Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26
Inclement Weather Prevents a
Clash Between Big League
Picked Teams.
MILAN HAS NAIL TORN
FROM ONE OF HIS FINGERS
FIeet-Footed 0utfieIder Dis
playing Too Much Energy for
His Own GOOd-WaIker
Takes Things Easy.
Special Dispatch TO The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. February 25-
Muggy weather. rain and the absence OF
the fans prevented the pase ball stars
from shining on the diamond at Majestic
Park today. 1t was perhaps a good
thing for the players who have been
alternating. because the enthusiasm OF
yesterdays game got into their blood
and they might lave let loose more en-
ergy than would have been good for
them If Manager McAeer could see
his center-field antelope, Clyde Milan
tearing after the dong flies it would give
him heart failure for fear this ambitious
young man might strain the sinews OF
his speedy legs
In yesterdays game. for example Milan
tried to beat a short hit to first. and
got his body started faster than his legs
would follow SO early in the season. and,
as he puts it, his legs couldn't catch up
with him and he tumbled about three
quarters way from tie sack. He could
have beaten the ball all right but the
ground was little soft and his pedals
were some too soft so the combination
gave him a tumble. Milan says a ball
player ought To put everythin. he's got
into every game if he wants to get the
limit OF the development out of himself.
Clyde is good thinker as we'll as an
eager performer, and says as long as a
player feels himself getting better he
does himself an injustice not TO put every
ounce of energy into his work and to
keep his mind on his playing.
Milan in Form.
Milan looks slim and light but his
compact physique is packed solid with
muscle, tipping the scales at 1850. " lille he
looks to be on thirty-five. The kind OF
training Milan needs is course in tho
art of not getting injured. This is his
hoo doc season; he has his collar bone
sprung; that put him out of the game
for while. Yesterday he ran like deer
to get a right field fly that you would
not bet nickel against a years salary
he could get. but the ball just missed the
finger OF his left hand and tore a nail
loose. Just my luck said Clyde, ''but
I'd got it If l didn't have a heavy
sweater on. Milans tendency to injuro
himself comes from forgetting to protect
a mighty good ball player i'm a consuming
eagerness to make the play he is after.
1t would eventually prove to his adj
vantage to think more of himself.
Tom Hughes is another fierce player
who ought to he held back from working
too much The lanky freshman is burn
ing up with energy. and deep in his
determination to play the kind OF ball
that will make somebody sit up and take
notice.
1t is not related who this somebody is.
but Tom is mad with desire to convince
him what real ball playing is. 1t is a
safe bet that Hughes this year has more
ginger. steam. energy and determination
in his elongated carcass than ever got
together there in his previous history.
and he is going to turn the whole vol
| cano loose In some pyrotechnic ball play
ing this year.
Dixie Walker is strong. wiry and ac-
tive, but holds himself In prudently
while taking vigorous general exercise
, with Mcbride. Conroy and Schaefer. They
do plenty of mountain climbing every
day and bowling in the evening at Jiggs
Donohue's or the Park bowling alleys.
Clyde Milan has not yet signed for the
season. but he says it is not 'hold OUT
or anything like that. McAleer made a
proposition to him and johnson and told
them to think about 1t until they all met
in Atlanta. where they both will sign
for the season.
A game will be played Sunday IL the
weather permits