Show MUND A leocle LOS T OS ANGELES frank frisch will be headed this way soon bringing the pirates out here to train making his comeback as a dig big league eague manager after a years absence from the lists just before I 1 left new york I 1 sat around with frank one night and among the things we talked about were the days he be broke in with the giants under john mcgraw it was 20 years ago that frank first went to a training camp but he remembers it all clearly this is a good break for the young players who will report to him at the pirate camp just list as it was for the rookies who came up under him when he managed the cardinals you see with 20 years of success as a player and manager behind him he forgotten when he was a rookie and had to fight for a job he remembers that he too was a prey to all the misgivings that assail a kid when he finds himself tussling for a job with smarter more experienced rivals he had been around to begin with I 1 was lucky he said 1 I joined the giants in june of 1919 and spent the rest of the season with them I 1 broke into quite a few games as a pinch hitter or runner or as a replacement for larry doyle at second base and I 1 was under fire in an important series that was the six game series three successive double headers with the reds at the polo grounds that really clinched the pennant for the A N FRANK FRISCH reds doyle played the first two games I 1 played the next two and then he went back so I 1 had some experience and had been around long on 0 enough to know mcgraw and the ball club by the time I 1 got to san antonio in the spring ng of 1920 but I 1 still know what it was all about no young ball player can learn much in less than one fuu full season looking back now it seems to me that it was a long time before I 1 learned anything all I 1 had on my side at san antonio that spring were speed and willingness I 1 d know how to play for hitters but I 1 usually could get in front of the ball and knock it down with my chest and pick it up and throw the hitter out somebody said about pepper martin a few years ago that if his chest held out he would make a good third baseman what I 1 said about myself long before that moved to third base you see mcgraw switched me to third base that spring I 1 had played shortstop at fordham and broken in with the giants as a substitute for doyle at second but during the winter heinie zimmerman our third baseman had been released so mac moved me to third one of thi the first things he be did was to tell me to throw away the glove I 1 had and order a new one my aly old glove much bigger than a kid glove a little thin thing with no pocket in it but mac got a glove for we me with which I 1 could at least knock the he ball down and that gave me some protection then he worked with me every day he taught me how to make my moves when to play in back or half way how to break for a ball how to get it away with the least possible delay there were days when I 1 seem seel to do anything right and id worry and fret but he never lost patience with me he not only gave me lessons in how to play third base but he also taught me how jo 0 o work with a young ball player the main difference in conditions as the rookies find them nowadays and as they were when you came up frank I 1 asked easier he said kids come up faster and although they are better paid managers dont seem to expect so much of them in my time as a rookie you were just a fellow looking for a job you had to make your own way and get to know the other fellows as best you could nowadays they take a young fellow around and introduce him to everybody to make him feel at home 1 I cant say that anybody ever was disagreeable to me when I 1 broke in I 1 came after the period in in which the older players ST steak speak eak to the be rookies and chased them away from the plate in batting practice cut but today the other players are more helpful than they were en ca I 1 broke in |