New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-01-20
BUSY TIME FOR GIANTS
twenty-five Exhibition Games
for Training Trip.
FULL SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
John j. McGraw Plans to Have
His Team Ready for the
Pennant Race.

long schedule OF twenty-five games has
been arranged as a warming up canter for
the New York Giants before the pennant
race Of 1872 begins, on April IL IL by that
time the team has not been rounded out TO
start the campaign with rush. II will not
be the fault of McGraw and Joe O'Brien.
who have worked diligently in arranging
games which will bring the men up to the
mark.
The Washington Senators are the only
big leaguers that will be played. Two con-
tests have been arranged between the Ma
tional League champions and Clark Grif-
hth's new hopes. These games will be
Fought out at the capital on April 2 and 8.
But there are other teams of good calibre
to be met. Two games. each with the Bal
timore Orioles the Newark Indians and the
Jersey Shelters, Of the international
League are included in the schedule. and
the champions will have to be in pretty
good form to clean up.
Beligerent Atlanta, which sprang into
fame last spring by trying to mob the
Giants until Arthur Deylin and Al Bird
well showed considerable fistic proves and
oyerawed the multitude has been left cut
this year Mobile Birmingham and Ashe-
Nlllt, HOWeNeTs VIII NC flolbSu.
The regular members of the team Will re-
port at Marlin Springs not later than Feb
ruary 49, They will be at the training quar-
tiers only few days before playing the
Dallas nine, of the Texas League, on Sat-
urday, March 2, following with Fort Worth
on Sunday, March 8. A weeks work at the
Springs is then planned, and on the next
Saturday and Sunday Dallas and Fort
Worth will be met again. Five days Will
elapse before Houston, Tex, is played. on
Saturday March Is. On the following SUM-
day the squad will be divided into two
teams, one going to Galveston and the
other to Dallas, the same plan being pur-
sued on the next Saturday. Another con-
test with Fort Worth on Sunday. March
"a. will wind up the work OF the Giants In
Texas, time being afforded for three weeks
at the Springs, together with ten Saturday
and Sunday games
The first team 10 be met after leaving the
Lone Star State will be Mobile on Thurs
day. March o. Then follows the graduai
advance TO the Polo Grounds. The hrst
neck the local fans will have at the
team will be on April 6. when the Jersey
CITY Shelters will be met In the new sta
dunn. This date for several years has been
held open for Yale University, but the Blue
preferred this year to play the Giants on
the following Wednesday, the day before
the season opens. The Sunday after the oe-
ginning of the race has been set aside Tor
the Jersey city skeeters, and the Giants
will cross the river to West Side Park Tor
a game on that day.
The schedule follows: March 2. Dallas
Tex; 8, Fort Worth, Tex; o. Dallas Iex.'
10. Fort Worth, Tex; l6. Houston. Tex; H.
Galveston. Tex; %, Dallas. Tex. dwo teams
competing); "a, Fort Worth, Tex; % ana
%. Mobile, Ala; 90 Birmingham. Ala
April /, Asheyille, \, c.; and g. WASH
ington and 5, Baltimore; 8, New York
with Jersey City; Z, Paterson n. j.; g.
New York with Newark; 8. Newark n. j.
10 New York with Yale University ana ~
Jersey City.