The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-29
s8Bsss. NEWS AND VIEWS OF SPORT A. 9s1. 'ssr
Frs NEED CONFIDENCE
TO PUT THEM IN STRIDE

describe how they feel except that
they are just loggy and lazy.
The exhibition game trip has prov
cd bugbear for them. Last year
Monroe was SO bad a place TO stay
out Of il. This year Gulfport was SO
delightful that the men hated 10
leave. The fact that they are prac.
there next spring with no extended
trip north has whetted their appetites
for It this year and they are dis
gruntled at their fate In having 10 go
through the "trip. IL Is not feeling
against any person, for the men real
ize that the dates had to be filled. II
spikes of fate.
Added 10 the effect OF the weather
and the trip. is the sim attendance ar
the games. At only two games has
there been an attendance that
made for real baseball. The two Sun
day dates. one at New Orleans and
one at Mobile, produced real crowds
The record was made at Mobile. with
over 1900 people out But outside OF
these dates the attendance has been
very poor. A game played before $50
paid admissions and IA negro walters.
cannot inspire any club to its best
efforts.
individually, the men haven't as
yet the spirit that made that part or
the training season spent at Gulfport
q success. There isn't the enjoyment,
the good nature nor the pepper that
there was there.
The departure of Walter Schaller
the fun maker OF the bunch. for Chat
tanooga, has left tho men in the main
party without their principal source
Of amusement. While there may be
harm in having Charles Victory
Faust with the club during regular
season, a comedian like Schaller GER
tainly livens up the spirits OF the
men while they are In the throes OF
trip such as the Tigers are now
taking.
Many Of the men are Just III enough
30 that they don't feel like playing
and not sick enough 80 that they can
quit. Charlie Deal,
for instance. looking like wonder
until he left Gulfport, has lost weight
and feels bad He hasn't had a well
day since he left the regular camp.
His playing and his actions on the
field show It.
Bobby veach complains that he
doesn't feel like getting up there and
playing the game as II should be play
cd. He II hitting we'll in spite OF the
OF his spirits. He has
little TO worry about his position so
that all he has to do Ia to keep plug
ging until he strikes his normal stride
again.
Lefty High has been discouraged
because his showing at New Orleans
made II look as Rabbit Powell had
beaten him out for the job the two
men were scrapping for. He has i'm
proved since leaving New Orleans.
however.
Stanley is in the throes Of chang
ing his batting form and he has been
going hitless while doing 80. Added to
that difficulty he has had the worst
OF the breaks In the umpiring which
hasn't made him feel any too cheer
eul.
Oscar Witt has reports that waivers
have beSn asked upon him, staring
him In the face with hardly q chance
10 break into q regular position. even
light-hearted boy, however. and isn't
Inclined to worry AZ much as some OF
the others.
This low spirit must be shaken OF
before the club will hit its normal
stride The men are pining for the
north and are glad that they are as
Far as Memphis. They want one OF
two things-Gulfpor or the north.