The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-11
Army of Leagues Ready to Move
on South.
Nearly All Teams to Train in
Southern Towns.
WESTERN MEN REPORT
March % Is Date Fixed by the
Managers.
Playing Season Will Open in
April.

Within the next four weeks the adj
vance of the northern baseball army
will be made upon the south. That
is the region where the professional
major league ball tossers prepare
themselves for the strenuous season
of active participation in the game.
A few of the clubs will send their
young players to training camps dur
ing the present month, but the more
experienced men will not leave until
March. The south and southwest evil
IDENTIFY appear to be in the managers
favor as suitable training quarters.
especially Hot Springs, Ark, where
players may be benefited by the baths.
There four of the big league playing
machines will be overhauled, so that
their wheels will revolve in the right
fashion before the start of the open
ing championship season is MADE
Texas and Georgia are also in favor,
with Louisiana, Virginia and North
Carolina trailing behind.
The clubs which will hold forth at
the famous southern pleasure resort
will be the Brooklyn Superbas, Pitts
burg Nationals, Cincinnati Reds and
the Boston Americans. The Superbas
will report there about March 1, the
worlds champions March 10, the
Reds March and the Red Sox March
l. The branch of the main baseball
artery will extend as far south as
Marlin Springs, Tex. where the
Giants will prepare. The entire team
is expected to be assembled there not
later than March 1. The Detroit I'll
gers will be in the neighborhood,
training at San Antonio, as will the
st. Louis Browns. who will train at
Houston. Both teams are scheduled
TO report there about the same time
as the New York team. The Chicago
Cubs will work at New Orleans and
the Cleveland American leaguers at
Alexandria, La. They are requested
to report by March Z.
The teams which will attract the
attention of Georgia baseball fans
will be the Yankees, the Boston Ma
tionals and the Philadelphia Athletics.
The Hilltopers will pitch tents at Ath-
ems. the BeaneaterS at Augusta and
the Philadelphia American leaguers at
Atlanta. They will report for duty
about March 1. The Phillies will
train at Southern Pines, S. c.; the st.
Louis Cardinals at Little Rock, Ark.
and the Washington American league
club at Norfolk. Va.
In the Local League.
In the Western league most of the
managers have ordered their men to
report by March rs. The season will
not open until in April. This will give
time for the players to work a little of
the stiffness from their joints, get the
soreness out of their arms and "loosen
up in anticipation of the coming con-
dict
The local players are all expected to
be here March %. There may be one
or two who will not be here until late
IN the training period, but most of the
men will be on hand early. A game is
scheduled for March 26. An effort will
be made to play Saturday and Sunday
games until the season opens, but
other than this Manager Cooley is not
at all anxious to play. He regards
the workouts as more beneficial to the
men than games, although a few con-
tests are necessary to develop team
work and give the players confidence.
But the exhibition game is an institu-
ton calculated mostly to satisfy the
longing for game which the fan feels
after an enforced layoff Of four or five
months from watching his favorite
pastime.
The game with st. Louis is still "up
in the air" Word was received some
time ago that the game would be
played either here or in Muskogee, and