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Show I TRIS SPEAKER IS CAREFUL OF LEGS While Underpinnings Are Good Will Keep in Game. Tlaylng his seventeenth season In the American league as a player, Trls Speaker scraped his Angers through his gray hair and puused when he was asked : "How much longer do you , expect to last?" After going Into deep study with himself. Trls brought out : "Illght at this moment I can't tell wlieu the book wlU close. As far as I can see it will be determined Dy my legs." On his own bench while be was talking he put up his two legs, squeezed the ankles, massaged his knees. "Here they are," continued Speaker. They'll tell the tale. Not my eyes; not the swing. I'm slowing up Just a trifle. I can feel It. I know It. I don't get the spring and the Jump out ther In center field In chasing a drive. And I can't tear across the grass as fast as In other years five or seven years ago, for Instance. "They put them all out the legs. Take Napoleon Lajole, Haas Wagne. Sam Crawford and some of the other boys. I'll bet they could hit .300 with ease right now on straightaway hitting, hit-ting, but they'd clog the base lines once they'd get on. "If these props hold me up well, don't be surprised If I'm still In there after I have celebrated my forty-fifth birthday. This game Is a strain on the legs and I'll let you In on a little secret "Hall players go out for the count because they have not given their legs careful attention during the off season. sea-son. They loaf during the winter, grow fat, nnd when they report In the spring they have a tough Job on their hands boiling down. "It Just like a prize fighter who between fights takes on weight. He has severe training. He burns himself him-self out. Ball players do the same thing. My advice Is to hunt for a month after the season closes and take light exercises throughout th winter, exercising mostly In the open. Walk, that's It, a couple of miles a |