The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-21
VETERANS HAVE A
WAY TIL At Is
DIFFERENT
It's Easy for Anyone To Pick Out
the Regular Infeld When II
Gets Busy at the "Santone"
Training Camp.
Colts Make Hard Work of the
Chances Hughes Regulars Eat Up
in Most transformations Way.

BY PAUL HALE BRUSkE.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex, 2l.-The De
troit clubs training camp has been
presenting an interesting contrast for
some days OF late. An entire colt team
and a club OF veterans, combined an
der one banner and in charge OF one
manager, have been working out on
the same park, in alienation and t..
Rether.
Advanced baseball erudition has not
been necessary TO enable the casual
visitor at the ball yard 10 tell which
was the veteran aggregation, even
though he had never heard OF any Ot
the world-famous athletes which com
prise 1t.
The youngsters have been going 1t
heir work with q dash that has almost
suggested the college team. They have
fairly torn up the patch with one-hand
stops, throws from apparently impCs
sible positions. and stunts on the bag
at frenzied speed.
There's Difference.
But the veterans? Well, they haven's
featured so much with the one-hand
stun because they have learned the
knack OF getting out in front of the
ball. Their throws haven't been from
uDfavorable stances because they know
how to come up in position TO heave.
AS for the extreme speed on the bags.
there has been 10 hectic desire 10
show anything of the sort. That brand
of goods is being reserved for a more
appropriate date.
And yet, to the seasoned baseball
critic, the work of the veterans at
their very first practice, though NOT
sensational, was an inspiration. The
inffeld that day WIS comprised or Torn
Jones, Delehanty. Bun and O'Leary,
1t was the line OF battle, with one ex-
teption, that the Tigers bad employed
throughout. the remnant race The
fellows hadn't been together since the
worlds series, but each acted as II
she parting had been for only a few
days. Bush never thought TO look al
second base when he tore off to his
left and made one of his copyrighted
stops; he simply knew right where
Delehanty was waiting and tossed the
ball there with the same motion he
employed in making the clutch. And,
first-to-second-and-re play, Jones
never turned except on the very sec
ond that the ball was coming. And
when he faced around, his foot was Oh
the bag.
The boys knew each other and long
experience had done the rest There
wasn't a~youngster on the colt lineup
who couldn't. cover as much grounL,
perhaps, as his veteran rival But the
SmoothneSs and ease with which the
veterans did their work made IL look
as IL they were almost loafing on the
job.
Vets Like Old Pitchers.
And the regulars like to take their
batting practice from their own
pitchers. They want to eliminate the
idea of competition with their pitcher
who may be at work on the slab and
this is difficult with a twirler who IS
trying to make good. Mullin, for m
stance, Is welcome to ascend the
mound and curve every ball he throws
up In fact, this is what he has been
doing all the time since the regulars
arrived. His mates know be is doing
Il TO get his control, and to help them
get located. But let a colt start fancy
work in practice and the veterans
know he IS trying to show them up.
And this rule, furthermore. works
both ways. Muljin hadn't pitched a
hall in practice TO one of the colts. lie
had left this job 10 the young pitchers,
contenting himself with getting ready
t. start, full strength, when his regu-
lar mates arrived
1T doesn't get fellow anything 20
pitch to these young fellows said
George one afternoon. II you curve
'em, they think you're trying 10 put
them on the slide. II you hand EN-
up like gentleman, they get gay.
This line OF talk brings up the cas-
of one Pebbles Hoffman, whom Ed
Barrow tried out one year. The pitch
ers all took their turns in working
with the batteTe and put them 40
straight and right over, most OF the
lime. Hoffman got it into his head
that he was worid-beater, for he had
DO trouble connecting. One evening hc
remarked to Donovan and Mullin ina.
he only wished he was batting against
them all year. Bill smiled, but George
vaxed inwardly wrathful The mex
day Mullin started the pitching ami
Donovan followed. Everybody but
Hoffman kept hitting squarely, as be-
core. Pebbles, strange 10 relate, didn't
ret 80 much as a. foul all day, while
the breeze created by his efforts at
hat prevented all other occupants Il
the ball park from getting up a sweat.