Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-06-22 | Page 5 | Hard to Keep some Ball Players in Condition

Hard to Keep Some Ball Players In Condition ""PALL playere have no Idea about , how to fit themselves for hard work." says the trainer of u big league team. "They eat too much, smoke too much and do not cool out properly after a game. Imagine a player cutting cut-ting out meat and vegetables and eating eat-ing pastry three times a day! Pie for breakfast Is a now ono on me. yet I know of at least one man who never goes without several pieces of pic each day. Cigarettes 'and cigars are used without discretion, which makes the players short winded and also affects their eyes. Some of them arc In such a hurry to get away from the grounds that they hustle their clothes on wlth- out stopping perspiration and then go Into the street to have their limbs stiffened stiff-ened by cold winds. In my opinion ball players should be trained like all classes of athletes fighters, runners, football players and oarsmen. But It's hard to convince thcin. They seem to know It all and regard a trainer ,ns a nuisance.' ' Baseball men say that the only .train- j or who exercises absolute authority Is the colored man employed by the I Giants. McGraw backs him up to the j limit and is ready to punish members I of the team who' do not cbey him. The result Is that the Giants art- tit all tho I lime.