| Show Trainers Trainer's Best hest Aid is es Old By JIMMY CONZELMAN N LOS ANGELES March 28 INS The INS The old is one of the best little remedies I got in the bag said Andy Lotshaw noted arnica and tape man for the Chicago Cubs When the players come in with bum 1 squawks about the deal they're getting or injuries they think they got I give em the old talking rubdown A few moments of conversation conversation conversation conversa conversa- tion with Lotshaw will convince nce I the most stubborn skeptic that the life of a baseball trainer isn't all skittles and beer Psychological Psychological as well as physical problems swarm about him like barbers around the violin section section section sec sec- sec sec- tion of a symphony orchestra Now the old might be merely advice or a form of phony treatment Lotshaw once rubbed down Babe Herman with witha a bottle of and it 1 cured him in a week according to Andy While that was the theold theold theold old Herman thought it penetrating oil Then there was a pitcher who was sure he had a knotted muscle muscle muscle mus mus- cle in his back Lotshaw said it was located down near the lombard region The cure came quickly Andy suddenly pressed down on the players player's back at the same time crunching a peanut shell be between between between be- be tween his teeth The crack that followed satisfied the pitcher Boy you really got it that time he told Andy Such successes are so much meat loaf to Lotshaw All in a aday's aday's aday's days day's work He waved a hand deprecatingly when I told him it was nice going Lissen he went on with a sharp hiss through his new den den- tures See that room over there Well I aint been in there today but for all the dough in Peoria Au Augie ie Galans Galan's in there shaving Hes He's never bought a razor blade since he joined the club Now you watch Andy stood up and yelled Oh Augie A well-lathered well face peered out and answered What dye want Nothing said Andy lIe He turned to me me with a slow wink I be a sucker to holler about that Give em their way in inthe inthe inthe the small things is my idea While these were bright ex examples examples ex ex- amples of applied psychology every good trainer should know Lotshaw indicated there were other fundamental bits of learning learning learn learn- in ing quite as important I went to night school not so long ago he said and took some courses in Funny thing too I got pot suspended suspend suspend- ed out of that school It seems that a Chicago teacher teach teach- er in one of the courses asked Lotshaw w the trainer-student trainer replied that you couldn't give a definition for rheumatism The trainer wanted wanted wanted want want- ed to know why You cant can't give it Lotshaw told him because rheumatism mi might ht come from too many things Maybe from tonsils adenoids d dampness sinus or inheritance An argument followed which ended un in Lot Lotshaw's haws haw's dis dis- dis- dis missal But he still holds his ground You really cant can't give a definition for rheumatism he told me Lotshaw doubles in the fall fallas fallas fallas as trainer for the Chicago Bears football souad a job he has held since 1920 the year George Halos Halas organized the team Besides Be Be- sides he manufactures a salve the formula for which he says hp hr found on a leaf of a family Bible He has trouble with the names in sports headlines his own players particularly Raf- Raf becomes berger and Cavarretta is Caba- Caba reta Tell me this he says Where does a euy get a name like this new fellow Answer that one Someone called for a bandage bandage band band- age so Lotshaw started for the training room But he stopped and came back Say he asked youre a college guy puy Did you ever study No I |
