Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-02 | Page 4 | A Lesson from the Pitcher' S Box

A LESSON FROM THE PITCHER'S BOX. From tho New York World. Patience, faithful practice, celf-re-Hance, temperance and a strong arm are the characteristics which have Just caused "Iron Man" McGInnlty of the New York National league baseball team to be held up as a model to a graduating grad-uating class of local high school boy9. The speaker to the class did not mean that his hearers were to begin preparations prepara-tions Immediately for professional careers ca-reers on tho diamond. He did not Intimate Inti-mate for a moment that the doors of success open widest lo masters of the Inahoot, the outcurve and the "drop." But tho boys were Invited to notlco that Mr. McGInnlty, having chosen, to do a pitcher's work In baseball, has made It his aim to do that work Just as much better than anybody else Is doing It as lies within his power. He neither wastes his strength in dissipation nor his time In evil associations. While cultivating his skill by constant practice, he keeps up his endurance by steady habits.