Show I SORE HANDS FAD AT SPRING CAMPS Much Pain Suffered by Ball Athletes in Spring Due to Soft Lunch Hooks Buck Weaver takes tales a a. hot line that nearly knocks him off his feet and smiles I 1 Tris Speaker gets a terrific drive with apparent ease Doesn't Doesn t the ball bail sting Boys on the sand lots and amateurs generally find their hands bands are ire swollen and sore soro after alter an a afternoon of pas timIng They envy the calm with which major leaguers tackle the ball bali Its It's all In the practice When major leaguers are at their spring camp they have to go o through a process of hardenIng hardening harden harden- ing their hands Several months of vacation vacation vacation vaca vaca- tion from active playing make their hands as soft a ag as those of the average citizen Managers find It necessary to order I their men to practice a couple o of days without gloves the being to keep them from throwing too hard Many outfielders have trouble at first first- catching I flies Ping Bodle Bodie a sure catch has been seen to drop eight of tel teo tep f fly balls bails hit hitI to him and landing squarely In his hands After a day at first base we have heard I Jack Fournier complain of sore flore handsHe hands He lie has exhibited his glove hand which has been swollen to twice its normal I sll size First basemen and catchers during the early stages of the tue practice often wear I heavier pads In their gloves Some insert a a. beefsteak in the lining Joe Jackson apparently a hardy chap his more rt hands than h hurt once him this last after rs spring catching told Oid ordinary ordinary how nary flies files After a few days the change comes and it isn't long before the soreness wears away and they h can begin to take a a. relish f in handling J liners again N Most pitchers go through a hardening process that is extremely p painful The finger that grips the balls gradually get geta a callous on the end known end known to pitchers as a corn This is caused by the seam of the ball rubbing against the tho finger fingertip fingertip tip as the tho ball is forcibly released Tho The pain Is intense sometimes for weeks Pitchers dread this stage of spring training but realize they have to go through with it Sore arms can be treated with fair success but a pitchers pitcher's corn Is something that has bas to be faced and endured |