The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-03-18
SORENESS THAT COMES
FROM THROWING CURVES
3 SCHEDULED FOR TIGERS
Second and Last Stage Of Ach-
ing is About Due for
Hurlers
SORE ARM DISAGREEABLE
Makes Owner Grouchy; Makes 1t
Hard For Him To Live
with Pleasure
BY RALPH L. YONKER.

MONROE, La, March lS.-Ihs
aoreness that comes from the first at
tempts at curving the ball-that is
what the Tiger pitchers are due 10
ket lust about now.
During the spring campaign there
are two distinct kinds OF acnes LOT
fhe boxmen. There is the general
soreness of arm and body that comes
from the first few days or training.
+ When that soreness, that Is as neces-
sary to pitchers In the spring as teeth.
ing TO q baby, is worked In and out OF
their systems, those little muscles OF
the arm. wrist and fingers that have
not been used In the straight pitch
fffx are used for the first time when
the curves are called for. and pains
result. II is that the Tigers must go
Through next.
Sore arms make aching bodies and
peeved dispositions. When the arl2
~ undergoing the first pangs that
come from throwing the ball hard in
early spring, the whole anatomy OF
the men with the wounded wing Is
Affected. It Is like the grip-some-
thing indescribale that seems to litter
through the whole body and scatter
little twinges Of pain all along the
multitudinous nerve paths.
Pity the pitcher with the spring
sore arm. He doesn't want TO eat;
he can't sleep; 1t is hard to be agree
able; 1t hurts him to live.
=. Momentum-that is the salvation or
the old-timers In their competition Tor
the youngsters for places on the
team. While the kidlets are strain
fng themselves to make good during
the spring SO that their chances Tor
being permanent job holders with the
Uigers may be boosted, the veterans
depend on their past performances to
shove them into the seasons job. Vet
Grams don't die during spring train
ing; 1t is In midyear after the young
sters have proved without chance
for doubt their superiority to tho
cid heads, that they fall by the way
side. Thus for the old-timers the
spring training Is one glad fete Cf
playtime baseball, unless 1t rains,
and then it's what Sherman called
MAR.
b The case OF Davey Jones and Henry
Perry Is striking example OF the
btruggie between vet and youngster
Tor q position. Davey hasn't seen o
baseball from last fall to this spring
before he came down here. Hank
was on the spot q week before any
Of the other recruits.
3 And, speaking OF veteran and young
ster. Perry is almost as much of vet
as Jones. Jones Is 81 years Of age;
- n,.A &c
OF the big leagues; Perry OF the
bushes.
With only about week Of work left |
yet to be done in Monroe, and most |
Of the time of the past spent in the |
hotel, there is only one consolation |
Tor the Tigers, and that is that they |
are as well of, from all reports, as |
any Of the rest of-the- big league |
Clubs. Weather conditions all over
the south have been uniformly bad.
The farmers and plantation owners |
around here are complaining bitterly |
about the late spring and the unusual |
amount or rain. They have lost n |
great deal Of money doesn't that |
sound NATURALLY already through the
cold and rain.
Travelling men, stopping here for d |
day or 80 have cheered the downcast |
Tigers with stories of the misfortunes |
81 other training camps. Tales OF me |
Cardinals at Jackson running up and
down the main street for their work |
butts, of the Maps at Mobile having
Had their uniforms on only once, OF
the Nationals at Charlottesville hsv-
ihg to work In a gymnasium, and so
on, had little comfort in them.
Right In there, big fellow" THE
old life. big fellow" "A little pep, big
fellow" The Tiger catchers can learn
this tbig fellow" gag by rote and
use II with their eyes shut, for they
haven't a chance to be wrong with |
the exception Of one Tiger pitcher
8 This appelation of "big fellow" is
a fayorite with the coaching back |
stops. II scares the batters, thcy
must figure, to have it constantly
rubbed into them that a monstroGs
bruiser Is serving the pill. McCorry
and Pernoll are the only Tiger hurl-
ers who aren't tall, and Pernoll makes
bp In east and west what he hasn't IN
north and south.
chicago hEht fans expect to see
peppery battle when Hugo Kelly and
E6die McGoorty clash at Kenosha Wed
nfBday night. Both boys have been
training conscienticusly for two weeks