I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the body per minute; this sluggishness, permitting poisonous waste matter to accumulate in every cell, clogs the channels of energy.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.