Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-28
CUT OUT BOOZE, SAYS
SUNDAY. TO BALL PLAYERS
Loa!ing During Of-Season Makes
Hard Training Necessary i'm
Spring.
CONNIE WILL COME BACK
'Bnscb.ll Evangelist Says Mack Is
Capable Of Building Team Up
Arain-i'layers Should Abstain
From All Kinds of Dissipation.

PHILADELPHIA. February Eff
baseball players did not loaf around and
drink so much booze during the Off
season. there wouldn't be any necessity
Tor so much training in the spring"
This was billy" Sundays opening
"clout' when asked what he thought
Of training and training camps for the
major league clubs
"of course. don't mean TO saw tina,
training camps are not necessary Tboy
are even more so to-day than ,b.y
"heh was in the game. although
there isn't nearly as much BOOKING
among thc players now as there was
then. continued the evangelist, while
Ma sunday, sitting near Billy. who
was resting between sermons, nodded
approval.
You see. now baseball is more Of
an exact science than it used to be- A
manager of tho present day, I'm order 70
keep pace with the times. must have \
bug squad. To keep that squad IN 10
the standard he must have a lot Of re-
cru!ts each year, and the training camrs
are valuable because there he can ca
lect his men
White SOx First Trainers.
The old Chicago White SoX-was the
hrSt "luh ever to take 4 trim South 70
trai'. That was in 1855 They went to
f'"t springs. Ark. In those days the
inanaE"r just took his regular team
Occasionally he had one or two new
men along. but the regular PLAYERS wcra
the men who needed the training then
10; OF them had TO get the booze
boiled ont Of their systems before they
could really get down TO work
Il don't think that IL ought 70 t,k,
=, M sltnY,
into good condition. In fact. it would
not take most of them any Longer -
thev kept themselves in copdiiion In
The winter. know that i, never took
me longer than that to get into nlav-
ing shape. because ] was I'm good con-
I trips.
Know that II would he hard for
INC teams now to cut down their train
ing season very much. For Instance
take rich club like the Giants. Thev
! can hiford to take lot of men South
'na n'Nc them thorough try-out and
get the best ones lined up for the rep
uiar team. If the other clubs couldn't
DO that tho Giants would have a h;o
edge on them. SO the others have n
do il w
training Individual Question
SO Tar as training during the season
! liz CONCERNED. that is more OF an in
''''iuu' puSht!OH vi course, hall
player should abstain from all forms of
dissipation. and particularly from
booze Outside Of, that don't think
YOU can lay down any hard and fast
lines for training during the season
Some players need more work than
others To keep them in shane. Ono
man might get stale if he trained as
hard as another. The season is so
long that the training of a ball PLAYER
cannot be as rigid as Il is I'm football
ana some other branches OF athletics
Every man ought to know what is
best for him after he has played tho
game awhile I could always tell how
much work / needed to keep in shape
and other players should be able to
do the same thing.
We'll, it's only Il few days isn't 1t,
until your teams here go South? Con-
ME has had some crimps put in his
team. but he Is capable OF building up
again. Hn 3 a great manager and
knows how to pick tho best men. He'll
come through. alright" Having taken
this mental trir back to the diamond
Billy turned over and went to sleep.
dreaming possibly OF the days when
he was the speed king" and was
beating 'em out TO first base