Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-15
ALL GETTING READY.
Baseball Teams Are Preparing for
a Very Busy Season.
OPINIONS ABOUT PITCHER CAMP
Local Comment on the Break in the
Amateur Athletic Union.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS OF THE DAY
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.

| .eprcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPATCH.1
| NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-Active prepara-
tion for the baseball championship of 1892
has begun. During the past week the adj
vance guard started for some of the Southern
resorts to go into training. The rush of
ball players to the Hot Springs and other
Southern resorts offering facilities for lim-
bering up will continue until the pennant
struggle begins
BY the end of the month the directors of
every club will have decided what method
they will adopt to prepare the men for the
battles on the diamond. Most of them have
already decided the question and have so
Informed their men. Few of them satisfy
| themselves with gymnasium practice, Bos-
! ton probably being the only club in the big
League that clings to the old method of
training Baltimore and Washington are
| far enough South to permit outdoor practice
early in April, so that it snot necessary
for the teams of these cities to leave home.
The new York Directors were for a long
time inclined to think that few days work
in the gymnasium was sufficient to take the
stiffness out of the limbs of the players, but
when the custom of taking exercise in the
South became universal tine Giants fell into
line, and now it is in the order of events for
the players of the New York, Chicago,
Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Cleveland clubs
to make preliminary excursion to some
place where the climate is suitable for out
door work in spring time.
Teams Going South.
The Giants will leave in March for Rich
mond, Vs., and the Brooklyns will likely
spend few weeks in Florida, where Cap
tain Ward spent some time this winter. The
Clevelands and Chicaeos will go to the Hot
Springs early next month"; Philadelphia will
likely practice in Georgia.
This unusual activity among the players
indicates that the rivalry will be very bitter.
Never at this early date has the feeling be-
tween the clubs been so great. In Brooklyn
the cranks are already speculating on the
prospects of these clubs humiliating the
Giants, and over here bets are being freely
made that the local club will end the season
IN front of the Grooms Manager. Ward is
so confident of leading the New Yorks in the
first part of the championship series that he
has wagered his ten shares of stock in the
New York club against 20 shares of Director
Talcotts on the result.
Ward is now on a chase for players He
certainly will have stronger team than
over before represented Brooklyn on the
diamond. The personnel has not yet been
given out for publication, but it is likely that
Terry, Lovett, Haddock and Inks will be the
pitchers; Tom DAILY, Con Daley and Kinslow
the catchers; Brouthers first base; Ward,
second base; Corcolan, short stop; Joyce,
third base: Burns, Collins and Griffin, out
field. Foutz will pitch and play in the outfield
II occasion requires.
In Doubt About Kelly.
There is still considerable doubt here as
to whether or not Mike Kelly will be on the
New York team. Many of the crapks want
him, and the majority of the club directors
would like to have him, but his salary is
too high, and 1t is understood that the Bos-
ton magnates would like to retain him if his
salary could quietly be cut down. The
New York club is trying TO get him. Pitts
burg has no show for him at any price.
There is also some hope that Richardson
will again be a Giant, but the hope is very,
very slim. His threat of refusing to play
ball at all il not assigned to this city is
looked upon as nothing more than bluff.
II he was so anxious to play here he
claims to he he should never have signed
with the Wagners, it was stated at the
time that some change would occur by
which he would have to play in some city
other than Philadelphia. He was perfectly
satisfied to meet any responsibility that
might arise and abide by any decision that
was rendered. Now through some dickering
he has been able to change his mind.