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Show Is golf a good thing for a ball plaver dining the regular season? Can soiling be overdone by a ball player, thereby greatly affecting hi In the past 10 yearH golf has taken a strong hold among the major league players . . In the pust five years it has increased io such a degree that golf sticks are a regular part of musi bi leagaere" paraphernalia Connie Mack is strong for golf Plavs a lot of it himself during the summer However, Connie has his doubts as to its value for a ball player At one time the golfing craze hit the Philadelphia Athletics so strongly that Mack put up the bars ou the game, and issued an order that no player should golf on days a game was scheduled. Mack at that time expressed the opinion that no player could do 18 holes I of golf and not lose much of his pepper,' o use the parlance of the golf GOLF HAS BEEN ADDED TO WOES OF MANAGER HUGGINS Now II seems that golf has been added to the troubles of Manager Miller ' Huggms of the Yankees. Huggins has had one sweet time handling hi- j temperamental athletes without having a new evil present itself to slir up t 1 argument. . . H Il is said that golf was the indirect cause of the controversy between Pitcher Mays and Manager Huggins, wfilch ended by Huggins plastering B fine of $200 on his star pitcher. j It seems that about a dotcn of the Yankee players are devotees of golf, among them being Ruth Hoyt Mays and Schang. Some of the baseball I experts with the Yankees claim that the team has paid more attention to golf than baseball on the spring training trip. TAKEN OUT OF GAME, THROWS BALL OVER STANDS. The story goes that Huggins has requested his pitchers not to play j golf on the dayB they are to pitch. I After advising Mays lhat he wa to pitch a certain exhibition gam-against gam-against Brookhn, Mavs Is said lo have played 18 holes of golf That afternoon Mays was hit hard by Brooklyn and taken out of tho box bv, Huggins. I Mays resented his removal from the game and to prove it threw the ban j over the grandstand For which Huggins fined him $200. All of which makes It seem that golf isn't the best thing in the world for a ball plaver during the regular season It wouldn't b-- surprising if the major league club owners tried to curb , Lhe so called golf ev il |