The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-11

the country as preliminary OF unelr
days work.
Joyce doesn't ride, and has no use
for the wheel among his men. In train
ing he relied largely on cross country
runs Of about ten miles a day. That"
said he, will soon demonstrate which
men have good, sound stomachs, for
without such an organ the player can
not make a run of that kind, and with
out a good stomach ball player will
never be q success" Arson is a wheel
man, or was before he became an actor
But he got such a header last fall a
year ago that he lay in a half stupor
for several days, during which time re-
port has 1t he said nothing but Wen
win in a walk next Year" Since that
accident uncle's ardor for bicycling has
cooled, and he devotes more time while
training to running.
| I am not sure that 1t has ever been
| told, nor yet absolutely certain that it
is wholly true, but we'll authenticated
story goes that John NJ. Ward owed his
retirement as a pitcher to the bicycle.
| 1t was in the days of the big front
wheel, back in the eighties Several of
| the New York players got the craze,
and an order issued by the club forbid
the use Of bicycle by any member of
the team. Ward, however, took q spin
on the "sly'' one morning, and reaped
| the reward in a fall and an injury to
! his pitching arm. The matter was
kept quiet and the injury went on rec
| ord as a sore arm.
Coming down to the question of.man-
ayers, another important fact turns
| up-namely, the number OF PLAYER
managers is Increasing each year. In
| the National league three of the twelve
! clubs will enter this season with play
| er-managers which had non playing
| managers at the beginning Of last year
to wit, Pittsburg st. Louis and Louis
| vile. Every one Of the six Western
clubs has it's manager playing on the
nine-DOnOVan Cor pirtsburg living tOi
| Cincinnati, Rogers FOR Louisville, DOWd
for st. Louis, Arson for Chicago anC
| Tebeau for Cleveland. Joyce Of the
New Yorks, is the only player
! o. the Eastern section, but three of the
other five-Hanlon, Stallings and Bar
| nie-were not MANY Years ago pro
! fessional players. Seele and Srhmelz
alone have had no professional expert
| ence worth noting.
This tendency to put teams IN charge
| of men who have had practical tx
| league has added two professionals
| to it slist Of playing manag gers in Mack
| of Milwaukee, and Allen, f Detr( II
| The list out West includes WilnOt a
| Minneapolis, COmiSkey at st. Paul
| Mack at Milwaukee, Allen at Detr( 1t
LOTUS at Columbus and Watkins a
Indianapolis All have in their time
| achieved regulations on the diamond
though Wilmot alone continues to Mea1
a uniform and play with his team.
An old addage says that the creates
misfortune that can befall a man mex
to being killed in battle is to have hi.
name spelled wrong in the published
list of the lost. There are two bal
players who must realize sometime
| of the truth of this old saw. j lefel
to Jones, of Brooklyn, and Sou!lers, G
the New York club. Where the latter!
name appears once as SOuders it APP.
pears ten times as Sander@the u
being turned upside down. With Jones
name the trouble comes at the othel
end. Everybody knows how to spe!
/ Jones, but the name which his mother
gave him is not accorded to him II
print once in 200 times. You see i
spelled Fielder" 1t is F'ielden bu
the final M was somehow interpreted
an "r' by some printer. So it went a
that and multiplied until "Fieldar'
Jones became sterotyped as it We're
Being a fielder by profession, the mis-.
take is not altogether inappropriate
Sometimes pronunciation of names /!
varied and amusing. Dahlen, Of tn.
Chicagos, is one of the unfortunate.
who have several names among The
rooters. He is Day-len, just as spelled
the a having the sound it has in have
Dc heny, of the New York club ha.
been called De-hee ny, Do-ney and Do
| benny. He pronOunceS 1t with the &C
( a 0n11
the being treated as silent. Humid
reds still call Rusie Rus-sie with the
having the sound it has in hurry
Latham was frequently called Lath
am, without giving the first its Ions
sound. Tebeau has half a dozen differ.
ent names. But Lajoie gives the mos
| bother to the rOoterS. Lay-jOy is Whaf
they call him, and I suppose that will
do. Certain it is that nobody can ever
induce the boys on the bleachers tC
twist their Jaws so that they can give
! him the name as he claims it in pro
| Observation-Disclosures Juliet knew
her business when she asked, Whats
in name?" and her philosophy comes
| down to modern base ball. The rooter:
| dent care a little bit how a player
| prCnounces his name if he but "swats'
the ball good and hard and makes
lightning fielding plays. Otherwise
| so far as they are concerned, his nan2t
may be Mud
There. is a tendency in the Nationa
league this year more than ever before
| to add batsmen to the teams rather
than fine fielders. Hanlon had thai
| idea in view when he replaced Carey
| with Doyle and Brodie with Stencil
| Arson, too gives twice the credit to g
batsman that he gives to fine fielder
who is weak with the bat. The dream
Of his old age is to get a second base
man who can hit the ball hard and
often. We all hope this good mans
ambition may be realized before he
| dies. %. T. Caylor.
Third ST Thomas Team