- Sallee Is Hope Of Huggins
- Sallee Says He Gained 14 Pounds In Two Weeks
March 14, 1914 Age 23
By Harry Pierce The St Louis Star and Times
ST. AUGUSTINE. FLA.. March 14. The St. Louis Cardinal need not expect the “welcome to our city” sign to be displayed in St. Augustine if the Brlttonites come to the “oldest city” to train again next year, according: to Secretary J. O. .Stevenson of the St. Augustine Chamber of Commerce. Secretary Stevenson waxed irate Friday when he read some of the reports sent North about the hotel accommodations and the climate at St. Augustine.
The wrathy secretary intimated that the St Louis National League club will have to pay the training trip expenses if the Cards come here again and that the St. Louisans will not be accorded the support of the local Chamber of Commerce. The St. Petersburg Boosters’ Club is so well pleased with the outcome of the Browns’ sojourn in that city that the construction of another training site is contemplated, and according to Secretary Albert J. Lang of the St. Petersburg Ball Exhibition Company the St. Louis Cardinals will be invited to train in the “Sunshine City” along with the Browns next year.
Polly Perritt, the slender righthander, who has developed a cold and a mania for appearing on the narrow-gauge boulevards in company with an orangewood walking stick, has delivered an ultimatum to the St. Louis club owners. Perritt asserts that unless his cold disappears within two days he will depart for Denver and leave the Cardinals to their fate. The funny-bone hurler suspects that he is afflicted with the ‘white plague’, but his threat to leave camp must be taken as seriously as the contents of a Joe Miller cook book.
Sheriff Sallee is another chronic kicker. The Higginsport sidewheeler complains that the climate here is too healthy for training purposes.
Sallee came here to train two weeks ago, but when he weighed in Friday he discovered that he had gained fourteen pounds, or an average of seven pounds a week. Sallee now weighs 179 pounds, and he fears that unless Huggins ships him North immediately some big circus will come along and engage him to do a “Baby Bliss” act on a bicycle. There is as much humor between Sallee and Perritt as between the end men in a 10-cent minstrel show.
Dan Griner, the flaxen-haired righthander, who has been piloting the Clearwater College team at Clearwater, Fla., all winter. has pitched regularly enough to keep in condition, and the superb form he displayed against Jacksonville Friday afternoon demonstrated he is in fine shape to go the route, and that he can be depended on to materially aid the Robison Field crew in the coming campaign.