The daily sentinel., 1908-02-18
Getting
In Shape
FOR SEASON
Interesting Notes as to the
Movements Of the Great
Ball Teams---The Training
Camps and their Manage
ment.

New York. Feb. 1S.-Down at
| Marlin Springs, Tex, today the final
preparations are being made for the
reception of the minor league re-
cruits of the New York Giants, the
first of the major league teams to
begin the annual spring migration
to the sunny Southland. BY the last
of this week it is expected that all
of McGraw's new men will be warm
ing up, preparatory to a strenuous
try-out at biting the ball, baserun-
ming, fielding and battery work. The
old timers among the Giants will not
arrive at the camping grounds until
about ten days later.
few weeks more will find 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
will be taken to the various training g
camps scattered below Mason and
Dixon's line, probably eighty or 100
will be practically disposed of by the
time the bell rings on April IA. Some
will go to pay ground rent for the
use of the training camps, while
many will either be turned back to
the teams they played with last sea-
son or be released to some club,
which has manager capable of de-
veloping the players in question so
that they will be ripe 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 Ameri-
can league club which will get in its
preliminary stunts in California. and
which will later hit the South for
numerous exhibition games.
Of the National League teams,
Chicago will train at West Baden
and Vicksburg. New York in Texas
st. Louis in Houston, Pittsburg at
Hot Springs, Cincinnati at ST. Aug
ustine, Fla. Philadelphia in Savan-
nah, Brooklyn in Jacksonville and
Boston at Augusta. Ga.
The American League players will
be divided as follows: New York in
Atlanta, Cleveland at Macon, Ga,
and New Orleans, Chicago in Los
Angeles, Detroit in Hot Springs and
Little Rock. Philadelphia in New Or
leans, st. Louis in Shreveport, La.
Washington in Galveston and Boston
in Little Rock.
The last days of February has been
fixed for the getaway of the Ath-
letics, Connie Mack taking them to
New Orleans for a stay of three
weeks, after which they will contest
the usual spring series with the
Phillies.
The Cleveland batteries will leave
for Macon on the same day that Con-
Crescent City. They will start work
on Monday March 9
The first three days in March will
witness the departure of several
clubs for Dixie. The two st. Louis
clubs will leave on March 8, the
Browns for Shreveport and the Card
inals for Houston, Tex, the Browns
pitchers having already secured pre-
liminary training at French Lick
Springs. Joe Cantillon will have his
Washington club assemble at Chicago
on March 2, preparatory to leaving
for Galveston, while the White Sox
will leave only one day later on their
long trip to San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
The Chicago Cubs go down to West
Baden on March A, and after staying
there for ten days loosening up, de-
part for Vicksburg for a weeks stay,
after which they will go barnstorm-
ing the Southland, eventually split
ting up the two teams into two
squads.
About this time Clark Griffith will
take his men to Hot Springs for
boiling out of a week. Hugh Jent
nings will also take his Detroit
Tigers to the same place for a week
or two of gradual loosening up. The
Tigers real training stunt, however,
will be at Little Rock. The Boston
Red Sox will also be at Little Rock.
but the two clubs have arranged
their schedules so that they will not
conflict. The Bostons will start in
while the Tigers are at the Springs
and get away in time to give up the
field to the Champions.
Manager Lajoie will take his regu-
lars to Macon on March 7. Within
the next day or so after the last Nap
has hit the pike the Phillies will
leave for Savannah, the Reds for st.
Augustine and the Boston Nationals
for Augusta, Ga. The Brooklyns and
Pirates will be the last two clubs to
depart for the South, the Pirates 60
ing to Hot Springs. as usual, while
the Superbas will train at Jackson
Vile.