The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-14
FOUCHING SECOND
m Evers Hugh S. Fullerton All rights eavsa

set, Walsh set to work and within a
few weeks, by steady, slow work. de-
veloped another spit ball, pitched slight
ly sidearm and curving outward, that
proved almost as effective as the other
had been.
of tralnin~ perhaps, are found in the
cases of Radbourne. who pitched prac-
tically two-thirds of all the games
played by Providence one season, and
pitched the last third of the season
alone; Jimmy Ryan, the famous old
ontfelder, who, after thirty years,
still pitches well, and Theodore
twenty years ago, and now is one of
the star pitchers of the Southern
league. The odd coincidence (if such
it is) is that these three men all had
the same hobby. and both Ryan and
Breitenstein adopted it from Rad
bourne: They treated their arms
through their stomachs During the
spring training season they resorted TO
the old-fashloned treacle Sulphur and
molasses) taking large doses night and
morning. Ryan says he started using
treacle on Radbourne's 8 advice, and be-
lieves that his long service in baseball
was due in large proportion to the
spring tonic.
Perfect condition is the aim of
spring training, condition of blood and
digestion being held as important as
condition of arms and legs. Condition
is the biggest asset Of any club during
the first six weeks Of a season and
counts more than "class,' as one
team is about as good as another me.
chanically during that period. The
manager of a weak team who can
bring it north to open the season in
better physical condition than his
rtt
clubs because his men are further ad-
vanced toward playing form. This fact
accounts for the early season strength
of the southermost clubs of the major
leagues, who usually have better
weather at home than Boston, Cleve
land, Detroit and Chicago, and condi
tion more rapidly, while the northern
Comiskey, owner Of the Chicago
White Stockings, usually has the best
trained and conditioned team in the
major leagues. and not only starts the
season that way, but continues the
training throughout the year. He has
won championships on condition alone,
his team outlasting stronger clubs that
Yet Comiskey has little system In
training men beyond requiring steady
work. His great success lies in his
Judgment in picking ball players who
have brains enough and ambition
enough to keep in good condition all
the time.
Conditioning for baseball is unlike
training for any other sport, and many
college boys, accustomed to training
for short football seasons or for the
crew, reach an ''edge'' within a few
son is a month old. The ball player
must begin March l to work for the
maximum of speed, agility and
strength, yet store up enough reserve
power to carry him to October 10.
A layman unaccustomed to the idea
of the possibilities of Temarlsing the
body by exercising would be amazed
at what can be accomplished. A team
of thirty men arriving at the spring
hundred pounds heavier than 1t will be
at mid.season The ordinary man would
imagine amputation to be the only
method of reducing 600 pounds IN
thirty days. How man, who looks
hard, does not seem fat, and is In bet
ter physical shape than nlnety-nlne out
of hundred men, is going TO take
an outsider. yet they do it without
great trouble Frank Chance lost
fourteen pounds in one afternoon at
Philadelphia in two games during his
debut as major league catcher.
Overall and Holman met at the
training camp in March, 1909.
'I've got to take off twenty five
pounds, SAID the giant pitcher.
What are You going to pitch at this
year?"
"One hundred and ninety four;
think ] carried too much weight last
year. What are you going TO do?''
81 IN going TO put on i've more