"When a man of his natural physique can eat what he wants, drink what he wants and do what he pleases in the open air all the year around, it isn't any wonder that he prolongs his athletic career and stands off the slowness and staleness that comes to the best of them as the years go by. [...] Honus has a poetic nature in this respect, although he is anything but a poet. But the open air, the trees, the streams and the wild freedom of the woods have a fancy for him, and in this environment only is he happy. Is it any wonder then that he retains his vigor and conserves much of that dash and speed that makes him the annual wonder on the ball field?"
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"Wagner's Habit of Eating When He Pleases Helps Him," Newark Evening Star (December 21, 1912), p. 9
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James Jerpe
1885 – 1917
(1885 – January 16, 1917) was an American sports writer and columnist, writing for The Pittsburgh Dispatch, ' and ' from 1909 until 1916.
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