Show 1 0 p 0 1 f This Is What They I I Call Training Trip I 0 0 0 The Detroit Tigers and nd nd Boston Braves in their tour through Georgia and the tho Carolinas have been performing o on some of or the most wonderful playing fields that alan looker looker 1 could discover er I in an exhausting u exploring expedition ItI It ItIs' ItIs Itis I is is' or very d doubtful if It tho the c experience gained on such fields will vl be e oC ot b benefit to the players as the they will never be bo called upon to perform under such con conditions Walter alter business manger manager manager man man- ger ager ager of cf t the Braves Brav s who outlined the trip trip h has s business ess instincts sui superior superior su su- su- su i tA to his baseball playing In Instincts Instincts In- In and J ho pl pi picked ked the towns which h would pa pay pa the tho in money on C Thel The Tho l larger towns see good b baseball In Inthe th the summer summeT and refuse to 1 pay a 2 2 a n. game s-ame to td see sec big league rookies perform in itt practice contests contents Tho The little towns in which tho the teams have havo played turned out crowds that would do credit to some big league towns where the teams exhibiting In the tho big cities clUes often otten pIa play before empty seats As Ae a 3 result the Detroit and Boston clubs will end their training period about len even financially whatever the benefits to the players from troma a a. training standpoint Probably the training trip has done flono ono the players moro more harm than good For instance the field they played n c at the other day a w was s a swamp filled with tangled underbrush an and roots a a. week be before before belore be- be fore lore tho the game g Tho The ground was W plowed up and rolled There wore were holes under the tIle surface into which baseballs could roll and elude th the Hie eyes cres of ot the fielders deep furrows 4 o and r n r th ou 1 Q And In OnO n l eo wasa deep ditch 4 t too to c cf f wide ld for fur Bob lob Veach it Ho to 1 leap leai p I and lio was TOS ol lIged lo fly drop op on th the far Hide id t for r- r ra a a triple l H Had d th tiC the field l l. l been open ho he ho could have e got the fly J casU easily In ano another city th the tho boys 5 play played d don on a vacant common in thc tho bc heart heiart rt of ot the tile town in fn such quarters that the merchants were obliged to board UI their up-their windows to keep batted balls bane out On still another field when the teams went to practice thc they found no bags bars on tho the bases F Finally aU they hey I used a couple of ot automobile cushIons Cush cush- ions and a pillow pillo from the tho sleeping sleep sleep- ing lug ear car ar which wa parked close at hand On ono one field Slim SUm Love was was forced force to borrow n v a. shovel and dig hg ot off the thc top lop of the pitchers pitcher's box 1 On On one field CleM the was nas all aU steamed up on corn whisky and amI wouldn't let lot the Detroit pla play play- ers erR in without tickets even though u. u ti-Il- ti showed up in uniform n. n The Th obdurate person parson wouldn't lisl listen cn n neven even to Manager Jennings yut but wielded a large club when ap ap- ap p- p Finally on one of the newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper men got gol ot behind him and seized his club chub disarming him Then tho the team filed filet In ignoring his indignant protestations I Alcohol as motor Js a 1 fuel Is no noto stranger to Frenchmen and would have been adopted years ago ago but but Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the lack of or a settled policy to to prevent pre speculation and violent fluctuations in in in prices Before the war there were were ere no motor motol vehicles chicles running entirely on on onal al a- a cohol cobol But for two years rears the Paris General General Gen Gen- eral oral Omnibus company used a 5 50 per percent percent percent cent mixture of ot and alcohol and only abandoned it for b owIng ow ow- ing to the steady rl rise o In the tho price of ol alcohol It is 19 tho the intention of the tho French to government to secure a a. monopoly oly 01 of ot alcohol and to encourage Its use Industrially while putting Utting a high ta tax on oa its human consumption 1 f A grain of or strychnine will embitter grains of or water p T Two o young Swedish h students of or ge geology tc go- named Wadell and after an adventurous nine days' days expedition In Iceland have discovered what is be believed be- be to bo be th the largest crater Ire ht tho the world measuring eight kilometers five Ie mn s long and five lve kilometers rs three and a quarter miles s wide The t two o students further claim to have havo discovered cred some warm springs S. 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