack. He stayed
at the same weight, 172 pounds
stripped, from his hrst day ut Man
hasset until he entered the ring at
Jersey City. i
As Gus Wilson and Francois
Descamps explained It to me,
Georges worked on a theory that
being in condition he needed only to
store up energy.
Georges trains to conserve al
his energy for the night" said VIII
son. He wastes nothing in hard
lighting or hard hitting here at
Manhasset. He loses no weight He
bottles mp his energy. He win save
his strength for Dempsey. and you
win see that when he meets Demp-
sey he viii have everything"
Wilson was right, Carpenters
burst Of energy in the four rounds
fought, until he was overcome by
the champions superior strength,
was amazing. He did everything
that any 172 pound man in the world
could possibly do against the great
est heavyweight chapion within our
recollection.
Old timers used to train of gobs
of superfluous weight. Carpenter
entered the ring weighing exactly
what he weighed a month before.
Conservation Supreme.
Some Of the old time athletes had
this theory of conserving energy
for a contest. Tom Carroll, who at
81 still throws the hammer and the
big weights near his own profess
sional world record mark. used TO
train hard. and then spend the last
week before a big competition lying
around in the sun.
Gideon Perry. worlds professional
shot putting record holder. wouldn't
even walk from his dressing room to
the ring when he intended to break
record. He had his friends carry
him out.
Jess willard was much criticized
for not training harder for the
Dempsey fight at Toledo. If Willard
had won, his system would have
been approved. He was careful not
to- over train, but even at that he
did twice the work Carpenter did
at Manhasset. He wasn't in Car
pentier's condition, of course.
-Four years of easy living had
softened him. Nothing short of
year in a lumber camp would have
made him entirely fit. He was
heavy, and his weight had broken
down his feet SO that he couldn't
run much on theroad. The training
he did was about right, considering
his condition.
Tom Gibbons, who Is to be Car
pentier's next opponent, has the
modern idea of conserving energy
for an important match. He
fuses to take on any bouts IN the
hot months, and spends his time
at a Minnesota lake fishing. Mike
Gibbons has stayed in the ring in
very fair shape for many years by
following the same system.
Easy to Overtax System.
An athlete should remember just
a few important things about train
ing. First. you can overtax your
much by overeating as by over
II any hhO"o IhoA
a man can jump better. run better,
fight better. play a better game Of
golf or billiards, play better foot
ball or baseball. after not eating
at all for several hours than within
two or three hours Of any Kind Of
meal.
Second, entertaining is worse
than undertaking.. Overtraining
saps speed. strength and vitality.
Undertaking only cuts down en-
! durance.
I've seen remarkable perform
ances by athletes who didn't train
at all, but no overturned man can
possibly do we'll. He has no re-
serve to draw on.
In every kind of a contest It's
the reserve of power. the thing you
can draw on for a final squirt when
you're behind, that wins.
Copyright, 1891. BY the Bell syndic.ts, Ine.)