Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-04 | Page 7 | "Kid" Lavinge on Training Methods

I KID IUD LAVINGE ON II I TRAINING INING METHODS Former r Weight Light-Weight Champion of the World Tells of Some of His Fights 0 O Kid IUd Lavigne the former light light- 9 4 O 0 weight champion of the world Q 0 O G talks of ot training methods in this 0 G Q 0 manner mariner 0 O OO O C There are few people who know 9 O e what It Is to be trained down beC beG be- be beO e- e O Q G C low ones one's normal fighting 1 weight 0 O S 0 I was WitS once and it was when I 0 O OC C ci boxed with Frank Erne At that O Q OC 4 C time time I was heavier I am now 0 O OO O 0 and it was har harder for ler r me me sue to do 0 O Od d Ii th than n it would be beat at present resent to too O 0 OO O 0 make I pUt put pig up that I O 0 OGI GI LI I would be at the tho weight G 9 pounds or It forfeit and as it was 9 O I my own money it worried me a lot 6 9 O G I told my brother who was was manag- manag 9 t 0 ing me that he ought to have InC inO in- in InC inO O C O QI Erne to make the weight GG O G OO O G I pounds give or or i take taka two GG O G OO O G pounds but Billy was sure I could O 9 e 0 fight at the reC required limit so rid rid- Q G A 9 cule the idea At Alter After r training hard O 0 OO O 0 I weighed d myself two days before GC Q G O C the fight and found that I 1 was O 9 9 hugging the 33 notch i 1 That fright fright- C Q 9 C crl I ened me me for I saW saw that I would 9 e 9 have to take off offa tr a a couple of ot Q 9 O 0 pounds' pounds or lose my my So I reO re- re Q 9 O 9 educed CC O C OO C O The night of the tIght I was ill G GI 9 O C I bad had not eaten a a. mouthful of food G 9 Gall O 0 all day for fear that I I would not 0 t Q 9 weigh in m n and th thereby re Y forfeit On Q a QC aI C ci I the way way to the the- clubhouse the use I fet felt so GC O G C 0 C weak that my trainer Paddy Gore Gor- Gor GorO GorG O G e 0 man told me to take a a. brandy in 9 O 9 order to brace up But it did me GeEl O G eEl 9 no good and when I stripped I was was O C ci a as weak as a a. r rat t in a trap When O 0 OO O C we began to fight I decided that if O 9 OO O QI I did not knock Erne out out quickly O 9 OC C ci I would be beaten So I let go a O 9 OO O fb hard punch at him and fell sprawl- sprawl O 9 e 0 ing log on my face I was drunk and 0 0 the brandy on an empty stomach O 9 j 0 had done me completely up I was 9 8 Qi GI accused n next day os of of hav having ng O 9 Q C been intoxicated but It was not in 9 O 0 the sense that Is usually meant O 9 OO O i It was a lesson to me for I made 0 O OO O e up my mind that I would never hever 9 0 O Q take chances with my weight 9 GI C again 0 09 9 i Lavigne is In fine condition now CS 9 Q Ci and can fight strong rong rong at He Ce O C 6 e will wU tIght fight any anyay eay ay in the world at O 9 OO O 0 that limit McGovern and Corbett O 9 OC C 0 preferred ifa A O 9 CD 0 G 0 f 9 a 2 0 0 e 0 9 at 0 0 e 9 C 0 9 0 09