The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-13
KUCHING SECOND
1910 By John j. Evers and Hugh Fullerton All uest rss

Most of the followers of baseball
imagine that the spring trip of the
teams is pleasure iunlket. They have
no, idea of the hard work, the pains,
AGNES, strenuous self-denial, the hours
oil thought involved. Most fans think
oasepaIl is merely question of natu-
raj speed of foot, quickness of eve.
strength of arm, accuracy OF throwing
10 that class of fans ls due the peren.
email hope of every town that The local
team will Twin the pennant This vcnr
sure: And to them the training sea-
son is one long, jubilant period of hone.
tnlness. They base their hopes on the
hit and field well, and is fast of foot
is n good ball player.
III seems useless inconoclasm to re.
fute. the idea, but the fact is that
baseball, like every other trade or pro.
fession' consists more of experience and
hard work than of natural ability. and
1t is hard work that counts for most.
an average boy, with average brain,
average legs, arms, and health. can in
time become great baseball PLAYER If
he viii work hard, work long and work
faithfully. The more natural ability to
run, throw and hit he possesses, the
greater his success will be, which an.
plies TO every other line of endeavor as
we'll
On April 10, or thereabout, the an
nual cataclysm known as "openinp the
season - strikes the United States, but
the real start Is six weeks earlier. All
winter the owners and managers have
been busy striving to strengthen their
teams a club finished fifth, perhaps,
with eighteen men on the pay roll
OF these Vasey and Wiegman were
failures and were relegated to the
minors, Dorsey and Grant were traded
for BJones. Seven new men were draft
ed from minor leagues and five were
dependent clubs are TO be given trial
and two of last years tryout squad,
planted with friendly minor
league club, have been recalled OF
the eighteen new men the manager
hopes one will develop enough strength
10 replace Jenkins at short stop or
I.oder In. the outfeld: that one of his
eight trial pitchers will prove good
enough to win a regular berth, and his
widest dream is that two will be so
promising as to warrant keeping them
as utility men to he broken into the
team work Of his club. With the train
er. secretary, correspondents. wives of
players, the training party of a major
league club frequently numbers fifty
persons, and on his spring tours to
California Comiskey usually takes about
Major league teams are scattered from
Los Angeles TO Jacksonville, and there
is scarcely a city or town in the south
or west that Will not receive visit
from somo team before the season
opens. The movement, however, is
more and more toward permanent train
ing camps, and against exhibition tours.
Some of the teams already have pur-
chased grounds or secured long term
leases, and are preparing TO build baths
and gymnasiums, Some purpose operat-
ing their training plants all winter
and sending the young players drafted
or purchased from minor leagues there
early in the winter to develop under
the eye of an experienced coach, who
will turn them over TO the manager
ready for play.
The scarcity of really good players
has compelled the movement toward
these permanent schools for educating
and developing players. and the bust
ness as an amusement enterprise has
become so remunerative that the re-
turns Justify the expense.