Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1902-01-18

Ale is allowed. Jelly and other things
dear to the hearts of the boys are often
given to them. Chicago is most liberal
with the boys in the matter of food
only so far as it is prescribed by the
head coach. Raw beef, raw beef, still
more raw beef; that is the piece de re-
sistence there, but nothing is too good
for the athletes. Conibear, with a long
training in the discipline of the ma
room training table, is careful at Ili-
nois, but inclined to be liberal in his
allotment of occasional delicacies. /
remember well meeting one of Coach
Stages principal football men near a
restaurant one afternoon and the fell
low-big and strong-said he was hun
CRY. II do not want to break training,
but I am longing for something besides
dead loads of almost raw beef want
lobster, and so lobster must have"
Imagine how Mr.. Stagg would have
looked had he seen his great football
general putting away a liberal supply
of lobster la Maryland in the height
of the training season. But that ath-
lete had an abnormal appetite for a
species of, food that is considered hard
to digest, and ii did not iniure him.
"Why is a trainer of so much value
to football team?" is a query that is
often asked. "He is not doctor, as a
rule, and in cases of serious injuries
has to call in a physician" I will war
rant that there is not q great trainer
of athletes in the country who could
not treat a sprain, bruise, etc, quicker
than doctor, and get his man about
for play quicker than a regular physi-
clan. Experience in that one line has
made these trainers expert. The mis-
sion of the trainer is to prepare the hui
man body for shocks and bruises and
for speedy recoveries from the same,
rather than to cure them. If he has
his athlete in fine physical condition
the strong, healthy, alert youth will
Withstand shocks and bruises that to
an unframed man would be-well, six
months in bed.
In the east the training of the elevens
has reached such a fine point that mod
ern science has been called upon for
every development and appliance need
ed in finished hospital. Well do re-
member the day the Pennsylvania
team came TO a Chicago hotel shortly
before the game with the maroons.
every man almost con the hospital
list" But Capt. Hare and his athletes
had considerable baggage. When the
latter was installed in the basement
of the hosiery il was found that there
were hollow marble slabs for connec-
ton with steam coils, gas ovens for
baking and treating lame legs, others
for hot air treatment Of knees and
arms. and al that sort Of parapher-
MALTA How well these hospital appli-
anees were used on the Quaker crippley
BY the expert trainer football history
records.
Some effort was made several years
ago in western universities to provide
the athletic teams with appliances to
correct injuries. but as a rule this para
phernalia was necessarily crude. II
served its purpose. Some day when
football pays as much in the west as n
does in the east, each university win
have its elaborate hospital outfit. In
agine Yale gridiron hero after hard
game being attended by trainer who
had 70 wiring out towels in pail Of hot
water to make hot applications to a
bruised portion Of his anatomyl When
Max Beutner was trainer Of the ma
rooms, many a time he had TO use the
pail toweloutfit for HIS men. Compared
with the modern, steam-heated marble
slab and elaborate arrangements for
augumenting the comfort of the ath-
lete, the old methods seem archaic.
z. G. wESTLAKE.