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Show Behind The. Scenes With Major Leaguers The average baseball fan as he sltsj in the stands sucking his "sodys" through a straw and grinding up his bag j of peanuts thinks the nfe of a. ball player is pretty soft. All ho has to do is to stroll out to the parK, don a uniform and take a lot of cxer-Iso cxer-Iso while thousands of harsh voices make a fuss over him. But in baseball, as in theatrical work, there, is a "behind the scones. They don't do all their w.ork before the eye of tho public. -v A big league squad reports every morning for practice. The morning workouts are often long and teuions. The manager tries to coax the weak spots out of recruits, shows them, how to pull all that funny stuff which they are to need in the afternoon. It's like going to school. After lunch game time arrives, and then come those two hours of strenuous strenu-ous play, so full of tense situations. Of courso the fan up there seldom sees 'behind the scenes'' and isn't expected ex-pected to appreciate the meaning of "soft" job stuff. Tho above pictures show the New York Giants killing a. little time bo-fore bo-fore the crowds begin to pour Into tho Polo grounds. At the top you btru some of tho boys passing a fow minutes min-utes before game time at tho well-known well-known pastlmo of "Black Jack. ' Grouped round the table are Btjnny Kauff, Eddie Sicking, Coach Matty. Ross Young, Georgo Kolly, TraTnetH-Id Mackall and King Lear. In the lower panel it lj.ks as though Matty had just let the cat out the bag. But it's only "Bid Pennant," tho six-months-ol'd Mexican wildcat, mascot of the Giants. That's Frod Toney holding the chain. He ain't afraid of Mm. Art Nehf is counting the spots on Bill's back and trying to figuro out where the Giants are going to finish in tho pennant rlrlc. |