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Show THE DIET OF AN ATHLETE. Wallace Itoss Describes How Professionals Pro-fessionals Train and Physic. "I eat," he said the other day, "and I always have eaten since I was a boy, plenty of nourishing, generous food, and I am "very wide in my choice, eating, as a rule, anv good food that tempts my appetite, appe-tite, and that is hearty enough to be easily tempted. For myself I am not especially fond of what you call made dishes, but prefer food in its plainer forms. For meats I eat chiefly mutton and beef, and I use a good deal of bread, of course being as careful as I can to get the best. My own idea is that so long as you have sound, sweet food it doesn't make as much difference what kind it is as how much you eat it. I am very particular par-ticular to eat slowly. I eat three times a dav. Breakfast is a light or hearty meal, according to how I feel about it at the time. Lunch in the middle of the day is alwaVs light, and dinner at 6:30 or .7 is the principal meal of the day. I always take an hour for that. If I haven't an hour to spare at dinner time I put off dinner din-ner till I have the time. "I find, though, that aside from meat and bread I must have plenty of vegetables. vege-tables. No man can be any kind of an athlete without eating plenty of vegetables. vegeta-bles. I take all kinds, and pretty much of all fruit, too. Fruits are good. A man can't 6tay without that kind of food. He has no endurance. "Yes, I'm Scotch, and I believe in oat meal, but I don't think you ought to eat too much of it. I have it at breakfast about three times a week. I am fond of milk, too, and am especially careful to drink it slowly. It's excellent food, but it's very bad to drink it fast. And it isn't good to take much liquid at. any time, especially at meals. I have a habit of always drinking a glass of water when I first get up ; spring water -when I can get it. I don't know exactly why I do it. I don't know that it is very good for me. I guess it is because I like it. There's no accounting for taste, you know. - "Tea is my greatest stimulant. I don't drink much coffee, but do take consider-aple consider-aple tea black tea always, I never use green and I take it with sugar and milk, and never take it iced. I don't believe i indeed drinks. I don't mean when I say it is my greatest stimulant that I never take anything stronger. I very seldom do, but sometimes just before a race. for instance, if I- need it, I take some brandy ; no malt liquor. That's bad, especially lager. Lager is very bad. "In training? Well, I. make no difference differ-ence in my diet in training. I only try to keep more regular hours, especially in sleeping. And I take no physic. Physic is bad always. In training it's fatal. |
