The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-09
Billy Evans Says
DRASTIC RULE

After many years OF dis :ussion
pro and con, golf appears about
ready TO pass out OF the pictnr"
as part of the life Of a big lea que
ball player.
Three managers have already
placed an absolute ban on the
game. Playing golf on any day
except when no game is Scheduled
will call for a heavy fine on some
clubs.
am inclined to think that with
the managers will be StringinS
along with lIuggins, McGraw, Hen,
drickS and others.
About a year ago asked Rogers
Hornsby, premier batter of the ma
jors, what he thought about goii
81 like the game - was making
pretty good strides as player. but
/ have given it up for the time
being. am convinced there is
nothing in common between tHe
golf ana baseball swing, that it can
only act as a detriment to lhe BALI
player.
IIornsby says his swing H. more
natural and there is greater power
to his baseball drive when he
IJesn't combine it with golf
However, there is another angle
that golf plays in the routine OF
the ball rlayer that has as nuch to
do with the ban that several man
ayers have pla ced ON the game as
the harmful swing.
GOLF GOSSIP
1t is the talking Of golf to the
exclusion of baseball. 1t is a mat
ter OF record baseball precedent,
that all the great team past and
nlesent talked as we'll as played
baseball.
The fighting spirit, the wiz to
win, much Of the strategy OF the
game. iH often founded on the atti-
tndh OF the players off the ball
field. If they talk and live basa-
bail in the dressing room and the
hotel, ii invariably mikes for bet
ter play.
1t is said that McGraw's stand
on the golf question was caused BY
what he overheard one day in the
dressing room OF the Giants al
Sarasota, Fla.
a number Of players. not know
ing of McGraws presence, were
fondling their golf sticks instead
of rubbing up their bats, and were
telling how many strokes they
played the first IS holes in rather
than boasting how many hits t!ey
had maGs the day previous.
McGraw wants his ball players
to live and talk baseball from thG
time the season opens until it ends
His great success as a manager
would make it appear that h,
knows what is best.
Anyway the golf ban is on Wit
the New York Giants. the Yanks
and Cincinnati Reds. 1t is sat
- five or six other managers are o.
the verge of ciamping on the lid.
~, CADDY CRAZE
The popularity OF golf has in n
!, way affected baseball patronage
: all arguments to the contrary.
Gc.f has come strongest in tn
slas: five years. In that same tim
baseball has enjoyed its creates
f. 'prosnerty
. Golf is not game for the spec
ttator. It's greatest appeal is to tn
( ar''ve rplaver who gets exercis
with his amusement. Golf has n
tgate power.
y However, do think that golf !
icutting in on the baseball materia
4of pnr cNuntrv Many yonngster
'hie to the golf links to work a
caudles because OF the cOmpensa
-tion rather than play bail for mer
amusement. It is only natural the
should fuss around with golf whe
eide.
/ have no doubt but that man
.likely ball players among tn
youngsters are passing up thei
baseball chance because the dutie
cof caddy call fer liberal pay. Tn
standard, not the patronage, is SUI
<fering if golf is making any II
IL.