The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-15

Chicagos have gone to Galveston, tho New
Yorks to Jacksonville, and the rest will
follow before st. Patricks day.
This training in the southern climate
has become n fad with National league
clubs. 1t is liable to become O fixed Gus
tom. Tho benefits of team training in n
warm climate last year and in the spring
of 1924 have been fully recognized. These
trips are expensive but no club can afford
TO put its team ut disadvantage in the
opening of the season by staying ut home
till the championship games begin.
Before southern training was extensive
ly practiced patrons OF the game paid to
sec very imperfect playing for the first
two or three weeks of the season, while
the stars were wearing off their stiffness
Now the opening games arc played with
all the dash and brilliancy OF midseason.
y distinctive feature of this years Ma
tional league season will be an unusually
largo venture in young blood" Last
year so much good new timber was found
that it created n kind of rage for further
experimenting.
Among the most successful dcbutants
in the National league last season were
Wallace of Cleveland. Harry Davis of New
York, Holmes, Clarke and McDermott of
Louisville, Dolan and Harrington of Bos-
ton, Orth of Philadelphia, Hoffer OF Balti-
moro, Anderson and Burrcll of Brooklyn,
Friend and Thornton OF Chicago, and
Cooley of St. Louis. This year New York
and Louisville will lead all other clubs in
tho number OF experiments The New
York club will take south IA new players,
mostly young mon who made encouraging
records in the minor leagues last year.
Louisville will send the same number to
the clubs training ground, at Montgom-
\ In Tho n hnr p1,, ,t,in ,laol
sparingly with recruits; Baltimore has
two-Donnclly and Gray; Boston three
Bergen, Iorick and Mains; Brooklyn
iour-Joncs, Smith, Harper and Payne:
Chicago Flynn, Mcbride and
Dolan; Cincinnati four-Philips, Davis,
Kennedy and Phillips; Cleveland four
Schieble, Delehenty. Shcaron and O'Meara;
Philadelphia four = Berryhill, Hulcn,
White and Madison; Pittsburg fivo-Hew-
EFT, Snyder, Moran, Hastings and Moran;
st. Louis two-Hart and Mcfarland, and
Washington four-Demont, Lush, Rogers
and Macauey. Some Of these will pass
muster, but 40 per cent will DO found light.
weight before tho pennant race begins.
The present great organized system of
professional baseball is u graded school
IN which player with abilities cannot
fail to become n star and land in the
major League. The minor leagues under
the new national agreement, just adopted
arc arranged in six classes, from "A''
down to "F, - according to tho total popu-
lation of the cities in each circuit. Clubs
OF certain class may draft players from
any lower class ut the end OF each season.
and tho National league, which stands
alono at tho head, can draft from any
minor league Thus young player who
shows ability will surely be called higher
year by year, and if ho continues to do
velop WILL in few seasons, "entcr col
lege," or be drafted into tho National
league. This system Is bound to give
patrons OF tho game the very best and
freshest talent for the diamond, and old
players will no longer continue to play
upon their departed regulations.
And what wonderful rench this M
tionnl agreement organization has! Thi.
year the cities whore national agreement
professional clubs are located arc MS fol.
lows; Boston, Brooklyn, New York, Phil
adelphia. baltimore, Washington, Pitts
burg, Cleveland, Chicago, st. Louis.
Louisville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis Co
lumbus, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Milwau-
kec, Kansas City, st. Paul. MINNEAPOLIS.
Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Toronto.
Providence, Springfield Mass }, Scranton
Wilkesbarre, Paterson, Jersey CITY Now.
ark, Hartford, New Haven, Wilmington
Hazloton, Reading, Lancaster, York. Car.
bondale, Easton, Bangor, Lewiston, An.
gusta (Me.), Portland (Mc), Brockton.
Now Bedford, Fall River, Pawtuckct
Fort Wayne, Toledo, Youngstown, New
Castle, Washington (Pa.), Wheeling ST
Joseph, Des Moinos, Burlington, Cedar
Rapids, Rockford, Quincy, Dubuque, New
Orleans, Mobile, Littlo Rock, Nashville.
Memphis, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Evans
vile, Lynchburg, Norfolk, Petersburg.
Portsmouth, Richmond, Roanoke, Dallas
Fort WORTH Galveston, Houston, San An
sonio and Sherman.
These SO cities are united in ono great
national baseball system, governed by one
supreme body OF five persons, called the
national board Of arbitration, directed by