The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-02-26
[NORES SAYS THAT HE'S
| GOING TO MAKE GOOD
HEALTH TO AID HIM
Was Sick last Year Before Train
ing Season and Was
Left Weak
FEELS FINE AT PRESENT
He May Be Expected To Start
Out Well, But Mid-Season
Is His Weakness
BY RALPH L. YoNkER.

BY RALPH L. YoNkER.
ABOARD PULLMAN, EN- ROUTE
MONROE, Feb. 25.-If there is one
Tiger who is more pleased than an
other today il is Ralph Works, who
views his coming south with the re-
cruits as a golden opportunity to get
started towards making a great show
ing with the Tigers during the coming
season.
II was decided at first that Works
would not go with the first bunch. II
was thought that he had been given
opportunity enough to make good in
the past and that what little expense
there was in sending him down with
the first bunch was hardly worth
while.
However, Ralph put his case up TO
President Navin and after thinking ii
cover, the Tiger boss came to the con-
cmsion that Works ought to have the
extra work.
Ralph is confident of making good
this summer. The reason he didn't
make the best possible showing last
year, he thinks, was because he had
been sick and weak all winter, with
pneumonia. The day before he left
the training camp for the north last
year he had hardly enough power TO
I get the ball across the plate
Last year he weighed 1913 pounds
when he went south. He was under
his normal. This year he weighs 1S1
and feels fine.
Il am going to start right in as soon
as we reach Monroe and work hard"
said Ralph today. Il feel fine and
look for good season. l have not
been sick this winter at all My i'll
ness last year am sure, is what had
its effects later In the season"
II will be a great surprise IL Works
doesn't start out well this spring The
fact OF the matter is that he always
starts out well in the spring. He went
like whirlwind the first of last sea-
SON and then slowed up badly in the
mid-season.
Pitcher Moroney is beginning to
quake with fear. He isn't afraid about.
making good with the Tigers: he
isn't afraid that he is going to be un-
deried. But he is worrying for his
personal safety.
The last time he was on a southern
training trip with a major league team
he SO nearly lost his life that he is
wary of the ink now.
He was with the PhilIies In 1910 on
their, trip south. Out near Southern
Pines, North Carolina, he was enjoy
ing sweet sleep. He doesn't remem.
Der whether he was dreaming about
tanning six Giants in a row or draw
ing a raise Of a few hundred from the
Fogel treasury after finishing a very
successful season along with Alex
<ander the Great.
But anyway, just before he landed
on that something soft that had been
prepared for him-Crash! and he
clawed his way out OF a mass of
debris, meaning In this case plaster.
dust. lath, wall paper and shingles. He
was dirt from head to toe, but unin-
inred.
A lightning bolt had made an un-
tremendous entrance via the roof,
tearing its entryway as II went.
Moroney, was stunned slightly but
otherwise unhurt.
There promises to be some hot bat
tie between Kocher (speIled that way
and pronounced cocker" &C" as in
coke) and Onslow for the position as
runner UP to Joe Casey In the capac.
ity of chief assistant to Oscar Stanage.
Onslow Is the Fort Wayne man of
the Central league, whom Jim Casey
thinks Is just about the pumpkins
when 1t comes to backstop. He
is q good catcher and has a great arm
for cutting down would-be thiefs, says
Casey.
Now this Kocher is brim full Of con.
fidence.
Sure, I'm going to make good" he
said today when asked as to his as
pirations. He gave no reasons; he
made the statement in such a way as
70 leave no doubt about the matter of
MS determination and let IL go at that.
kocher has had bunch OF expert
ence for youngster He was with
the Athletics on their training trip on
season, going with the Yannigans on
their way home. Out OF some Is games
played on that trip he caught 16 OF
them, when the Athletics were using
Harry Krause and some other of their
second string pitchers.
Mike Mauer, the Detroit youngster.
Is In hard position. He has TO fight
his way to the pitching STAFF against
an older bunch, most OF whom have
had major league experience. at least
In training camps.
He Is game, however, and hasn't the
slightest doubt that he will pull
through all right. IL he does he will
be one of the very, very few men
who have been able to Jump from m,
amateurs into the big show and make
a hit. -
offsetting the DISADVANTAGE OF buek.
ing older and more experienced men
viii be the training he will receive
right from the start from sugden and
Mcclure.
The best bout of this weeks boxiup
card In New York, Is expected tonlaht
when Leach Cross and Willie Beecher
come together at the Olympic Athletic
ficccner, VINO carries a hard
right wallop, a fact Knockout Brown
can testify to. believes he will be
able TO land haymaker. although no