The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-12
HOME RUM BAKER
GIVES GOOD ADVICE
Don't Drink Nor Smoke, y
He Tells Aspiring Young
Ball Players.
BY MANHATTAN.
BY Leased wire TO The Tribune.

o. MANdATTAP,
BY Leased Wire 20 Tire Tribune.
NEW YORK, Nov. Ill. Franklin
Baker. the man whose home runs won
the recent worlds championship for
the Athletics, would he astonished II
he was spoken OF as q great teacher.
Yet he recently uttered a great truth
which should be impressed upon the
minds of every boy in the United
States. Here is what the greatest
popular hero of the American small boy
has 10 say:
''I don't drink nor smoke. Never
did drink nor smoke. II anv ouDgster
wants advice from one who doesn Z
mean 10 preach. there IL is Leave
cigarettes OF tobacco in any form alone
and don Z touch booze now or al any
time, It's the usual advice. and don Z
carry much weight as rule, but
coming from a ball player perhaps il
NAV moan little more to the American
kids.
''There is no rule about smoking In
the big league. They Con Z care for
you TO smoke in uniform, though Some
smoke; some don Z touch tobacco. The
managers think the men are old enough
10 know their own minds about such
things. Mine is the total abstinence
platform for both booze and tobacco. -
IL Js not on any particular moral
grounds that Baker cuts out the drink
and tobacco. but because ne wants 10
be tip top baseball PLAYER. which be
is, and realizes that he Z be if he
INDUCES in these vices
Whisky and cigarettes oont give q
man the eye which will enable him to
line out home runs against such pitchers
as Chrlsty Mathewson and Rube Mar
GUARD
Irish Players Once Supreme.
Did You ever stop 10 think what COS.
mopolitan game baseball is and how
much 1t has broadened in that respect
| since YOU and l had sneaking hankerings
10 develop Into great players?
What an explosion would have followed
the appearance OF n name like Eonetchy
or Hoblitzell IN that period of baseball
days"
And what fan could have been con-
xlncsd that guy With name Ike
Not on your life. The stars were the
Kellys, Wards. Ewings. Kecfes. Tiernans
CRourkes, Comiskeys- And they were
irish. 100, They weren't prize ring irish;
But today, Why. today you can find
men OF every nationality from Swede 10
Mex. and that's running tho string OF
shades from appetizer 10 toothpicks. in
And a lot OF these foreigners" for the
| Irish are all Americans or policemen, are
big noises In the national game. Take
Slapnicka, the Wisconsin Illinois league
pitcher. who won 0fteen IN row as an
example.
Indoors Meet Win Attract.
James E. Sullivan secretary of the
Amateur Athletic union. SAWS that the
annual indoor track meet and neld cham
pionships. which will be held at Madison
square Garden in the latter part of De-
cember, will be the greatest indoor meet
ever held In this country.
Mr.. Sullivan saws athletes will come
from all parts OF this country and Cam
ada
Since the day We announced that the
meet would be held in this city" con,
more than n score OF letters from out
of-town clubs telling us that they would
send on their best men.
In my opinion We viii have the lsrs-
est and classiest entry ever received FOR
an indoor set OF games. Every athlete
OF note in this district Will he on hand
as VIII SCORES from Boston, Philadelphia.
PIttsburg. Chicago. St. Louis Texas San
Francisco, Los Angeles and Portlsnd
Or.
Besides the hundreds Of clnhmen there
viii be a great gathering OF college men
present Trainers OF TIE different coli
leges and universities have assured me
that they would enter all their best
mem
Best Men Will Qualify
SO as 70 escape all adverse criticism.
the American Olympic COMMITTEES has
decided on systematic course or try
outs from which the men will he selected
for the American team which Will com
pete In Stockholm next summer.
Five meets will be held. They will he
In the north, east south and middle west
and the Pacific coast. Unlike In other
years. no man will bs selected unless he
shows his best form In his respective
tTyout.
The object OF this declaration r. that
every man who wants 10 make the team.
irrespective OF whether he Is a champion.
record holder or novice. must run In
the tryouts. For that reason the. Of
ficials have decided 20 hold the meets
in the different sections OF the conn |
try.
''If there 10 money enough 10 send |
a large number OF men,. said a member I
OF the committee yesterday, we will |
have enough Judges present 10 pick the |
fourth and fifth men In each event
Should We be ess fortunate in q |
financial way. the winners who make the |
bes; time viii be selected. Accidents 70 |
the best men win be the only thing that |
win prevent us from strictly enforcing
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