The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-17
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New York, July 16.-Jim McAleer of the Washington team thinks the clubs carry too many men on their pay roll and train them too much. He said re- gently in discussing the subject:
 "Teams are forced to carry above 20 rIavcrs to make a flag fight and even then they are compelled to use pitchers lan the outfleld or outfielders in the in- field.
 when I was working under Pat Te- beau in a Cleveland uniform around the early 'eOs. we went through the season with eleven men-and we made a hsht of it all the way We had one catcher Chief zimmer; Cuppy and Cy Young; four g,naelaers three outfelders and one extra p,,v who was supposed to fill in any vacant spot Only he had little "orN to do, as the other ten of us were gen orally on the job where nothing but l@ractured spine or badly splintered neck toeuld crowd us away from the Works.
 ..youne and Cuppy pitched practically avery game. Young had as much or more stuff to use then than he has now. Both sl,A and Cuppv worked as hard and cracked then, over with as much on the ball as
 
 +,.v have today. And they worked every other day.
 .,Uhv is 1t, then. that If Il men were enough, 20 or more are not enough now Why Is it that if two pitchers could work e+hroush a schedule, six or eight today can't turn the trick without sore arms, breakdowns. lame backs or something helse to crowd them away from the field?
 eve fought as ruggedly and as fiercely then as they do now. But if a catcher had his thumb-nall bruised back there, For if an infielder got his shoestring twist .ed or an outfelder lost his cap, he was -o+ laying eff for a week or two to get fright.
 'I,ye seen Zimmer step back there with lbroken fingers: have seen him bind them ,,n with tape and still catch great ball i1've seen infelders crippled, and they no Auore thought of asking for a rest than they thought of asking Rockefeller Tor his share of the oil business. They were ont there to play ball and these things were part of the game. And when hall player was relieved he had to come nrettv near showing a coroners certlh- cate with a signed autopsy to get away with it.
 "where we got little money, rode in day coaches and stopped at seeond-nate hotels, the player of today draws down !. bsnker's salary, rides Pullmans and stops at the most expensive hotels We were ball players then. Today they are athletes We were not so particular about our condition through the off hours but we were always on the field, drunk | or sober Today the athletes take bet ter care of themselves-are more par ficular about their condition, have about half the work to do, but the manager is lucky who can put his regular line uu into play for a weeks stretch.
 And that's why l WIS wondering-won- oering why 25 ball players today who have the advantage of five weeks south ern>training, who are handled with the greatest care, who take the best pos sible care of their conditions, have about half the work to do, in general are not able to get along, while 20 years ago II Aall players with no spring training-who took little or no care of themselves off the feld-could jump in anda fight through a ,season without ever knowing what the hospital looked like.
 Just why Is it that two pitchers could pitch a schedule out then and keep in shape, while eight can't do it now with out caving under all along the route?'
 The announcement by Secretary Fred
 ror+n,a1ar of tho National Associatiop oF