Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-04
By FRANK /. CHANCE.
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interview at training camp
My ideas for training a ball club in
The spring differ essentially from
those put into practice by many other
managers of big league clubs. but
have obtained good results and am
satisfied with my system. In the first
place, do not regard the training
camp as a school where young men
are to learn how to play ball. It is a
place where athletes who already
know how to play ball can get into
physical condition. and so my work
is confined to conditioning. not teach
ing. the ball players.
There seems to be a general belief
that ball players have to be put
through a severe course OF training
and hard work TO get into condition
for the regular playing season, but
have never believed in such a course
never drive nv bah club hard in
the spring. for do. not want my play,
ers to feel that they have played half
a season before the season really
opens. While some clubs go south In
February. ! get my players together
some of the pitchers may be sent To
the baths, as was the case this year
when a number OF my pitchers went
10 Arkansas Hot Springs for about 10
lays before our training camp opened
But the month or six weeks that in
tervenes between March and the
opening of the season is sufficient
to condition any ball player who is
going to get into condition at all.
Holds One Workout Daily.
I'm the training camps of which
have had charge there has never been
more than one practice session daily
That gives the players all the needed
exercise to loosen up their muscles
and at the same time does not cause
any of them to get stiffened up by
too severe exertions before they are
prepared for them. After ball play,
er has been idle for nearly six months
his muscles are bound to be soft. and
he must begin training gradually il
he is to avoid i'll effects.
The first two weeks of the train
ing season are devoted to two Oh
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batting and fielding practice. in which
every player has a chance to do ;
little fielding and batting. and thi!
includes the rockies as we'll as thu
regular players. on the club. : At the
end Of each session | have the boys
run around the park couple of time:
to get up a good sweat, and then e
right to their change rooms. In Hous
ton we dressed in the hotel, so tina
after the run around thu ball park thu
boys had to run back to the hotel
which is only a short distance from
the park, where they could get RICH
under a shower bath and then be rub
bed down. so that they would avoie
stiff muscles and taking cold. -
THE work can be materially in
creased during the last two weeks, 70
the players are by this time in snap.
to stand the exercise, and that is thu
period when train them the hardest
1t is not until this time that / pu
them through, any hard runs, but the!
should now have done enough running
around in their daily workouts to hav'
got their legs into condition for lont
runs which will perfect the wind.
Leng Runs stfffen Legs.
Il remember my own experiences il
this respect. When | started as ;
player l was forced to take long run!
almost from the first of the training
season and my legs were soon stove
up and tired, and by the time the sea
son actually opened | felt like | hat
heen playing ball for a year already
1t is probably on that account tina
when | became a manager | adopted
less severe training methods.
when it comes to the pitchers, wht
are such an important factor in every
ball club, | believe in letting then
train themselves. That is, ] mean thu
veterans who have BEEN with the clut
and whose work and ability | am &C
ouainted with. | let my pitchers d.
pretty much as they choose in thu
spring. because ! think they know
how they feel better than | do anc
any pitcher with experience know:
what to do to get into shape ant
when to start doing it. The effective
ness of a pitchers arm depends OF
the condition of the rest Of his body
If there is anything the matter viii