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Show HTTSBK ILL (HP EYES OH HE! The one player on, whom the eyes of TMttsburcr fans arc going- to bo focused this Keason. Is big- Ed Konetchy, the first baseman who is to try to make Plttsbnrg-crs Plttsbnrg-crs forget all 'about Juck Miller. Konetchy Is very eager to show Pitts-burgers Pitts-burgers thab Manager Clarke made no mistake in putting through that big- trade of December. TIo said recently that he was glad to play In Pittnbure and that he was .going to show that no matter how good ho was In St. Louis, ho was going to bo oven better In the city of stool and slmoleons. "I don't llko to hear a ball player say ! how good ho la or how good ho is going to be," said Ed. "Usually when they start oft with this sort of stuff, they are forced to como back with an allb or a series of alibis. Still, I bellcvo T will be able to play good ball for Pittsburg; and you can just bet everything yon havo that I'm going go-ing to do the best I can." It is no secret that the "Big- Train" wasn't altogether satlslled with ills lot In tho Mound City.. A .star himself, he was associated with a bunch that could not play major league ball uind the harder he tried tho less ho accomplished, apparently. With an outfit like the one representing Pittsburg he will go better and his work will show to better advantage. That's why Plttsbnrgers believe he is going to make the fans and fanesses at home stop. look and listen after he gets started. Koney has his own Ideas concerning training. He believes that Manager Clarke's plnn Is the best tised by any manager, and he said why. "Those clubs, which start in February and jump down Into the south do not gut full benellt rrom their work. A fellow fel-low must lead up gradually to the hard work and this thing- of getting; out Immediately Imme-diately after reaching- the training grounds and stovlng one's self all up Is foolish. "I bolleve that Clarke's plan of preparing prepar-ing gradually for tho real work is tho best. Nor litis this Idea occurred to mo only since 1 have been a Pirate. In fact. I have always envied tho Pittsburg players, play-ers, for they have had Just a little something some-thing on the others when It came down to training. Tho Pirates have been started start-ed late and have gone to West Baden for a week or ten days. When thev would leave there, they would not be stiff and sore, but would be In condition to jump In at Hot Springs and ease Into the work. 'Naturally this sort of thing was bound to benctlt the players: ana when the start back north was negotiated, tho Pittsburg mayors were, almost without exception, In splendid condition." ft |