The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-17
l ALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS


TT begins to appear that there is
L touch % Phil Scott in the
makeup of the modern ball player.
I mean TO say he does not seem
TO be able TO take it. Every camp
I visited had a hospital list. The
Interpretations ranged from a
wheeling cold in the head to a
twisted ankle. In practically every
instance the complaint was Of
sufficient gravity TO keep the
demon athlete out Of the lineup.
This leads to the belief that the
present day grade Of ivory does not
measure up to the old standards.
There Is a spun glass brittleness
about the current output that
would not have been acceptable to
the ancient dealers in primitive
ivory. who demanded both ability
and dura bility.
Wtbert RobiDson OF the Brookyns sat
IN the dugout the other day and pondered
ponderouBly on this condition. Il don't
know how to figure It." moaned Robinson.
These fellows are Just as big and Just as
healthy" Robinson indicated that he
thought most Of the young gents he had to
deal with we're pains in the neck to him.
"say. when I vas with the old Orioles"
Robinson then went on To tell Of the spar
tan-Tik. vaIor Of the old orioles and their
rontemporaYirs
1T seems that back in those ro-
Il mantle days pitchers pitched
with broken arms. watchers caught
with their whips in sings and bat
ters rolled up to the plate in wheel
chairs to take their cut. Only in
one respect. if you are to believe
Robinson. does the modern breed
rank with the noble gladiators OF
the '80's. That is the dining room.
when II eomes t. ebuokinK the food
away ws couldn't have held candle TO
these fellows" admits Robinson. Perhaps
he meant TO say knife.
There are nearly thirty players in the
spring camps laid up on the shelf. The
Giants and the Write sox had TO call two
games of on account of injured players
This unusual fragility IS not compatible
With the hArdihood that supposedly comes
with rigorous outdoor life.
In contrast the broker In the street
closes his desk. skips down here for
months recreation. PLAYS thirty-six holes
OF golf. sWims two hours in the afternoon
takes In night club after dinner, plays
The wheel until dawn, and returns to his
office teeminE with energy. This Is some
thing that Bernarr MscFadden ought 20
look into.
TINE most common alment
l. among the athletes Is appendi-
citis. A player is not considered to
have qualified as big Lacquer IN
til he has had his appendix
thoroughly eliminated. In this con-
nection it is interesting to note that
the operation. is seldom performed
until after the season is on.
may be due TO the fact that the club fOots
all the bills from March to October and
that the average player will suffer any
torture rather than part with bank note.
Robinson ascribeS the GoSSsmer quail
ties OF the modern athlete to soft living
during the OF season. They make so
much money nowadays they don't have to
Tork when the season is over he ex-
plains. Listening 10 the old Oriole you
form the inference that things we're much
better II less elegant when the king Kel-
leys and the swat Mulligans dropped their
gloves in October and climbed in the
drivers seat OF a beer truck to await the
call OF q new spring.
What do you think ought to be done
about itf They lust don't make real men
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