The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-29
SOME MEAN TRICKS
ON YOUNG PLAYERS
"Bill' Everitt Tells Of Jobs on the
Green Ball T0ssers.
COLT A PREY FOR OLDER HEADS
; Mean Treatment of the Plebes at
West Point Isn't Marker to the
Cruel Jokes Of the Base Ball Bust.
ness..YOungster Wants to Train
and the Old. Timer Gives Him Lots
of Queer Advice.

"You my talk about your college haZ-
ing" said Bill Everett to a Chicago re-
porter, land your West Point tricks on
the plebes and beasts. but they don't
beat the jobs put up on young ball play
ers. n Juvenile ball toSser is legitimate
! prey for all the other members OF the
team. and they have unlimited fun with
him.
"A great number of the young play
ers who break into the league come
with the idea that the older fellows
necessarily know a great deal more
about the game than they do. and
they are only too willing to do anything
that may be told them. The result is
that the old-tinlers make monkeys of
them. Most of the tricks played are in
the line Of training. The youngster
naturally wants to know what to do to
get into good condition. and there is
where the veteran gets his chance to
jump on the poor novice and break his
ribs
SEVEN HEAVY SWEATERS.
when Jiggs Parrott Joined the Chi
cago team he was told that he was too
slow and that he must increase his run
ming powers. How was he to do this
Why. easily enough. Just put on seven
heavy sweaters and run ten times
around the park in the hot sun without
stopping. And Jiggs did 1t, and he
couldn't walk nor talk for three days
after Again, they told him that he
must take a shower bath after practice
good advice In itself, but detrimental
in this case, because they stole his
clothes while he was bathing and he had
to go home in pair OF brown overalls
and blanket loaned him by the
ground keeper.
Il see the latest victim of this sort
of hazing was Kostal, the Chicago boy
who got job with Louisville. On the
train to Louisville he was approached
by Fraser and Miller. who told him
that the way big league pitchers kept
their arms In order was to suspend
them at night in a trap, which hung
from the roofs of their births. OF course,
they had previously fixed UP a strap,
like street car holder. in Kostars
berth. and he took it for Gospel truth.
When he retired he stuck his arms
through that strap and hung that way
all night He couldn't bend the arm
the next day.
THROWING AT A NAIL.
1--WE used to get young pitchers out
on the grounds, drive a nail in the fence.
make them stand off the regular dis
tance. and practice on that nail. That
wasn't SO bad, though. for 1t tended to
give better control of the ball. The best
and easiest way to have fun with Il
young player, however, is In the line
of diet-what he must and must not
eat. remember once that we had some
young recruits thoroughly drilled on the
diet question. They ate nothing for
breakfast but oatmeal mush. which
they knew would not make the stomach
too heavy. with red peppersauce poured
on ii to brighten the batting eye. while
they drank coffee with salt in 1t. guar
anteed to harden the muscles and add
to the endurance. Pete Browning used
To order the most absurd and hideous
compounds and would tell the young
sters that il was to help on his batting.
The juveniles would accept whatever
Pete said and would order the same
stuff until old Pete's ingenuity was ex-
hausted devising new cruelties for them.
He would order pancakes with onion
dressing and sugar on top and tripe
with maple syrup. and all such things.
and the poor lads who hoped some
day to bat as Pete did would never
tumble.
ONE ON PETE GALLAGHER.
There's another on Pete Gallagher.
says Charlie O'ConnOr. "W hen the Colts
played at Fort Wayne Pete went along
to fill up the team. He made quite a hit
with some girls at Fort Wayne and they
told him they We're coming to Chicago
and would 80 like TO see the ball games
there. OF course they didn't know but
that Pete was a regular member Of the
team Well. Pete swelled up and said
he'd see that they got in free. So he
wrote out an order: Please pass two,'
and signed il. Peter Gallagher, Chicago
base ball club, pro tenn
'The girls had never studied Latin.
and they thought pro TEN meant some
office connected with the club. A few
days ago they appeared at the ball park
and presented Pete's order. OF course
1t was turned down. and Pete doesn't
want to go near Fort Wayne any more