The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-02-07

other fan. "Hc went into the game
last year after a distressing winter,
made onerous by an attack of small
pox, and the first day out for prac.
tlce with his team at Excelsior
Springs. he told the manager that he
would have been in better condition
had he worked all winter This win
ter Piatt' worked so hard he was
taken with bad cold that developed
into pneumonia, and hard luck may
interfere with his pitching again this
summer"
"a light broke in on Danny Green
in his Camden IN. J) home this WIN
ter, and some day this careless, hap
Ply and Indifferent young man may
be one of the capitalists of the base
ball game" said another fan. ''There
never was thought or a care to OBJ
scure Danny's winter siesta before
this year. Winter to him was pc
Rod of Information. 4 make enough
to live on without working in win
ter said Green. But what will you
be fit for when you cannot play ball
any longer?' asks friend. Danny
got married, and since the arrival of
Green, has become one of
sfhaa7Wost enthusiastic toilers in New
jersey in winter time"
Patsy Donovan, who managed the
st. Louis nationals and played in the
outfield, essayed going into business
this winter, and thought he could
see his way clear to quit baseball.
He was not like Big Roger Conner,
who had such big rent roll to look
after he had to devote his time ex-
clusively to his business interests.
But the baseball world wanted Dono-
van. He is a genius both in playing
and in directing young players. The
management of the club waved &c.
600 year contract before the quiet
and dignifed Donovan, and he recon.
sidered his determination to retire.
Ed Delehanty, he of home run
fame and the greatest batter in the
American league, who will have to
return to the Washington club and
repay the several thousands in id
vance money given him by the New
York national or be forced to remain
out of baseball, is one of the few
ball players who spends the winter
trying to break the bookmakers.
"Del" proceeds On system, and
doubtless works as hard all winter
as many a laborer in the mines. He
has had reasonable amount OF sue
cess in past seasons, but this winter
has demonstrated to him that no
System" can successfully wage a
war against bookmaker who has
distinct percentage" in his favor.
There is that capable pitcher, Jack
Taylor, of the Orphans. He makes
the winter profitable by braking or
railroad. Summer is all right"
said Taylor, the other day, but
baseball player figures too much on
the sun shining all the time. This
business is like any other-when you
are beginning to fail to deliver the
goods, someone brushes up against
you, and soon you are passed. If
some of the ball players l toss the
sphere to would do little more work
in winter they would be better oil
and incidentally they might become
skilled in some business to which
they will be driven sooner or later
1t is said that BILL Dahlen, one
of the most popular ball players ill
the country-he will be seen at short
stop for Brooklyn again this season
is constitutionally opposed to en-
ployment during the winter. There
never was a player who could get
advance money out of maguate
with greater ease than "Bill," but
he is maligned when they say he
does not work. James A. Hart spent
great deal of time telling this capa-
BILE player that he must look out for
the time when he could not command
the applause of thousands of fans
when he could not play his spectacu-
lar game-and Dahlen has begun to
see life seriously. When Dahlen was
accused of laziness at shortstop, the
critics could easily have explained
that Bill played deeper than any
other shortstop, and because he was
so perfectly in control of the stu.
alton what was apparently slowness
on his part would have been light
ninglille action on the part of
others. E. G. WESTLAKE.