East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-02-11
NEW YORK GIANTS
MIGRATE SOUTHWARK
MGRAW'S STALWARTS
WILL START TRAINING
Great Aggregation OF Baseball Scin-
tIllants Journey TO Marlin, Texas,
10 Begin Spring Training VIII
Give Exhibitions on Return Trip.

New York, Feb. 11.-Several
youngsters on the reserve list of the
New York Giants are in town today,
preparatory to sailing southward to-
morrow on a steamer bound for New
Orleans. From the Crescent City the
players Will go to the training camp
OF the Giants at Marlin, Tex, where
they will have the honor of opening
the big league training season.
Next Friday another bunch OF Nc
Graw juveniles will leave st. Louis
for Marlin. the latter contingent in
cluding all those residing west Of the
Alleghenies.
The Giant veterans like the kidlets,
will go south in two parties. Some
of them will take the ocean route to
the training camp, while others will
congregate in st. Louis and go from
that city to Marlin by rail. The date
set for the departure of the second
band Of ocean voyagers is "Wednesday,
February 23, while the travellers by
land will hike out Of ST. Louis on Sun
day, February q. on Tuesday,
March l. all the members OF the squad
ought to be at the training camp.
The training plans for this year will
be about the same as last spring.
President Brush again having leased
the Dallas and Fort Worth grounds
for games on three Saturdays and
Sundays In March. The trip north
ward however, will be entirely diff
ferent from the tricks home of last
year and the year before. Instead OF
dividing up and beating it back in
two squads the Giants will all come
home together
The route home this year will be
through Louisiana, Alabama. Georgia,
South Carolina, Virginia and Mary
land. Last spring the team in ad-
vancing northward came through Ok
lahoma. Arkansas. Tennessee, Ken
tucky Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia,
Virginia and Maryland.
Baltimore. Richmond and Norfolk
are the only cites in which the Giants
played exhibition games last season
that are on this years schedule of
spring dates.
The start home from Texas will be
made after the games in Fort Worth
and Dallas on Sunday March 81. On
their return journey the first team
of the Giants will play nine games and
the second troupe three. Contests
are carded with clubs In the Texas,
Virginia and Eastern leagues, and
the Southern and Carolina sassocia-
tons.
1t looks as il the Giants would
make Marlin their spring home from
now on. Manager McGraw thinks the
Texas health resort the best training
camp he ever visited and says that
when the Giants started home from
that place in 1908 and 1909 they were
in splendid condition. Much OF the
beneficial effects of their stay in Tex
ms last year were lost on the road
north because the team ran into bad
weather and the players had to loaf
about the hotels. 1t was on account
of this fact that Manager McGraw
decided to cut down the number of
exhibition games to be played on the
homeward jaunt this year and to route
the club through a section of the
country which is not likely to be in
the rain belt most of the time.
As far as he possibly can Manager
McGraw will oblige the requests Of the
fans of the various cities the team is
to visit to pitct certain men Com
municatons already have been rcco.v-
ed from enthus asts OF Shreveport
asking that Iron Man Kawitter, who
was with the Louisianians last year,
be permitted to pitch the game there.
The fans of Birmingham are keen on
seeing Flinger Dickson, who was a
Coal Baron in 1909, labor on the
mound a-ain, and have asked Nc
0raw to let the youngster twirl the
game In that city. In Norfolk, Temple