JOHNSON’S TRAINING IDEAS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1056, 2 June 1910, Page 10

JOHNSON’S TRAINING IDEAS.

In a letter to a friend Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champion, gives his ideas of training.

“I am not hiring any one to tell me how to train,” Johnson writes. “Of course I will have a large staff of socalled trainers, but they will do what I instruct them to do. In the actual preparation for the Jeffries bout I will follow my own system. My training is all based on how I feel and perform. “If I could hit as hard be as fast and feel as well, I would not care whether I weighed a ton or 150 pounds. But common sense tells me that 198 or 200 pounds is enough to be at my best. I do not expect to weigh an ounce more than 198 when I meet Mr. Jeffries. It isn’t that I don’t need training, but I don’t need trainers.”