The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-23
ORIOLES HERE TWO WEEKS.
TEAM Is CAPTAINED ny ROBINSON.
MANAGED by SCR APPY INGRAM.

Twenty Men VIII Come to savannah.
Fifteen Arrived Last Night and
Five others Expected To-day.
Practice VIII Start at Once-Ex-
Within a Few Davs-OriOles VIII
BE Here Until April S-Series of
Six Games to Re Played with the
BrOOkIyns Before the Team starts
for the North.
The Baltimore base ball club, headed by
"scrappy" John McGraw and fringed with
correspondents of the Baltimore papers,
reached the city on the
Merchants and Miners liner
Itasca last night and is quartered
at the Pulaski Fifteen members of the
team came down with McGraw and five
others are expected 10 arrive this morn
ing. This win put twenty crack players
in the field from which two teams Cor
the practice and exhibition games can be
readily secured. The newspaper CORES
pondents who accompany the Orioles are
Mr. J. II. Anderson of the Herald, Sam
uel C. Appleby OF the Sun, and Joseph
Cummings of the News. Mr.. Cummings
will also write the letters for the Ameri-
can.
Manager McGraw expects to start the
practice work this afternoon. when the
men will be taken out to the grounds and
given a chance to take the kinks out of
their muscles and get themselves in shape
for the hard games of the league season.
Most of them need 1t, as there are not
half a dozen of the players who have done
any training or made efforts 10 get them
selves in condition since the close Of last
season. The exceptions are McGraw, Rob
inson and two or three others, who have
been training and doing preliminary work
in the cage of the Johns Hopkins gym
nasium.
Within four or five days, IL the men get
down to the work in good shape, the eX-
hibitiOn games will begin and will be con-
tinued at as close intervals as are war
ranted by the attendance. If the crowds
turn out the games will be comparatively
many; if it is necessary to play to empty
benches, they villa be comparatively few
The team will be here for practice untif
April s, when it will start on the return
trip North. Between now and the time
Of the teams START for home, il will play
six games with Brooklyn, three in this
city and three in Augusta. where the
Brooklyns will do their spring training.
The dates of these games and the point
at which the series win begin have not
been definitely determined, but that they
will take place is an assured fact
This season the Orioles win be captain
ed by Robinson. who viii probably do
most of the catching, when he plays.
When Robinson does not play the team
will be captained by Manager McGraw.
Besides Robinson, the Orioles have Smith
and Ryan, both good men, to do the work
behind the bat. The pitchers are Nops,
Kitson, Miller. Howell McGinnity, Nc
Kenna and MacFarlane. Kitson seems to
be the man who is expected this year to
make the best showing In the box. He
is a young player, but heady, and with
good control of the ball. His friends say
that Cast season. he was prevented from
playing the game of which he is capable
by an attack of malaria, which lasted him
through the summer. This season great
things are expected of him by the Balti-
more fans.
The infield will consist of LaChance,
OBrlen, Magoon and McGraw, regularly,
with Keister, Mccarthy and Smith filling
the place of any one of them who is sick
Holmes, Brodie and sheckard, the
last of whom Is another of
the bright and shining light in the
Orioles base bail armament. With the
players who have been named and others
who will be given a chance to show what
is in them, Manager McGraw expects 10
put a team in the race for the penant, that
will make the winner hustle for that COW
eted honor.