Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-08 | Page 57 | Cuban Ball Players Make Good on Big Teams in This Country

CUBAN BALL PLAYERS MAKE GOOD . , ON BIG TEAMS IN THIS COUNTRY Top, left to right: Acosta and Palmcro, Bottom: Marsans and Oalvo. Marsans, Acosta anH Calvo Typical of Stars Produced in Havana. IJi the late nineties, , when, we ..drove the Spaniards out of Cuba, wo riot only gave the inhabitants of that neighboring island their political independence, in-dependence, but also wo introduced them to the great American game of baseball. base-ball. Several Cuban cities now havo excellent ex-cellent ball parks, where teams of real playing ability engage in games. Many Cuban players have como to this country and havo made good with teams in American major leagues. Among them are Marsans of tho Cincinnati "Rods and Acosta and Calvo of the Washington Senators, whilo Pnlmcro is a recent recruit re-cruit to tho fold of tho Now York Giants. It is believed tho Cuban climate is Earticularly good for tho dovalopment of ast ball players. Coutrary to the popular popu-lar belief that cool weather Bpoeus up an athlete, is tho fact that nearly aft athletic records havo boon broken on hot days of summer. In tho enso of tho Cubans Cu-bans who havo como to this country to play ball, it has been noticed that during dur-ing their first few montliB of playing horo they have not shown tho speod which thoy did in Cuba, but as soon as real summer sets in, with the sun beating beat-ing down f iorcelv on tho diamond-, the islanders rounded into splendid condition. condi-tion. At present thero aro throe big clubs in Cuba, forming the Championship league. Theso are tho ITavauas, oa wjiick Acosta and Calvp play in the winter, and for which Phlmcro pitches; the Almondarcs, managed by Marsans, and tho Fos. The Cubnn championship series begins about the middlo of De-comber De-comber and lasts for throe and a half months. Last year tho Almondaros won the championship and thoy havo a strong grip on tho title this year. Of course, at tbo tail end of the sonson theso clubs' lose stars who play in this country but thero' aro plenty of good players loft to make the contests interesting. in-teresting. Negroes aro allowed to play on two of tho teams. Thero is a movement on foot to form a separate league for the blacks.