Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-04-04
BALL PLAYERS
PACKING TRUNKS
Fans Become Nervous as Time
For Training Trips Approach
nor SPRINGS TO Be MECCA.
Four Teams to Work Out Kinks and
Cricks a, the Resort-various Sys-
TENS to Be Followed at Training
Camps.

Camps.
Within a few weeks the baseball
campaigns of 1912 will be under way,
with the beginning of the spring train.
ing trips of the big league clubs. All
of the sixteen clubs have selected their
pilots. and all have chosen their pre-
season stamping grounds.
Hot Springs. Ark, will be the lead
ing antebellum spot in a baseball way
this year. -Four teams will work out
the kinks and cricks of rusty muscles
there. n American league outfit and
three from the National. Jack Stahl
will superintend the early work of the
Boston Red Sox in the razorback re-
sort, while the National leaguers, Fred
Clarke of Pittsburgh, Charlie Doom Of
Philadelphia and Bill Dahlen of Brook
Ign, will be on the job with their
charges.
1t will be the first time in history
that so many big league teams have
been in action at one time in any sin
gle city.
Hot Springs Is First Choice.
Hot Springs is an easy first In the
race for popularity as a spring train
ing camp. Next comes New Orleans.
Two clubs will work out there. the
Cleveland Americans under Harry Da-
Wis and the Chicago Cubs under Frank
Chance. st. Louis might be said to be
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ors, as the Mound City entries in both
National and American leagues will do
their preliminary conditioning on the
home lot. the first time in recent years
that a major league team has dispens-
ed with a southern trip.
Connie Mack will take his worlds
champion Athletics to San Antonio,
Jim Callahan will Moses the White
Sox to Corsicana, Tex: Harry Wolver-
ton will lead his New York Yankees to
Atlanta. Ca: Clark Griffith will con-
vene his Washington Senators at Char
lottesville, Va; Hank O'Day will take
his Cincinnati Reds to Columbus. Ga,
and Johnny McGraw will once more
put the Giants through the PAGES at
Marlin. Tex. The Boston Nationals
will loosen up at Augusta. Ca.
The systems of training that will be
in vogue at the baseball camps this
spring offer Il larger variety than ever
before. In some cases the work will
consist largely Of general all round ex-
ercise to timber up the muscles of the
men; in other cases practically all the
time will be devoted to actual playing.
Just about this time the air is atingle
| with rumors of big baseball trades inn
| pending, and it is not unlikely that
some deals will be put through before
the beginning of the spring trips that
will revolutioniZe the outlook for the
championship races. Accordingly it is
hard to form a definite line on how the
teams will stack up against each other
when the starting gun is fired. But
speculation is already noticeable among
the fans as to who will win the pen
nants in the two leagues.
This is but human nature. however.
Moreover, it indicates that the love Of
the fan for his favorite pastime is not
VI llc hllIu llldL IL SdL1SllCd Will just
six months of baseball. When be IAN
not see it or play it he must talk it.
So we already have heard prophecies
nominating this Or that team rs the
one to be watched next year. At this
time last year the Athletics and Giants
were generally picked to win the two
pennants. and the predictions came
true.
The consensus seems to be in favor
of the same teams this year. In the
case of the Athletics it is for the same
reason as before. They figure just
about 100 per cent stronger than any
other team in baseball. In the case OF
the Giants it is different. The disinte,
grafton of the Cubs is the chief thing
that throws the Giants to the fore in
the representations. The American
league race looks like a walkover fol
the Athletics, with DetrOits finishing
second. while the Giants undoubtedly
will be closely pressed by the Cubs
Phillies and possibly st. Louis, accord
ing to the way the bugs have it fig
ured.