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Show BALL TRAINER ACTS AS JACK OF ALL TRADES Ball clubs, with millions ol aounrs invested In the bodies of men. have never taken precaution to protect this investment in human flesh Colleges and universities, even high schools, whose athletic performers cost j nothing, spend a great deal of n:one each year, fortunes in fact protecting: I them. Baseball has its trainers, but there Is probably not a trainer in the cn- tire game that ha.s even a slight medical education. What trainers In baseball know about the human: body Is scraps ol knowledge picked up hero and there, scraps that often' prove dangerous, There is no position in baseball more) badly misnamed than the trainer's ! Here is what the trainer of a major league club doe9. Checks the trunks, carrying uniforms uni-forms and also the private wardrobe trunks of the players. Sees that hand luggage is delivered to the rooms of th nlavers. 1 Has charge ol tne bats ai d balls. Provides drinking water for the players' bench. Gathers up shoes. socks. shirts. pants and sweaters in (he clubhouse club-house after the players careb uly throw them about when through) With the workout, and carefully places ! them in the lookers of the roapoetlve owners. Provides soap, towels and eces that the showers have plenty ol hot water. Acts as rubber whenever any member mem-ber of the team t-how s up with u sore muscle or imagines he has one.' Mends uniforms and sees tnat Split - ed shoes are cleaned and elled after i each workout , Runs errands to shoe repairing: shops and tailor shops. Acts as vniet for the players. Alwuvs has a supply of chewing gum and chewing tobacco, cl.n-. i Iail4 Cigars, articles demanded by the player during or after u workout, the l former during and the latter after Does various other little errands j such as mailing letters carrying messages mes-sages starting the fire in the club- i house stove etc When one mentions n trainer in connection with baseball r. v. persons per-sons would suspect the mai. holding tha position dolmr such an amount of work nnd iust that kind of work The college trainer Is in command of the situation in athletics H0 Is responsible for tho physical welfare of the, athletea h- tells them when 'he;, shall go to bed and when to arise, what the;- can and what they . annot ct when they can play aftd r.hen they cannot play His VVOrd Is law over that of the coach But In baseball, with millions depending de-pending upon the physical welfare of the men playing the gnme. the o73dom;mM mCrely " Gun- ""' |