The Washington herald., 1913-01-27
EARLE STEELE
RECEIVES Offer
Erie Club, of Central League,
Sends Contract to Local
Outfelder.
By {. w. SWAN.


District has been rendered a contract
by the Erie club. of the Central League,
and that he will more than likely sign
up at once
Steele is one OF the best outfielders
around town. good hitter, Earle IL
fast on the bases, and a good fielder
There is no reason in the world why the
local boy should not make good in that
circuit. and his many friends will watch
his work with interest, should he decide
to accept the offer.
Andy Walker is another Of our local
amateurs who will more than likely take
a swing at the professional game this
summer. Manager Shaffer. of the Nor
folk club, has written here. saying that
he would like to have Walker. but as the
Virginia Leagues salary limit is none too
high. Walker may refuse OF go.
Walker is perhaps the best fielder IN
Washington. Andy has been hitting well
over 800 for the past three years in the
Independence League, and is one of the
fastest on the bases in the circuit. Andy
should have little trouble making good
in the Virginia League. should Manager
! Shaffer succeed in signing him.
| The Boys Guild Society of the Nativity
/ Church will tender to its baseball team.
| winners of the pennant in the Sunday
! School League last season, banquet
Thursday night at Nativity Chapel. The
management promises a royal gsod time
for all, and plans for another cham
pionship team in 1913 will be made.
| Harry Dodd. sporting editor of the Sa-
vannah Morning News, pens the follow
ing:
Prospects for strong pitching staff
here this season were given a decided
| setback yesterday by the news from
| Washington the home of Dick Robert
son, that the little spitballer has re-
turned his contract to the local owners
unsigned. Robertson has been on the
doubtful list for several months. but the
club owners were inclined toward the
belief that he would materially alter his
| attitude when the warm weather once
| set in.
| However, the little spitbaIler has
evinced not the slightest disposition in
I this direction. Rather. the fact that he
has signed to coach a high school team
this spring, and publicly announced that
he is through with baseball would make
it appear that there was considerably
more than bluff behind his original
threat not to return here. Robertson's
loss undoubtedly will be a severe one
to the local pitching staff While few
other twirlers In the circuit last season
or the season before experienced harder
luck then the diminutive spitballer, he
found no great trouble in winning more
than half his games, and his absence
this spring will leave a wide gap for the
| 1913 manager to FILL
Prof. c. V. p. Young, of. Cornell. who
is delivering a series of lectures at Cor
nell on Health and Exercise" declares
that the danger of athletics lies in the
misuse of them He says:
4 The most serious danger that threat
ems the track athlete is the fact that
he is very apt, upon graduation. to sud-
denly let down in the amount of his
exercise or give it up entirely.
For many years we have regarded
lar development Our primitive logic
In athletic training was that inasmuch
as strength lay In every muscle, the
way to grow strong was to increase
the size of our muscles.
There is no Inherent danger to the
heart I'm athletics. The heart tends to
dilate, as a matter of economy. when
| amount of work is increased gradually
and the heart given opportunity to ad-
| just itself to the changed conditions, no
| injurious results will follow.
| 81 believe the only serious injury or
! lasting harm done by participation in
athletics to these whose organs are
sound is in the case of young and grow
ing boys held TO the stop watch, either
too frequently or when not adequately
| trained.
1.-The bane of athletic life in America
is that during the years of young man.
hood II is entered into so intensely and
then abruptly discontinued in later. life.
1t is not less athletics that we want.
but more general participation. and par
ticipatlon continued throughout middle
life and old age"