The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-30
TIGES INDULGE IN
THEIR ANN UAL
SPRING SLUMP
Transition From Sunny South To
Less Clement Regions o
Featured by Malarial
Colds.
Stiff Necks, Headaches, and Other
Minor Troubles Make Players
Peevish.
BY PAUL HALE eRusKE.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, March 30-The
annual spring slump has struck the
Detroit baseball club While it's men,
bers are still capable OF playing an
article OF ball good enough to take
into camp any of these minor league
aggregations not favored with UNI
righteous sorts of luck. the boys are
really in bad shape for the time.
Malarial colds which manifest them.
selves In various ways. seem TO be-
the prevailing ailment. Undoubtedly
the illnesses are due to the change
In climate, coupled with the stay of
the club In Memphis, which seems TO
be town of ill-omen with Detroit
clubs.
Summers First Invalid.
A catalog OF the ailments OF the
players should. OF course, include the
out-and-out malaria of Eddie Summers
who was forced TO go home from
Hattiesburg The next serious cases
were those OF Cobb and Mullin. Ty
came down after the game In Birming-
ham, with headache and cold In tho
head AT Memphis he developed
temperature. Since then he has been
illness and the large quantities of
medicine he has consumed in HIS
game effort TO put himself In shape
for the daily work at the ball yard.
Mullin pitched four innings at Bir-
mingham and hasn't been himself
since. AT q O'Clock. that evening, his
neck was as stiff as board He de
veloped cold in the head and still
manifcsts a peculiar symptom, being
able TO cause pain in the back of his
neck by light pressure on his chest.
His eyes grew watery and his head
dopy as the result OF quinine but he
always finishes his catalog of symp-
toms by remarking that his arm re-
mains. in fine shape,
Casey's trouble is cough so
hoarse that Joe himself is inclined TO
believe it's of the whooping variety.
He is complaining of lame arm, but
Delehanty and Bush insist they never
want him TO get the alleged lameness
out, or he will be numbering them
Lively On War Path.
Jack Lively got the idea that his
ice cream tasted bit of color last
night couple or the Negro walters
were cycling him closely while he ate
II. Since then he has lacked ambl
tion. Those walters don't know how
near the brink OF sudden death they
are standing.
Bush has been complaining OF cold
and, as usual. his trouble settles in
his feet which continue very sore
Trainer Tuthill is trying healing
salves of various Kinds without re-
ID,
specialist in skin troubles, on his
return To civilization. Tuthill believes
that Bush's feet have become infected !
somehow, due to the players habit
OF parading about the club house and
through the sleeper. barefooted.
However. aside from Bush's case.
there is no occasion for alarm over
the Tigers slump. II Is a matter OF
annual occurrence at about this stage.
In addition TO the change in climate.
the Tigers happen to be just at that
stage OF development. where any ath-
lete is liable to lapse OF form. The
slump OF football team about Oct,
l. can be counted on, with almost
the same accuracy.
All Since Leaving Monroe.
In this connection IL is noticeable
that, regardless OF the criticism level ,
ed at the Hotel Monroe, there was
no illness there, but the cases de-
veloped rapidly as soon as the amount
and grade of eats was raised.
d. Jones advances the theory that
the shock has been too great and that
some Of the boys have been over-eat-
ing to counteract the effects OF the
Monroe temperance.