The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-15

oertdln misguided persons inconsiderata enough to balk on this story-but if ball player told 1t why of course if must be true ~ -A-NS-
 Armour's Cleveland team reports in t MeW orleans tonight, and speaking of professional baseball season in this citv VIII be opened upon the arrival next sunday night of the Cleveland "A. L5 ctuD' cup |ho are due for a three weeks campaign. While here the Blue Birds will play seven exhibition games win the Pelicans The balance of the time "itL be devoted solely to hard training.
 l!ajoie will be in charge of the club, with ttne following players: Jess Bernhard, Moore Wright. Stovall and Hickey, pitch CTS; Bemis and Abbott, catchers; lick Bradley. third base; Gochmauer. short stop; Thoney. utility infelder; Mccarthy. Bay Flick and Weed outfielders
 captain Lajoie. who has just recovered rom an attack of pneumonia, will not do much hard work in the matter of train ing put will devote his time to coach Ing the club and giving his attention to the young blood of the team. Nearly all or the players, with the exception of some of the pitchers, Catcher Abbott ana Outhelder Weed. have been with the Cleveland team for some time. and are up to the American League standard or players, SO Manager Armour and Cap tain lIajoies task will be comparatiyeiv easy to the one of last spring, when tho great majority of the players were try ing Tor major league positions.
 IL IS likely that the hours of training for the Cleveland club will be from ii a.; m to p. m. daily, except when ex4 N hloiuon games are to be played Last spring the Clevelands pracficed twice a gay, from g to Il in the forenoon, and ron 10 in the afternoon. By ex- MAnaRPr that this method of training, instead of proving benefit, acted just the con trary, as was demonstrated as soon as tho American League season opened when the cluo rapidly found its way to the end of the percentage column. Both Ar mour and IaJoie have concluded that last years mode of training would not do, ana nave changed It accordingly.
 Considerable of the time given to train ing will be devoted to the hit and run part of the game, the bunt sacrifice and team work. As the Pelicans are to do their training at the same park prior to the Clevelands taking the field, after the Pelicans finish their practicing they will be allowed to watch the big Ieaguers at work, thereby giving them a good chance to learn all the fine points of the game
 On the same train will be six Pelicans all young blood, who make their debut in the baseball world in this city. They are. Pitchers Smith, Haslem. Barr: Catcher Barr, brother of the pitcher; Third
 odSCAldll ollSSldn ana OuIlelQer Hutch croft, all being residents of Cleveland.
 The American League team that Ban Johnson is going to put in New York will report in Atlanta where they do their spring training.
 This is the club that Ban Johnson. President of the American League, has had in mind for a couple of years 10 invade tho metropolis to give the Ma uonal League its death blow. After nearly a years talk, the club that was Johnsons hobby will be found in New York this summer. All manner of ob structions were placed in JQhnson's way. but he surmounted them all, with the aid of Timothy Dry Dollar" Sullivan, the Tammany leader, And James C. Ken nedy, the Well known sporting man of that city,
 To revive the interest in baseball which has been dormant for some time in Goth- am 1t was necessary for the American League to provide a club which would prove as good a drawing card as the Giants of the old days. who won two pen nants in the National League. With this | object in view President Johnson at once started to work with the aid of Clarke | Griffith, former manager of the Chicago l American League Club to get club that | would be second to none in the American | League and the superior of the one that l