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Show Delaney Has Original Ideas About Training By EINGSIDEB. CHICAGO. Oct. 20. In these days when Germany is getting boxed into begging for peace and being forced to beg until Uncle Sam gets ready to have the umpire count ten. it seems fitting to extemporize somewhat on a fighting boxer. We have reference to 0I Delaney of the Great Lakes naval training station, who, while getting ready to put the punch into the anti-submarine campaign, is using his mitts in a fashion quite noticeable. Cal has been accused of trying to be in shape to fight battles in the ring, but we have our own idea of that. It is true that he has an appearance of pudginess and roundness and sleekness sleek-ness which the trainers would not normally permit on the frame of a boxing box-ing man. That may redound to the glory of the navy and the kind of feed they put into their fighters. His condition was of this. order when in Rock Island the other night be stripped to give battle to Sailor Freed-mau. Freed-mau. whom we do not need to introduce to you. We asked him about it then. "Why don't you get some of it off, even if it is agreeable to your stomach to put so much of it on?" we asked him. Whereupon, without hesitating, he opened up his muffler and let out quite a dissertation on the matter of condition in regard to boxing. "You think because I eat eight or ten ice cream cones the day before T fight that I don't know anything.' he said. "You have a wrong idea about itj about mv training, I mean. Everybody seems to have an idea that I am hog fat every time I tep into the ring. That isn't true, because my weight will not yield to the hardest kind of training. I know what I am talking about, because I have tried to cut it down time nd time again. "So I have reached the conclusion that it isn't fat at all. Don't I fight strong whenever you see me. and don 't I alwavs finish as well as the other fel-lowf fel-lowf Well, that's the anwer, a far as I am concerned. Results, it seems to me. are what ought to count. "There's one thing I know very well. In mv present condition I 'm a lot better off and will live a longer time than some of the fellows I know who are training constantly and never give their constitutions a chance to rest up. Take the case of Johnny Dundee, for instance. There's a boy who is at it all the time. He works for a fight, has the fight and that night goes home, goes to bed and the next morning he is right at it again, training as if nothing had happened. " You will notice that Dundee gets his periods of staleness and isn't worth anything. He simply burns himself up with his persisteent efforts to keep in shape every minute of the time. Instead of training off. drinking a little beer or something of the sort and gtoinjj his system a chance to recuperate, he dries himself up and gets as stale as can be. That is never going to happen to me. I take good care of my system, but I won t train the way he does and wouldn't for anything in the world. "And there are a lot of others just like him. too." Cal may be right. His recent opponent, oppon-ent, Freedman, is a hard trainer, and against Cal the other night he looked like a grayhound against aPercheron draft horse. Yet Cal showed a superior decree of speed and hitting force. The sailor lust couldn't get going at any kind of speed, was short in his leads and ineffective and mauly when he got in close and attempted to do something. When you look at it. a question of training is always an individual one-and one-and the only person who can adequately decide what is beat for a boxer is the particular boxer himself. It stands to reason that the man who has to face the other fellow is going to give himself him-self the kind of treatment he needs to make him able to land the blows. And you never can tell it will only take a few more fights to determine whether "al has found the keynote of his fighting power, but, judging from recpnt results, we believe be has. It is well known that outside of the ring a person can pay too much attention atten-tion to his rendition for his own good, and it seems reasonable that often enough this may also be true of the man in the ring. We are waiting, like the rent of you, to see what is to come of this triangle composed of Deinpsey, Willard and Wil lie Meehan of the roast. So far it seem like it sometimes is on the western west-ern front. There is a lot of talk, and that 4 'otherwise the night was calm." We prophesy this, however. Unless Wil lard, during or after tb- war. or some time in between, goes to the mat with Pcmpsey the boxint fans will bold in question the solidarity and reality of his title. |
