The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-09-03

of bed at II o'clock while on tho road, eat
breakfast at half past IL and at O'Clock
throw dinner on top of the undigestod
breakfast that would tax tho walters
momory when 1t was ordered.
Arson nevor uses liquor or tobacco dur
ing the baseball season. Ho plays base
ball on scientific principles His theory Is
that n clear eye and n clear head arc two
requisites for success OH tho ball field. No
man can do good batting or good fielding
whose oyosight is dull, or whose head is
1oggy. When tho stomach is ologged or is
out of gear, tho eyes are affected, and tho
brain becomes torpid. Hence 1t Is that so
many baseball players sacrifice their pro-
fession to tho qualification of their animal
appetitcs.
Tho professional who dissipates and
violates tho laws of temperance simply
saps his abilities and cuts short his career.
There arc no exceptions to this rule. Yet
there arc not in any profession so many
foolish men rs there are among tho ball
players of today.
Baltimore and Cleveland should finish
first and second. 1t is splendid strug-
gle between tho two. Baltimore will
have the advantage during the eastern
series and may keep it, but Cleveland has
the advantage in the closing sectional
series The two clubs which were rated
favorites before the season bcgan-New
Yorks and Bostons-are virtually out of
the race. Moro proofs that baseball is
mighty uncertain.
1t is to DO regretted that such team of
players rs is now in England travelling
and playing under the name of tho 'tBos-
tons" should be giving tho Britons a
wrong impression of the game it Is
played in America. Tho team above mcn-
toned is made up of players wholly I'M
known to the profession here. They claim
Co be- college players, but not one of them
has won n name on the college diamond
They are certainly travelling through Great
Britain under false prctcnscs.
There is II ngc among the National
league clubs for young players. Tho sue
cess of Clarke, Collins and O'Bricn of
Louisville. Miller and Gray of tho Cincin-
natis, Cooley and Ely of the ST. Louis
Browns, Everett and Stewart of tho Chi
Cages, Wallace and Wilson of tho Clcve-
lands, Clingmnn and Foreman of tho
Pittsburgs, Anderson OF the Brooklyns,
and Dolan md Sullivan of the Bostons,
has whctted the desire of magnntes to train
up new generation of stars that shall
push tho old timber out
Meanwhile players who have bccn shifted
from club to club have in many cases
shown wonderful change of form. Wcy-
hing was turned loose by the Phillics, who
need pitchers more than any club in the
League and he is now winning all his
games for tho Lousvillcs. Brooklyn picked
up Abbey, who was branded n. 6. by An
son, and Abbey is winner. Lucid is
cut loose by Brooklyn and goes to Phila-
dolphin, whore he is II star. Wilson couldn't
pitch for the Bostons, but tho Clcvclnnds
find him u great card. Arthur Clarkson,
rs | said in my last letter was not up to
Won der Ahc's standard, but tho Balti-
morcs find him great pitcher. Flo has
Won games from Boston and New York by
tho finest work done in Baltimore this
year.
BY tho way, MS long rs Arthur is on tho
diamond nobody will forget his famous
elder brother. Ho Is n perfect double in
looks, manners and posing of John Clark
son, as that once famous s1O,oO0 star
appeared to baseball spectators ten years
ago. o. =. CAYLoR.