The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-01-28
WHERE MAJOR LEAeuERs
WILL DO SPRING WORK..
LEAGuE.


Managers of the various pennant
chasing clubs are giving nearly all
their attention to plans for the spring
training Of their teams. With the ex-
training trips have been abandoned.
1t has often, though not invariably,
been the case that a good training trip
meant a great deal to a team. The
Chicago Cubs, for instance, won four
championships in Eve years and train
ed each spring at a different place. In
1905 they did practically no training
at all. President Charley Murphy had
the idea that Champaign. ILL.,. would
be the proper place.
Snow drove the team out of the col
lege town after a week Of idleness.
They hurried to vicksburg, where rain
allowed only day or so Of work.
They went to Atlanta and again were
prevented from working by rain. All
the real work the team got was in ex-
hibition games north of the Ohio river
Yet they won the peEnant hands down.
Within a few weeks reports will
come from the training camps lauding
the youngsters being tried out. Few
players get regular Jobs on the strength
of the work done in the training sea-
SON. They must make good in real
ball game before they can lay any
claim to having upheld their end.
Long Trip For Red sox.
President John 1. 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.
10 and go to California by way Of Chi
cago. The teams training will be done
at Redondo. just outside Of Los An
geles. The club will use two special
trains and live on them. The itinerary
will cover about $500 miles.
With a perfect baseball diamond and
well prepared playing field awaiting
them, the Giants will again do their
training at Marlin Springs, Tex. They
will begin practice under McGraw's
eye Feb. 20.
Manager Hal Chase Of the New York
Americans expects to have twenty
men or more at work at Athens, Ca,
by March Is. On March 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.
Early Start For Dodgers.
Manager Bill Dahlen Of the Brook
lyns will have his men at Hot Springs
by Feb. 10. They will remain there
until March II, 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 Z. They will remain there until
March II and 60 to Hot Springs,
where the club has trained for several
years. They will remain there until
April 8.
The Philadelphia club will start for
its training grounds at Birmingham,
Ala, Feb. %, in charge Of Charley
Doom. Three weeks will be spent In
Birmingham, when the club will split
into two teams and work north.
Clark Griffith Of the Cincinnati Reds
Will send his pitchers and catchers to
Hot Springs, Ark, on March 1. Two
weeks later the other members Of the
team viii 60 south.
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 will
begin regular games at once, as Char
ley Frank. manager Of the New Or
leans club, has ordered his players to
report by March 10. The Cubs will
also play series Of games with sever.
al American league teams.
Roger Bresnahan's st. Louis Cardi-
mails will report at West Baden about
March Is. After a ten day stay the
team will return to St Louis.
Fred Tenney's Boston rustlers will
do their training at Augusta, Ca, leav.
ing for that town on March 10
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 the entire team will report