New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
G[ANTSO OFF WEDNESDAY
TO TRAIN IN TEXAS.
TEXAS.
Some of the Recruits Who WM
Begin York Early.
1urs EVANS.

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The new men whom The New York National
League Baseball Club will try 10 develop into
real Giants will leave here Oil Wednesday for Mar
lin Springs, Tex the training camp this spring
John J. McGraw. the manager of the team. who
hes been nioyfng a vacation Los Angeles, will
join his there and take up the work of build
ing a championship feam for New fork McGraw,
like most managers is constantly on the alert
to find material has picked up some proms-
ing youngsters this season. of whom much is ex-
pected.
He will try something new this year in the way
of ante-season training. Instead Of the recruits
and regulars beginning the preliminary work to-
gether. the will get two weeks start.
On February 20 McGraw and seven of the most
promising youngsters will start the ball rolling at
Marlin Springs The regulars will not get into
action until the second week In March. So the be-
gnners will have two weeks by themselves. The
little manager thinks this plan will work well.
In the first place. they will have the managers
undivided attention Then they will all be in the
beginners class there will be petty ieaouses.
which often crop out VIXEN the regulars and the
recruits start working together. Another
that the youngsters will have occasion to
oyerdo themselves in effort to show their ability
30 the veterans. Many good youngster has in
jured his in the spring practice and been of
further for the rest of the season Just be-
cause he anxious keep up with the pace
by OF the hardened and experienced vet
GIANTS SHOULD BE STRONG.
There should be strong team at the Poio
Grounds this season, for it is believed that with
the various trades made this winter the internal
strife among the Giants is at an end and that the
men will go along without friction The regular
roll the Giants will include such tried veterans
as Shannon, Tenney. Seymour. Donn. Devlin
Bresnahan, Mathewson. McCilnnity. Taylor. Ames
StraHg and several others But if the youngsters
! make good the Southern trip there will be
Z f,.a he ro,o into
the Polo Grounds for the first game in the middle
April.
Merkle at this time the star of the
/ McCraw thinks that he will make baseball his
tory this season the next. He hardly be
called a man. for he played fifteen games with
the Giants the tail end of the 1907 season. He
{. is only twenty years old, but is already strap
ping big fellow, with ideal build for first
bsseman, which position he filled last year He
came TO the Giants from Tecumseh, where he
played in the Southern Michigan League. taking
part in LOG games, making batting record of .271
and q fielding record Of .967 He got thirty stolen
bases and ten sacrifice hits. In his fifteen games
with the Giants he had batting average OF 30
and fielding average of .sis McGraw says he is
OF the greatest natural ball players he
saw. and that with little experience he will be
able to I'll nearly any position on team except
pitcher There is possibility that he may make
a second basemaD of him. Merkle is up the
! lines of Latoie the greatest of second saekers
/ FOOTBALL PLAYER A RECRUIT
James. the recruit. is a graduate Of Wash
ington and Jefferson College. where he played
guard on the football team and captain
catcher on the baseball nine. He is about twenty
four years old, six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds
His work behind the bat and with bat while
! in college was phenomenal Although heavy
weight. he is fast on the bases and HIT like
a demon McGraw thinks he can find plenty of use
| Tor James now that Frank Bowerman is d Bean
eater. He is left-hander
| South with the cubs. The New York National
Baseball Club bought him from the Springfield
ull) team for -, 800 at the middle OF the He
played at second base with the Giants in sixty
nine games last season and had a fielding average
! OF s1 and batting average OF go His work
toward the end of the season was handicapped by
an injury Doyle is about the same height
Billy Gilbert. the old second baseman
/ From the Fsirmont tW. Va) team of the West
/ ern Pennsylvania League comes Evans a first base
I man The Fairmont team. the pennant in its
| league. Evans was picked up by Dan Brouthers.
the Giants scout He made great record
season heavy huter. There will be little
chance for Evans at first base. however with
Tenny and Merkle his opponents McGraw will
work him out with the idea of making substitute
I fielder OF him because of his ability with the bat.
Another Pennsylvania who will go South with
McGraw is Farley. member OF the Franklin
| team of the Interstate League who finished the
season with batting average of and a fielding
average o. 81. an outfielder EarIey's
work the bases last season WAS Darficulary
good.
TWO BIG PITCHERS
! Two of the Observation-Disclosures of
the Sharon team ot the Ohio and Pennsylvania
League, and Mckinney. Il native of Oyster Bay,
Long Island. Both are big men. Malarkey pitched
/ In thirtyseve games last season won eighteen
OF them. This Is a good record when il is taken
into consideration that the Sharon team won only
ffty-hve games out OIL 139 He finished the season
with fielding average of 9s,. Mckinney has the
build OF Amos Rusie and the speed of q cyclone
He has been playing semi professional ball on
Long Island for several years, and has an ex-
ceptionally good record. Con DAILY the old catcher
has him work and cannot say toe much about
the young giant.
O'Brien. outfelder last year on the Washing
ton team Of the Pennsylvan Ohio MARYLAND
League, will be tried by McGraw az Marlin
Springs week He a youngster outck an
the bases, covers lots OF ground in the outled and
stood well up in the batting list last season.
OF the three from the Boston National
team little Deed be said. Tenney has been pIavine
professional baseball since 1892. He is a graduate
OF Brown University. When he first Joined the
Boston team he was used behind the bat but he
was soon transferred first base and has piayed
that position ever since. He played In lag games
last year, and had batting percentage of g73
and his fielding average 9s9. Tenney knows
the game from A TO L.
Bridweii. the shortstop, is expected bv NJ
Grdw 10 be one of the stars OF the team He led
the shortstops of the National League last season
with fielding average of .9i2, and had seventeen