VEGETARIAN DIET

Southland Times, Issue 21219, 21 October 1930, Page 3

VEGETARIAN DIET

AMERICAN WRESTLER’S METHODS.

ONLY TWO MEALS A DAY.

Walter Logan, noted young American wrestler, is a good advertisement for the vegetarian diet. Logan is a fine type of man physically and although he is only 24 years of age he has already amassed a very creditable record of victories in the mat game.

To a Times reporter last evening, Logan said that the principal reason for his splendid condition was that he had only two meals a day—between 9 and. 10 in the morning and at 6 in the evening. He did not fake a drink of any kind during a meal, but invariably drank between meals. He drank very little water, and coffee not at all, but he said he was a great believer in the value of the juice of the orange. He very seldom ate meat, his being practically a vegetarian diet. He found that this gave him greater strength than any other diet he had tried.

Logan has been wrestling eight years, two of which were spent as an amateur in. Kansas and Texas, where he appeared under the auspices of various schools and athletic clubs. In amateur contests of course, certain holds are barred, just as is the case here; but Logan showed such proficiency for the game, that he decided to take it on seriously, and eventually he devoted practically the whole of his time to it.

It is interesting to note that Logan was. no mean light heavyweight boxer, and as an amateur he engaged in 25 contests, winning 18 of them. Contrary to the generally accepted belief, Logan stated that he had found boxing beneficial to his wrestling. It gave him greater speed and more balance for his wrestling, and he found that he could get away from holds through sheer quickness on his feet that he would not have been able to previously. Even now he believed in doing a little bit of boxing for speed. Most of his training in the gymnasium was spent in shadow boxing to acquire the greatest possible speed. His training methods are a little bit different from those of many other wrestlers that have appeared in the Dominion, and as Logan has had. the advantage of instruction from some of the best wrestling instructors in the United States, it is worth while recounting his ordinary daily routine. When he gets up he has a couple .of glasses of hot water to drink and at 7130 or 8 o’clock he gets out on the road and goes for a spin of about 12 miles, alternating between good brisk walking and short sharp sprints, the idea being just, as in wrestling, for in a contest there occur those exceptionally fast rallies and then the slower breaks. When Logan he does half an hour or more in exercising, especially for his neck, arms and shoulders; and then he rests for about half an hour, after which he has breakfast. Sometimes he goes for a walk in the afternoon, and before retiring at night does a little exercising. Occasionally Logan works out with a light man in order to acquire speed. Logan was at one time under the charge of Vernon Breedlove, one of the cleverest of the lighter matmen America has seen for years, and a man who retired undefeated.

The American matman mentioned in passing that wrestling in the States was not confined- to the heavy men —heavy, light heavv. middle, and feather weights all proving popular. One of the reasons for the growing popularity of wrestling he attributed to the fact that most of the grapplers were prepared to wrestle almost when called upon, and it was no uncommon thing for him to make, two or three appearances weekly for weeks on end. Logan declared that he was in good shape for his contest with Fred Ebert on Thursday, and he anticipates a fast and exciting encounter. It should bo mentioned that he is one of the few men who has pinned the undefeated Turk, .Kara Pasha, who beat him by two submission falls. Logan is regarded as one of the most promising of America’s younger school of wrestlers. .