The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
NATIONALS HAVE FIRST
WORKOUT AT SPRINGS
Mcbride Has Players Climbing the Mountains Dixie
Walker Joins the Camp-Other Sporting Gossip.

| in which several ball players with
parched throats were invited to attend.
They all quit but Unglaub and Bob kept
ordering until he emptied seventeen
dishes.
George Schneider, secretary of the
Cleveland Athletic Club. claims the ice
cream eating championship of the grand
circuit Having officiated as starting
judge and auCtioneer two positions where
ones voice is strained and his throat be-
comes raw with constant yelling,
Schneider discovered that there was moth
ing better to relieve the burning feeling
in the vocal organs than ice cream, so
he developed quite an appetite for the
stuff. One night in 1908. after a hard
days work in the starters stand at
kalamazoo, Schneider suggested that an
ice cream contest take place. A party
consisting of Dick Mcmahon. W. L. Snow,
Charley Dean, and Schneider was formed
and when the contest was brought to
close-the proprietor of the ice cream
parlOr desiring to close for the night
the quintet had devoured $11.95 worth of
ice cream and various other kinds of
frozen dishes.
Schneider was strong at the finish and
would have gone further than the rest
had not a frozen lemon phosphate been
brought in for him to eat. That stumped
him.
IF there was one thing more than
any other that l enjoyed in the old days
il was the love of one of our players
for another" says Charlie thinner. the
old-time catcher, writes the veteran
scribe, Elmer Bates.
Seems to me that in the way-back
days there was a fraternity existing
between the boys on the diamond that
does not obtain to-day, and that will
never exist again.
We were more acrimonious then;
there were more fist fights then. But
We stood together then in a way the
players of to-day do not understand at
all. We were not good friends at all
in the way good friendship is under
stood: but let something happen to one
of our gang. and see how the rest of
us would fight,
Then. a player would fight another
player on another team. tooth and toe
nail, on the diamond, but after the game
he would say: Joe is the finest fellow
that ever lived Nowadays the same fell
low will lie down like a yellow dog on
close play and, after it is all over, will
say:
e" Gee! I wish had got that fellow
4 don't understand the difference.
Except it may be in. this wise: In the
old days We used TO play for the box
office always. Everybody in the house,
upstairs and down, was out for the
cheers. There wasn't a game in which
we did not try to do our best After the
game somebody would come along and
say that such and such catcher had
done his level best. How is it now? No
matter how hard the catcher works, all
this praise goes to the pitcher or to some
body Immediately associated with him.
After victory or a defeat in the old
days you would hear a lot of fellows
standing around explaining how it hap
pened. The catcher was generally the
one to blame.
This ball was too high. or This ball |
was too low somebody would say.
Nowadays they talk more sensibly.
Why, they outgueSsed u.s., somebody |
will say, and they will let it go at |
that.
For, after all, baseball as it is PLAYED |
to-day is simply a question OF pitcher !
d batter. a batter Outguess-
ing a pitcher. or something of that kind.
Baseball has been reduced to a sci
ance. all right. but it is still a game in
which the outcome depends on the ability
If one side to guess better than does the
Dther."