Show BAT BAI TELLS HOW TO STAY ON TOP Be a MollyCoddle Dont Eat Pie and Avoid Becoming a Has Been Be a mollycoddle in regard to your our health keep a reserve fund of ot strength and energy dont eat pie or smoke too many cigars or cigarettes says sa s Battling Nelson Nelsons article which tells how to avoid becoming a has been follows BY BATTLING NELSON The fhe subject of this article is How Hov to keep from becoming a has been beenA A has been is a person who has lost his grip He Is all in That mean that he is old It means he ht h has started rolling down the hill bill when he ought tobe to be at the top topA topA topA A champion who has fought one fight too many man and then tries to begin all over oyer again Is a has been beenA A plunger who has cornered the market and won a lot of ot coin and then gets caught In the next squeeze and loses all he made and who tries to get on his feet again by playing long shots and puts and calls Is a has been Lawyers doctors statesmen financiers ball players fighters presidents report reporters ers em and bootblacks all over the land dread the time TV when hen they the will Join the down and outs There are some things a man cant stay at and keep at the top of ot his class clas Fighting is only one of the things Any game that requires a man to live lle all the time timp on his nerves will eventually slow him up and cause him to lose his punch The question Is how can we keep our ourselves ourselves selves ke keyed ed up to high pitch with the least tax on our energies and thus remain at our best the longest possible time I want to say right here that I know of no panacea that can c n cure a has been Has Been Never Comes Bac The general rule is that nobody ever fer comes cornea back from has been land wh why when a man loses his fortune or a champion gets knocked out his friends all desert him They know that its a mil ml million million lion to one that he come back And the world has no use for tor a dead one The shrewdest thing a man can do to retain his powers Is to begin conserving con them before they show any signs of de decline decline cline Give your our health as much attention when you are sound as a dollar as you jou ou would if bad symptoms were developing Mollycoddle yourself I mean just that After every cerY fight whether it is in the ring ing or in the office at your our daily tasks use every evex precaution to restore the tissues tissues tissues sues the nerve nene energy and the wear and tear on your our body which you have lost When a race horse comes back from a ahard ahard ahard hard race look at the way war they the groom him They Th baby bab the animal They The bathe him fix him a nice soft bed bcd give him the best kind of food watch carefully lest he overfeed or They see that he gets a good undisturbed rest Well if a race horse needs that kind of attention dont you ou think a man re requires requires requires quires some kind of ot attention Must Eat and Sleep Well Now here Is something I want to tell you rou rouNo No man who can steep sleep well welt and eat eatwell eatwell well Is ever e er gent Sent to a sanitarium or to tl West cst Baden or any other place where they patch up If a man is normally constituted and gets enough work and exercise to make him tired and also lots of fresh air he ought to be able to sleep from eight to ten hours every night And this he ought to do And the first three hours of his sleep ought to be before midnight I Late ate hours do more to break a mans health than anything I know of except the excessive use of or alcoholic stimulants or other othar oth r excesses of or that nature The bad effects effect of liquor are so well known that I am not going to touch on that subject And next to sleeping a 8 man ought to toge give ge unusual attention to his food It paye paja to be finicky It pays to insist that ones food is thor thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly cooked It pays a man to study his system and to learn what agrees with him and what he cannot digest Then there Is 15 the curse of pastry You dont find many who cat eat pie Go Co to a convention of and watch them at lunch They all dring coffee They The all eat in a hurry as if it the last train was going In a II few minutes They The eat everything that is bad for them and then top it off of with pie pl Cut Out the Pie I eaten a dozen pieces of pie Die pi In my ray life They all drink coffee I dont smoke or chew or drink Since I have been righting lighting reflect on the number of ot champions who have drift drifted dd ft ed into the oblivion of land No matter what you do you cannot re tain thin your physical and mental powers un less you ou eat well and take plenty of ot ex exercise exercise In the open air airA airA airA A man who does that Is not going to be a Thero There is one thing In Jn favor of Mr rr Ir Has lIas Been At one time Ume he was the real goods He has a much better record than Mr Ir Never Was Vas His only trouble was that he neglected to keep a surplus of ot health he squandered his reserve fund He around to too I late at night ha he have time to take proper exercise exer lse he bolted his meals drank too much cof cor fee and smoked too many cigarettes or cigars If he had started mollycoddling himself when his powers were ware at their best he be have struck the toboggan so soon |