The sun., 1916-12-22
CALLS BASEBALL A
STRENUOUS SPORT
Unlimited Energy, Nerve
Force and Brain Power
Needed, Says Schupp.
SOX AFTER BRESNAHAN
rs IN q. LEE.

~ FR EDERICk q. LIED.
Having led the National League In
pitching last season. Ferdie schupp. the,
Giants' clever young left handler. Is a big
noise In his own home town. which nap
pens TO be Louisville. ny. Ferdie now
gets into print through other means than
a little line in the box score showing he
had succeeded his fellow Schush brother.
Rube Schauer, as pitcher 20 a Giant
defeat.
Ferdie gave an interview to a Louis
! willie scribe the other morning. through
! which In Il column OF space he informed
his fellow townsmen what a nerve
wracking game baseball is. "schuppie"
says that IL fans who make a practice
Of watching bail games get an idea that
baseball IL all play they nave the wrong
b, angle. Az Ferdinand collected splinters
on the Giant bench for three seasons and
n half before his left handed curves
made the National League sit up In the
second half Of last season. he had "A
splendid chance to do a lot OF close OBJ
servation.
Does the average fan notice the
amount Of energy. nerve force and brain
power a ball player going nj fuil speed
uses In the course Of Il seasons play
queries Ferdie. II say brains because
the modern player uses brains In large
quantity. Take such players as Obj.
Speaker and Maranvilie. and think OF
the remarkable nervous force they ex-
pend during the course of n game. Cobb
consumes more energy In a two hour
game OF ball than the average business
man does In three working days.
Coupled with his great natural ability.
Cobb pushes 10 the front with his brains
and reserve nerve force. II Is such men
az Cobb whom the game robs Of all
youthful powers long before they grow
old.
MaranviIIe an Example.
"As AN example In our own league
there is Maranville OF the Braves. a
little fellow who Ii regarded as one OF
the games leading stars. What Maran-
vile lacks In physical strength he makes
up by "A great stock OF nervous energy.
Long before the Rabbit grows old he Ii
bound to feel the strain he is now
working under.
ITO come to the point-ball players
such AS are real players. actually are
selling their youth. \ business man
may have more brain power than the
tId bsit INtse W. AHS SAidll vi
hours Of work with him Is not nearly as
trying as what a player goes through In
one contest.
at might interest the fan to get a
close look at a bail player in action.
Must players have wrinkles under their
eyes and the eyes are constantly Iuint-
ing. ON the field the players do not
get rid Of the wrinkles which are caused
by constant alertness during tae course
of games.
$50 whenever I hear talk
Of lowering the salaries of their stars
fee like laughing. smart ball players
knoN Just what baseball does to a fellow
and II il no more than natural that they
get all they can out of IL. baseball
creates and breaks its heroes all within
the period OF "A few short years. When
"A Tall player drifts out of the lime
Light lis past perform Inces. no matter
how great. will never buy him the price
of a meal ticket"
Hard~.t WorL~rs Last Lonsest.
Which Is all very good. Ferd!e. II all
ball players threw the nerve force into
their play which Cobb. Speaker and
MaranNille throw into theirs. Few ball
players have the good fortune to de-
relOp into cobbs ar Speakers. but II Is
III. duty of all to give their best to their
game. Unfortunately. despite Ferdie
Schupp and his lecture on nerve force.
4 great many players loafed perceptibly
during the past three seasons on thelr
three year iron bound non-breakab bic
contracts.
:, II also IL interesting to note that the
players who work the hardest last the
longest. Statisticians have figured the
average life OF the big league PLAYER is
I'VE years Cobb, with eleven years OF
big league bali behind him. stiil il the
same wizard at 80 that he was AT 25
. Speaker at 81 led the league. Will,
Wagner. Plank and I.ajoie. all past 40
finished successful seasons. No nit The,
IN the game ever used up more merry.
force than Plank. yet In his sixteenth
|, year In the biz leagues he pitched on,
r stretch last sum during which n,
permitted only five hits in three min,
| ming games pitched within eight days.
! Br-snshan May Come East.
In the oven. thai Bill Carrigan canno
I be coaNed out of retirement the nay
t manager IF the Red Sox will he Eogc
B~resnahan. part owner of the Tol, d,
. club and former manager OF the Cardl
mails and Cubs A baseball man Jus
= back from the American League meetin,
I In Chicago is authority for tina state
@ ment.
+ While Hresnahan has extensive inter
v ests IN th" Toledo club, this person say
( Roger would sever them in a moment /
@ he got u chance to get back into the bi
: leagues as a manager. B~resnahan al
ways has felt he got a raw deal whe
he was crowded out of the Chicago clu
v To make room for Tinker. and nothin
would suit him better than to head
club like the Red Sor.
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