| Show IF TB YOU look over the list of au all thil the leading ball players for the last 30 years including baseballs hall of 0 fame at cooperstown Coopers town find that over 00 per cent of 0 them cainie came fro from m cities and towns under cobb speaker jackson mathewson w alexander cy young john soil grove eddie colllns collins hornsby foxx la jole home run baker wagner dob 4 as k F ecuer eller the cooper brot brothers hersi kellor dickey tho the dicag glos hartnett the tha deans ca carl ra hubbell and so 09 on came to their fame isolated and mort mai q cooper from unknown spots on the map such instances run into the hundreds new ew yorks main contributions have been gehrig greenberg and frisch chicago has tu turned r ned out a few stars stan including P phil hu caa aretta baltimore gave the game babe ruth but now new york chicago philadelphia boston and other crowded cities in proportion have lagged far behind in towns running from rom lw 1000 to 10 population there is always room for a ball field la in these sweet Au auburna burns loveliest villages ex of tile the plains there ere Is space in which k klux ida can bit run throw and slide elide they can via play y the game up to tile tho ill alu it I 1 liu aut in a city binch as an new york you can 0 sea cc thousands trying to play on crowded streets as cars come coma through to d rive drive them back toi to tile the sidewalks eyer ever try ary to slide over cobblestones while eluding a fast moving automobile few stars front from cities take a look at tile the now famous cardinal roster which embraces at least SO 30 stars at least 03 05 per cent ot of these clime camo along and up from places you never heard about it if these players had been b born or in new york chicago phil philadelphia wools etc possibly two or three would h have a fomade made the big leagues that Is tile the way the percentage runs and frisch came along through columbia and fordham but few street kids have a chance to get any college course comae and find and a ball ballfield where they can develop P baseballs hall ball ot of tamo fame ww now gitil and in years to commow come would bo be extreme ly thin it if it had bad to look to the crowd cd thoughtless larger cleles for its went talent it if there enough within these cities there Is abw always a Y 5 space enough outside and there are still busses running and there will soon be motor cars available complaining about juvenile delan quincy youthful crime Is a was waste to of at time the responsibility belongs belong to older people who through sport and the full support of so many hard wor working klag organizations ns can change tho the entire picture in a few years 0 athletes and condition what group of athletes keep in better physical condition or worst physical condition so far as professional fess ess ional sport Is concern edT at a recent gabbing session we ran into a number of coaches cis as coaches trainers and assist ant trainers who know th their air wa way Y around who have been in cha charge of various exports tor for many years it was their belief that profess profession lo n al football players and professional tournament golfers on the average wera a in better physical condition than any other group grou and that pro fess ional baseball players trailed tho the list this statement will bringia bring a loud und and lusty squawk from many ball players but it happens to carry more than a mere shade of truth anyway the coaches and trainers who felt this way about it should know what they are arc talking about this of course coarse d oe ant include all ball players one ona trainer a said aid but it includes include I 1 doomany too many of them most of them do half the job a pro football player has to face ace watch most of them hit a triple and find them puffing at third base find and less than yards they dont turn I 1 in n enough road work to build up their legs A A pro baseball player should last tar far iunger than lan apro a pro football player considering the tha punishment the footballer has to take but few of them do last season the new york giants had mcl hein herber and ken strong each with nearly 29 20 years of football behind him there thera have been many others such as hut son with 10 or 12 42 yearn already cashed in for or example I 1 see where de tigers this season have 43 exhibition panics games this means it a tot total alof of couteau from march malch to october a 6 10 long ng march that demands the best sort of physical shape brany of them willbe will bo ready for this endler endurance ance test but quite a lot we wont be unless they make a far harder effort to ret get in shape and keep la ih shape than so 50 many have made in tho the past those fellows heading south early are the smart ones this Thi swill will bo be the toughest season any of them will have to tacken |
