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Festive Board to Make Way for Training Table Under Miller Huggins = Major Leagues to Institute Strict Policy of Retrenchment.

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 Policy of Retrenchment.
 New York, Nov. S--When the Yam kees go to Macon, Ga, next spring on their. training trip under Manager Miller Huggins, a brand-new wrinkle in professional baseball will be inau- gurated and the players will be plac- ed on diet. Little attention has been given in the past to condition ing baseball players except on the bail field, but this year the Tanks will also be trained in the dining rooms Most ball players have feroci- ous appetites and as a rule they eat long and often. Secretary Harry Sparrow has been elected chief of the training table, and he has already arr ranged the different menu cards for the players,
 The reason why some of the players had poor days on the ball field last season was because of too much eat ing of fancy dishes at the noon day meals. If a player sit down just be- fore ball game and helps himself to a young banquet, he isn't especially spry on the ball field. More than one ball player has eaten himself out of lfhe major leagues by living too high. Major league baseball clubs nowadays stop at the best hotels, and oftentimes when the players invade the dining rooms. the daily repast takes on the proportions of barbecue. Ball play CTS. like all other mortals, are apt to eat too: much.
 The food conservation plans of Sec retary Sparrow come at time to bring delight to Herbert Hoover, al- though that gentleman has had noth- ing to do with the diet scheme of the Yankees. If MT. Hoover had ever witnessed a batch of hungry baseball players approaching their frugal meals, he might have something i'm portant to say.
 What MT. Sparrow hopes to do fs to steer the ball players into diet of plain, wholesome food. All the dishes with the long fancy French names will go into the discard. The appe- tites of the players will be teased with dishes such as adorn the home board. The. training table will be fashioned after the training tables which are in vogue for. college ath- letes One of ~the items on the breakfast menu is the time l1onored. dish of prunes. Cereals also have a conspicuous place. The noon. day lunch is lighter than usual and con- s.sts of only plain foods The din- ner bill is plain but substantial. It contains no elaborate dishes but has been arranged to satisfy the highly charged call of the inner man which comes after a hard day on the bah field. Roast beef, corned beef and cabbage and spring lamp are among the meats on the dinner menu, while the famous trio of stews-beef, lamb and Irish-are among those present. Meatless and wheatless days also have their place on the eating pro grams.
 The economical policy which is to be followed by the major leagues next season, together with the war tax, will probably give many club owners the opportunity of cutting down the base- ball passes next season. The pass problem has been one which the clun owners have battled with for many seasons, and although the compliment tary tickets have been curtailed grad ually from season to season, the free list has never been limited as the club owners would like ito see it. A the annual meeting of both leagi@~ next month action on retrenching the number of passes will probably be taken.
 The war tax calls for tax of 10 per cent on the face value of free tickets, which means that every per- son going through the pass gate will have to produce said tax Most. of the passes issued by the clubs entitle the holder to a 75-cent seat, and as there are 77 home games. 1t means that a pass book would call for a tax of ss.1s.
 The new plan to form major third league is going to strike snag when a move Is made to break four club away from the American Association. This Class AA league held a meeting a few days ago and President Hickey announced after, the conference that the opening of next season had been discussed and that none of the clubs announced any plans other than those followed in former years. The, Asso- citation went on record as favoring 140-game schedule.
 President Hickey staeed that all of the eight cities in the Association holding franchises belonged to .Ameri- can Association territory and that their territorial rights were fully pro- tected by the agreement of the Ma, tioraI Commission. He stated that no change could be made in the cir. cult without the unanimous consent of all eight clubs, so it is difficult to sse where any four will be able to se- cede, as several of the clubs have al-
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