The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-10
GETTING THB PLAYERS READY
TBE SPRING TRAINING FOR
q BlSEBlLL so tSON.
Taxing 1oO Pounds on . Team 90 ThIr'S
Players Iske s0CAP AEson Three
Fingered DrsNnS ENesctae New
Nath~waoa On, ensesi the Fadea~ ~


team II thirty BASEBALL players ar
irving at their sprung trimming camp ~
usually tive ~ -ix hundred pounds hea vi~r
than u will he at mii-'sasou. The ordinary
man would imagine amputation 10 h'
ahout the only method of reducing s'S
hun,Ir,St pounds IA thirty DAYS. How a
man wAo looks hard. feels hard, DIS not
seem fat and ~ in h~tisr physical shape
than ninety nine out oT = hundred men
IL going to take 81 twenty-five pounds -
a mystery 20 an outsider, yet they de- y
without trouble.
Frank chance. now manager of the
Chicago cubs. lus, fourteen p"unds in
one afternoon At PhilRdelphia In two games
during his debut ~ major league
catcher Last -Dring Overall and Hof-
man 10 the chicago club met at tho train
Ing camp.
I've got ~ take ~ twenty five pounds.
said the giant pitcher.
What are Won going 10 pitch AZ this
year.
One hundred aud ninety four.
think carried too much weight last year.
What are You going 10 do
I'm going To pat ON five more pounds
I'll be stronger with more weight
NNera' kep' ms re'"ru 81 "e's"' W
follows.
March :. 10: Marrh - 2os; March %.
.U2; april >. 1872 Apris 10 lsg' NP''i "
,opening ~sa$on'. l9I q. July ,mId-
ssason,. IO3 October u ,clo~sI rs.
Hoffman. playing just az hard, r-I'orted
nine pounds heavier than y" N"~ he
previous season and added five moro
pounds before the $'a-"h opeh'-' - a".' uS''n
were in almost l'erfect connit'On dNr'hg
the entire season.
Every player seems 10 have ms own
syst"Tn,- writes Hugh Fullerton IN the
American ndgds'Hs Some ~ the
methods u-s.d are laughahle, ana lev are
Of any practical value. one young
catcher who joined NATIONAL I@'lSu"
cluh two years ago brought I'VE gallons
~ iron' heel and VINE III Jugs Va "i- """A
to make him strong
Cannon halls that weigh twenty-five
pounds are used 10 roll over The aOdotnen'
iron rolling pins, special bandases. thou-
sand kinds OF rubbing oils aud lotions
ranging from patent medicines 10 horse
hnimeuts and oil made by boiling down
fishing worms. vibrator- OF all sizes and
shapes. HANDBAGS. arm bakers To he super
heated with electricity and rubber bands
are employed.
Hotel rooms are turned into gymna-
sums. and one ~ the FUNNIEST slghts on
year 10 Ia sit IN card game with hah a
dozen players @wathed like Pury mum
mics IN blankets sweaters ami nnaneis
until they look ~ II they were starting
on an Arctic journey
The three most retnarkable instances
Of training perhaps. are found IN the
cases u ksdbourne. who pitched practi-
cally two-thirds Of all the games played
by Providence one season and pitched ths
Last third OF the season alone jimmy
Ryan. the famous obi outtielder. Who after
thirty years ~till throws well. and Theo-
dore BreitsnSt~'n. Who pitched for ~
LOUIS twenty years ago and now - one
of the star pitchers ~ the southern
League.
The odd coincidence. n such y -. 10
that the-e three men all hal the same
hobby. and both Ryan and Br-Itsnstsin
adopted II from Radbourn" They treated
their arms through their s'onachs Dur
ing IN. spring training s~ASon they re-
sorted 20 the old fashioned tr"acts 'sul-
phur and molaS--s'. taking large dose~
night and morning Ryan Aays lac started
using tr.acls on Radbourne' advice and
believes that his long service ~ baseball
vas due IN large proportion 10 the spring
tonic
-An@on Was one ~ the most t,reie--
runners in III" world. and training under
him was nightmare 20 his players
An-e would drive his men for three hours
In practice. than lead then ia long runs
placing himself At the head u the proces-
aion and s@tt.-,y a steady. Jogging Iac.
J,h. ,.,, ,..II f,,. morning training vas
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Mara'h"h rpu'e' nav ~" Pl'F-rS 70
SORT to all nrts OF uickS tO AVOID those
killing runs
-On.. aft.rnoon tu New OrIaau. ve,rz
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AK" ans" "" ~ "'''''' 'n+
neif after pra't'"' Nh'ch on the old
grounds was nearly ten miles The after
noon was hot. one 81 those - tlttnE south
g., .,r,ng law. that gan The life an, .,
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men H'7n ''"'i, ''e " -''''i'-'"
winter. IN" players lel lh'o me grum-
bling and g~owlng Back ~ l-fi held a
h,sn board fenc.. separated rh. Isu
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