Show ANGELES ta EL E rank frank frlich awill LOS S SZ will be h headed d this Is way soon bringing the pirates out here to train making his comeback as a big league manager atter 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 he things we talked about were the days he 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 9 Is a good break for the young players who will report to him at the pirate camp just as it was tor for thi the rookies who came up under him when he be 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 or a lob job he ha remembers that he too was a prey to all the misgivings that assail a kid when he finds himself tussling for or a job with smarter more experienced rivals he had been around to begin with I 1 was 1 l lucky 11 he ha said 1 I joined the giants in id june of 1919 and spent the rest ot of the season with them I 1 broke broka into quite a few janies 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 a at the polo grounds that I 1 really clinched the pennant tor for the 4 C v FRANK FRISCH reds doyle played the first two games I 1 played the next two and then be went back so I 1 had some experience and had been around lose long enough to know mcgraw and the ball club by the time I 1 got to san antonio in the spring of 1920 but I 1 still know what it was all about no young ball player can learn mu much eh in less than one full season looking back now it seems to me that it wis 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 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 it 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 sub statute for doyle at second but dur ing the winter heinle zimmerman our third baseman had been released so mac moved me to third one of the first things he did was to tell me to throw away the glove I 1 had and order a new one my old glove much b bigger I 1 ager than a kid glove a little thin thing with no pocket in it but mao got get a glove for me with which I 1 could at least knock the ball down and that gave me some protection then he worked with me every day he taught me hew 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 to do anything right and id worry orry and fret but he never lost patience with me he not only gave me lessons in hov to play third base but he also taught me how to 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 s L m 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 jet get to know the other fellows is as best you could nowadays they take a young fellow around and introduce him t to 0 everybody to make him feel at home i 1 I cant say that anybody ever was disagree disagreeable apic to me when I 1 broke in I 1 came after the period in which the he older players we woi ilant Mul speak to the rookies ani and chased them away from the plate in baiting hatting practice out but today the he other p play I 1 a Y ers ardmore helpful than they wert wen when 1 I broke in |