Are In Good Hands

"I'm afraid that trainer is too modest. He jnst told me that Jim had douo I enough work and must quit. I said, 'Why don't you teil Mm?' and he saití, 'I'm notacquainted, you teil hiin." So said an officer of the Athletic association during foot hall practice, in speaking of Torn Cox, who had just left his bicycle riders at Kalamazoo to come to Ann Arhor to train foot ball men. He ] seemsaquiet, unauming little man, polite and courteous to everyone and almost bashful. "There's the nerviest f ello w in the world," said a Battle Creek man, at ths same time pointing to Cox. "He holds the world's record for the 1 müe run, and I saw lüm do a trick one I night that couldn't be beaten lor nerve. ';E.ewasin Battle Creek. A man named King was tjien holding spiritualistic meetings. He was just coining raoney, charging $1 admission to seances and having packed houses every night. He materialized spirits to order, and would make visible any spirit you wanted from Adam down to your own grandfather. The house was darkened, and somebody's spirit was materialized, coming from the stage as they always did. As it appeared Torn ] made one jump and grabbed tho spirit about the waist. Then carne the bigffest fight I ever saw. The ghost I ed and bit. It swore and yelled and threatened. It chewed Torn's finger to the bone, but he held on; its phosphorescent garments tore off and 1 vealod lo the audience the very material Mr. King, who was taken to jail and prosecuted as a íakir. That's a specimen of Tom's nerve." Cox is a small man, witli nothing in his composition but muscle and sinew. He is one of the trainers who help rub the men and look after their littlo ailments, instead of simply giving advice and leaving the work to assistants. He began his athletic career in '79. In '81 he turned professional. He has been in all the important six-day races of the last ten yeara, and has a record of 527 miles for that time.