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Show FAVORS RETURN j OP OLD-TIME BUS Players' Carryall Gave Pep and Fighting Spirit. Declares Johnny Evers r'HICAGO. Jan. 1 S. Iteviv.il of the old-time baseball plaers bus for trips to"nd from the bar-bail park would go far toward restoring simplicity and a spirit of sportsman hip to the came. Manager Johnny ftvera Rf Uje Cubs declared today. "The old bus gave ns a good whole-Mine whole-Mine advertising, but at ihe Mime time 1: put real fun. chance for real team work, and more boncst-to-goodness pep in the game.'- K'. ers declared. "It made it morn like a sport and less liko ;i commercial proposition. 11,T PEP in K1. "P.emomber how the ifanaser 'n't his team used to pile out of th hotel and into the bus? If we were thV visiting vis-iting team the town was there to see and Jeer at us Away we would go across the town, the entire route otoe long line of veiling home-to wn boosters. boost-ers. By the time Ule i)arl. was reached reach-ed every one had heard something that made him full of fight After the game we would pllo back Into the bus. A couple of thousand fans would stand around and give us n.. hooting. Win or lose. We got it coming and going and loved l. LOOKS l . l K l AUTO -M w "How is it today? Morning practice prac-tice makes th front of the park look like nn automobile show. The plavers I breeze In at the last minute and I breeze out as quickly as they can Ichange clothes. The manager never sees his men together except at game time. The players are too busy keeping keep-ing dates with everybody in the world i from movie promoters to soap manufacturers manu-facturers "That is the reason players today are not as smart "ollecttvely as they I were a few years ago They don't Ispend enough time learning baseball" |