Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-02-04
PLAYERS WILL
INVADE The SOUTH
SIXTEEN MAJOR LEAGuE'cLu5
MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR
TRAINING TRIPS.
BOOK PRACTICE GAMES
Cardinals Will Have Shortest Prelim-
mary TraininsWhite sox 90 to
Mineral Springs, Texas
Cubs at New Orleans.

The heart of the baseball fan is
clad. Within a few weeks the sixteen
baseball clubs Of the two major leagues
will be in the southern training camps
limbering up for another pennant
chasing season. For most OF the pray
ers it. means q few weeks of stiff arms
and legs and reduction OF weight,
which surely. follows the early season
work under the hot sun. The prellmlh-
ary trips of the baseball teams nave
become a prominent feature OF the
game for several years and each sea-
son sees a number Of promising young
STEERS tried out, few OF whom MAKE
GOOD and many of whom do not.
The recruits are the ones who fur-
nish most of the action OF these trips,
for they play at top speed at the start
An their attempt to make a good I'M
,nression on the managers. With the
tried veterans it is different; they have
been through the proceeding many
times before and take things easy at
first and do not even get down 70 real
fast playing until the season opens.
The training trip for the old players
means the elimination OF the Kinks IN
their shoulders and arms that have ae-
yeloped during rest in the winter
months.
The Cardinals, under Manager Bres-
nahan, will have the shortest prellmln-
arv training season OF any OF the DIE
league clubs, The team will report at
West Baden on March 5 and VIII re-
turn in order to meet the Browns IN
the spring series, March Is.
Browns to Meet Reds.
The Browns will HE south about
March s. their destination being Hot
Z Strings. where they will share the
hall grounds with the Cincinnati Reds
and will participate in exhibition
games with Grifath's ''Expectants,"
! In the case with the Cardinals they
viii he compelled. to cut their stay
short. owing to the spring series.
The New York Americans will take
big squad south to train. The re-
cr,iits will be taken to Athens, Ga,
where the club has established an up
to-date camp, and the veterans VIII
70 to Hot Springs. Va, to get into,
shape before joining the youngsters at
Athens After few weeks work al
the camp, the Yankees will be divided
into two squads and work their way
north, playing various teams IN the
different leagues through whose terri
tory they travel. For the first time the
Yankees will meet several teams OF
the American Association.
The longest trip OF any Of the ball
!. clubs will be made by the Boston Red
Sox. Owner John l. Taylor will send
his club to the Pacific coast. The
training season for the Bostons will
he at Redondo, a short distance from
Los Angeles. The squad will travel by
special train from, Chicago. This is not
the first time the major leaguers have
chosen the southwestern country for
q training ground. The teams that have
tried &, have found the climate even
more agreeable than the south. The
Red Sox training plans will include u
trip Of $500 miles.
Tigers and Maps in louisiana.
The Detroit team will train at Mon
roe, La. the pitchers first working out
at Hot Springs.
The Cleveland Maps have chosen
Alexandria, La, for their training
camp.
The washington team will work at
Atlanta, Ca, and exhibit on the way
back. The first game at home will
be with Georgetown in April.
Captain Harry Davis is making the
plans for the southern trip of the
worlds champion Athletics. The squad
this year will train. at Savannah, Ga,
and Captain Davis stopped of in the
southern city on his way back from
Cuba and completed the arrange
ments for the reception Of his team.
The Athletics will have a chance 70
meet several good teams at Savannah
during their stay there, and the city is
enthusiastic to receive them. The
team will report early in March.
On February II the first batch Of
Giants will sail from New York on the
Proteus for New Orleans and go from
there to Marlin Springs, Texas. An
other crowd of the New York players
will 20 by train and the entire squad
will report to Manager McGraw by
February 20. After a few weeks of
preliminary work, the squad will be
divided into two teams and play ex-
hfbition games on the way north.
BY February Is Manager Bill Dahlen
will be at Hot Springs, Ark. with
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