Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-11
ROCHESTER TEAM
LEAVES FOR SOUTH
TODAY TO TRAIN
Some More of the Clubs Will
Start Work Before
Many Days.

CYMPTOMS of baseball fever were
more PREVALENT than ever today
due TO the IDEAL weather and the
fact that the Rochester Club, cham
pions of the Eastern League, departed
today for the Sunny South, where the
two-time champs" will go into train
ing for another strenuous campaign.
Incidentally the Rochester players
are the first of the Eastern Leaguers
to go Into training as a team.
Some of Jack Dunn's battery men and
one or two of the veterans left Balti.
more for Hot Springs. Va, yesterday
but they will play little. IL any, base.
ball until next week, when the entire
squad turns out at Baltimore. Sew raj
Eastern League teams will get down
to action during the coming week.
Last yea the Tigers left for Danville,
Va. on March Is, but his year., owing
to alterations at the park, which keeps
Joe McGinnlty busy, the Bengals will
be among the last to clear decks for
action, but they will have an advantage
In a way, as they will be better accli-
mated because they are training near
home, and the change In the tempera-
ture will not affect them as II will the
teams coming UP from the warm South.
A baseball bat and q baseball are In
the design OF the iron framework of
the chairs to be used at the local park
in the grand stand This Is something
new and should be attractive.
Joe Bean. the former Jersey City
manager and shortstop who played on
the champion Jersey City team of 1904,
is satisfied to coach the Marist Col
lege team and other athletic clubs Of
Atlanta. His playing days are over,
but he works out every day with the
Senators, who are training at the above
named town.
Jimmy Esmond is being tried out at
short by the Cincinnati Club, sharing
the position with Dave Altizer. Bobby
Keefe, who had one of the best curve
balls of any pitcher In the Eastern
League last year, is making a favor
able impression with the Reds. George
McQuillan. the big pitcher. who lives
in Newark, Is in mid -season form, and
Clark Griffith will use him In a game
to be played in a few days against the
st. Louis Browns.
Noah Henline, the Bison outfielder,
is working out with the major league
team at Hot Springs, Ark, and re-
newed acquaintances with Eddie Zim-
norman, formerly of the Tigers, now
with Brooklyn; Jimmy Esmond, for
merly of the Shelters, now with Gin
c%innati, and Bobby Keefe. last year
with Montreal, who is also with the
Reds.
Cy Parkin was going to get up early
today (early for him) and see the
Rochester club pass through Newark,
but when he learned hal lawn Camel
is already at Admission he decided that
he couldn't spare his precioas sleep ald
tear himself away from the hay at
noon. Many of Chubby Manser's
friends we're with him at the Market
street station of the Pennsylvania rail-
road to see the light-halred lrvington-
ian off.
Hughey Jennings thinks he has an
other Lefty" Russell In Southpaw Nit
chell, who losses a splitter from the
wrong side.
1t Is possible that Magnates Chaplin
and Mccartney, OF the Rochester and
Toronto clubs, respectively, will make
an attempt to play an exhibition game
1T Rome. Ca, despite the objections of
President Ed Barrow. There is no rule
covering the matter, but 1t IL against
all PRECEDENT and puts the game on a
mercenary footing. 1t is a cinch there
Will be some ruling made on the matter
at next weeks meeting.
Jack White has signed his contract
with the Buffalo club and II is possi bic
that Stal'ings Will give him a trial be-
fore using him in any trade.