The Washington times., 1904-03-06
Baseball Players off
For Training Ground
Champion Boston Americans Depart From
Washington for Georgia-Harfs Expensive
Trip--Senators Report April l.

State League star: Moren son Of a mil
lionaire coal man of Pittsburg, and
Pfeister. a left-hander from the Paci-
nc Coast
In catchers one change has been made.
| Carisch. a last years test. has been
kept in place of Weaver. the tall Kan
sas boy. who was offered to Chicago and
refused. The other catchers are Phelps
and Smith.
The infieId is all there as Of yore. and
when June comes around brilliant col
legian Will Join the team. Has name IL
Standard. He will do" the club Of
fcials say. No change IS to be made
! IN the outheld. 1t is as fine as ever,
and no one can gainsay this assertion
for Beaumont. Clarke. and Sebring are
there.
Manager McGraw. of the New York
Giants. will assemble his team at Sa-
vannah. Ca, March IA. where a week
VIII be spent and the men will play I'm
several Southern cities beginning the
exhibition contests at Little Rock. Ark.
March 80. The New York roster fol-
lows: Catchers. Bresnahan, Warner
and Bowerman; pitchers. Matthewson.
McGinnity. Taylor. Ames. wiltse. Mill
gan; Nops. and Minnehan; first base
Mccain; second base. Gilbert: third
| base. Lauder; shortstop Dahlen; right
heid. Browne; center field. Mertes; sub
sututes. Dunn and Devlin.
Cincinnatis Reds will leave March Il
for Dallas, Tex. where the club will be
split into two sections to play Dallas ana
Fort Worth teams. Returning from the
South the team Will play home exhibit
ton games with the Detroit American
Leaguers. Joe Kelley will be the man
ager as last year. and the team will be
composed OF the following candidates:
Pitchers. Hahn. SutthoN, Ewing. Har-
per. hellum. Walker. Elliott and Ra-
gan; catchers. Peitz. Schlei and O'NeiI;
infielders, Kelly. Hug gins. SteinfeIdt.
Corcoran and De Almond; outIielders
Donlin. Seymour, Dolan, Kerwin ana
Odwell
BeaneateTs Look Bad.
Boston Nationals will have some new
faces this season. The team will report
at Washington on March 10 for the trip
to Savannah, Ca. where it will stay un-
I'll March 81 and work through Ala
bama. Indiana and Ohio for exhibition
games The old men in some cases have
not been signed. Tenney. Willis, Pittin-
ger and Abbatcchio are held on hold
over contracts. Cooley. Carney and Mo-
ran are said to be holding out for more
salary.
With the exception OF Captain Tenney
at first base the entire infield will be
rev. Delehanty. from the Southern
League, will play third base, and nego-
tiations for Joe Bean, of Jersey City.
are about complete. Bean will play
shortstop. II IS not likely Abbaticchio
Will play second, as Billings got In
fielder Rayner from Columbus for this
purpose.
In the outfeld Boston Will rely on
Cooley and Carney. and most likely
Geier. the old Philadelphian. whose
terms are about settled. Catcher Moran
is not yet in the fold, but Boston is re-
lying on Needham. Of Altoona. TO do his
share Of the backstoppIng. Malarkey
will not be with Boston this year. bur
In Breslin and Fisher. Billings thinks
he has two good box artists for his
string
The Philadelphia National League
team VIII train in Savannah. Ga, where
the boys are scheduled to arrive March
To- Three weeks will be put IN on the
spring training trip The probal,la
makeup Of the pitching stafr will he
SPARKS, Dugglesby. Fraser, Lush. BrecI<-
mirage, and Mitchell. Roth Doom. and
tahrshdll are the catchers 10 be taken
South BIZ Douglass doubtless will play
hrst base. Gleason or Hall second. HuIs-
witt short, and Wolverton third Lase
thomas. Titus. Barry. and Fleming are
the outielders
Cardinals to Texas.
The st. Louis Cardinals are TO train
al Houston, Texas. The probable ma ko-
20 FOR this year is: Catchers. Mclean.
o. Chicago: Sta EagIe, OF Colorado
Springs; Grady, OF Kansas City; Gear
fuss. of Kansas City. and Byers. OF los
angeles; pitchers. Nichols. Jack TavJor
Corbett, Mcfarland. NJ O'Neiu. and
bowling. OF Butte; first base. Becklev.
second base, Farrell or Donohue or
Butte; third base. Burke or Murch. of
Lawrence; shortstOp. Brain or SHAY. OF
san Francisco; Outhelders Barclay
Smoot, and Shannon, Of St Paul
brooklyn's team will 90 10 Columbia.
& c. for spring training about March
20. and Manager HanlOn expects won
ders from his bunch The backstons
VIII be Bermen, Ritter. and JackIitscn.
lnrre are six pitchers Garvin. ZONES
heidy, Poole. Thatcher, and Crontn
and they do not look strong on paDer
Dillon viii play first base while DOYLE
and Jordan will struggle for second
bdS@. Mccormick Batsch and StranR
VIII night for third bare and if Rab6
comes TO the fold he viii play shortstor,
Shsckard. Dobbs. Van Buren,. Lumley, !