Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-01


 fn five years and train ed each spring at a different place. In 1900 they did practically no training at all President Charles Murphy had the idea that Champaign, H., would bt the proper place.
 Snow drove the team out of the col 1ege town after a week of idleness. They hurried to Vicksburg where rain allowed only 8 day or so of work They went to Atlanta and again were from working by rainl All the real work the team got was in ex- hibition games north of the Ohio river. Yet they won the pennant hands down.
 In a few weeks from now reports will come from the training camps lauding the youngesters being tried out. Few players get regular jobs on the strength of the work done in the train ing season. They must make good in a real ball game before they can lay any claim for having upheld their end.
 Long Trip for Red Sox.
 President John I. Taylor, of the Bos- ton Red Sox has mapped out the long est trip ever taken by any baseball club The players will leave on Feb ruary IS and go to California by way of Chicago. The teams training will be done at Redondo, just outside of Los Angeles. The club will use two special trains and live on them. The itinerary will cover about $500 miles.
 With perfect baseball diamond and we'll prepared playing field await ing them. the Giants will again do their training at Marlin Springs, Texas, which Manager John McGraw consid- CTS an ideal spot for the purpose. The first squad will leave February Il by way of New Orleans and the second on February Is from St. Louis. They will begin practice under McGraw's s eye February 20. The third squad will leave this city by steamer on February p and the fourth from St. Louis on February 27 The team will break camp on March 2S and come north in two divisions.
 HighIanders Work at Athens, Ga.
 Manager Hal Chase, of the High flanders, expects to have twenty men or more at work at Athens, Ga, by March 15. On March l he will have the older members of the team report to him at Hot Springs for two weeks stay. when they will leave to join the recruits at Athens.
 The journey north will begin on March 9, when the second team is due to play ill Richmond. The first team will leave Athens on March 21 to play Atlanta.
 Early Start for Dodgers.
 Manager Bill Dahlan of the Brook ] February l, there to meet Pitchers Nap Fucker and George Bell, the "hopes" of Brooklyn.
 The other players will report later. They will remain there until March IT after which the team will divide into two squads and work their way north.
 Fred Clarke. of the Pittsburgs, will have the Pirates at West Baden on March I. They will remain there un- til March 17, and go to Hot Springs, where the club has trained for several years. They will remain there until April 2.
 The Philadelphia club will. start for its training grounds at Birmingham, Ala. February 2S, in charge of Char ley Dooin. Three weeks will be spent in Birmingham, when the club will split in two teams and work north. The local series between the PhiilSes and the Athletics is scheduled to begin on April l.
 Clark Griffith, of the Cincinnati CTS to Hot Springs, Ark, on March | Two weeks later the other members of the team will go south. The stay at the springs will be short because several exhibition games have been arranged in Cincinnati prior to the opening of the season.
 Cubs for New Orleans.
 President Murphy, of the Chicago Cubs, has once more made arrange ments for his team to train at New Orleans. The players will report there the first week in March. They vii begin regular games at once as Char ley Frank, manager of the New Or leans club, has ordered his players tC report by March 10. The Cubs vii also play a series of games with sev- eral American League teams.
 Roger Bresnahan's St. Louis Cardin- als will report at West Baden about March 15. After a ten-day stay the team will return to St. Louis.
 Fred Tenny's Boston Russlers will do their training at Augusta, Ga. leaving for that town on March 15.
 Hughey Jennings, of the Detroit Tigers, made an extended tour of the south before he finally selected Mon roe, La, as the training place of the 1911 Tigers. Some veterans, including the pitchers, will train at Hot Springs By March 1 the entire team will re- port st Monroe. They will remain there three weeks and then go nortf ill two squads.