Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1910 — PLAYERS EAT FAR TOO MUCH [ARTICLE]

PLAYERS EAT FAR TOO MUCH

Overeating Has Done More Harm to Baseball Than Anything Else, Bays Manager Griffith. ‘t Every careful baseball manager watches his players closely In regard to what they eat. It’s easy enough to tell when a player has been drinking, but It la hard for the managers to tell, unless they see them eating. Just when a player has overeaten. AU managers agree that overeating Is a mighty bad thing for a ball play-

er and will do almost as much toward hurting his game as anything else he tould do. Some players want to put on weight and think if they eat a whole lot they will gather in the desired few pounds. They might put on the weight, but with every ounce they put on they take so much oft of their quickness. overeating has done more harm to the world in general, and ball players in particular, than almost anything else I know of,’’ says Manager Griffith. “It isn’t very often that you run across an athlete who doesn’t know when to stop eating, but sometimes you do, and then you have to watch him like a hawk. It’s a very bad’ habit.”