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=hpconeronnlcadueog batownstissnnncoeaaoeeent BELMONT TALKS ABOUT HORSES rah EVENING WORLD _ SATURDAY, & MAROR 2, 1912. WORK TO GET MEN PRYSICALLY FIT Climate of First Importance in Selecting a Camp, De- clares McGraw. BELIEVES IN RECREATION New York Leader Allows Men to Do and to Eat What- ever They Want. BY JOHN J. M’GRAW, ir of Saaent National League plone. (Written Eeportety for The Evening World.) lin, March 2. my opin- fon, the spring train- ing of a ball y club is of more importance in winning a pen- nant than any one factor. Of course, players 2, of exceptional ability are needed, but unless they are well prepared physically for thelr work they may be laid up with injuries during the summer. In that event the club would be just as badly off as if euch players did not exist. For instance, the average fan could @it down and in a few minutes point out @s many as ten teams that have lost the pennant through injui to their players. We often hear of a club ‘deing in hard luck on account of hav- ing so many players laid up with {11 nese, but in most of those cases the feult can be traced back to the train ing work done in the spring ‘The climate ts of first importance tn eelecting @ training camp. Colds tha are contracted where the weather 13 to eevere often last all summer. 1 selected Marlin because the climate is y and even, find in the North during May and June, ‘That enables my men to develop in the tai atmospheric temperature tha they will strike when they begin th: hard work of: their regular campaign Indoor training in basevall ts of n value whatever. The men must be cli- matized. They must be avle to £. through hard work without bein; chilled while they are still perspiring. ATTRIBUTES PENNANT TO MAR LIN WEATHER, I attribute our success in winning the pennant last year to the excellent weather conditions thet we found in Marlin. My club was able to go at top @peed almost at the beginning of th: regular season, We also had compara tively no trouble on account of the pl ers being injured. Everybody sald we ‘were lucky, but that did not cover the cape entire ‘The Giants were in ex- pipiens cellent condition, it occurred to me rs that were injured sliding to the bases. ‘There must be a reason for this, so J figured that they did not know how to slide to escape injury. I then decided ta have @ sliding pit built on the train- ing grounds, and that {8 largely respoa- eidle for the Giants’ winning the pennant last year. It will be remembered that ‘we atole more bases than any club tn the league by a big margin. Other clubs were having men laid up every day from aiding accidents while the Glanws suf- fered no inconvenience whatever. layers had not known how to slide the nts would have been crippled and we ‘would not have won, It can be seen therefore what an effect that part of epri has on the season. ‘The public seems to have a mist: pring training consis drilling the players into certain plays. That is merely incidental. The main idea is to get them in physical condition to stand a gri = elx months, la waya take at | for this work, for I dan't Delleve that's maa can be trained in leas time than that to lust eix months. The work has to be done gradually, Lame legs and arms must be a tened out and the batters must get thelr eyes accustomed to the sharp breaks of curve balls, ‘This takes time, In Marlin I find that the hot water daths following hard workouts do more for sore nvuscles than all the liniments in the world, It is not so much the medicinal qualities of the Water as the fact that it Is hot. A doctor will always tell bis patient to put his sprained ankle jm hot water, It loosens up the con- tracted muscles and allows it to get well of its own accord, PLAYERS SUPPOSED TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. Another mistaken idea of the publto ts that training consists of giving ¢ players certain kinds of food and pute ting them through certain athletic atunts, I do nothing of the kind. The players are supposed to take care of themselves, They are allowed to eat what they please, If they suffer from it, it dw their own fault and they quickly realise it. I do not atop them from wmoking or any other little habits that they may have taken up. In other words, the idea ts for them to live nat- Urally. and develop physteally at the rane time, ‘The ball player must tive | through six months of hard playing, and if he does not do it naturally it will be If our} © a hardship that he cannot stand, The prinefighter or the football player trains for a certain big event, and when that | rer they can go back to their nat- @ral otyle of Uving. But the ball player the NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES ‘OF MANY ARE CALLED 8UT FEW ARE CHOSEN AT MARLIN WHAT CAN 00 To<eT MA NAME IN DE PAPE Nuggets From M’Graw’s Spring Training Story Spring training is of more importance in winning a pennant than any other factor. ‘The public seems to hav consists of drilling the playérs into to get them in physieal condition I always take at least seven Delieve that a man can be trained in months. Im Marlin I find that the hot water outs do more for sore muscles than all Another mistaken idea of the public of giving the players certain kin of 00d and certain athletic stunts. I do nothing of the kind. The idea for them ia to live naturally. Players often tire of their work on the diamond. That is why x have introduced such pastimes as tenais, handball, pushball, &o. I bave found the only way to get results in training is to be ays- tematic. I work the men two hours every morning a24 two hours every afternoon. Social polish is » big help in making a club win, as i personal pride in the men and makes then: want to be at For that reason I always exconrage the youngsters to take the dances that are given at Marlin every week. ne nust keep up his work for six or seven| baseball club win, as tt “ nonths. He has to be fitted for that] sonal pride in the men Pareto oa Just the same as a man in any other| want to bo at the top. For that reason Ine of business, I always encourage the youngaters to I find in apring training that tho play-|take part in the dances that are given at ers often tire of thelr work on the din-| Marlin every week. It also keeps the! nond. That is why I have introduced] mind off the wi twotd tans eee such pastimes as tennis, handball, push+| my players ‘think of Re: ai he kes the mind off baseball timo when they are am _ & keeps the players at work at the! forget it when they get to (Bray | ia] Het ee cescenary te. Ga. mush ine| Sant in ever “1 The busine structing with the veteran ball . bestnens dusts whe arrow over They know what to do, soon becomes mentally unfit for hie SPORT McGraw’s Own Story---‘ arent a Big League. Ball Team By George McManus WURRA, PACKRY MCFARLAND HAS DEVELOPED A KO BUNeH~ HE Mav NESS 1T AGAINST HE WON'T BE HAPPY ‘TIL THEY GET HERE, , THE REGULARS ARE NOW ALL IN, CAM: AT MARLIN, TEX. Giants’ First and Second Teams Play _ Opening Exhibition Games To-Day: Who Says Giant Players Can't Do Turkey Trot? (Special to The Evening World), MARIN, ch 2.—A bg dance was given here last night in honor of the ball players of the Giants, and Nght fantastic was tripped with due eclat, whatever that Is. Mig Stevo Jacobsen was there forty ways from the aco when it came to that Terpaichoran stuff, and the bls show of the night was when this seven- foot outtielder waited with a litte elghty-pound society girl. A pen ple- ture of that performance is Impos- sible, so ye fans of New York will have to use your imaginations. McGraw’s Bunch Will Be Seen at Fort Worth and Robin- son’s Gang at Dallas. out the youngs as {ant winter \bushel of ¢ = they are stl bemoaning the loss of the world's chy mplonship. All of the regulars wer lin and they were havin Mathewson, Wiltse, Cr and Marquard are devoti to tennis, while Jack 3 Fletcher, Deviin and De in finding ta for son not as and will no Louls Dru BY BOZEMAN BULGER. Dallas, Tex., March > HE baseball season for 1912 was I opened here to-day when a who carioad of young Giants swooped Gown on the Texans for the first ex- hibition games of the year. What tr known as the first squad, under the management of McGraw, plays in Fort Worth this afternoon, while the sec ond gang of youngeters, under Capt Robinson, will tackle Dallas, The only regular in the New York party Is I Snodgrass, who will play second b for McGraw's team, ‘To-morrow the, are giving teams will alternate, the handball courts a stiff play. They train with t has fMuminant and profound let ‘end ‘The frst team is made up f | were too tired on the first apent the winter at Waco. This park lterotare, ot couree he a ye Packey McFarland did meet nant here ty Groh, shortstop; Shafer, third base; | work on the diamond, Ae ae aban AD sina Winter oo ai ttan a sarlen of apticles une | it, thia town and the stocking yard Bues, second base; Burns, left lowed them to take 4 half hour of bu Coen eatin Chat LOUIe B00 [eee eee eee a cechelle/Phat'e ALi? | reaEIon pet tall oven Leachie 1 He @4. Jacobson, centre field; McGraw, |ting practice. Their efforts at hitting H = ere bri wa arin ai pra it twice, for good measure. firet base; Paulette, catcher, and | a curve ball were really ludicrous, Texan Ja ty fine shape, how. nd as ee, trtclen wa arherr| {2 mallee Four tat mw Bvang and Pullweider, pitchers. “Why, that ball doesn’t look any big- and McGraw © a to get nome | Next sonth. have . the Bronx, Ita style ia typical of teatro ‘Er second team is a of @ pea,” exclaimed Lar: vice out him this coming CASUALLY REFERRED the other bilthesome borough, jem shortstop; MeOormick, right a curve and Hits injured side is entirely ; } ts ~ i faids guoderaee, ssonad base! £007, ao Wied eel Big Wind tn Ireland, ela wa M1 ‘tiers writen me an Lara Sap bese) momersany Souse bagel. | Merkle) Fisteher ond Meraog struck yesterday with a tot of vie the only genuine prognosticator in his ation of his long silence, é Bapey, on i esas aaa baa tory, barring all comers, including| been on & honeymoon trip, Hear pe: pitchers. C Elijah, Mother Shipton, Cagtlostro and | tell tt. oar Munsell 1s also with the party and| ig anders Leave for Camp; Old Moore, Hie misiap in a boat made] WURRA WURRA: ” will be used ae an extra pitcher in feo he ts needed, DALLAS FAN® HOPE SUCCESS FOR THE GIANTS. ‘There was a big crowd of Dallas fant at the train to meet the Giants and they hope McGraw all kinds of suce pe Bert Daniels Only New York Wolter, wh the thing ts to get them in condition tol Wore amd the aame thin - rey ' American Regular Setting | !**,°",! le ng applies to ball| Here in Dallas they look upon the merican Regular Settin int on | Aaa pale a gary Hut tn | layers. oes Glante as thelr private property and 4 ig of the lu workout Is to see what real abil- ity they possess, The best way to do thia 1s to get them Into a practice Kame and they will show what they can do unconsciously, Often a youngster will he very nervous at the etart, and to put him at his ease I have to place him in a ppsitton where he is not expecting criticism, ‘The firat thing I look for in a young bali player is speed. Jf he te slow there {s little use of his starting, unless he happens to be a catcher or pitcher. Speed counts more than every- thing else in baseball. It {s the differ. ence between the big leaguer and the minor. After looking at a youngster’ speed, the next thing is his tempera- ment, Quick thinkers are born and not made. M'GRAW DOES EVERYTHING THE PLAYERS DO. Variety of Athle pian d i Dominican: Games Have At- tracted Big Entry—5,000- Metre Race a Feature, ID you ever hear of an athlotic table d'hote? Well that's What the Dominican Lyceum hi Another valuable assct toa roorult 1 |PFovided for to-night at the Soventy~) n eagerness to le In the past two /Aret Re With short weeks I have seen two or three young | dashes, fellows become pretty good aliders by | profusion it's a repast that the most! 71st Reg:‘ment Armory To-Night long Pai long runs in| Out From Here. An have erults Bergen far a for ex sin A tic Events at HE first bateh of Highs wet under way from the I vania Depot for tho at Adanta, Ga., There @ scratch affair in which each club will start five men, each runner go) she yards, ‘The Dominicans are iter y with Dorland, Gilmore, Parkes and| be one veteran in the party Con wd Daniels, It was thought that Hal Chase ‘he 70-yard dash, handicap, will bring t, bu ston together Jim Rosenberser, Jim Archer, | WOuld wet outs Vat } ee ee A. Meyer and Jack Eller, all of tne| ‘© stay behind a few extra day Irish-American A. C. ——_—_—— Evening World’s Headpin Tourney Trap Shooting Contes —— _ Last Night's Results. strom, 86; Wallner, OF ryt Composer Sousa One of the bite uhh Nord im Miller, J. | Contestants in National In- ‘on trying to learn. Very few recrults know exacting athletic enthuslaste shouldn't i,t M Pg how to slide when the y fivat break in, ' miss, With an entry itst of 200 for the) gis. deren, ; hi 444 and they have to be taught, The only) 4, A, U. events and the heaviest Kraeaer oor Championship. sleet successful slide ts the nook or fallaway Gatnoitc A, C, entry ever recorded, | My lets, 98 door P I Minted W slide, The idea is to hook the toe of one toot into the bag and throw the) body away from the baseman so that | he cannot touch anything but the spiked toe, T have found that the only way to get remults tn training !s to be system- the games should furnish good spor The piece de resistance will be the 5,000-metre run, serateh, in which famous Indian Arquette from the C {sle School will endeavor to demon- strate that the red atic, I work the meu two hours every of foot than his white brother, morning and two hours in the Indian will encounter tough oppasi- T work just as hant as they do, tion, however, for Kramer, Co! vy and other longed ‘facks are entered and re for the run are likely to wo a-kiting, pretty hard on me at first, but T know that T have got to show a willingness to do anything that I would ask the players to do. I am not as young as| In the 1,20yard relay some of these recrulls and It comes hard American, NewgYork A. ©. at times, but I get results from It be- Club and t tude ¥. M. ©. cause the youngsters are ashamed not will face the starter, Such human Em- to atick as long as I do. At that, I pire State Expresses a4 Gisaing, rather enjoy the training, for it always Archer, Frick, Shepparl, Helland, M Puts me in good physical condition, Ente, Clarke, Sehnabel, Sey mou whether I play or not. I like to play Keating, Lohse, Richmond, Paciard baseball, and I always play in tite p tice games right up the time we begin and DeGrouchy wil! be on the mentioned teams, The Catholic mile will be @ C. relay race at one Scie) polish ts 6 iso bis help in making t struggle, It will aforgr 1 4. Leaky, MeAriir, 94 Ne notd, ta . baal. santa to Ee diahcla, Xo, + 8 WHILE tho’ tended the Show at Macdix equa ene} t » shoot: | pla ing conte best suf the eduntry are to al indow attraction which ca rowd and push # to get ¢ onte for p was the to Starst, 107 . Pr ako mesaer Tia, te: OH "has | take part wa, the 1 bandmaste ded as an ex Will shoot throughout tig Last Night's Fob Winners, Billings of the New York Ati- | letic Club, who will be captain of t Olympig team of trap shooters, is an entrant and the result of this compet. A fn succession. doing a little more batting to-day while on his own ph krounds dire: Fred Snodgrass Is the oul One of the Regulars on Either Team. The regu! ters are away, Ko that they will be able to hold thelr own In the practice games that are to be played with the rec MEYERS'S ARRIVAL COMPLETES cepran OF TEAM. 5 me in last night and Te rults next week, of the team. been out at Riverside, Cal., and he brought with 4 that he h. akers as the gang Was hun- me kint of frut “ier eavy as he was last spring t have to do much reducing. ucke came over on the same he Chief, # he Dodgers Have Two Workouts » some business he has or Ko to the ew, Hares Mary's Co! membe Hal whe firs of Prince on the Job when the held qn Monda. § Philadelp any t Hoff, lade Dantels wil raw re it and oP squad ypeared on the Reorult t Feature — Of Sportsmen’s Show in Garden| to do in deeidin Ainertoan contin 1 one world's chan at besan ye fying rounds, iday targets p © final ro Vhowe € and f a him a d grown He had no trouble EDITED BY . ROBERT EDGREN HAT TALK HAVE YOU, Danny McKetrick? What's thie I hear about you knocking Willie Lewis by saying he ts down and out and hes been for two years? Uaen't Willie work for you {n your stable of scrappers? ANSWER~=He used to but— Didn't he always put up a good plece of box fightin’ and didn't he go egatust auch fellows as Ketche! the Assassin, Papke the Fenagiin Fourflusher, Claas] the House Wrecker, and didn't he take what came to him like # good olé Gag” Mouse patriot? Didn't he, what? Say yes! ANSWER—Ho did, but he was a hard fellow to manage and— Oh, yes-I admit he was. Everytidy in Murphy's home district, where Lewis lives, wants to be @ boos, but didn't Wille Lewis get a lot of that there French splash for you in Paris, Danny? Didn't he lick Montmorenct de Ler- Tequer, the Pickled Apache of the Rue de Bum; Lasijle de Bontjour, the @e- signer of snake-charming undervests, and Almarante Obesquots, the only Human Excavating plant that travels on its own lege regariiess? Didn't he, eh? ha ANSWER—Alas, yes, he trimmed them all, and did it good, too, but Gib ne— Oh-heht Yeas! Gibbons! The County Mayo Ia-a-d from 6t. Paul who made everybody's steht go bad trying to follow hie left-right wallops, Well, Bed ecran to that Gibbons if he is the cause of making you get sore on @ former meal ticket. Dan, you're a lucky gink to secure the services of an artist tke Gibbons to Put Willie away in as dacent style aa Johnny Rooney Inys them at rest. He got all the honors that were due to hint in his passing after fourteen years of rugged ecrapology, and now that he's out here's to him! He always gave me @ run for my yellowbacks, Glory be! B ALL TRAVEL. It's ‘ard, Bill,) life and said to hie pate: “T Mil the Ms have te use the subway and| boat mit water und make «4 Sem Dut some day we will] owld ov it.” " have tite r neros of our own, In the| And he did, And the Boat dath is meantime here's a communication from| there yet. Yours for the cleanly, THOMAS FAHEY, —, Runner of the Reservelr Mr. raney, who ts one of the mest observant of my readers, falls to mene tlon the fact that Charley Hoffmen tee Schwabian, A Schwablan in Germany {s looked upon as we view @ Bronzite or & Fiatbusher, Poor men! 1 learn trom Mike Collins, the biue- | coated thrush, that it was not in Lough fy peomel that on Duffy, the lemented philosopher .and prophet, loet his but In the Lakes of Coolfin, and wane offers to sing it for me. #16 incloses @he refrain, which goes thusly: “arreh, 4ié ne tel over, or was Bow) one of the observant citizens apropos of the ever-vexatious question of the prob- Jem of transportation: WURRA WURRA: A whole lot of people seem to take Partioular delight in kickin’ the sub- way guard aroun’. Why? Just be- cause he's a public servant—in @ way—must hoe Veo ail his human ins clination to resent the nastiness of those who ride? Listen: It was on a Broadway express at One Hundred and Sixteenth street. As a guard In the middle of the train wan closing the doors, in bounced a man who might have been « success ful banker or broker or lawyer o' business man—he looked prosperous, that oi gr," the guard replied, \y. chewin’ him?” eald nald the guard. in the name of the don't you inquire?" yed chap, only he didn't use the word Flatbush, The guard—and he was a well built young lad—clenched his fists, but said nothing, and Mr. Busy Bee tion, which ts such @ of our time, I get many letters sporting and other fans, Many of Lg Cnper) that are answered in ‘orl manac, formation they sek ls ays vad te ing annals. ‘They © UD @ lot of ttmeni# and I won't anew em {if the; some morety, ecting” ‘questions? Set bel I‘ THE MAD THIRST for tntormés went on—probably to compose a kick |here’# one that is an enyapieas, ‘om to the P, 8. C. or @ Letter to the Deer Boy Mc? Editor, on the surliness of subway Hoving a cereous argmint with my guards—he looked that kind. friend, boing @ spurt myself, 3 wame *" punched him on the nose and in my number. How about WATTS T. YUSE. | How about It? You'd punched him on the nose and didn’t, and you'd a—— You'd do a lot, Why didn’t you start something and then write me a let! about It. Why don't you do as Ido? Wh- What do I do? Auk the peg-poster, my musi HINNY M'GRAW haw rephyred into your candle opining on dis. Does Leachio Gross ever got tt on the etocking yard campion, and when And whar did they leak each one or “I did Gross beet McPharland? Ané obit'e @ true spurt in reply to t.e fing came, ee Yours Jas, KEELERMA, P. 8.--Excuse speliging and my <¢ qrenteen, as T have not edumonda- jon. Leachle Gross. as you call him in your Yes, siree! Feel we of turf has called forth several letters, This one for instance WURRA WURRA You think you af us something very funny in tha rn you had ay about Tom Durty, the ty philosopher, Ht a boat out mat and it dout you remamber me Mr, » McLoughlin tellin you I am morrié some time ago, and I am now back. aggzen, you kno a eckspensive Honey> moan cost lost of monney, and capt I marry the ole joke eben boing aksed vetter he was foolish who i sank with P. 7 this I wud hay an the case of Charley Hoftmen, » Yorkville spo the champlon soft hwargenscuppel Versichere!: One day Charley's club over In An- torla authorized him to build a boat and Chart on the jo! in the baseme me. When the boat was built Charley couldn't wet tt out of the cellar unless he pulled down the hous 1 Charley tear his hair bit of it, He th over. Suddenly he came to eliing Company to me and wife, In whew of this fac, I hav stored up enof Bitter feelings durin my wettin trip as wil last me congeld- erble long time, and | am now goin to kick everthing I dont like, whieh. is very valuaple, special now durin, the poliitercal times we are havin before the Pres, election. You'll here from me nex week. Wit Respect STeER HOPRP WANN, a The Ancient Face of The Sphinx glows with hap- piness as he drinks deep of the contents of the Bottle with the Red Label— SirRobt BUR} TIs@s London D Gin Sir Robert Burn Com; 632-634 W. Sah Be fee vou y, i\ anyway. A NRY, didret you open that ide Madhya wathers av oof ce " he yel Occttat” Phe muard on the next car runs |yiyst | Suess that will Ge about ally oF et we v9? or was his wite ‘wien und oe