The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-06

Yorks TO Jacksonville, and the rest will
follow before st. Patrick's day.
This training In the southern climate
has become q fad with National league
clubs. 1t Ia liable to become fixed GUS
tom. Tho benefits OF team training In
warm climate last year and In the spring
of 1894 have been fully recognized. These
trips are expensive, but no club can afford
TO put its team at disadvantage In the
opening Of the season by staying at 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 throe weeks of the season, while
the stars were wearing of their stiffness.
Now the opening games are played with
oil the dash and brilliancy Of midseason.
A 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 1t created kind Of rage for further
experimenting.
Among the most successful debutants
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-
more, Anderson and Burrell of Brooklyn,
Friend and Thornton Of Chicago, and
Cooley Of St. Louis. This year New York
and Louisville will lead all other clubs In
the number of experiments. The New
York club will take south IA new players,
mostly young men who made encouraging
records in tho minor leagues last year.
Louisville will send the same number to
the clubs training ground, at Montgom-
cry, Ala. The other clubs will deal more
sparingly with recruits; Baltimore has
two--Donnelly and Gray Boston three
Bergen, Yorick and Mains; Brooklyn
four-Jones, Smith, Harper and Payne;
Chicago thrce-Flynn, Mcbride and
Dolan; Cincinnati four-Phillips, Davis,
Kennedy and Phillips; Cleveland four
Schieble, Delehenty, Shearon and O Meara;
Philadelphia four - Berryhill, Hulen,
White and Madison; Pittsburg flve-How-
ett, Snyder, Moran, Hastings and Moran;
St. Louis two-Hart and Mcfarland, and
Washington four--Demont, Lush, Rogers
and Macauloy Some of these will pass
muster, but 40 per cent will be found light
weight before the pennant race begins.
The present great organized system Of
professional baseball Is n graded school,
in which q player with abilities cannot
fail to become star and laud in tho
major League. The minor leagues, under
the new national agreement, just adopted,
are arranged in six classes, from IA"
down to "F," according to the total popu-
lation of the cities In each circuit. Clubs
of q certain class may draft players from
any lower GLASS at the end Of each season,
and the National league, which stands
alone at the head, can draft from any
minor league. Thus young player who
shows ability will surely be called higher
year by year, and II he continues to de-
velop will, In few seasons, ''enter col
loge," or be drafted into the 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 reach this ma
tional agreement organization hasi This
year the cities whore national agreement
professional clubs are located arc as fol-
lows: Boston, Brooklyn, New York, Phil
adelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Pitts
burg, Cleveland, Chicago, st. Louis
Louisville, Cincinnati, indianapolis, Co
Iumbus, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Milwau-
kee, Kansas City, st. Paul, Minneapolis
Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Toronto,
Providence, Springfield (Mass.), Scranton,
Wilkcsbarrc, Paterson, Jersey City, New
ark, Hartford, New Haven, Wilmington,
Hazleton, Reading Lancaster, York, Car
bondale, Easton, Bangor, Lewiston, Au-
gusta (Mo), Portland (Me), Brockton,
New Bedford, Fall River, Pawtucket,
Fort Wayne, Toledo, Youngstown, New
Castle Washington (Pa.), Wheeling, Sc.
Joseph, Des Moincs, burlington, Cedar
Rapids, Rockford, Quincy, Dubuque, New
Orleans, Mobile, Little Rock, Nashville,
Memphis, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Evans
Vile. Lynohburg. Norfolk, Petersburg,
Portsmouth, Richmond, Roanoke. Da'las,
Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston, San An
tonic and Sherman.
These SO cities are united In ono grcnt
national baseball system, governed by one
supreme body Of five persons, called the
national board OF arbitration. directed hv
the same playing rules and contsnding LOT
ten separate championships. Outside OF
the great circlc arc hundreds Of semipro-
fesslcnal clubs and Thousands OF amateur
organizations, all getting ready for tho
fast approaching season. Ono who does
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