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Show Kid McCoy Suggests New Training Siunte "PRIZEFIGHTERS of the future will do most of their training in aero- A planes." W This remarkable and revolutionary j statement was mado recently by Kd II McCoy, the pugilist, who formerly hold K thn middleweight and welterweight I championships S "Indulgence In aviation Is a splendid way of training." announced McCoy jj after ho had navigated a flvo mile jj courso through the air in a borrowed U aeroplane b "It quickens ever' sense Tho filer ' . must bo on tho alert all tho time. Ho h must be strong too. Every one can seo h the Immense possibilities of getting fj pure, fresh air when ono Is about a i mile up In the sky. No germs, no dust, j ;jl no vitiated atmosphere, no nothing. 1 "Some fighters may nover get any fj nearer heaven than tho 10,000 foot al- ' tltude mark, but even that has Its com- J pensat!on3. They would probably ba lonesomo anyhow," 1 McCoy has written to Champion Jack I ; Johnson explaining tho usefulness of tho aeroplane, but tho Ethiopian brula- , ( cr has not yot got beyond tho auto- , ; mobile staje. I 41 |