The Sentinel=record., 1911-03-10
CALIFORNIA IS
 NO TRAINING SPOT BOSTON AME RlCANS FIND THEY MADE A MISTAKE IN LEAv-
 ING HOT SPRINGS.
Herman Nickerson, Correspondent, Writes of the Rough Time the
 Eastern Team is Having.

The Boston American ball club
 made a mistake when it left Hot lSprings as a spring raining resort to try California The management and the players realize this now, and the correspondents, who a year ago were
 writing great things about Hot Springs as an ideal training spot, and paying their respects to California in manner not indicative of any good advertising results for the west coast. Herman Nickerson, one of the cor respondents, writing to a leading Boston paper, says:
 Never take anyone's word for a sec- ton or the country and its weather pos sibilitles. For almost year the rasIern ians have been fed upon what the glor- ious climate of California was to produce m the way of conditioning the Speed Boys. Pen pictures were drawn of the warm sunlight, the balmy breezes; tales were told of the endless acres of or anges, and. as for rain, not one word save to say by the time the Boston boys Klen.
 Fine business. Each and every one was glad to get away from the snow and
 the March winds of Boston. but they didn't reckon upon stepping into almost the same conditions when they reached the Pacific coast, and, so far, the train Ing trip has been gigantic frost, from every posilion.
 Since the regular team arrived here there have been nothing but rains and high winds. About the time men should have been thinking of getting their grips together for the trip across the ferry to San Francisco. the rain was falling in sheets Rain soaked ball parks are fine training grounds. There was nothing to do but grin and bear it. Along toward noon the sun broke through for just min ute, just to kid the team in to a be- lief that something might be doing.
 Take the work of the Regulars so far this season. They were dumped into Redondo Beach at hotel that had been reopened to receive them. All a part ot an advertising scheme. The rooms were cold and damp, the food poor. and also cold Could anything have been less cheerful. The result was wonder full when you find few complaints, though from training point of view the men have really had nothing. What was done at Redondo Is being undone here through idleness Arms that need working are apt to stiffen through lack Of opporrun- ity. This fact has forced Manager Dom ovan to look about for a place indoors for his men to throw the ball about. What do you know about that? Crossing rne continent to train and then talking of gym work! Manager Donovan is carry ing the key of the Oakland Wheelmen's Club gym in his pocket, to be used when needed The sun which flirted for awhile came to stay about 1 o'clock and the men dressed at the hotel, going out to the ball park, here to pass the ball.
 Why a club should pass up a splendid camp at Hot Springs, Ark, to barnstorm and cool it's heels about Pacific coast he- tel corridors is beyond me. Manager Donovan may figure that his men win come back fast when he takes them home through Texas, but that seems today to be his only hope, unless the weather conditions here change as if by magic
 It takes two men to record the sun. One to say ''here she is and the other to say there she goes. Flashes of sun light only so far with rain-soaked bail fields,
 Up to date the regulars have lost three dates, one in Oakland and two in Frisco, with little to encourage Manager Dono- van as he faces Sunday. On the list for tomorrow are found two entries. One for morning game here and another for an afternoon contest with the Seals at San Francisco.
 Those who are wise on weather predict that the moisture so far would seem to bar each of these.
 Natives smile a little on the sly at the evident dilemma the Boston boys are in March, according to those l have talked Wltn, IS a Ddu iHoilth HeiN. ihSy eVh sOH that in December and January there was good weather as if that helped. Win dow panes rattle in the wind and rubber coats are ripe. There is only one way to dope this trip: The Boston manage ment evidently banked on drawing big crowds here and acress the bay, and also on the way back East. There isn't any doubt about the Red Socks being bi card. The men have received more at | tention than any crowd of players that x.fS ita1 | ing doing Californians are hospitabie, l ht1f the heat is lacking.