Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-27
HANS WAGNER IS
ONE Of CAME 5
'YOUNCEST"
TYANS WAGNER, the Pitts
burg shortstop, is one of the

TYANS WAGNER, the Pitts
burg shortstop is one of the
youngest" veterans in the
National league ranks. Physicians
ascribe the Germans greatness to
his rowing disposition, his fondness
for nature and habit Of eating
what he pleases. In commenting
upon Wagner's ability to keep in
good shape, year after year, James
Jerpe, eff Pttsburg, who has known
the great shortstop a number of
years, says:
when man of his natural
physique can eat what he wants,
drink what he wants, and do what
he pleases in the open air all the
year around, it isn't any real Won
der that he prolongs his athletic
career and stands off the slowness
and staleness that cemoes to the
best of them as the years go by.
Simple Life For Honus.
"Honus is the living ideal of the
simple life He clings to nature.
He spends his fall and winter in
woods and the spare time of the
summer at the banks of a stream
fishing. He loves the freedom of
the open air and he is at home in
the widest woods. He has the ma
ture Of an Indian in this respect
You don't catch Honus browsing
around in the city or on the streets
of his home town, He keeps to HIM
self or in his own pet. little circle
of woodmen.
Il have known him personally
for years, and know that his fond
ness for hunting and fishing and
life in the open air has kept him
from going to the discard as a real
ly great player Honus roams the
woods from pure desire. He doesn't
worry. He sleeps a lot, and he eats
what he pleases and when he
pleases Ham and eggs look good
to him three times a day. Between
meals he seeks the open air-either
in his automobile or on foot.
"Honus has a poetic nature in
this respect, although he is any
thing but a poet. But the open air.
the trees, the streams and the wild
freedom of the woods have fancy
for him, and in this environment
only is he happy. Is it any wonder
then that he retains his vigor and
Conserves much of that dash and
speed that make him the annual
wonder on the ball field?
Eats What He Wants.
There is nothing tempting on
the hotel or dining car menu for
Honus. He prefers the simplest
kind of fare and plenty of it. Honus
would stop at the Waldorf Astoria
and calmly order ham and all
the while ignoring with character
istic contempt the alleged tempt
ing merits of lobster a la Newburg.
pate de fois gras, crab ravigotte
and the pastries and knickknacks
of the stewards batting order. For
fifteen years they have tried to
wine ana dine Honus and educate
him up to these lofty notions in
the culinary art, but the German
would rather order his own meals
and pay twice as much for them as
the chap who fuses over the
Frenchy menu and its varieties.
"As for the evenings in a large
city. Honus always enjoys himself
In New York he hunts out the big
moving picture shows. where the
movies may be showing African
game hunts or some sort of adven-
ture in the jungle, woods. or on sea.
The next morning he NAV be up
bright and early and within an
hour or two be As minutes from
Broadway, where the fishes have
no idea of the closeness of the little
old New York town
Yes. s, is funny how the Dutch
man Keeps 10 shape year III and
NeGr