The Washington herald., 1911-02-04
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Art Kruger. who is wintering in San
Francisco, was telling a yarn of the
4 big leaguers one day that is not foreign
to the Coast leaguers. Besides paying
for all the transportation and providing
Pullman berths, the big show clubs allow
s. per day for eating expenses when the
teams are away from home. At home,
the players must look out for their own
expenses. Kruger says there are some
players who never see the dining car on
a train but pocket 90 cents of the dol
lar that is handed them before each
meal and satisfy their hunger with a
1O-cent sandwich. Let them stop at a
table dhote hotel and they yell their
heads off when they don't get enough
to eat. The manager is paying for it
Let them get a room without bath
and they let out roar that can be
heard all over the circuit.
Take the same player at home and
you'll likely as not see him bumped up
on a stool putting away coffee and
doughnutS at 10 cents per. Put him on
the managers expense list and he'll in
sist on the best of everything and howl
if he doesn't get it: put him on his own
expense and he'll be satisfied with any
thing.
you turn to the Coast leaguers. most of
whom live up to the last cent of the
SO day they are allotted away from
home. There are a few, of course, who
never go near the dining car from Port
land to Los Angeles, and vice versa,
grabbing off n luncheon at the various
railroad eating stations along the way
For the most part, however, the coasters
take the best that the railroad dining
car and the hotel can give them.
Says a Southern exchange: Speaking
of sun fields reminds me of warn
Ducky Holmes told during a tanning bee
at baseball headquarters the other day.
Holmes says he was touted on to a
younSSter setting some bush league a-fire
and he bought him. The young fellow
reported and he was typical of the bush.
one of those boys with piece of plow
line still in his grasp. Holmes asked
him if he could play the sun field and
the star answered in the affirmative.
stating that the sun never bothered him.
Holmes told him to play left. The
rube started to the outfeId, but returned
shortly, and, scratching his head, said
to Manager Holmes:
" Mr. Holmes, this is the first time
I've ever been in these grounds. Which
is left field?'
Holmes contends this is an honest to
goodness truth, but, brother bugs YOU
can form your own opinion-I have
mine"
Bowling is evidently not popular in
the far South. as the following story from
Chattanooga paper would indicate: One
sport condition in the South we have
never been able to understandable rela-
tive unpopularity of bowling Few
Southern cities support more than one
set of alleys. In some places the bowling
alley proprietorS drag along barely eking
out an existence. In Others the sport
Is abandoned altogether. Yet a pool
room with dozen tables will play to a
crowded house for sixteen hours a day.
There is not one benefit to be gained from
pool table. while, on the other hand
bowling is one of the greatest developers
of any sort of physical exercise. The
sport has been more extensively patron
lied in Chattanooga this winter than ever
before. BY next winter. at furthest, it
should become one of the several popular
winter sports that helps to pacify the
huge yearning that comes from the alb
sence of baseball
Elmer Bates. the Cleveland baseball
writer, suggests a radical change In uni
forms for big league clubs. He says:
''One of the innovations that baseball
patrons all over the land would keealy
appreciate would be a radical change in
the colors of the uniforms worn by the
players. There never has been, isn't now.
and never will be offered any reasonable
excuse for the adoption of white uni
forms'-white, perhaps at p. m. on OPEN
ing day in April and anything but white |
all the rest of the season
Baseball fans believe that the home
uniforms should be brown, or, even black, !
Then there would. probably, never hap |
pen again the thing that has happened |
several times before-the spectacle of |
ALWAYS the Same.