Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-25
Best Condition Club Seen by
Expert Was One That
Worked Out in New Mexico
Climbing Mountains.
Copyright, 1879
Ry Hugh =. Fullerton.


Spring training is almost upon us,
the season in which major league
clubs joy-ride down south, the osten-
sible object to get players into ply
steal condition, but the big object be-
ing to get the public thawed out and
interested for the opening of the sea
son.
This year the majority of the clubs
are curtailng their spring jaunts,
some are going to train on their home
grounds, others will take short trips
to look over the youngsters. The
pitchers who really need condition
ing will start ahead of the others. AL
ready some of them are at Hot
Springs working out easily and pre-
pairing their arms for the coming
campaign. There is a tremendous lot
of bunk about these spring training
trips. They do little good, cost lot
of money usually, and the average
player gets back north after a month
of training" a few pounds lighter
than he was, not quite i'll as good
condition as he was ten days after
he started. Then the clubs strike
week of bad weather and condition
ceases to exist at all.
The worst feature of the spring
training, as understood now, is tina;
~ is q te,,,p+atiop to nlavars to ne
alan+ tbai. CONDITION ali winter on the
theory that there will be plenty of
time when they go south The play
ers really ought to report to their
teams in condition to play rall l."
other words, the custom of spring
training encourages the very thing A.
th.tItbo, bavo bacoma more or less
,,aoessa,,,, ond S,;Il he naceseo,y until
If dawne mon some cluh owner that
,,,han No ,a,,s a ,,,a,, 40 nl,,, .holl tbot
H. a.. t',rd co 49,, roaI,, r.
no, hou
~ aon h. dora Tho trutb ie that =
hoit ,ia,o,. IL 10 s 1asirod rould
oonditior hin,sole ae u,alI or hotter nj
- 81, a,,,.,,,hrr, 10 ord u,it ,
,,,,,nt ,os, asfnrt OK, II ,nn,,ld necnssi-
t t'Ii I.o eS ~ oondt,i",, an ,ytnter
,rLo,, ~ r,s,.i,,r t,,i,, ,.o,,Id copsist of
-, ~ ~ 49,, sn ax. =.
hi1itia,, ~ t l,ot ~ to,n work
49,, 800 - ,.i,rht - ~ fast start
''S nv o,,eta,,, 90 snrino trainin@ was
;ran mg ' nhiafl,i as harn.9fnrn,-
49,, st,,,t H. n,,',,,,. ,oi1,.,,er MON re-
~ as ,.biI,i.ia,, ,,,,,,,. 10 no.. ox-
,,n1so, ard a5d a ,ittIa to his rove
P r,a NJ ~ a,,'aIfor [.it3,s boweyar
lr,o,, ,,,oa,,, 81 soeino, a huncb of gIII,s
tr,,;ng 80 n,ato rood while tho stars
80 80 tho hnncr, ana sn,ing training
- W, ~, o1,,,o,,si,,n i,,,,l.nt
For aon,iitia, tb1ra 10 M roaec,,
,,l'' ,i,,t,,,,, ,,a,1J ,,,o,ioct bi,,sol ?
,t,Jsia, H., ali ,,,inta,. ,I1ou, binoeelf ia
i,nt ~ 80 ia tben raduco bis vi.
tati+t. h., ,uo,lyinp sweotiDy and lah-
~ t S ,rat tho fleet, off
nv 80 ,onditionnd ,ti+cber 7 o,er
COW, stout a sooeop came IRON, q farm
~, go. ! = s,o,,or MIN Ho bod
,,a,,or haa,i o,,,o, fro,, bnn,e yar,, far
nnd no did,'t y1art to leave even for
q ,,oio, loaora iob lie hadn't eioned
bis con+ract ond &c tbo team was on
tbo eya of starting south the owner
asi, ad mo "a nm me aud get HE njtcher
for hin,
# u,ns lato In March but tho thar
mometer was nineteen below znro
when I cot ont Of The sleener | mad
TO waiI, tbrao niles ont to Tho farm To
find him, arrival in a framed CON
dition kpoc1tnd at Inc famhnusn door
asked for the hov and was told he
was in tho harm AS aDnroached thp
harm tha thud thud of a balI beiug
caIIrbt in a ,nitt reached nv oars I
entered The nitcber xvas In his shirt
sleeves nitchin,, IN his sister who was
catching Win . milf nnade an of n
wheat sack and stuffed with bran
He showed me all his "st,Iff" hool<e |
a curve that Looked like Sentember
shot mn b!s FAST one with evervthine
on If and when cautioned him he
laughed He onened the t,,a'ninr sea
son against tha reguIars and. think
he struck out seventeen Although he
knew little ahout pitchinr. he was an
early season sensation i'm tho league
He won a moioritv of his samcs the
first season
The next snrinp he renorted fat
loafed during most of the training
season rot hnmned hard balf DOZEN
eames ana then one nipht eot in .hn
roon, nearly crving and comnIaining
thai the managers didn't treat n,er
right and ought to know he was a
hot Weather nitcher
Great trips. thoueh-those sprina
training orae of ahort twnn4,5.
five training taunts with teams til,
hest conditioned team ever saw wa,
one which nIayed only two games of
thnCn "a iFL II,t n n