The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-14

TsinSs p9ginSs. ,, 1ll be stronger with more
Overall kept his record of weight as
90 March s 5, PIG; March 90, aoe; March
"a, Go2; April o.. 1919; April 10. 1872;
(close), 195. ' ' "
Holman, playing Just as hard, re,
3orted nine pounds heavier than he
vas the previous season, and added
nve more pounds before the season
opened, and both were in almost per-
ieGt condition during the entire season,
Every player seems TO have his own
system and some of the methods used
are lauehable, md few are of any
practical value. One young catcher
who Joined National league club
Two years ago brought five gallons
OF IRON. beef and, wine in jugs in his
bnma srHhh 10 make him strong. Cannon
oais that weigh twenty pounds are
used to roll over the abdomen, iron
rolilng pins, special bandages, a thou.
sand kinds of rubbing oils and lotions,
ranging from patent medicines to horse
iinlments and oil made by boiling
down fishing worms; vibrators of all
sizes and shapes, bandages, arm
triclty, and rubber bands are employed.
nasla, and one of the funniest sights
OF year, is to sit in a card game with
halI dozen players swathed like
puffy mummies in blankets, sweaters
and fannels until they look as if they
were starting on an Arctic journey.
One spring a cold rain fell upon the
Chicago Cubs training camp, and con
tlnued to fall lncessantly, dismally
putting an end to practice Just as the
players were working off the first
soreness.
The detected athletes, knowing they
would have to undergo the soreness
and stiffness all over again, moped
in the hotel, Toward the middle of
the gloomy, cold afternoon some one
proposed 70 turn a bath room into Il
Turkish bath establishment. The steam
the hot water was allowed to pour
into the tub until the room was
superheated and filed with steam.
Four husky players, in Adamic CON
dition, proceeded to swath themselves
in blankets and take off weight. Half
a dozen bath towels. folded, were
placed on the steam radiator. and the
players took turns sitting on the ra-
diator with 4 half dozen blankets
wrapped around them. Chances turn
came; He adjusted the blankets,
parted them carefully, and sat down.
Stelnfeldt had a narrow escape from
being killed, and Chance to this day
thinks 1t was Steinfeldt who took the
towels off the radiator.
Brown, the three-fngered wonder,
has a system of exercising that would
make his fortune and Danish corpu,
lency as 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 muscles
of abdomen or legs without running,
Every spring he organizes a class in
calisthenics, from which no one, not
empted if his room happens to con
meet with Brown IS. 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 follow tho
movements and orders of the premier
pitcher.
Brown counts slowly-one, two-up
to thirteen, and at every number the
class struggles to follow his move.
ments. The pauses between counts
are more painful than the movements
themselves. After two minutes the
noyices are doubled up like small boys
who have eaten too many green apples;
in three minutes the fat men weaken,
ana III IOuT bTOWu usually Is leII TO
continue the exercise alone until he
stops TO assess fines on the delinquents
i Anyone can try Brown s 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