Show JOHN L SflLLIYAN Preparing for His Fight Wit Jake Kilrain HE BEGINS WITH A LONG TALK His Daily Diet and WorkNot the Seven Ages But the Seven Scientific Blows of Man Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch New YORK May 18Por my coming fight with Kilrain until very lately I had intended to train at a little place not far from New Orleans That section of the country is very familiar to me for it was at the same place I trained for my fight with Ryan some six years ago The climate there is good the ground is dry the place free from malerial affections and the thermometer afectons mometer seldom ranges above 00 deg or goes below 32 But I have lately changec my mind and now I think I shall train nearer New York and somewhere on the outskirts of Brooklyn I will give as careful a decription of my course of training as lean Here is what I go through every day from the 15th of May until the day of the fight I get up about l oclock aud start out 01 a fivemile walk When I return from that exercise I am rubbed down with a coarse towel and rest for about half an hour then I am ready for breakfast That meal consists con-sists of chops or beefsteak and a cup of weak tea I am not allowed to drink coffee because coffee has a tendency to make a man bilious Tea i it is not too strong and you dont drink too much of it is good for the nerves Did you ever uotice that nearly all people who have grown to an old age have been very fond of their cup of tea I think the fact is that tea is good for the human system After breakfast I sit around awhile read the newspapers 01 chat with my trainer and then for half an hour I exercise with the pound dump bells or swing a small pair of Indian clubs I also skip a rope That may seem a very womanish exercise and the statement may make some people smile but the fact is that skipping the rope is exercise for limbering limber-ing up the joints from it every joint in your body receives benefit I believe that such exercise is excellent for young girls though they have a tendency to overdo i in which case of course i is very harmful harm-ful Another exercise I indulge in at this time is punching hag which is suspended suspen-ded by a rope from the ceiliasr and other exercises ex-ercises occupying the time until the dinner ereses tUe unt hour They are continued pretty con stautly one after the other slowly and easily and not to tho degree of fatigue For dinner I eat roast mutton roast beef or roast chicken I eat only tho lean of the meat at this 01 any other meal the fat is cut off and thrown aside I consider chickonbroilcd or roasted good food The meat is dry aiiot iojnojyhatilrciLiihoii g There is no choice between roast beef and mutton one is as good as the other After resting awhile after dinner I go out on my long walk and run for a distance of twenty miles I walk and run alternately alter-nately This j the most severe exercise of the day and has for its object the strengthening of the legs and the wind When I come in from the long run I am rubbed down with I coarse towel after which I jump into a bath tub with salt it the water or if I am in I neighborhood where there is sea bathing I take the benefit of that I also let the water rums over me in a shower Then I am rubbed dry with a coarso hand towel after which my trainer rubs me down with his hands always rubbing in a downward down-ward direction not both ways The object of this rubbing is to harden the flesh I you rubbed both ways instead of one it would have a tendency to make the flesh sore because under this high training the flesh becomes very sensitive until under un-der proper treatment it begins to harden By this time it is l oclock After dressing myself I dine in ordinary costume and pass away the time for an hour in reading or chatting and I have a good appetite for supper That is not such a heavy mealas breakfast or dinner I generally eat a little cold chicken some dry bread I always eat the bread dry and drink a bowl of weak tea As a rule I eat no dessert though sometimes I am allowed a little rice pudding pud-ding I dont smoke or drink any kind of liquor though for dinner I sometimes take a bottle of Basss ale That drink taken in a very moderate quantity at the noon meal I consider beneficial I is to a cern tam cer-n extent strengthening I go to bed at 10 oclock and if is almost needless to say I enjoy a good nights rest Now tho reason I donteat fat is because fat makes fat The object of training is to get rid of your surplus fat t develop your muscles and to harden your flesh and to get what fighters call your wind all right An ordinary man cannot run up a flight of stairs or three or four blocks without becoming be-coming winded It makes no difference how strong a man may be if his wind gives out easily he is powerless A man can reduce his weight by sweating but the proper way is to reduce your weight by exercise and harden your flesh by rubbing Of course it is necessary to take sweats hey help a man but you cannot rely on them altogether Again as to eating I do not eat a large quantity of food but I eat three good meals during the day and I eat food that is adapted to make strength I dont indulgo in what the cooks call palate ticklers I suppose many business men eat more than I do but I dont think their appetite can be a healthier one Then again they eat alight light breakfast a moderate lunch and consume con-sume a large meal at the close of the day People sometimes express surprise that prize fighters recover so quickly from the punishment they receive in a fight After the fight is over the fighter is given a hot bath That takes the soreness out of him and keeps the blood in circulation I he has bruises the blood hasnt time to congeal con-geal For very bad swellings the tincture of iodine is used I your eyes are all bunged upv you simply apply hot water just a hot as you can bear and that will soon reduce them to their natural state I suppose the great secret of the fighters quick recovery is the fact that he is in such a high state of health Nature does most of tho work They say if you cut an Indian with a latchet I mean a strong healthy Indian that hasnt been soaked in bad whisky the wound will heal of itself in a few days Give a white man the same kind of blow and it will k him A fighter dont feel bad while battling He is in a state of activity and the excitement helps to keep him up After the fight he feels stiff and sore Between the rounds his mouth is sponge out t prevent saliva from gather log and sticking in his throat ho is freshened fresh-ened up by ice water applied t his head just behind the ears with a sponge This is a very sensitive part of the head There the application is especially beneficial Stimulantsaro sometimes given but it depends on the condition of the man Jf he is weak they will give him a swallow of randy and Vichy water Brandy is used whisky because it is quicker in its action than I a sometimes asked to give a scent c description the fistic art I do not know that one man can do that any more than one man can tell another how to succeed in life There are a good many things t betaken taken into consideration and you have to consider them and decide upon them quickly at t the time and one mans judgment may lead him t act one way and another mans judgment may lead him t act in an entirely en-tirely different manner In boxing it may be said however that here are only seven scientific blows and seven parries These blows are IOn the right side of the face with the left hand 20n the left side of the face with right hand 3On the right side of the stomach with the left hand 4On the left side of your opponents ribs with the right hand 5On the right side of his ribs with your left hand Directly at the center of the face covering if the fist is sufficiently ently large the chin throat nose and hot IT h ned gg r This is considered what the boy call a daisy blowwhen weligiven 1The upper cut with the right This blow strikes under the chin and if the other man carries his tongue between his teeth it is bad for the tongue There is another blow called the chopper raising the right hand up and bringing it down with chust ing force on the bridge of your antagonist smeller I would take too long to give a description descrip-tion of the parries How pugilists are made Speaking generally I would say that men are as you may say forced into prizefighting fighting The outside public are notsatis fed with exhibitions with the gloves which become too tame aud they force a good man to light with bare fists Many people seem to think a boxer cannot can-not bo at the top of the heap unless he fights with bare knuckles although a man can do just as fine workwith the gloves as I think I have shown heretofore I think there are very few fighters who would not just as soon fight with the gloves as without with-out them but as I say the sporting public and the general public interested in athletic ath-letic matters force men into matches In private life prize fighters as a rule are quiet wellbehaved men Quarrelsome people often try to force them into Seople s but it will be noticed that they seldom use their strength in private rows On the contrary thej continually try to avoid disturbances I prize fighters were more brutal bj nature they uwould be continually I engaged d int t h i ng tU gaged in such disturbances i Of course they may occasionally show their weal 1 ness and display a convivial spirit but I suppose merchants and brokers do the I same thing every day iu the week only these people net being well known such things are not considered of sufficient ins portancc to get into the papers Pugilism has had a late and eloquent defender de-fender in Chauncey I Depew In his speech at the reception to the American ball plovers he said I have read some with interest lately the writings of a philosopher who sometimes some-times approached the truth that this year can mark the march of civilization or a race or a decadence by the interest which any nationality takes in pugilism Then it is said that the civilization of the east is a despotism because they have no pugilism Ireland can never be crushed no matter what her adversity for among her sons there not only men of eloquence and genius but great pugilists andEngland too with tierjliterature and urogresshas also had good pugilists Butwhen we come to the home of genius and culture in American Boston Bos-ton we find the great pugilist puglst He added that the nations of the word which are most interested in manly sports are the English speaking races and they I I are the people nearest to freedom in their institutions I There is considerable interest in pugilism pugi-lism in England The Prince of Wales Lord Clifford the Marquis of Queensberry and the majority of the young lords who travel aroundwith the prince like to see a good sjandup fight But I donJt think pugilism is any more popular over there than it is here I dont think they have as many fights there The majority of the fights have taken place in London They are glove contests and are limited to twelve rounds I liked the Prince of Wales there were no airs about him and he seemed to ba a man of the people On the race track when I met him he looked and acted like an ordinary or-dinary brisk business man People sometimes say that the prize ring is a resort for roughs and blacklegs Suppose you should try to crush any other athletic sport make fencing or baseball playing an indictable offense you would ind that such contests would be frequented by an inferior class of people I deny however that prize fights J are only witnessed by roughs and bad characters charac-ters There are a very large number of substantial men bankers brokers merchants mer-chants and editors of prominent newspapers news-papers who like to be oh hand when theresa theres-a good mill coming off The ages of prize fighters How long a prize lighter may retain his strength depends de-pends very much on his constitution A man may remain a good one until he is hirtyfive or forty years of age Prizefighters Prize-fighters live to a pretty fair age as is proved by the lives of some of the famous men in that line Xante Born Died lye Tolm Broughton I7JT 1733 80 f fo g Tom Johnson 1730 1737 4 Daniel Mendoza e 17K1 1835 7 John Jackson 17CJ 113 76 Jem Belcher 17SI 1811 3 Tom Belcher 1733 iBM 71 John Bully u 1783 1863 8 Tom Cribs 17SI ISIS 67 Tom Spring = = = = 1793 1S > 7 W Jem Ward 1SOO 1H83 I 8 Bendigo Wm Johnson 1811 1873 ii 18 6 Ben Count 1815 hOt 4 Bill Per Tipton Slasher ISiS 1881 62 Tom Sayers 182S ISOfi B Jem Mace u 1831 Tom King ISIS ItSS 59 Signed JOHN L SILLIC |