The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-09-23

mink l carried TOO mucn weight laSe
year. What are you going to do?"
I'm going to put on five more
pounds. I'll be stronger with more
weight"
Overall kept his record of weight az
follows:
March S, 219; March %, FOG; March
20. 202; April S, 1879; April 10, 1879;
April IA (opening season., 1919; July
4 (~midseason), 1913; October Is
(%close), 1875.
Hoffman, playing just as hard, re-
ported nine pounds heavier than he
was the previous season, and added
five more pounds before the season
opened, and both we're in almost per-
feet condition during the entire sea,
son.
Brown, the three-fingered wonder,
has a system of exercising that would
make his fortune and Danish corpu.
lency as q human ailment if ordinary
beings could endure it. Brown in.
vented the system himself and uses
1t night and morning when desiring
to reduce flesh or strengthen the mus
cles of abdomen or legs without run
ming. Every spring he organizes a
class in calisthenics, from which no
one, not even the poor correspondent,
is exempted if his room happens to
connect with Browns. 1t Is a common
sight during the spring training to
see six or seven men, a Ia natural,
each with the coverlet from his bed
spread upon the floor, trying to fol.
low the movements and orders OF the
premier pitcher.
Brown counts slowly-one, two-up
to 10, and at every number the class
struggles to follow his movements.
The pauses between counts are more
painful than the movements them
selves. After two minutes the novices
are doubled up like small boys WHO
have eaten too many green apples; IN
three minutes the fat mel weaker
and in four Brown usually is let TO
continue the exercise alone until he
stops to assess fines on the delin-
quents.
Any one can try Browns exercise.
1t looks easy.
Brown lies on his back full length
upon the floor, his heels together and
thumbs touching each other on the
floor back of his head, with palms up.
He counts one, raises his feet SIX
inches, ankles. tight together, and
holds them there an instant. At the
count OF two he raises the legs to an
angle of As degrees, n stops them
again; three, the legs are raised Slow
ly until perpendicular with the body;
four, the feet are lowered until over
his face; five, he drops them until the
Toes touch the floor above his head;
six, the feet are raised halfway up
again; seven, they are again perpen-
dicnlar; eight, they drop to 45 de-
grees; nine, to six inches from the
floor; ten, the heels touch the floor;
eleven, the arms are raised slowly
until perpendicular; twelve, they are
dropped outward until the backs touch
the floor; thirteen land worst), the
body is raised slowly to a sitting p0-
sition without the aid of the hands.
Then he rolls back and starts over
again.
Brown can go through the exercise
a dozen times without breathing hard
when in perfect condition, and he does
1t morning and night during the train
ing season. Some OF his students have
gone through the exercise four times.
Batting is the bane of a managers
existence. One spring, while moving
southwark with his team, Fred Clarke
%conspired with a baggage master to
send the bats astray. That kept the
Pirates from batting for two days.
Then Wagner showed up at the
grounds with a five-cent bat he had
purchased from a small boy and start
ed batting practise. The manager can
not keep the players from hitting. so
he turns their batting to his Owl pur-
poses, and whenever they hit a fair
ball he orders them to run it u
hard to first base and jog all the way
around the bases. Even that fails to
cure their Unsuitable desire to hit.
AS Frank Schultz remarked to
Harry Lumley one day: "Lum, ii you
had a million dollars, you'd hire the
best pitchers in the country and make
them take turns pitching to YOU"
Cap" Arson, leader of the famous
old White Stockings, was n of the
hardest and most faithful trainers ever
at the head of a ball club. His system
of conditioning consisted largely OF
running. Ned Hanlon also was a be-
lever in running to reduce weight,
strengthening the legs and add speed.
Both of them Numbered sadly because
they seldom adapted the training to
the individual, and gave the 14O-pound
athlete the same prescription they
forced upon the 200-pound fat e
Hanlon, when managing the Cincin-
natl club, came ear running n of
the greatest of pitchers-Oryal Over
all-by ordering him to run around
the ball park ten times every morning.
Overall was big, but not fat, and the
running SO weakened him he eve
pitched good ball for that club.