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Show Quarter hours. But every three minutes min-utes there Is a rest period covering one minute. That counts more that taking one period of forty-five mln utes. it keeps the system from com pletely wearing down under thf strain. The coming of that period o rest has saved many a fighter froo a knockout. The gong has soundei before the count of ten wan reached Before tho end of the minute tin ! fallen gladiator would not only havi recovered, but has many times goni or. and won the fight. Now, in wrestling, a period of lw j hours and fifteen minutes is not tic I usual. There is no arrangement o I rounds. Tho rest between falls aier ages ten minutes. There Is no bel lo save one of the men from defeat There Is little chance to rent. Tired lighters ran clinch, but clinching moans only the beginning of tho war fare in grappling. True, with strangle-Jorks and slru liar holds barred, there are relative); few instances of enforced unconsciousness uncon-sciousness in wrestling. The Impact against a nerve center will put th better man out of the running in a fight. There Is never any gauge ol strength. There Is only a gauge ol hitting power, agility and. luck. (Continued on Page Five.) WHY SHOULD-FIGHTERS TRAIN LONGER THAN WRESTLERS? The elaborate training of Johnson and Jeffries for their mill on the nation's na-tion's birthday brings to the attention of sport fans the difference between the experts of the two principal means of individual physical competition compe-tition fighting and wrestling, -'ever In the history of the mat did piers train such a long period . these two giants of the squared circle. Back of it somewhere must, bo a reason; possibly a list of reasons. rea-sons. Just how many rounds Jeffries and Johnson will fight Is a question. At the outside, let us suppose it would be forty-five rounds; that's far above the average. That means 135 rain- j , utes of actual fighting or two and a (Continued from Paso 'Two) Science has never measured tho energy expended in a wrestling match and compared it with the energy en-ergy tot forth in a light. Ri.it this truth wo do know; Tho grapplor, during tho course of his bout, use3 pretty nearly every muscle in his body. What ho does not display In f velocity (as noted in a blow ), ho : makes up for in leverage. The blow : land?, does Us execution In a moment, mo-ment, ami teases to be. Tho holds applied In wrestling are relentless until un-til they are broken or pit the other man on his shoulders. Does It actually actu-ally take mote endurance to withstand with-stand a succession of blows (few of which are squarely landed) than It lnes to hold nut against (ho leverage ff powerful body, legs and aims indefinitely in-definitely applied? Perhaps, in tho mailer of ..nT training, the fighters are obliged to overcome their assaults on nature it--elf; tho bad usage of high living, of infrequent fighting, and of neglect of the muscular organism. Mabe if fighters fought more they would keep In better condition. And again -maybe the Impact of blows is more disostrous to the system than tho leverage of the mat James J. Jeffries was out of tho Came for about six years During hat time he may have done more or less hard work, but that did not lend cuuch value to his muscles. Wo can understand why, in this Instance, Jeff mus train hard. But Johnson has fought many battles during that time However, ho trains just as hard as Jeffries. And these men will nieeL Irrespective Irre-spective of wbat the outcome will bo, they will utilize every iota of force, peed, generalship and gameness that has been cultivated during this training train-ing period. Neither would think of ( taking on a hard battle insldo of six months. Rut tho wrestler goes from one battle bat-tle of longer duration Into another; r.ot six months alter; not throe months after; but two or three days later. Men. wrestled pges tieforc they fought with tholr fists. Personal en counters Invariably result in grappling. grap-pling. Wrestling Is primal; fighting was cultivated. Wrestling calls on the fundamental In man; fighting calls forth a new art an art scarcely more than a century old, as we pee tt today. Away down in the wilds of Africa. In the days when Stanley was exploring tho continent, black men held wrestling matches following Craeco Roman rules to the letter. They get It from a tlmo when Fthi-opia Fthi-opia was Important in tho world's af fairs. They did not learn flghtiug. Long before Renting was classed as a (rarae of physical competition, men fought with swords. The glad'ators of Rome had come and gone centuries before boxing gloes were invented; ceDtitries oven before men fought according ac-cording to rules with bare flst. Tho fight Is more popular, because It Is more spectacular. Velocity shows up bettor than mere basic lorco. People prefer to see horses run and automobiles race than watch tho laborious efforts of tho steam shovel, and still the shove) does more work; requires more enotgy by far. Wc who have to puff loudly and snort betimes In sprinting to connect with the oncoming tram car, feci our vast inferiority as compared with tbeso examples of skilled brute force Wo fancy that we, too, might to be able to enter tho ring or step onto the mat and give an account of our-solves. our-solves. After all, what we admire Is not the ability to twist or to punch. It Is the possession of rare good health. Grappling and fighting remain as reminders re-minders from the days that wore; sort of mlleposts that tell us that the big thing in life is health because, health usually iruplloB happiness, and ' feeling good"' is better than the possession pos-session of va.st riches. Inherently, wo know this to ho true. Outwardly, we talk of tho objective evidence of it. Admiring 'the physical contest, therefore, is not a sign wo are reverting revert-ing to the brute. It is not an indication indi-cation of retrogression. To the- contrary, con-trary, It Is tho age-old story of "the perfect temple." Wli.it wo display today to-day In a liking for fights and wrestling wres-tling matches, was displayed In India prior to tho hlrlh of Piiddhism. Physical Phy-sical perfection preceded iho quest for the "Nirvana." All of which Is respectfully dedicated dedi-cated to the old ladies and sky pilots who ricvalled 11 pen Governor Oillett, |