The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-04-10
HON BEAVERS JARED
WHEN THEY ARRIVED
in COLDER CLIMATE
Kennedy Says Unkind Remarks
Of Coast Sporting Writers
May Be Boomerangs

Honolulu's standing as training
camp win depend largely on what the
Beavers do in the Coast League this
year. The only point that any one
can raise. with reason Is whether the
change from Honolulu to San Francisco
and other cities Of the Coast is not too
great. thus inyalidating all the unques-
TONED advantages Of the tropic climate
of the Islands.
Lou Kennedy In the Portland Tele-
gram, writing from Marysville, Califor-
mia, tells how Manager McCredie
watched his players Tcritically at first,
wishing to know whether their long
journey from Honolulu had stiffened
any Of them, a north wind sweeping
across the park, the boys started out
as il they had been working every
day, and II ism Y thought that they
will suffer any setbacks from the
change Of climate.
They Peel the Change
y" After working in the balmy Homo
lulu climate, the sharper weather found
here cut through the players like a
knife. At first Manager McCredie was
apprehensiye that il might prove a
serious handicap to the tenn, as a
whole, but later he reflected that il
WASH 7 likely to do SO, as they must get
accustomed to cold weather, on account
of opening at Salt Lake,
"It will undoubtedly be somewhat
frigid over there, and If the men had
come directly from Honolulu to Salt
Lake, they would have found them.
selves up against a tough proposition.
BY finishing their training here, they
will take the first step toward hard
ching themselves, and at Salt Lake
they will find it even chillier v
Not In Bad shape
1.-THE unkind things sporting writ.
ers in other cities OF the Coast league
have said about Portland taking such
a long training trip are likely to prove
a boomerang. Instead Of their proving
true, the men who wrote these stories
are going to find, and those in San
Francisco have already discovered that
the men are not in such bad shape, and
they are now realizing that the Beavers
have plenty of time in which 10 prepare
themselves for the final stages of the
training season.
= For instance, the Beavers went out
on the field Thursday, the first day
they had their uniforms on since re;
turning to the mainland, and none OF
them was troubled with his arms, ex-
eept the pitchers, some Of whom will
have 10 90 slow for few days in
order TO get back their former cffec
| tiveness.
Pitchers Better Than Others
Even these, however. are further
advanced than the majority Of hurlers
in other camps, who have been trim
ing since March !, while the Beavers
started ten DAYS earlier, and have done
all their work in a warmer climate,
one in which il was next TO impos.
sible TO catch cold.
SIT was Just as well that the whole
team stopped in San FRANCISCO the
first night after they landed From the
Great Northern. All Of the party, in
GLIDING those who were good sailors
found that their legs we're little
wobbly when they struck terra 6rma
with the accent on the frma) and
they had a strange whirling in fheil
heads
4" Even the next morning, and on the
train the next day, some Of them no
ticed this, and II was only on the, fol
lowing day that they managed to rid
/, themselves entirely of this feeling and
| find their land legs again"