New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-02-26
SOUTH BASEBALL MECCA
All Clubs Will Be in Training by
End of Week.
GIANTS FIRST IN LINE
Hal Chase and Yankees to Start
for Camp at Hot Springs,
Va, on Tuesday.

Bv the end OF this week all OF the clOos
OF the two major leagues Will have estaD-
lished their training quarters In the south
end the players will have started TO get
into condition for strenuous season
work While many of the managers nave
arranged 10 have their men stop OH 10
take the waters at various mineral springs
throughout the country. the recruits VIII
co direct 10 the camps TO start training
under the direction Of competent coaches.
The New York Giants will be the hrst
team 10 have its full lineup in the South.
The regular players join the recruits now
at Marlin Springs on Tuesday. Tomorrow
afternoon the Planters Hotel will be the
gathering place of many of the stars, in
Guiding Mathewson. Crandall, Ames'
Vutse. Bridwell Fletcher Murray, Meyers.
Wilson and Schlei They will start imme-
diately for Marlin Springs 10 meet Devlin'
DOYLE. Devore. Merkle and Marquard' who
sailed from New York on last Wednesday.
Snodgrass Shafer and Drucke will go d.
rect to the training camp. After a fe"
DAYS Of work with the recruits. the regu-
lars will be called upon TO start In playing
the preliminary schedule of games which
has been arranged with the Southern
teams.
The first expedition Of tie Yankees will
leave New York for Hot Springs, Va on
Tuesday. under the leadership OF Hal
Chase. The players who will take the
waters follow. Sweeney. Blair. Ford.
Quinn, WARRIOR. Vaughn, Fisher. Caldwell,
Gardner. Knight Roach, Johnson, Elliott
Daniels. Hemphl. Wolter and Hartsell.
The men will play little or no baseball at
Hot Springs. but devote the two weeks
spent there 10 golf and long tramps over
the mountains.
The recruits will report AT Athens. Ga,
on Saturday. and will De in the charge of
Duke" Farrell. the coach The following
will go direct 10 Athens: Bailey. Williams.
Mcclure. lube. Litschi, LIE Grenier, Kauff,
Abeles. Burbank. Revelle. Cree. Arthur IT.
win. Lee and Mike Bergin. The regulars
will ioin the recruits at Athens on March
Il. allowing about two weeks for practice
before playing the FIRST game on the pre-
liminsry schedule with Richmond on
March -
BIZ Dahlen has already gathered many
of his Superbas at Hot Springs, Ark ana
the rest will arrive there this week The
new BROOKLYN players are Hi Meyers. out
fielder Of the Sioux City club. who stood
second in the Western League batting
averages. with as IN 10 games, and also
stole % bags Btieune, outhelder OF the
Evansville club. who led the Central
League with batting average of .@2S for
1cS games and stole - bases; Quillan' thlrd
rasemau Of Sioux city who hit for 3l5 in
1854 games and had a fielding average OF
-. also stealing a. bases: Tooiey. short
stop Of Rochester, whose batting average
i'm l2s Games was ri. with iS stolen bases
and q reldmg average Of .NSi; zimmerman,
third baseman of Newark. with 4 hating
average of 2i3 in 156 games. VINO LED his
,,oeition I'm fielding with an average OF .SiS'
Plirk pitcher Of the Fort Worth Texas
League club. who won - games and lost
~ Atchison. pitcher Of the Wichita West
,rn League club, who won 20 games and
LOST IL: Schardt. pitcher of the Milwaukee
American Association club. with A record
of n victories and 16 defeats RaSon. pitch
G.. OF the Rochester club. with is victories
and II defeats. and Ryan. pitcher OF the
81 Paul American Association club. with
j. victories and defeats
Brooklyns other players arc Bergen. En-
win. Miller and Smith. catchers; Rucker.
Bell Barger, Scanlon. Wilhelm and Knet.
zer. pitchers, Daubert Hummel. Stark. ].
Smith. McElveen and Mcmillan. infelders.
and Wheat Davidson. Burcb. Coulson and
Dalton. out6elders.
The roster Of the other National League
teams is AZ follows
Chicago Kling. Archer. Needham and Auge-
meier. catchers, Brown, Cole. F0xeu, Mclntlre.
overall PREFER. Phester. Richie Willis, Weaver,
Cooke. Clarke. Tony, Griffen and Kirwin. pitch
& ZImmer-
man. Kane. Cooney, Fisher, Doyle lnseTton and
safer. inheders: Beaumont, Schultz, Holman,
Shockard and Ball outfeders.
Pittsburg-Gibson, simon. Martin and o. Con
nor Catchers; Camnitz, Adams, White, Leiheld,
Philippe. Lever Steele. Ferry, smith, Faber;
Councilman. Gardner, Noel Hendrix. Magic and
Pressy pitchers; Hunter, Miller. Byrne, Wagner.
McKechnie. Mccarthy. Kadng, Bisand, Flynn
and Niehon. inhelders: Clarke Leach wilson,
Campbell. Hyatt. Carey and Bates, outielders.
decentralization, Clarke, Mayer and Diehl.
catchers; McQuilen. Moren, Gaspar, Suggs,
Keefe Fromme, Burns, Dougherty, SEVERED,
Carmichael and Schneider pitchers; Hoblitzeh.
Egan. Downey, Aitzer. Grant. Berger. Phelan'
infeiders; Mitchell. Bescher. Bates, Hangar,
Crompton. Morgan and Hinrichson, outfielders.
cstchers: living, Rowan Moore, Brennan. Alex
ander Baxter. Chalmers GlTarar Huinph HI
helm, Slaughter Culp. Helms and McCioskey.
pitchers; Bransfeld, Luderus, Miller. Knabe,
fObert. Doolan, Young and Lehr, infeders; Ma
gee. Paskert Titus, Walsh CAMEL. Mayes'
Mowrey Wehrell and Carroll. outfelders.
st. Louis-Bresnakan. Bliss and Wingo. catch
.rs: saiiee. Harmon. zmich, Steele, Geyer.
Hearn. Golden Landermilk, Henns. Dell. Mus
coe and Peddington. pitchers; konetchy Hug
gins. HauseT Mowry Beteher. Mage gee: Niece aS
Cakes Abbott and liver. outfelders
Boston-Graham. Raridan and Elliott, catch
Fcrguson. JOY. Curtis. Brown Burke. Purdue
Evans and Tyler, pitchers: Tenney shean, swee,
Sharpe. iniieldcrs: Collins, Beck, Goode. Miller
and Clarke, outhelders