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Show Professional Trainers For j Olympic Games Needless Ty G, GEORGE, holder of tho mllo professional record, says this talk of a professional trainer for the Olympic Olym-pic teams is all rubbish; that men are bettor If loft tp themselves and to watch somo first class performer. On how he trained himself and tho Ameri-cen Ameri-cen mothod of specializing ho writes lntorcstlngly as follows: "Thlrty-flvo years ago I determined to start training. I was an Indoor apprentice ap-prentice at tho time with the late Charles Feraeloy of Worcester, and 1 only had an hour off dally for recreation recrea-tion and pleasure, with one evening wcokly and every other Sunday afternoon. after-noon. There was no running track or club in existence; hence when dally recreation hour arrived I ran off, making mak-ing for a quiet lano about ono and one-half one-half miles away and popscsslng about half a mile of nice clndor path. Once there, after doffing my coat and hat, 1 started training by walking two miles as hard as I could go or sprinting and dashing about for all I was worth (provided thcro was no one about) till it was time to run back to buslncsB and work. This performance went on for a long time quite secretly. Then I entered en-tered for my first race (It would be in 1887), tho ono milo walking handicap at tho Birmingham Athletic club sports, receiving forty-five yards start-I start-I walked a dead heat with ono Fere-day Fere-day of Dudley, Charles Callow, Civil Service, third; tlmo, 7 minutes C seconds, sec-onds, "After this I was regarded aa a promising prom-ising athlete, and an old Sheffield hand leap professional and several amateur sportsmen took mo to task and in hand. Then I got up at 6 o'clock In the morning, morn-ing, swallowed porridge and took gentle gen-tle or violent cxerclso beforo break fast and then ran back to open tho shop at 8 o'clock. After that breakfast and work till my afternoon spoil of lolsurc (except of course, dinner tlmo). n This tlmo I spent on Pltchcroft, the ft public raco course. In running all sorts pJ of distances, generally at my fastest -l Then away back to work till 9 o'clock, A when supper was served. Aftor that Jg we (there wero othor apprentices) studied till 10; 30 o'clock, bedtime. My ' ovonlngs and Sunday afternoon oft I were always spont In walking or run- , ning. i; "About this time I came to the con- I elusion that my training methods were not as good as they should be, so I cast ! about and made Inquiries and a thor- ;. ough study of myself and my doings. 1' After many tests and trials I camo to j tho conclusion that all my former f methods and the general training tac- ! tics adopted by tho trainers of tho day 1 were altogether wrong, and in conse- i' quenco I mapped out for myself a dlf- j ferent process of practice and training ' altogether, and in due coursa I discovered discov-ered that early morning exercise and j cold water baths (oxcept as a shower) ' i did not suit me; that porridge was the f cause of my dally sickness after exer- ' ciso: that, although I required a lot of Hteady work, fast runs and trials were ' a mistake, and also many other things Including that It was not necessary for mo to abstain from any ordinary diet provided the food was good and prop- i erly cooked. "Now, as far as I am porsonally concerned, con-cerned, this was the first I know or heard of scientific training, but slnco those days I havo made a thorough study of the matter and tested tho methods as practiced on myself and hundreds of brother athletes, always T with the same good results." |