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Show KEEP IN TRAINING THE YEAR 'ROUND Keeping la training for a football, track or baseball aeaaoa not aa easy task for the average athlete who will appreciate appre-ciate the hard work that la required of the Original Tour Londons, who have to keep la training the year round. Three of the Londono are appearing at the Orpheum. They have been In good physical phy-sical condition for the past three yesre. snd It appears from the contracts they have to nil that they will be la training for that many ycara more. Rowing, -swimming, tennis and each games are some of the pastimes used by manv athletes during training, but the Londons use the horlsontal bar as the principal means 01 aerpina in w mi m. They ara also constantly Inventing nrw fnats. and aa each one requires many months of prsrtlca before It csn be used before the public, they find themselves very busy. - They have fliers, twisters, somersaults and fllp-nops In singles, doubles and trlplea gator In the category of their accomplishments. Ernest A. London, manager of the quartette, points out the small rhsnce of danger In missing any of the sensational tricks they execute In their thrilling act. "We have been doing thsm In vsude-villa vsude-villa for three year..'' he saya. "and have spent nearly thaf much time in firartlrtng them. Never Is a new trick ntrodured that w have not worked on and perfected until It la easy and simple for us to execute. There haa been but one accident to any of ua. and that hap. nened after a rain, when we were In a bark. The appa rat us waa wet and one of the hove Ml In try ing to do a triple somersault and broke his ankle. Mr. Ixmdon avowa there are easier ways of getting money than the one be has chosen, and He has no trouble In finding others to agree with him after 1 he haa shown hie act. - j |