Show Miller Starts Novel Fad Of Short Life By LA TON LAY CARVER NEW YORK Jan 26 INS INS INS- Eddie Miller has started something something some thing but the major league club owners are going to stop atop it or it-or or bust all their vocal chords trying The erstwhile shortstop of the Boston Braves who next season will take his artistry into the Cincinnati Cin Cm- Reds' Reds infield has been given permission by his new owners own own- ers era to do his preliminary spring training at Lake Worth down on the sun-kissed sun east coast of ot Flor Flor- ida He wont won't report for workouts workouts workouts work work- outs with the rest of the Reds Until until un Un- til April 1 The rest of ot the Reds by that time will be as s fine Line a bunch of icicles as human eye ever surveyed They will have been been been- freezing and defrosting for about two weeks by that time at Bloomington Bloomington Bloom Bloom- ington Ind md No Cooperation The three New York clubs- clubs I Yankees Giants and Dodgers Dodgers al already ready have voted In advance without without with with- out solicitation any such notion o othe on the part of ot their players as they prepare to head for spring work up in the frigid zone of this vicinIty vicinity vicinity vicin vicin- ity and the others around the cir clr circuit cult can be counted upon to fall faU into line Thus Miller is a baseball player apart from all others a man to be envied and to be admired when he starts next season with a deep health filled tan contrasted to the anemic pallor of ot his contemporaries contemporaries contempo contempo- who have battled blizzards and earned their glowing health in shut ot off from the zestful outdoors And even if it they went outdoors all they would be beable beable beable able to get is and and look at that Miller brown as an Indian and the living picture of ot what a ball player should look like in April all brown and healthy No Friendships It wouldn't be at all surprising to learn in the middle of next summer Eummer that a world record had been set by Miller in the matter of ot received from Some of ot them will never get over his good fortune and spend all their spare time trying to cut him down to size That Is s s about the only way they can get even Imagine one one ball player out of some training training- in Florida As for tor the rest this training I in the east Is going to be a noble experiment one that will be watched to see whether trips to sunny climes are necessary to get ball players into shape Not that it will win matter matu r. r As soon as the war is over they will go b back ck to spots far from home again for the weather and exhibition games and the publicity |