The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-06
B|G LEAGUE TEAMS
 ARE IN THE SOUTH
Four Teams Are in Training at
 Hot Springs, Ark.
ANOTHER AMOS RUSIE
Giants Bids Fair 10 He Great Ptchcr-ScOtland VIII Send
 Over Football Players
By MANHATTAN

By MANHATTAN
 New York March 5-(Speeial. )-Ere an other week has sped the major league teams will have settled down to practice in their respective training camps and the opening gun of the baseball season of 1910 will have been fired. Four teams will train at Hot Springs as the Pitts burg Pirates have demonstrated that Hot Springs is a mighty fine place to get into condition. Hot Springs is the only point where more than one team will gather. In the National league the Cubs will train at New Orleans. the Giants at Mar lin Springs Philadelphia at Southern Pines, N. C.; St. Louis at Little Rock and Boston at Augusta, Ga
 George Daley. the young pitcher from Springfield who is at Marlin Springs with the Giants getting conditioned. has been dubbed Amos Rusie the Second g Daley has a wing that shoots in a ball like bullet He usually throws a straight ball, but it speeds so swiftly that the batter has a hard time seeing it. 1 While we have a 154-game schedule this year take it from me that it will be longer next year. The National mag mates were forced into the short schedule by President Byron Bancroft Johnson of the American league. Next year 1t will be different. The season opens April 14 and closes october b.
 And now that the final plans have been made and we are standing upon the threshold of the season, it is pertinent to inquire for an interpretation of the resolution adopted by the National League association which prohibits syndicate baseball in dual ownership where one club owns CT controls another club in the same league. Does this prevent one man from owning 49 per cent of the stock of one team and 51 per cent in an- other or from having stock in every club? That perhaps, is a question for judicial interpretation, but 1 am sure do not know what was in the minds of the formulators of that pretty clause.
 Martin Sheridan is not out of athletics, all reports to the contrary notwithstand- ing. Sheridan is an all-round champion and holder of many worlds records, but | he will not compete in the future in competitions of minor importance He will take part In international compe- titions and in the Olympiads, but he will not spend his time and energy in side contests, where nothing can be gained. talked with the big fellow recently and he ssid
 'I have been competing for 10 years and I have got tired of running and jumping and hurling weights. I'm a pretty heavy man and it Is hard to keep in condition. l am not out altogether but I will be before many years have passed. I am like Jim Jeffries and I am quitting temporarily for the same req son he did" ---.+--.
 A twenty-mile race, reduced from the Marathon size of 26 miles and some yards, will be held at Madison Square Garden on March 14 and Harry Pollok and Pat Powers have been moving heaven and earth to get Nat Csrtmell. the former University of Pennsylvania sprinter to | take part in several eurtain-ra isng sprints Lawson Robertson sgnified his intention of meeting Cartnel, but Kat held back for a slO1D side bet Cartmell returned from England not long ago, where he did some marvellous work. In fact the English sporting papers are still talking about him.
 Scotland will send a team of Celtic football players to America in 1911 to give Us some points on how the game should be played. William Maley. secre- tary and manager of the Celtic Football club of Glasgow has returned home after an unsuccessful effort to arrange for a series of games here this year, but he is | carrying assurances that his team will be dated up in 1911.
 The Celtic Football club is composed of professionals who are capable of fur nishing the finest sort of football. As such they will require a guarantee of not less than 5000. Leaving the universi- ties out of consideration for the present it is calculated that 5000 of this sum will be found in Manhattan and Brook lyn for two fixtures here and the bal ance in Newark, Philadelphia and Bos- ton. However, a western and southern tour would likely be arranged.
 Arriving here on May the visitors would expect to return before the end of the month.
 Reports from the north bear sad news about our old marathoning friend Tom Longboat It has been a noticeable fes- ture that races in which Longboat ran occasioned heavy betting. Now the word comes from Toronto. Canada. that the Indian will be barred from long distance races in the future by reason of the nu- merous crooked events in which he has taken part.
 For the first time a Jap will get in semi-fast baseball company this year when Nobyno Masuda, sophomore. 1t Harvard. dons a uniform and takes his place In the garden His position has not yet been selected definitely, but he has made sufficiently good in practice to warrant him a place on the squad.
 The Japanese are showing a preference for the national game and the University of TolIio has team that can play a pretty good game. An American college team invaded Japan last year and had a hard fight for even honors
 Nohyno is an ardent fan. He is slight of statue but quick and muscular and too light to make the football squad. His keenest delight is in baseball and he hopes some day if he doesn't become a lawyer or a statesman to get into the National league. When it comes down to foreign blood among baseball players we do not find much of it. A few Indians have made good, but the game was so unpopular at Carlisle that 1t has been Cropped. A number of German-Ameri- cans are found in the ranks, but when we find star we find a man of good old Yankee stock.
 We are standing so near to the open ing of the baseball season that interest i. is lax in the approaching meeting of the football doctors who will convene here this month. I think 1t is pretty def nitely known what will be done
 About the busiest of the intercollegiate . physicians is Coach Alonzo Stagg of the University of Chicago. He has been hop ping from university to university. over