Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03

| the scheme immensely-and the fact should
not be lost sight of, by the way, that the
t1ght-Wad ball player is increasing in
numbers all the time; the boys who never
loosen up in any circumstances, but who
are planting their kale in things that bring
IN rent money. These snug-bundles like
that 81 a-day-for- meals thing enormously
1t would, you see, enable them to save
about S2.25 day more than they could
otherwise save. With three large tnkling
wheels in their pajams each morning for
the eat thing, they could work that coffee
and sinkers thing for breakfast, the small
steak with fried potatoes two bits rig-up
for lunch. and. after the game, the ham
and-feed to top off the day.
Il know plenty of ball players" sagely
observed William Fowler. the business
manager of the Washington club, in COM
menting on Dreyfuss' scheme, who'd die
of anaemia, or lack of nutrition, inside of
about four months of a ball-playing season,
if that rig-up of Barney's were to be
adopted. They're the ones who've always
got their lamps glued to that future rainy
day, and who sink everything that they
make in some pocket that they're liable to
forget all about until the proper time ar
r1ves, at the end of the season. for them
to dump it out on the oilcloth and count it.
SteWed prunes. apricot pie and side line
OF frijoes, each serve-up at five pfenngs
the toss, would be their provender, and
they'd land on the ball field after a while
SO lottery from lack of commissary stores
to sustain them that they'd look like es.
capped ones from the home for the aged
Then the thing would work the other
way as to the majority of ball players.
Everything or any old thing that you can
or could suggest works two ways, and
sometimes about two dozen ways, as to ball
players, for their unity of purpose or in
clination is thing still uncharted Most
OF the players would be there with the long
coyote wall if that $3-a- -for-meals ar
rangement We're to be put into operation
These are the boys who at the American
plan hotel eat about So 05 worth of food at
jnritr too
this kind. They like to walk through the
menu like stick-up man in a Pullman car
Everything on the list is the dainty that
they most prefer. Just bring me this
pal these ball players say to the waiter,
handing him the eat-card, and when he
numbers back, burdened under a weight of
dishes that make him look like a walking
crockery dump, their cup of joy overhows
the bri'n. They're the samplers, sure
enough. I've seen ball players order three
Kinds OF ice cream, two kinds of pie, rice
pudding and chocolate float for dessert all
at one meal from an American-plan bill of
fare.
'Dreyfuss is absolutely right when he
says that ball players, as class, eat too
aunch hour They do, the great majority Of
them. 1 know plenty of players who habit
ually at lunch partake of an amount of
food that l wouldn't expect hired man to
stow away at the height of the threshing
season. They're hungry at that hour, that's
all. Noon is the time that most of them
men coming from the ranks of artisans es-
pecially-have been used to eat most heart
lily for most of their lives, and the mere
making of a man into a ball player isn't
going to change his habits of lifetime.
'Curiously constituted lot, ball players.
There are so many exceptions among them
who prove the rule. Some of them actually
do better when they eat enormously Just
before game. Once in Cleveland Tom
Hughes was under misrepresentation as to
his turn to work He was scheduled to
work that day, but he had 1t in mind that
he wasn't to take his turn till the following
day. The lunch that he put away at the
Colorado freighter look jealous. These thin
fellows in the game, by the way, are the
biggest eaters, as a rule, whereas the big
chaps are light eaters Charlie Hickman,
enough to keep robin alive and never did.
Well anyhow, Toms lunch that day was
something to make a Lascar sailors eyes
pop out. He fell for the pie thing particu-
larly. He's got bug for cherry pie, and
there was some OF that on the Eucid's
lunch menu. When all of the figures were
In and tabulated Tom had covered up Just
SIX pieces of that cherry pie, to add to the
large enumeration of other things that he'd
hidden, and when he started to get up from
the table he had to move sideways in order
to get by with the getting-up job and he
numbered out of the dining room with the
sleep thing already placarded all over him.
He made noise like a man who expected
to be in the weeds in about fifteen minutes
pounding the nigh ear, and that, as a mat
ter of fact, was what he had in mind. But
when he got out into the lobby of the hotel
he found that he was scheduled to pitch
that day-about an hour and half later,
in fact. He squeaked, of course, and invited
all hands to bear witness to the quantity
of provender that he had screened under
the misrepresentation as to his working day,
but this didn't get him anything. He was
told to bear it in mind that he was to PITCH
and pitch he had to. He shut the Lajoie
crowd that 0av & 70 o. that Of
course, doesn't prove anything. If ball
players would skim the bill at lunch and
nurse their big appetites till the evening
dinner hour they'd of course be all to the
good and put up far more lively and
snappy article of ball, but you'd never be
able to convince the majority of ball play
ers as to that fact, any more than you
could convince them as bunch that morn
ctice at HITTING for ipSta would