The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-09
Ball Players Want To
Be Often on the Move
board TRAN and in hotels which are
at the best considered doubtful.

! board trian and in hotels which are
at the best considered doubtful.
Just why the change should be wei.
come when the conditions were ap-
parently SO idea is a matter which
can be explained perhaps by a refer
ence TO the historic difficulty expert
enced by some OF our heartiest eaters
who have endeavored to swallow and
digest quail day for 80 days. Like
the quail, the southern surroundings
develop species of monotony which
becomes irksome. The men begin to
yearn for home and each stop ia
methodically counted of OIL a schedule
which dates backward from the time
that Detroit is reached.
Perhaps another reason why the
southern trip becomes irksome after
the first two weeks Is tho fact that a
baseball club on the road is an entity
so distinct that II might almost as
well be living in isolated quarters as
In the midst Of big hoteLfamily.
There Is an occasional exception 10
the rule, but In general, the players
prefer to associate with each other,
rather than take the risk of forming
acquaintances which experience has
taught them In the long run become
unpleasant.
Unless he has some genuine intro.
duction. the bug who approaches a
ball player and endeavors TO scrape
up acquaintance Is viewed with deep
suspicion. Often his sole object is a
| touch--a trick which he Is able to
work with remarkable success on the
stars Of the national game who never
like TO be given the reputation OF be-
ing close in their financial matters.
At training camp the ball players
see the same men and women enter
, the dining room and sit through their
meals, week In and week out. but new
er care much about meeting them
AS a rule the men are a bit sensitive
socially and fear humping up against
someone afflicted with the peculiar
idea that. because the mel are profes.
sional athletes, they are a rough. row.
dy bunch. They have their own little
jokes-often relics OF former seasons
| but a never-failing source OF amuse
ment in the infinite variety OF twists
used 10 frame them-and they are per-
| fectly willing TO rema1p independent
OF the people they see
Woe TO the idly-curious bug who
tries 10 start a conversation with one
OF the bail players AMI draw him
out" as II werel
| For him there Is a quick finish in
store, guaranteed 10 take the shine OFF
the brass neatly and effectively.
Aha" someone will remark, A
! little pair OF ears. sticking cut TO hear
what they cam"
Then follows a string OF personal
comment, astutely yelled. including
references utterly unintel,igible TO tho
butter-ln and pervaded ever by SLY
chickering's which intimate that some
body is affording amusement without
knowing II.
| On the other hand. a genuine intro
duction by one OF the party always
assures an outsider OF a courteous vel
come Nobody ever gets this general
| introduction. however, unless he is AL
right 10 the positive knowledge of the
man who passes him around. Vouch
ed for in this way, he can always
! thereafter be assured he treatment
that he deserves. so long as he does
| not presume to take too much, or y
lead In the conversation.
Electric Scoreboard at Armory.
/ Fans who do not 60 TO Toledo for the
Saturday and Sunday games will have
chance To root for the Tigers any
way as an electric scoreboard Is &c
I he put up I'm the Light Guard armory
/ for the two days. Admission Saturday
will be Ia cents and on Sunday q
cents