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Show STARS PREPARE FOR jl MEET New York Athletes Ready for Senior Metropolitan Championship Cham-pionship Tourney. BOB UNGLANT WOULD ABOLISH SPRING TRIPS Believes That Yearly Baseball Throwing Is Useless Waste of Energy. BY MANHATTAN. By Leased Wlro lo The Tribune. NEW YORK, Aug. 20. It Is expected that a number of records will lopplo when the senior metropolitan championship meet Is held at Tracers Island, near this city, on tho tenth of next month. A grcnt many of tho stars of the Amateur Athletic Union are working hard In the preparation for the meet, among them Mclvln Sheppard. Wilton Pnull, Harry Glsslng, Lawson Robertson. Jim Rosou-bergcr, Rosou-bergcr, Martin Shoiidan, Klvlat Bouhag, Sullivan, Flanagan, Archer and others. Robert Kdgrcn, tho well-known uportlng editor, will also compete. Martin Sheridan will concentrate upon the discus event and ho believes he can beat IiIb old work. The ijunrter-mlla and half-mile races will huvo a number of Illustrious runners as contestants and records will bo made to break the other marks. Georgo Ronhag will be at his best for tho llve-mlle race und Lnwaon Roburl-son, Roburl-son, who lias been training him. bellovos that ho will set up a new world's work, Matt McGrath and .lolin Flanagan each believes that he will hurl tho lC-pound hammer further than ever before. Athletes, especially In the West, are watching with curiosity tho progress of athletics In the Island of Hawaii. President Presi-dent S. S. I'elxotto of the Pnclilc association, asso-ciation, of the A. A. U.. who organized a branch of the Pnclilc In Honolulu, has received aeveuil letters saying that the new banch Is organizing a nig tournament. tourna-ment. . Opposed to Spring Trips, Hob rnglnnt, tho crack first baseman of tho Washington Kasehnll club, says this is his Inst soauon on the diamond. Unglnnt Is angry because, he says, tho official Bcorers of tho American league have been robbing him of. hits. UnBlant Is a mnn of Ideas. One of them thai spring training trips ought to abirllHhed. Unglaut thinks they arc all right for getting a ball club Into .sbapo'for a campaign, but they aro lire-some lire-some ,for the players who navo made them year after year. "The southern trips look good to the bushcrs who are Just breaking In," says Rob. ""but to the old-timers they arc tiresome. "We have had enough exporlenco with them to know what they mean nothing noth-ing but hard work from mornlnK until night. Why some of those fat ones go south and put In more work during thene hioe or four wceka than they do all the rust of the season, "Of course, we cot a llttlf fun out of them," continued Bob. "but thero Is gen- Continued on Following Pngcg STARS PREPARE FOR BIG MEET Continued From Preceding Pago. erally so much work that the fun gets lost. It's the sanie old routine clay after day. and It doesn't vary a bit more than that of some prisoner doing six months In Jail. "Vc have some fun with 'the greenest of tho bushers' breaking in, but the young players have it easy to what tho new ones did a few year ago. Ten years ago the kids had some pretty hard times riding the goat, but today this has almost nil been cut out. The old men realize that the kids are taken south to learn something, and as all have thp interest in-terest of the team at heart, there are very few veterans that are not willing to teach the new players the finer points of the game. "we certainly get some green ones. When I was south with New York. In 1905. we had a pitcher by the name of Railing. He was getting along pretty well, und one day the manager told him to warm up, us he was going to work him In three innings In a game. The pitcher took a ball and went out and stood about four or five feet from one of the big stone abutments of the grandstand. grand-stand. He then tossed the ball againBt the stones and caught It as It gently bounded back. He did this for about ten minutes, and then said he was warmed up. What happened to him when he went on the slab Is a pity. How those outfielders did chase that ball! He warmed them up all right. ."On one of our trips wo had a young pitcher, a nice fellow, who wasn't quite good enough, and the manager hated to tell him to go home. So one night while he -was sitting on tho hotel veranda, the manager got an old washboller. tied a string to it, placed his release inside, and lowered it from an upBtairs window until it dangled in front of the victim. Talk about being canned!" Gotham WantB Titles. Every section of the United States and Canada will be represented at the A- A. U. The championship games will bo held In New Orleans in October. Full teams will be sent by the Irish-American A. C. and the N. Y. A. C. of this city. There will be athletes from practically every state in the union. That New York is going to get a big share of the honors is evident from the number and class of tho men who will represent the various clubs of this city In the different events. More than two nunared uotnam tuie-holders tuie-holders will make the trip, and when they leave hero every' ono of them will be in his best condition. Spurred on by the threat that only those who show championship form will be sent, practically practi-cally every athlete of note haa begun training to got himself in the best condition. condi-tion. Bernle Wefers, trainer of the New York Athletic club, has an entire team out every day at Traverse iBland putting them through hard exercises. At Celtic park, Lawson Robertson Is busy couching couch-ing his charges of the Irish-American A. C. The meet promises to be tho best ever held for tho national titles. Every section sec-tion of the country will be represented by its best men. In an effort to mako it a huge success, tho New Orleans officials offi-cials promised to send $3000 to the A. A. U.', to bo used aa traveling expenses for the athletes. This money will be used to aid. the boys whose clubs cannot afford af-ford to send them. When Elmer Flick, one of the veterans, of the American league, waa sold by the Cleveland club to Kansas City of the American association it recalled to mind the fact that for several years the Ban Johnson organization has been weeding out tho veterans until today there are very few originals left in the American league ranks. New blood has been gradually but surely taking tho place of the men who were in their time among the most famous in the buslnes. Of those who were with the American league when it dropped the name of Western league in 1900 and took up tho more expressive title, only one remains in the ranks who has been continuously In service in the American league. That is our old friend Norman Elberfeld. who at that time was really a "kid." Others now in the league who were In it in 1900, but were out for a time, are Charley Hemphill of the Highlanders. Tonsy Hart-sell Hart-sell or the Athletics and Kid Conroy of the Washingtons. It was in 1901 that the American league got its big boost. The announcement announce-ment that Jimmy Collins of Boston, Napoleon Na-poleon Lajole of Philadelphia, Joe Mc-Ginnlty Mc-Ginnlty of Brooklyn and Clark Griffith of Chicago had Jumped from the National league to the younger organization caused a big stir. Of those only Lajdle remains in the league. Others who were 1901 recruits and are still In the ranks are Freddy Parent of Chicago. Billy Sullivan Sul-livan of Boston, 'Lou Crlger of the Highlanders High-landers and Cy Young of Cleveland. Fielder Jones can also be counted in this list, as he la still a member of the Chicago Chi-cago club under baseball law and intends to return to the game next year, so the report goes. With the exception of Billy Sullivan, not one of Clark Griffith's Chicago champions cham-pions of 1901 Is now in the American league, o; the champion Athletics of 1902. Harry Davis, Danny Murphy. Eddie Plank and Hartsell are the survivors. Davis is the only Infielder In the league of the championship teams prior to 1909 who still holds his regular position. The Athletics' captain looks good for several years' service, as do the others. Davis is considered the champion home run hitter of the league. In nine years he has made a total of sixty-seven home run drives In addition to his homers. Davis is credited with 292 doubles and seventy-six triplos. |