St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-04
AN UNDEVELOPED ARM.
need the rest and nniat which the


ter months are supposed to bring them.
During the six months of active work
OH the field they have strained every
muscle of the body, and the overtaxed
system needs repOSe and rest.
Early in March is time enough for
player to begin to think OF hardening
muscles for coming seasons work.
He should begin his work carefully and
gradually increase until he reports to
his club for work.
That base ball causes an abnormal de-
velopment of certain muscles is true in
some cases, especially that of the
pitcher. The pitcher does most OF his
work with the arm, and the member, be
he lett or right handed pitcher, must be
heavier and more fully developed than
the other arm, which is little used.
The illustration published herewith
a right-arm pitcher.
Outside of the pitcher the work is
more generally distributed, and glance
at our professional players of the day
will show figures as near physical per-
lection as it is possible for nature and
exercise to make it.
The natives of the Old World when
the Chicago and All-America clubs
made the trip around the world were
not so much surprised at the ball play
ing of the players as at their figures.
They had never seen such perfect mus
cular developments before, and per-
haps never will again unless another
tour around the world is made. A ia
nous artist in Rome went into ecStasies
over Tener, of the Chicago club, and
offered that player $500 year to remain
in Rome and act as q model.
A. H. p. Leuf, NJ. D., director of ply
steal education of the University of
PENNSYLVANIA and at Swarthmore col
lege, honorary member and eX-secretary
of the Brooklyn Pathological society.
has made the base ball player an es
pecial study, and has many interesting
things to say on the art and science of
matchmaking.
DIR. Leuf has had many professional
PLAYERS under his care during the last
few years. He brought Pitcher KnOuff
back to usefulness, and is now working
GU Hardie Henderson, the old Brooklyn
pitcher.
THE EFFECTS OF BASE BALL.
Speaking of the work of player, DR..
Leuf, in his Hygiene for ball players,
says;
lent and general. Violent, because cer-
taiDly calling for sudden and generally
forcible exertionS. Each pitch is a short,
sudden and extremely forcible exercise.
SO is the catching of pitched ball and
it's quick return to the pitcher. The cat
like watching of bases, with the quick
sudden throw to the same, are violent
eXertiOns. So also is the infield work of
stopping grounderS, liners and making
quick short runs for these, and for foul
and fair flies. The throwing to
first base, or to any base and
home, is also violent work, and the
quickness of judgment required to
properly place the ball in double or
triple play, or cutting off run at the
home plate in case of an intended sacri-
flee, is a violent eXertiOn of the mind
and exciting.
1.-THE Out-feld work of running for
flies, liners and grounders, and their
quick return, all within a remarkably
short time, is very violent. So also is
the quick sudden stroke and rapid judg
ment of the batsman. The work is gen
eral, because it affects the whole body;
for instance, it is not possible to throw
ball far, or line it home or to base, or
pitch it over the plate, without bringing
into action almost all the muscles OF the
entire body.
"Liniments should never be used on
a pitchers arm; or, in fact, on any part
of the body of an athlete in case of pain
from over-eXertion. In the first place,
they are uttery useless, as any number
of impartial and disguised sufferers can
testify. Instead of mitigating the deep
seated pains, they add to them that of
an irritant, especially it the liniment is
strong and the result is combination
of superficial and deep pains. In the
second place, if they contain acOnite,
and if this constituent is absorbed, it
benumbs the terminal nerve filamentS
and so lowers the maximum or muscu-
lar contractility as we'll as the rapidity
of its responsiveness to the will and CO.
ordination re1exes.
.sMorphia or opium and other anO-
dynes are not unlikely to produce ex
actIy similar results. That linimentS
sometimes have good effect in these
cases | do not deny, but the effect is
mainly that of a much required placebo,
Il and in such instances it is best to use
very mild, non-anodyne liniment, with
plenty of hot flannel"
Liniments are generally used by both
amateur and professional players in
spite of DR.. Leuf's warning. The doc
tor says, speaking of muscles:
"The bIachialis anticus is probably
most often the first to become painful
and tender. The tenderness extends
along the front and inner side of the
lower third arm. The biceps partici-
pate in the tenderness soon after the
preceding muscle, but it is usually only
the lower half that is subject to pain.
Examination of the arms of those In ex-
ercise or training will show that the
lower end of the biceps belly becomes
hard before the upper portion, and may
be as firm almost as piece of wood or
bone. while the upper half is still capa-
BILE of digital impression.
THE deltoid is also very commonly
affected. and especially its posteriOr
half, and more particularly in its upper