New-York tribune., 1912-01-10
TIMELY BITS OF SPORT.
The Giants to Pitch Camp at
Marlin on February 20.
A FINE FOR THE YANKEES
Magner Loses His Appeal, but II
Costs the New York
Club $50.

Joe O'Brien, secretary Of the New YORK
Giants. announced yesterday. that the
spring training camp at Marlin springs
Tex would be pitched, so to speak, on
February % John ]. McGraW' manager
Of the team. will begin work with his re-
crujts on that day in the hope of hndins
one or two players at least TO strengthen
the nine The youngsters will leave for the
carr, ir two squads, one sailing from here
an February II and the other leaving 81
Louis by train on February Is The regulars
viii not report in Texas until February %
Some Eve or six days behind the recruits
They also will leave in two squads some
going by rail and others by boat.
NcGraw has high hopes for some of the
n,avers he will try out in practice. Tesreau,
who pitched good ball for the Toronto ciuo
NJ the International League. last season.
saws he is confident that he can stick with
the Giants this year. II is quite possible
zoo as he impressed McGraw at the camp
last spring and was farmed out to gain II
little more experience.
The Youngsters who will report at Marli"
snrings on February 20 are as follows:
Arthur Bues, third basemann: ssatne; seattle
RuTns, outfelder, Utica N Y, Slate
Ieaene. John Ferrell, pitcher. Sparkenours'
Va Carolina Associations: Phlfer ruleit-
wyder' pitcher, CGi9m?5a;d S Ga1ds1o II - third base
man. Springfield. Conn. ConneCI,lCu' ,
League: Evan Evans, pitcher, Dalas, ,a5 nen;;
Texas League; H. Groh, s43pI Hpgb S'IR Hiph out
6elder Hartford, Conn, Connec11icI,t y Cc,,
League; w. c. Jacobson, outfelder, ROCK
Island. Ill, Three I League; Elmer JONI JONI
SON catcher, Decatur. Ill, Three ! Leasue' Eo,,
Jsck Johnson. outhelder. san Antonio, rex
Tsxas IAagTe: Bert Maxwell, pitcher, BIT
rningbarn. Ala. Southern League; Emmet
Mupss ggSa MRtSn RltSness Stock, shortstop Fond du
lac Wis, Wisconsin and Illnols Leae ie ro
Charles Tesreau. pitcher, Toronto cam IN
ternauonal League
Tho New York club. of the American
League. was fined $50 yesterday by the
National Commission for failure 10 ME i.S
contract with player within reasonAoie
time after the execution. Accordlhs "
t,ank 7. Farrell, the contract was 1or-
r,arded and lost in the mail, but THIS uiu
rot relieve the club Of its responsloilll!
The fine was imposed by the commission
,n refusing the request Of E. B. Magner'
n,tcber of the Yankees, for unpaid saiaI
of sss and TO be declared free agent Ill
making its report the commission SAID
nh. Now York Club states that the
r1aver entered its service on July IL, uIiuet
regular contract. at a monthly saldlS y
s25O and was paid in full up 10 OctoDel -
the last scheduled date OF tnat tSdiiI. coy
dent Farrell admits that the player cor
tract stipulated that he should hot uS ~.
leased during the season OF 1slI, ad anu 20
plains that on his protest when teleaSseut Is tbe
the Jersey City Club on September TO- Ime nc
transaction was called off and three "a!
later title 20 him for 1912 was assigned "a
the Rochester Club, after the payer naa so
informed Chase that in case OF MS reltdss
he preferred to be sent to the latter cruz;
The contention Of the player thst liie ~,
deal with the Jersey City Club remained an IN
force and that this club subsequently uie
posed of him direct TO Rochester ls not
founded on fact Secretary Bruce's records
disclose that the New York Club released
him to Rochester as contended oy Fresl-
The piayers salary demands are based
on a nisconception of the length OF the
term Of his contract, -.r
n was learned yesterday afternoon that
the offer 10 buy Novelty and Zeus from
Charles Kohler came from Daniel M Cant
~ England. who is represented here by
George Mcdonald. and who was willing 70
nav s25O0O for the two horses. Mcdonald
is the manager of Matt Wells the English
10 ride in ENGLAND for Mr. Cant.
Arthur Irwin. scout Of the Yankees, re-
turned yesterday from Atlanta, Ga, where
the team will train He said he had ar
ranged a number Of exhibition games, but
could say nothing until they had been ap-
proved by Harry Wolverton, the new man
ager.
Robert Lee Hedges. principal stockholder
of the St Louis American League Club,
has reelected himself president of the club.
]. F. Bruce, Of Cincinnati. was elected vice
president The board of directors Will con-
sist of r. L. Hedges, w. II. Roninger and
J. c. Chic. OF st. Louis. and j. z. Bruce
and W. II. McDermaid, of Cincinnati.
Horace Fogel admits that Dode Paskett,
the hard hitting centre fielder of the Phil
lies, is "holdng out for an advance OF
$500 in his salary. Fogel says, however,
that he expects that all difficulties will be
Strengthened out by the time the team
leaves for its spring training trip.
AUTOMOBILES.