Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-23
LONG SPRING TRIP
FOR M'CRAWS TEAM
Giants Have Twenty-Three
Games Scheduled for Train.
ing Season. /

NEW YORK. December 2s.-If th3
Giants do not arrive at the Polo Grounda
in perfect condition when the season
opens next spring It will be no fault q
the engagement, which has just com.
pleted arrangements for one OF the most
extensive schedules OF preliminary games
ever played by the seam in the south.
William Il. Gray, secretary Of the club.
announced yesterday q series OF twenty
three games with southern teams so fixed
as to bring the team TO top form as soon
as the season opens. The promising young
recruits will receive an opportunity ia
show what is in them, while the veterans
Will be able to work up to their strides
ready to clean things up in the league
right off the reel
The whole squad, young and old. will
report for practice at Marlin Springs
Tex, Sunday. February H. nfty-two days
before the season opens. After a work
out of two weeks under the direction OF
McGraw two teams will be picked and
sent around TO pay some OF the Texas
teams Saturdays and Sundays. Two
games a day will he played. Waco and
Dallas will be the first mines met. = couple
of games being scheduled March and =.
week later, March IL and l., Dallas
and Fort Worth are slated. A longer
jump will be taken March Is and 10.
played. On the following Saturday and
Sunday. March % and &c. Dallas and
Forth Worth again appear as trial horses.
This will mark the wind-up of the pre-
liminary practice at Mar in Springs. and
the trip toward the north Will start.
March - a third team, the first to break
away from the camp. will be picked from
the squad, and will meet the Shreveport.
La, team. For the next two weeks games
are scheduled i'm rapid succession, the
men in the meantime working their way
northward. All three mines will gather
for the game with Birmingham. Ala.
March 2S. From there the squad will
proceed to Atlanta for a four game series
March %, 30, 81 and April l.
Turning their faces northward, the
Giants will meet the Greensboro. N. c..
team April 3: the Norfolk. Va, nine
April 4. and Richmond. Va. April and
by this time Murphy will have the Polo
Grounds in such good condition that the
team will arrive in New York April 8 for
its annual game with Yale on the home
diamond Sunday, April q. the team will
skip across the river to meet Jersey City.
which will play a return game at the
Polo Grounds April 10. This will bring
them up to the opening of the season.
leaving a days rest before the real work
begins April l..
McGraw is still in New York. and in
tends to pass the holidays here. After
the first Of the year he will hasten south
ward to see how we'll Murphy has got
along with the diamond at Marlin
Springs. which the club now owns. Tho
New York manager will spy out the land
and get everything in readiness for the
reception of the early birds.
Contracts have been coming i'm rapidly
from old and new players. and at present
only a few men have not signed up.
Larry Doyle, Red Murray and nAd-
mirap' Schlei are among those who Nave
not affixed their signatures to the tie
that binds. The two first nampd are In
New York. and Mr. Gray expects to have
them drop into the office any day and
settle matters. as both have agreed TO
the terms offered.
Leon Ames came on from Warren.
Ohio, where he is spending the winter
with relatives, yesterday. and signed up
for another year. He only stayed about
an hour I'm the city, just long enough 90
drop in at the headquarters of the club.
Ames was bothered by sore arm. and
had hard luck for the greater part OF last
season. He reported that his arm had
now come around in fine condition. and
he was feeling excellent His case was
similar to that of George Wiltse. who was
hit twice on the pitching arm and had
the lgamentS of one of his fingers torn
while playing last summer. Word was
received recently from Wiltse that the in
jury was not permanent, and that he had
completely recovered. T7-.