The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-07-01
PROFESSIONAL BASE
BALL PLAYERS ARE
LUCKY
A Comparison of the Hard
ships of the Early Exper-
fences and the Attention
Players Receive Now.
TRAVEL IN PULL
MAN CARS N TOP
AT BEST HOTELS
BY Sam Crane.

New Ofk, june vi fO1r~Slhhdl
baseball players of today are very luck, !
individuals. They are better taken care
Of. more cnr"inily nurscd than ~, 9th ,
~ athletes. and this too j. an athlete !
ngr.
The hall player j. molly coddlcd 10,
seven months ot each year too while
athletes ia other lines ave their train.
ing seasons rurtailed to meet the re-
q%uircmcuts of some particular athletic
meet.
No better illustration of the progress
baseball has made IN late years can he
furnished possibly. than by comparison
of the present day training methods
with those OF thirty years ago or even
twenty.
remember the time when the play.
crs Of clubs Ia the National League
were To- get "A pail Of water 10 wash.
up ia after II game, aud such things
~ shower, plunger aud needle baths
looked To Ice a. far away as the services
of "a trainer or rubber. And that WAS
not more than twenty-five years back
tn the earlier days of the game any
old kind Of u room and convenienrcs
were deemed sufficient for bail play.
rrs 10y the club owners. The request
for an extra pail or a few more nails
To hang clothes on would hc greeted
with decision, while the thoughts of
running water would have caused the
owner to 90 daily.
remember of an instance ~ Cinciu.
nat during lSs4, when one pni' was con
~idered sufficient tor an entire team 10
wash up in. and after the ablutionS OF
the players were performed, the same
pail was used as the team : "GrOwlcr. w
This was the year IN which the Union
Association tried TO break into the
cities of Cincinnati, ~. Louis, Phila
iclphia aud boston, hut without sue
cess. a. the outlaws went cup the
spout before the season was finished,
The Cincinnati Union of 1854 play
ed on the same grounds a. those now
NV All'l ~ Nv ' ~ hhNN Ah''Ts "''
Dan O'Lcary was their manager.
r That there was only one wash pail
in the ''stuhle' called Il dressing room
can vouch for. was there one day
, beaten the ~. Louis Union, their big
[ gcst rivals. Manager O'Leary and his
PLAYERS were, therefore. considerably
elated. one of the boys remarked t.
the manager:
"Dan. some beer wouldn' I 90 bad
4 am ~ dry as a fish.
\ Certainly, me boy, well have q
\ bucket, - replied Dan.
The one pail was found outside ~ tn,
D sun, drying out, and although It wa
\ strictly against the rules lor any IN
toXicatinp drinks 10 be brought into
4 the dressing room, the manager, feel
/ ny more than usually pleased over tn,
Z victory, decided 10 take the chance, \
q boy was sent out with the ''growler
aud the price with which to I'LL 1t to thu
4 hrim.
" just rs llt DON was I'tuIUluG' JuA'N'
. ThOrner, the owner OF the club, drOv,
I up to the dressing room and entered
the boy came whistling mcrrily alonl
\ a minute later with the pail foaminl
! over with froth aud dripping on the
z floor.
\ The manager saw that he must MAKE
\ some stragetic move at once or his heat
would be off in a iify, 50 with a sInil,
! Dan asked the boy pleasantly:
! "Why, what have you got in tn
pallet -
Beer" answered the boy, "wha
\ you ordered
4 Well, the look Of injured innocens
4 that spread On 'Leary's face woul'
y have made a hit in a poker game
what" he shouted "beerl' Didn
\ you hear me order milki'
The ease never came up for trial, an,
4 no one was released.
Conveniences for dressing were so YER
poor at nearly all Of the ball ground
= in the early days of the sport, tina
\ players frequently donned their un
forms home aad walked the streets un
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