Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-02-04
JENNINGS OPPOSES
THE WORLDS TOUR
Tiger Chief Says Champion
Ball Tossers Will Soon Go
to Old Mems Home.
UTTERANCES A JOKE.
Is Money Making Proposition and
Men Are Not Impaired by
the "Practice.-
UTTERANCES A JOKE.
(By FRANK G. MENKE)

New York, Feb. 3.-With all due
respect to the excellent baseball
judgement of Hughey Jennings, of
The Tigers, we cannot refrain from
taking slight exception to some of
his recent utterances.
Hughey deplores the fact that some
members of the Giants, White Sox
and a scattering of players from
other teams went on world tour,
playing ball at odd moments. Hughey
fears that the continuous ball play
Ing" of the tourists will make them
go stale and generally put them on
the Fritz" as far as the regular
1914 season is concerned.
Hughey would have us imagine
that those tourists really are work
ing-that they are eXel,ting them
selves to the utmost and that there's
large chance of at least half Of
them dying from overwork before
they get back to their native shores
Hughey feels that those who survive
the trip will come home with SO many
busted bones with such shattered
constitutions and so generally wan
and emaciated that they'll have to be
confined in the Old Mems Home at
once.
Isn't Hughey the joker, though?
Ersot oil frrv
babies that slip into this country
every SO often those touring gentle
men are having the time of their lives
and are playing just enough baseball
to give them the exercise thet an
athlete needs. AS for exertiag
themselves to the utmost on foreign
ball fields, and taking desperate
chances to win games, and earn the
plaudits of the foreign multitudes
it's joke.
Ball players are pretty shr swd To-.
when it come to finances and to TAX
ing care of their physical selves.
Those tourists know that nothing
can be gained by taking desperate
chances during those exhibition
games and they aren't taking them.
Why should they? The only thing
they'll get out of it will be a few
Chinese, Japanese, Australian or
South African cheers and some bust
ed bones that may end forever their
big league playing days.
1t is true that if player engaged
in baseball day after day and week
after week from the beginning of one
playing season until the beginning
of the next he'd be bit overworked,
bit stale. But th7se tourists are
not doing anything of the sort.
While making their way from New
York to the Pacific Coast they mingl-
ed in something like % or 80 diam
ond battles-playing On an average
CT more than one game day. But
they had enough utility men alone,
and worked them often enough so
that each player participated in no
more than one game a day.
On November 10 they sailed from
Vancouver and had nearly three
weeks i'll which to rest up-nearly
three weeks before they had to play
again. And by the time they could
play the were keen for it-their
muscles had stiffened slightly from
inactivity and they welcomed the
chance Of limbering up.
Since they sail from Vancouver the
tourists have engaged in something
like 20 games. That means just
about 40 hours of "work" in Is days.
And Hughey would have us believe
that SO much work is going to
work havoc with these fellows dur
ing the coming regular season.
IHughey also is of the belief that
the business of transforming is liable
to make the men lax in their habits.
Can transforming make any Of them
more lax than lying around in some
pool room or bowling alley all win
ter? And aren't McGraw, Comiskey
and Callahan along on that trip to
keep the boys from getting too friv-