Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-09
BASEBALL PLAYERS.
LOW THE KNIGHTS OF THE DIAMOND
PASS THE WINTER.
onc reaches School, Another Pulls Teeth,
A Third Studies for the Ministry, n
Fourth Is on His Honeymoon, &c.
written for the Disps,ch-oOpyrIchted. 1901

The average crack baseball player is
,,orv different man with his winter coat on
I'm tho nimble athlete Of the summer
d;onond-feld, full of action. finely trained,
,be ideal of health and physical perfection.
A. this season of the year the expert ball
.nsser is o well-dressed, welI-fed easy
Going sporting man about town. He eats
eYpensive dinners, smokes the finest cigars,
drinks oil kinds of seductive beverages
without any apparent judgment and does
no more walking nor exercise than he can
nossibly help. Consequently it is no Won
der that we find this large body of Ameri-
can athletes very much out of condition in
the early spring, when they are called upon
10 commence practice.
IL is no easy taSkfOr the trainer Of base
ball team to get his men into proper form
and condition after five or six months of
luxury and idlencss. Heavy sweaters. long
walks. quick runs, hard rubbing baths,
and often great doses Of blood-cleansing
medicine are used TO get rid of the fat win
ter coat.
SIX MONTHs' VACATION.
OF the ball-players who make comforta-
bic incomes majority generally do no.
thing whatever from the middle Of October
until the middle Of April except spend their
money and enjoy life in their own way.
This has been an exceptionally lively win
ter on account Of the organization OF the
Brotherhood's League. Buck Ewing was
married in the early part Of the winter,
and spent most OF the honeymoon IN
New Orleans with his southern bride.
John Ward has been busy man during the
mast few months. organizing the Brother
hood League. His services have been very
valuable on account OF his knowledge of
law. "Short-stop" Ward is brillient
member of the New York Bar, and practices
his profession when not PLAYING ball. Tim
Keefe. who last year pitched for the old
league and will this year take the box for
the Brotherhood, runs a sporting-good es
Enlistment with his partner, Buchanan, IN
New York.
AIrr8 or TIE LAW.
jim O'Rourke is. ike Ward, a member
of the legal profession. and does some very
earnest law work during the cold months.
Roger O'Conner is spending his vacation
at home in Danbury. Conn. Last winter
he hold position in the public stores IN
New York. Nike Welch IS laying of in
his cosy little home at HolyOke, Mass.
Denny Richardson's putting on flesh at Eli
mira, y. Y. Arthur Whitney is attending
TO his sporting goods business at Lowell.
Mass. Mike J. Slattery is spending most
of his idle DAYS in Boston. Big Bill "
Brown IS playing the game with the local
teams in California. George Gore spends
most of his time these fine days on Broad
way. In the evening lie goes TO the thea
tire or attends some sporting event taking
place in the metropolis. Gentle james
Mutrie is very busy manager, especl-
ally this year, making arrangements for
the coming struggle on the diamond
field. Jim can he seer almost any day hust-
ling among the New York newspaper
offices, telegraphing tO.all parts OF the
Union, or talking baseball at MEX tngei :,
the uptown social headquarters for great
number OF players. George Miller. Oh the
Pittsburgh League. runs bubard-hul al
Harrisburg Bob Caruthers does quite a
trade in tho hardware line in Chicago.
TIE FERULB FOR TIE Eat.
Catcher Reynolds drops the willow for
the ferule and teaches school. Davo fout2
has been playing this winter in California
on the st. Louis team. Third-Fasemau
Pickney is spending the chilly season 40 Ie.
! oria, III. Adrian Arson is a Chicago billiard
expert and travels q bit and enters small
matches. Hub Stricken, the nimble second
| baseman OF the Clevelands, has been looking
after the interest OF tbat team for the past
| few months. President Nelsch, Of Inter.
state League. is full Of bus ness connected
PHILADELPHIA Club. is working hard III tie
interest of the players league. Ed Swartz
wood, the manager Of the Hamilton cont,
team, spends his winters at home ut PITTS.
burgh, Pa. Umpire Gafney is working At
his trade, building wagons. down East
Umpire Lynch. Of the league, is spending
a good long holiday pleasantly among
friends in the eastern States. Catcher
/ Brishon softens his horny hands and pul j:
and fills teeth in Philadelphia, where ht
/ has an establishment OK his own.
GoEs TO SIZE SULLIVAN.
Genial Mike Druggan runs saloon ir
Syracuse, and attends oil the cOck-maln;
and priZe-6ght5 thereabouts. Ho runs
down TO Boston occasionally To see hi'
friend John J.. Sullivan and drops over e
/ New York TO chat with handsome Mike
| Kelly about baseball prospects.
Cliff Carroll, late of the Washington
| team. keeps a hotel at the national CAPT.
/ tai. which is a noted resort Of the porting
statesmen in the winter season.
/ Nimble-Catcher Clark slumbers away N:
winters in BROOKLYN. Catcher DAILY, who
| has signed with the BROOKLYN team, shine.
IN Philadelphia society. Hatfield lives At
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