The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-02-18

LeagueINIen
In Training
Getting Ready For
Summers Work

NEW YORK, Feb. IS. = Down at
Marlin Springs, Tex, to-day the anal
preparations are being made for the
reception of the minor league recruits
of the New York Giants. the nrst of
the major league teams to begin the
annual spring migration to the sunny
southland. BY the last OF this week
1t is expected that all of McGfaws
new men will be warming up. prepar
atory to strenuous try-out It blHing
the ball, base running. fielding ana
battery work The old timers among
the Giants will not arrive at the'ctInps
ing grounds until about ten dayslaters
A few weeks more win hnd practi
cally all of the major league players
and aspirants quartered in various
cities and towns OF the south, from
Savannah to Los Angeles.
OF the 400 or more players that win
be taken to the various traihinR
camps scattered below Mason and
Dixon's line. probably eighty OF 100
will be practically disposed of by the
time the bell rings on April H. Some
Will go to pay ground rent for the use
of the training camps. while many win
either be turned back to the teams
they played with last season or be re-
leased to some club. which has a man
Iager capable Of developing the players
in question SO that they VIII beSripe
for the big leagues in another year.
All but one Of the major league
clubs will train in the southland The
one exception Is the Chicago American
league club, which win get in its.pre
liminary stunts in California and
which will later hit the south for M.
merous exhibition games.
OF the National League teams, Chi
cago will train at West Baden and
vicksburg. New York in Texas st.
Louis in Houston. Pfttsburg at Hot
Springs. Cincinnati at St Augustine.
Fla. philadelphia in Savannah, Brook
lyn in Jacksonville and Boston at
Augusta, Ga.
The American League players viii
be divided as follows: New York ia
Atlanta, Cleveland at Macon. Ga and
New Orleans, Chicago in Los Angeles
Detroit in Hot Springs and Little
Rock, Philadelphia in New Orleans.
ST. Louis In Shreveport. La. Washing
ton in Galveston and Boston IN Little
Rock.
The last days Of February hasbeen
fixed for the gateway of the Athletics,
Connie Mack taking them to New OR
leans for a stay of three weeks, after
which they will contest the usual
spring series with the Phi1lies.
The Cleveland batteries viii leave
for Macon on the same day that Con
ME Mack will send his gang to the
Crescent City, They viii start work
on Monday. March 2.
The first three days In March WIN
witness the departure of several clubs
for Dixie. The two st. Louis club
will leave on March 8, the Browns
for Shreveport and the Cardinals for
Houston, Tex. the Browns pitchers
having already secured preliminary
training at French Lick springg. Joe
cantillon will have his Washington
club assemble at Chicago on March
2. preparatory to leaving for Calves
ton. while the White Sox VIII leave
one day later on their long trip 70 san
Francisco and Los Angeles.
The Chicago Cubs go down to West
Baden on March 4. and after stay
ing there for ten days loosening up
depart for vlcksburg for weeks
stay. after which they win gosbaTn
storming the southland. eventually