The Detroit times., 1911-02-23
TOO MUCH FUN AND
TOO 5000 EATS
At sANT0ME
That Is the Real Reason De-
troit's Tigers VIII Train
At Monroe, Ia, This
Spring.
Frank Navin Announces Some Revo-
lutionary Principles in Training q
Baseball Team.
BY PAUL HALE sRuskE.

baSeDau Team.
BY PAUL HALE eRuskE.
A town can be too big and too at.
tractive to make II the ideal spot for
a baseball training camp. Also
A hotel can be too good, from the
epicure's standpoint, to at the proper
niche for training diet.
In other words. the stalwart ath-
let's who are shedding their adipose
envelopes, hardening their 1.-the mus
Giles and sweeping the winter cob
webs from their luminous orbs can
have too good time and be tempted
into too free an indulgence In eating
that king OF all indoor sports.
These somewhat revolutionary prin-
ciples are culled from the wisdom OF
Frank ]. Navin. president OF the De
troit baseball club. Furthermore,
they were the influences which were
mainly instrumental In persuading
Mr.. Navin to change the Tigers train
ing base from San Antonio, Tex, to
Monroe, La
No Knock on santons.
It's surely no knock on the balmy
San Antonio spring or the immaculate
dining room OF the famed Menger
that the Tigers will this season be
missing In their accustomed haunts.
They had too much fun In San An
tonic and-horrible thought-they ate
too much!
we had trained at San Antonio too
long," said Mr.. Navin. discussing the
matter. The boys got too well ac-
quainted and their outside friend
gave them too good time. Some OF
them got to staying out nights in spite
of all that Hughie said. As for the
eats, any man who has ever Travelled
with a ball club In the spring knows
how that is. The veterans 60 to that
swell cooking like 90 many bears just
out Of winter quarters, while the
youngsters who have been brought up
on the round steaks OF the bush
leagues, simply founder themselves
on artichokes, pate de fois gras. lob
ster cocktails and French pastry.
Plenty OF sleep and plain, wholesome
food are necessary to any athlete. The
boys should get both at Monroe.
There was too much to see and
too much to do In San Antonio, aside
from the main and animating purpose
of the trip"
Santone 10 Sad.
incidentally, Mr.. Navin skaters q
popular delusion that San Antonio
was abandoned because the Tigers
failed to live up to an unwritten
agreement and turn .over ball play
'er or two, az a sort of ground-reut.
He bays that San Antonio has been
yearning for the Tigers all through
the winter and that Manager George
Leddy, of the "Bronchos," actually
made a trip to Detroit to exercise per-
sonal persuasion In coaxing them
back.
Georges trip was In vain. His town
was too interesting; his hotel too
tempting.
Undoubtedly, Mr.. Navin Is essential
ly correct on his Judgment OF the sit
uation. He almost always 10. But
the converse side OF his theory Is
something to make strong man
shudder.
Logically worked out, the deal
Navin training camp Is an implanted
hash house on boundless prairie.
00y1 WIN eCtB SscO "
or course, Monroe and Monroe's ho-
tel are not SO bad as that. In fact,
Tommy Murphy vouches for the ex-
istence In Monroe OF a moving pic
ture theater. while the meals, he
AYERS, might readily be much worse.
In fact, every time he buys a SHANK
bone for his bull pup, he thinks long
ingly OF those banquets ne had at
Monroe, while he was there, bossing
gang OF convicts on the sodding
operations at the Monroe ball yard.
He believes that the boys will all
like Monroe when they get used to
IL.
II, however, the Monroe experiment
should prove a failure, Mr.. Navin
will be in the market for letters like
this:
Dear ir--Understanding that you
are looking for 1912 training camp
for the worlds champions | want TO
call your attention TO Hellhole, Ark.
We have a fine town here, with the
exception of the buildings. Should
you bring your ball club to Hellhole,
we will guarantee that the boys will
be well taken care of. We will erect
q shanty for them to sleep In, and the
boys can have their meals cooked In
the railway eating house at Texar-
kama and sent out by fast freight I
am sure they won't any Of them care
to stay out at night. They might fall
into the bayou or be bit by water
There was mill here once
and the sawdust pile would make q
swell ball ground II properly levelled
and sodded. You can get plenty Of
sod at Palestine. Tex. know that, IL
you ever see our town. you would be
satisfied with none other Your truly
ETC., etc.
MANAGERS SCHEDULE MEETING.