The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-25
PURDUE'S TEAM TO CAMP
TRAINER M'CLAIRE WILL HAVE
CHARGE OF THE SQUAD.
Interest Restored Since n New Trainer
Was Secured-Business Men VIII
support the Team.
specIaI to the 1naIanapoIis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE. Ind, Aug 2l-Patrick
McClaire, of Chicago. who has just been
engaged to train the Purdue University
football team this season. telegraphed Man
ager Leslie this evening that he would ar
rive IN the city tomorrow night, and be
here i'm time To accompany twenty men,
bcrs of the squad on their training trip
up the Tippecanoe river. The engagement
of McClaire is not only pleasant surprise
10 every Purdue adherent, but the fact that
the team, without a trainer since the death
of Doc Hyland, is to have an expert in
charge of the physical training OF the
men this falf has increased interest in the
team.
McClaire has been trainer for twenty
five years, and notable among his work
has been the care of Peabody, the cyciist
Ewry the champion standing high and
broad jumper Of the world, and his assoc
citation with other athletes of interna tional
renown has made him famous on field and
track alike. He was assistant trainer at
Yale, and for eight years took care OF the
athletes of the Knickerbocker Athletic
Club i'm New York. He was associated with
the Chicago Athletic Club for a number OF
years, and was also identified with other
clubs i'm Chicago and the West.
Last week a number of local business
men held secret meeting and called Man.
ager Harry Leslie into the conference. He
was asked what Purdue most needed for
the fotball team, and he replied that the
team was without a trainer. The business
men, who comprise some of the most rep
resentative men i'm the city. agreed to pay
the expense of hiring a trainer. Coach
Cults. of Harvard. was wired about Nc
Claire and he sanctioned the choice A.
e. Spalding, of Chicago, strongly recom-
mended the veteran, and Saturday evening
Manager Leslie and n. r. Howard, of this
city. went to Chicago to meet McClaire.
The absence of trainer at Purdue last
year undoubtedly retarded the progress OF
the team. The men were i'm fair shape.
but did not stay there, and their staying
powers were crippled by the lack OF proper
care. This year McClaire viii be given full
charge of the men, displacing Track Man.
ager Freeman. who is director. but not q
trainer. Mr.. Freeman will still remain di-
rector of athletics. with the exception OF
football.
Rebel the big guard. who has been at
his home i'm Indianapolis greater part OF
the summer arrived in the city this after
noon. and his arrival was followed by that
of others of last years team, who want
TO be here i'm time for the excursion up the
river. Happy" Miller who has played on
the team for two years, and who has been
hardening his muscles during the hot
months drifted into training quarters this
morning and helped snowy, the colored
rubber, put everything In shape for the
men, most or whom VIII arrive io-mofroW
morning.
The team, and in fact the entire squad
of elgibies. comprising about twenty men.
will leave here Wednesday afternoon over
the Wabash for Delphi. They will not
be allowed to go into the town. and will
be taken at once to the camp, which has
already been rounded into training quar-
tiers Boats have been taken up TO the
clubhouse and outside Of a programme OF
football drill and study of tactics. the men
will be allowed TO swim and row at their
leisure and get all other beneficial exer-
else possible. Coach Cults will be i'm tho
city on Saturday. and will go at once TO
the clubhouse. where he will meet the team
over whose destinies he is TO preside the
coming season.
Manager Leslie has mapped out a code
of bylaws and regulations for the team.
and these will be carried out implicitly. or
the offending one will DE given transporta-
ton home with the understanding that his
place on the team can easily be filed by
another member OF the squad. Discipline
will reign. and certain hours will have to
be kept by the athletes.
The outlook at Purdue, since the engage
uent of a new trainer is far brighter than
ever before A committee has been solicit
ing the merchants for money to support the
team and all the old-time reluctancy is cast
aside and the liberality is rather remark
able The confidence I'm the team cannot b
shaken. and the business men will back the
team TO the last ditch Never In the his
tory of the university has a schedule been
arranged so to benefit the merchants al
this year, and as all the big games ale &C
home a harvest Is looked for In the way
of entertaining big crowds