Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-04-23
new TRAINING CAMP RULES
Revised Schedule May Prohibit All
Exhibition Games During
Preparatory Season,
TIME IN CAMP TO BE SHORTER
~ FmANk q. MENKE.

W FhANh W. MEMhE.
NEW YORK, April &c ladlcai changes
IN base ball training camp programs may
be brought about before next spring.
Htics undoubtedly will be made during
the winter meetings prohibiting All pre-
season games
The executives of tho National and
American circuits aiready have gone on
record ~ being opposed 70 exhibition
contests between major league clubs,
sone mognstcs nov take stand against
their teams scheduling spring games With
minor leaRuers.
rho belief exigs IN fandom that the
majors pick up b load Of soft money
pl1yrg the small towns during the
spring But the Impression II erroneous.
Oftontimcg the big ollbg share ~ the
gate ~ certain games " smaler than
their expense ontlay, Sometimes thu
majors have found after playing OUT
their minor league schedule that the
totf% expenses were greater than the
total receipts ...-.
Nny shorten stpb Ia ChmD,
| The blR lengHefH nest spring may de-
eide 70 shorten thc time ID camp
The manners are becoming convinced
That Two weeks Or three NJ Tho most
ls sufficient Lime for the athletes 70 get
into sbapo
Another ehah9e that h being discussed
By ibe club owners Just nov Is 10 bring
their men baek north week or ten days
before INC aeaaon begins During that
limo they could become gradually ncelms
afad Ia fbF oIt ana.s f,.t,, tha luit. a.ttfts
70 ihe rev and windy north ~ early
April
~ II an error 10 rush NE players up
from the south aud force then 10 start
playing championship ball Immediately"
one maguate told ue "Tho boys are
hardly home again before they have 10
Jump into their uniforms and get out
into The cold and play
"If The players, after being conditioned
N the south, spent week IN the north
before they actually had 10 play BAIL
thAc would BE- less likelihood of sore
arms, stiff muscles and colds At the
end Of the week their system would be
used 10 chilinesa again
During their week Of resting ~ home
the men could report each day NJ some
gymnasium for light workouts Or. on
mild days, go % The ball park and keep
limbered up there
"D0c" LAWNS Advice 10 rival.
Pr John LnVan md Ernie johnson are
The Browng abortstops During The
spring season they fought II out for the
honor Of becoming the regular for the
Browne last year, johnson performed
similar duty for the a. Louis Feds.
Toward the end Of the training season
Johnson sprained an ankle There was
no doctor III The vicinity except Dr.
Layan. 10 rendered first ald 10 the In
1ured and then ~ b grave way advised
his patient thualy,
MY dear VIZ. your injury Is serious
very, very serious. Ny advice 10 YOU is
10 take complete roat-for six months.
NJ least. Furthermore think you should
leave ~. Louis"
And Johnson merely grlnned
An Unbelievable Feat
Hub Perdue once made d two-bnae
hit, II happened eleven years. ago. The
amazing discovery wag made by one Of
our southern contemporaries
There arc thousands and thousands ard
milIon8 Of persons who arc OF the opinion
that the one-time Brave and Cardinals
pitcher never even made q single, but
facts arc facts, One must give the de-
that n, Hub" credit when he's got Il
r0Ialng 10 him.
In May. 1905. "ffub" was with the Hop
kinHyiIe Ky) team IN tho kitty league.
II played yineennes Along about the
nth inning "lIub'a" turn came 10 bat.
lie closed his eyes swung and n crash
was heard Hun opened hts peppers.
saw tho ball shooting on line for the
fence and ran-hs far as second base.
IF Huh hadn't been so overcome with
surprise by his feat he could have made
three bases and probably q home run on
"" said the historian
Cap Arson loonied up on the horizon.
What do you think OF base ball today
MS compared with II in the days when
YOU were playlng7r asked tho cub.
1T hasn't changed" replied the star
Of bygono days. There's nothing new in
base ball today except the spit ban. In
thirty years that is the only change
only Improvement"