Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1912 — URGE TRAINERS FOR PLAYERS [ARTICLE]

URGE TRAINERS FOR PLAYERS

Little or No Attention Paid to Physical Condition After Preliminary Season Is Finished. A good many professional athletes do things which amateurs never would think of doing. This is particularly true of baseball players. , In order that the point may be understood, one must appreciate the hardships under which amateurs get for contests. They quit smoking and their diet is regulated with aB much science back of it as a physician gives to a patient. The amateur mortifies his flesh aqd punishes his stomach with the one single Idea of making himself proficient In the contests in which he has undertaken to engage. The professional baseball player, on the contrary, pays lljtle qr no attention to training after the preliminary season is finished. The average baseball player, like every other human being who exercises a good deal, gets pretty hungry and permits himself to over eat, says the Milwaukee Sentinel. After dinner, while loafing around the hotel he over smokes and few of them take very good care of themselves generally. They do not over drink as a rule, but they have other foolish ways of not taking care of themselves. The average baseball player is in such a hurry to get to the bus after the game that'he does not properly clothe himself and a good many of them find themselves stiffened up after a hot finish because they ride to the hotel without properly cooling off. What every baseball team ought to have is a professional trainer who has absolute power and control ovei the physical welfare of the men. He should be a heartless dictator, whose orders are to be obeyed, and the management should back him up in everything he does In this way baseball players could be kept in condition and it is about the only way that good condition can be assured. -