Show I fREDDIE WELCH HASI HAS I OPENED THE ft YES EYES OF I Ills HIS BRITISH fRIENDS I Light Weights Weight's Training Notions Learned in America America America Amer Amer- ica Surprise to Them When Freddie Welsh was over o hero here he picked up no end of Ideas Ideal about th the American theor theory of oC training After he returned to England he put them In tice When the English boxing critics critic went out to see him at his hi quarters be before before be- be fore his bout with Young Josephs Josephe the they I were surprised to find how busy bUy he kept himself It Is a marvel mar to an Englishman that Welsh can be a vegetarian and still a good fighter The Sportsman says The fact that he lie has won over sixty slaty contests eighteen of which have gone over ten rounds makes it very plain that flesh OlIh meat and alcohol are not to some a a. necessity In this respect the thc little man from Pontypridd stands out by himself himself- I a marvelous statue In the history of or the noble art while to show how that ho he possesses the punch sixteen knockouts arc are down to I hl his credit I Contrary to the methods of English boxers through 1 Welsh Ills l lu training is busy fad practically Is divided r I Into the g day two i parts part In Jn the morning he works at the pulleys strengthening the muscles of oC the neck by a it set of exercises he has developed developed de de- de- de I and b by another set of exercises exercise gives give his abdomen that washboard appearance ap up- that betokens n the singular de development development de de- of the mu muscles ds there After that he goes gop for tor a six lib or mile eight-mile run on the road and returns to be massaged All this consumes about two and a R half halt hours and the first meal of tho the da clay follow follows fol fol- fol- fol lows low at about 12 o'clock At AtI I 4 he lie i Is 18 in his gymnasium and gives two hours to 10 bag baJ punching pun shadow boxing and real boxing with his sparring partners and real boxIng boxing box box- ing It Is too A shower hower a plunge In the the- swimming bath and a thorough massage end the work His lii condition I is excellent all the tue muscles muscles mus mus- cles des especially specially those about the body beIng being be be- ing nn finely ly developed An interesting In Instance Instance In- In stance of or this was seen when he be inhaled deep Jeep drafts of air at the open window at th the time same expanding his hili lungs mechanically mechanically me me- b by b r asping his hands handa behind I his back and ana and bringing the arms up as fur furas furas furk as possible Asked k the teason on for this Welsh re replied re- re plied expelling his breath In a volume Deep Opp breathing Is one of the things most neglected by boxers and yet et we arc are the ones who most need It And nd then he tie went wenton on Ion to explain how he had studied the tho Yogi 31 system k adopted d I by y the Indians and n mh had taken his scheme of lung develop develop- oI mont ment from It He UP practices deep breathIng breathing breath breath- Ing while running on the till road as all w well veil as In the morning i when h lie hI g gf gets ts I up and in the evening c before going to bf bed Rightly nightly or wrongly hj lie hp attributes a a a- great d deal 1 of his unusual endurance to this method The Th nut end fruit diet of ofila I Welsh ila has formed food for many many u a joke re ef rO and on the other hand discussion The proof of the tho pudding however Is III In iii Inthe the eating The Welshman himself has hall J perfect faith In It It and believes belle that on ott any other than v vegetable flable foods he hI would be unable to o bring n himself Into n the h condition con con- ft which c I It r Is his pride to be I In on n the day of a battle Nevertheless hi his hi diet Jet is is' only on one feature of a careful cardul system of training Owner Oner Grayson of or I J.- J. In is said uld to 0 tobe tobe be discussing I what the e reporters write rt te with them when It does n not appear as be he would like to have har It He lie will quit that when h he gets further h along alone 1 In Iii the game r H i. i He H. Is a pleasant agreeable r young man but hut as all he I Is new In ba baseball can tAn be exp ex- ex p ct d to make a few mistakes at the start Minneapolis Minneapolis Journal |