The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-26
Coaches, Trainers Help
 Win Many Ball Games

the coches who advise the man. agers, cajole the players, and con- found the enemy.
 A good trainer and @ good coach are almost as necessary to pen- nant-winning team as & strong armed pitcher or @ lusty-swinging slugger.
 Indeed, a trainer sometimes is the pitchers right arm and the coach is quite often one-half of the hit- ter.
 Take the case of the Detroit Tig- CTS during their pennant-winning years of 1934-35. Fer two years they went through without sore arm, illness, or injury to break up the line-lup. Lady Luck got most of the credit for this, but Denny Car roll, club trainer, deserved his share. It was Denny's skillwul treatments and soothing messages that re- awakened Al Crowder's deadened arm, kept Fred Marberry's alive, and enabled Tommy Bridges and School boy Rowe to wing along in regular turn.
 Then, too, Hank Greenberg's tre- mendous hitting was @ feature of the Tigers pennant surges, and the thongs hailed him. But when Hank held out for a fatter contract on the strength of his bulging batting average, Herb Pennock wryly re. mraked, "Well, it's @ funny thing, but they didn't have any trouble signing old Del Baker"
 Baseball men, you see, know that Baker, the Tigers third-base coach, who is recognized as the nest sig nal-stealer in the game today, is largely responsible for Greebnerg's heavy hitting.
 Baker spots what the opposition hurler's next pitch will be and gives Hank, who Is guess hitter, the tip-off. If 1t is going to be a fast ball, Baker will, for instance, shout: "Get on, Hanki" But if the pitcher is going to fling a curve. Baker will shout: "Gice Ter a ride, Hank!" Or some other such pre-de- termined yelps.
 Chief Bender, the old Indian pitcher, is said to have been the greatest of all signal-stealers. Ed- die Collins, for instance, called Bender my other leg" when he stole six bases one day aided by Bender's tip-offs of pitches.
 All coaches, of course, don't have this knack of observing the actions of a pitcher or @ catcher and irn- mediately figuring out what the next pitch will be. They have other important qualities and duties, how ever.
 Coach Acts as Middleman
 The coach does much of the man. ager's thinking, suggests some of the strategy, acts aS middleman be- tween the players and their boss, and usually has direct control over the pitching staff.
 Sometimes, as in the case of Gab- by Street and Grover Alexander, the cocah is @ personal guardian for some player who likes to galli- want.
 Once the major leagues consid- cred coach unnecessary expense an dthe Phillies' owners decided to fire Pat Moran at the end of the 1914 season. But the players rebelled against such @ move and, going even further, insisted that he be made manager.
 The management relented, named Pat manager, and the team won the National League pennant the fol- lowing season.
 The trainer is e psychologist, os- teopath, professional sympathizer, father confessor, chiropractor, and medico all rolled into one.
 Big league players are most ten1- peramental cusses and touchy about their salary soupbones. Each has to be handled differently. They come to the trainer with everything in the book, too, and lot that isn't in the book. Some of. their ailments are imaginary-especially sore arms as in the case of pitchers. The trainer must understand ell this and not offend the player or the player will lose his confidence in the trainer.
 Trainers don't use much liniment or salve any more in giving rub- downs. Just plai nnnassages. They do their most work in the spring and pitchers, of course, are the most frequent visitors to the train- CTS table.
 "It's pretty tough work" says Trainer Earl Painter of the YaEi- kees. Tt wears you out rubbing down those fellows oil the time. Tn fact, sometimes I get . sore arm rnyself."