The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-09-01

curves ever pitched. How many hours
of suffering and hard work we're re-
quired to perfect his "fadeaway" and
make him again one Of the greatest of
pitchers no one knows.
A layman unaccustomed to the idea
of the possibilities Of remaking the
body by exercising would be amazed
at what can be accomplished. A team
Of 80 men arriving at the spring camp
usually is between 500 and 600 pounds
heavier than Il will be at midseason.
The ordinary man would imagine am.
putation to be about the only method
of reducing 600 pounds In 80 days.
How man, who looks hard, feels
hard, does not seem fat, and is In bet.
ter physical shape than 90 out OF 100
men, is going to take of 26 pounds is
a mystery to an outsider, yet they do
1t without great trouble. Frank
Chance lost IA pounds in one after
noon at Philadelphia in two games
during his debut as a major league
catcher.
Overall and Hoffman met at the
AihAAAiAb Ndihp III ANhi AVO0s
I've got to take OFF rs pounus," said
the giant pitcher.
What are you going to pitch at
this year?"
"One hundred and ninety-four-I
think I carried too much weight last
year. What are you going 10 do7"
'1sm going to put ON five more
pounds. I'll be stronger with more
weight"
Overall kept his record of weight as
follows:
March 5, 219; March %, zoe; March
20, 202; April 5, 1879; April 10, 1872;
April IA (opening season., 194h; July
(midseason), 1893; October is
(close), 1876.
Holman. 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 were 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 a human ailment II ordinary
beings could endure 1t. Brown in
vented the system himself and uses
il 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 la 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 13, 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 men weaken,
and In four Brown usually Is left 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
door 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, and stops them