The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-06-04
THERE is A VAST DIFFERENCE IN
PROFESSIONAL AND COLLEGE
BALL.
A LAZY INDIFFERENT BUNCH
No Speeches in the Blues Clubhouse
The Help" Knew What They Are
There For-Maybe a Little Lecture
AfterWard.

There are about forty-seven diiier-
ent kinds of differences between pro
fessional and amateur-say college
baseball. And if you want to see the
most different differences you should
so sticking around in the Blues club
house at Association Park before one
OF the games.
Previously Ito get the full benefit
OF the lesson) you should at some
time or other have mixed with col
lege team just before they trotted OH
the lot for critical game should
have heard the impassioned exhorta-
tions of trainers and coaches: should
nave noted the quivering, high.strung
expectancy of the youthful athletes,
each Gathering himself for what he is
told-and what he believes--is the eff
fort OF his young career. You should
have seen the lathy young pitcher
working himself into fair lather in
his effort to warm up an already
steaming whip" and to acquire CON
troll that was Pickering through pure
eagerness to be at the enemy and have
il over with
Then the Blues clubhouse.
The players drop in lesurely, may
be an hour or more before time for
tho fuo1 rahaorcoI rrI,o,. ,,,;,. =,
twos and threes. Most of them are
smoking What? Oh, yes-smoHing
| But training rules? Hold on-this
is professional ball, remember. "One
rule says Frank Chance, peerless
leader" of the champion Cubs: Don't
drink beer in the morning" And he
has won four pennants and two
worlds championships on it.
A Lazy, Indifferent Bunch.
Well, the Blues drop in lazily: dis
robe slowly, kidding each other on
things that have nothing to do with
the national pastime. Barbeau has
won all the loose chink at poker. Bak-
er is off form at checkers; Rhodes
will get him that evening. And so
on. They don the soled white uni,
forms of the home club. They stroll
out on the blazing field and begin,
still lazily. to lob the ball about. There
is no lost motion. You never would
take them to be exercising. 1t looks
too easy. They lounge about, PICKING
up sharp grounders, pulling in long
flies, all with a beautiful certainty.
Those are the early ones.
Then there is larger bunch of the
later comers, dressing and smoking
and Kidding" But still no anxious
chatter, no apprehension. Ham"
Hyatt wonders what pitcher ST. Pau
will start against them. Three are
suggested Each meets with boots of
derision. Every Blue is confident that |
he has the measure of anything that |
enemy can offer; that merely Start
ing" is equivalent to being hammered !
out of the lot. Modesty is not appar-
ent in your professional ball player.
And Shay Doesn't Say a Word.
But here it is o'clock; nearly time |
for the last practice. And where is
Danny Shay. the leader? Oh, here he .
a moderate sized person with .
a clear pair of eyes and a head begin
ming to be bald, tightening his belt .
and nodding casually to his help"
They call him Dan"
But isn't he going to make a speech?
isn't he going to tell his faithful he
roes to 20 out and strike for their
altars and their fires-that from yon-
der pyramids and bleachers genera
tons are beholding them?
Oh, no.
He isn't going to tell them anything,
not then. All of it has been said be-
fore. The help" know what they are
fbere for II thpv neaJ IN no told