The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-11
TRAININGEOR THEFIGH'l
Baseball Warriors Buckling on
Their Armor of Muscle.
PROGRAMMES ALREADY FIXED.


Whether the ground hog did or did not
see his shadow has nothing to do with this
case. The thoughts of the ball player are
turning to gentle spring, and the coolest
sort of weather would not now serve to
chill the enthusiasm that is reviving as the
weeks that elapse before reporting day"
are quickly passing away. The managers
and captains are dreaming OF the period
that must be spent in training. Several
of the clubs of the great League are booked
to invade the sunny southland, but the
plans of the majority have been but crude
ly outlined The Chicagoans have already
received their marching orders, and on the
9TH day of March they are expected TO
salute Captain Arson at Hot Springs,
when the annual boiling out jubilee viii
begin. That Arkansaw retreat is in favor
with ''the old man." and has been Chi
cago's abiding place in the days prefacing
many an inaugural championship battle.
Last season Uncle Arson departed from
his usual custom and sought new haunt
out in Colorado. He struck the coolest
spring in the history of the Rocky noun
tdlIlS duu NGu SHON Dotll LII u Nhohs5S.
Captain Tebeau also claims to have Sc
cured a lease on grounds at Hot Springs
and Cleveland, and Chicago will have a
joint opportunity of examining the knots
in the arms of each others phenoms Cap
tain John Montgomery Ward is in favor
of taking his Jamaica bay pets down to
Ocala, in the land of oranges. Gainesville,
also in Florida, wishes to welcome the
Philadelphias, and New York has closed
contract with the ieSsees OF the park at
Richmond for ten days sojourn OF the
Giants in the Old Dominion. Boston
usually begins down on the south Atlantic
coast and works upward, and there is
little reason to expect change In the
time honored programme.
The two clubs that adorned the tail end
of the League all last season were num-
bered among those that enjoyed spring
constitutionals in the south. The Pitts
burgs, who won the BOBBY prize by a hairs
breadth, were in Florida, and the Cincin
natis went to Hot Springs. Acting upon
their own responsibility, several players
in each of these clubs may make excur-
sions to 1.-The Steamer cline this spring,
but the teams are likely to shape up" at
home. Several of the CiIcinnatis of year
ago, who were taken to the Springs, did
not last through the season. The Reds IN
reality were a team of makeshlfts. One
man tossed into the collection was Fred
Roat. H was donated by Pittsburg, and
his release entailed the payment of Sis,
which had been advanced him by the
Pennsylvanans A contribution of fifty
dollars from Cincinnati enabled him to
reach the Springs. He arrived wreck,
and with the cheerful look of an advance
agent of the cholera. Sir Tom Lotus was
Mortified, and he queried:
did you bring your coffin with your"
The strange question brought out an in
dignant No. but Roat was bundled of
nome without trial.
Pittsburg, however, laid claim to that
"l25." Cincinnati denied its justice, and
every time that Cincinnati played in Pitts
burg the amount would be retained.
When Pittsburg played Cincinnati the
same legerdemain was practiced, but as
the Reds closed the series at Pittsburs
that club took the final trick and the
money. Cincinnati has claim before ths
League directors today for the recovery *
the amount.
Captain Comisky. of the Cincinnatis, is
a firm believer in the benefits of handball,
and new court Is among the possible ad-
ditions to the buildings on the ground at
Porkopolis If this idea is adopted hand
ball will take the place OF gymnasium
practice there. Many ball players scout
the idea that training with dumbbells and
other paraphernalia of indoor schools OF
exercise is beneficial to them. The claim
is made that the muscles thus brought into
play and hardened are not those most
active in the game OF baseball. 1t IS
fact that no matter how well seasoned by
gymnasium work a player is the very first
game in which he INDUCES leaves him sore
and stiff.
There is not a muscle that a ball player
uses." declared Manager Frank c. Ban
croft, the veteran 20 me, that Is not
brought into requisition in game OF hand
ball"
Captain Tebeau. who is handball en-
thusiast, asserts that some OF his sens2-
tional stops at third base are made because
be can get into positions that 20 one save a |
handbalI EXPERT could quickly assume. |
Cleveland's fighting captain = following a
new wrinkle in training this winter and is
now skipping rope artist. Captain An |
sen adds handball TO his great list OF ar
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st. Louis are perhaps the hsndba centers |
Of this coGnsrv Dick Buckley, now on 81 |
,ouis' roll. i che Of the cieverest expo
aents of the game among the ball players. |
For years hantbsll has ranked as one Of |
sdjuncts OF training followed almost re
Ijriousiy by the s. Louis Browns. Fer
four seasons they were ~ the top, AID IL /
three ether campaigns they were SO dan |
near there that toe Athletics. |
Brooklvn and i}dStons AL suffered spells |
when they found breathing difficult. Gin
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