The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-10


ditch to assume the responsibility
Bowditsh played end ON the Crimson
team and was regarded az one Of the
greatest players in that position in the
country.
Z President Sexton OF the Western
Baseball league has issued a formal
call for the annual meeting of the di-
rectOrs of the league. which will be
/ held in Lincoln, Jan. j.
Ban Johnson has announced that the
American league season win open next
spring on April il. with Chicago play
ing at Detroit. Boston at New York,
Philadelphia at Washington and
Cleveland at St. Louis. These dates,
however. VIII have TO be officially
acted. on at the session OF the joint
rules committee Of the National and
American leagues. Barney Dreyfuss
IS already working on a schedule for
the National league, as he always pre-
sents one at the meeting of the com
mittee. and Johnson is working on the
same for the American league.
President Hart has not perfected
the details of the training trip for the
: Chicago Cubs any further than TO de-
eide on the California journey again
and to spend three weeks at Los An
geles. The return viii be by differ
ent route from last year, but the dates
for games have not yet been com
pleted.
The Philadelphia. National league
team will go to Savannah for its con-
diuoning and will return in time to
! play the American league club in Phil
/ adelphia before the opening Of the sea
son. Billy Mailman. the veteran play
/ er of the CLUB, has been unconditional
| y released.
The Young Corbett system Of phys
| icaI culture is one which VIII rouse in
/ dignant hOwls from the almOst-food
| people and the advocates of starVe-the-
/ flesh methods. says Lou HOuseman. It
/ is. briefly summarized, as follows: Eat
what YOU want. drink what you want,
1 do what you wish, and tight once a
week in lazy and good humored fash
/ ion, always selecting some dub TO DO
/ the other half Of the sketch. This sys-
/ tenn causes a great deal of fat to acy
cumulate. but the weekly scrap keeps
/ the wind and muscles pretty well toned
/ up, causes perspiration enough TO
/ carry away the evil effects Of wine and
/ high eating. and gives valuable boxing
| practice. Then, when p real fight for
| the championship is on, it is time to
! train to weight, cut out the Injuries
and build up hardened sinews from
| the soft tissues of legs and arms. The
/ system is d tough proposition for the
/ man who thinks that a real athlete
/ should always be dieting and working
/ the pulley weights, but il seems to be
/ fT71r~ no TD--- Iii
zone of these days there viii be just
! q little flaw in piece Of steel, just a
| little flaw. and after it is all Over--it
( will hardly take more than the tick OF
I a watch-people viii say: Well, he
/ was going some
! The speaker was Barney Oldfieid, the
I former Salt Lake bicycle rider and now
/ champion automobile driver Of the
world. He was talking to a number Of
! newspaper. reporters about the dangers
| Of fast auto driving, and gave this an
| swer to a question asking whether he
! was not afraid he would some day meet
I his fate while speeding around a track
1 under minute clip.
Manager Morley Of the Los Angeles
/ team is trying hard to get Joe Corbett
II jump his contract with St. Louis
next season and again play with Los
1 Angeles. Corbett pitched for the Angels
/ last year. but this season signed with
/ st. Louis. after having received more
offers from several of the big eastern
teams, including Pittsburg Morley
has now come out with an offer larger
than st. Louis has promised Corbett,
and it is said that the brother of the
famous Jim is considering the offer
very seriously.
Here is what the foul strike rule did
for the game in the American league Sc
Ties last year. Ban Johnson, who is the
father Of this rule and very much in ia
vOr of it, has determined to adont Il
again this wear. while the National
League will do away with il: