The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-02
'fAlkY" TELLS Of
his COMEBACK
.ETTED TRADITION HIS WORK
DURING WINTER RESTORED
PITCHING POWERS.

The greatest comeback In the his
tory of baseball has told how ne &C
compltshed the seemingly iunpo ssisle
fred r. t"Cy") Falkenberg. who was
sent from the Cleveland Maps to the
ssaie1o club of the American Rssocia-
Il in s9i1 as a baseball has been,
&@es his recipe for recovering pitch
lng. ability for the benefit of others
gr the national pastime. who seem to
I've reached the end Of their use
f4,sess IN big leagues,
Cys recipe must be a good one,
fsr II IS the one he followed IN COM
sng hack from the minors 10 fast COM
any ana making a record as the sec
cd best hurler in the game this year.
TIE pssn is simple one.
Two years ago, when the Cleve-
ard management decided that my fast
ce rrgany days were over and sent NE
&c their farming team In Toledo, It
@54 lock as though / would have 20
e ish nv career IN the minor leagues
ssv friends sympathsxed with me, say
Tag u was merely the route all base
haii players have % travel: that the
pace tn she big leagues was short
and merry one at best However I
felt that / was not a dead one and de-
ssTmtned 70 work harder thar ! ever
Rad before IN my life 60 come back.
After playing the few reTna ming
Games IN Toledo in 1911 | went to
work fri the upholsterng department
of the WHY'S Overland company in
the big plant in Toledo For eight
hours a day all during that winter I
operated what is known as q tufting
machine a contr!vanoe for making
back seat cushions for motor cars.
Day by day I thumped and pounded
- Lad hat fvfss
that machine, getting "a great deal
more OF good, solid exercise for my
throwing arm than II I were pitching
a game every day. Almost every
night ] bowled, being a member Of
ono Of the seven teams in the feaEue
n rmed among the factory workers.
| tcck the best possi bic care Ut my
self and in the spring ! felt as 1T as
ever In my life.
Believes I'm Bowling.
Il reAped the benefit OF my work In
the season OF 1912, making an excel
lent record with Toledo. That winter
went right back to the automobile
factory and hair stuffing, pounding
away as hard as ever at the days
work and at the evening bowling
Larry In the spring of this year was
cb osen q member OF the ALI Overland
bowling team, which took second
money in the International tourna-
meht In Toledo. This spring. having
iuvestiga ted my physical condition, the
Cleveland management took me back
with the Maps. ! have been meeting
with success all during the season,
ard can see no reason why I shouldn't
be good for several years more OF big
leatue baseball"
Falkenherg Ia by no means young
Siar in baseball, having been IN the
n ator leagues for nearly ten years
IIc Is no; an iron man, being of slight.
faost delicate, build Therefore, of
ri ucCuE-tt r.ser~-t4e f-sta-- upon hts
brain power than his strength for
ching success. though he must be
n the pink OF condition in order TO
sand the pace at ali.
Falkenberg has never INDUCED in
iaaor. lie keeps good hours. always
getting plenty Of sleep. He Is care
"a about the kind Of food he eats.
His one Indulgence Is in cfgara-big
lack fellows-but these are tabooed
turing TIE playing season. He can
very easily weaken himself by smok-
SIG. he says