The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-01-22
MANAGER GRIFFITH I
PAYING VISIT TO
N CHARLOTTESVILLE
Seeking Arrangements for
Training Trip of
Nationals.
SCOTT AND FOSTER
SEND SIGNATURES
Local Team May Go to Georgia
Farm in Spring of
1918.
By SENATOR"

Clark Griffith went to Charlottesville
) today to make arrar gements for the
stay OF the Nationals in that city DUR
Ing their spring training
For weeks the manager has been in
correspondence with parties In the col
lege town getting data on the general
situation, and he expects to close an
agreement either this evening or to-
morrow morning and at once return to
Washington.
The grounds and dressing room
proportions have already been settled
With the University of Virginia. The
Nationals will have exclusive use of
Lambeth Field during the morning
hours, and In the afternoon until the
college team starts practice. The Dress
ing rooms will be in special apartments
set aside for the professionals In the
university gymnasium, where there will
be rubbing tables and shower baths for
the players.
Whether the Nationals will rent a
house or make their headquarters in a
hotel will not be decided until the man.
aGer has inspected every proposition.
Griffith has received several rather dis
couraging reports as to the meals
served at Charlottesville. but IL he can
Teach an understanding with the man.
ager OF one of the hotels he will stop
at hotel. Otherwise he will lease a
mousse for three weeks and import a
complete corps Of servants.
Two Players Sign.
Griffin spent just enough time at
headquarters here this morning to look
over his mail. and on the way to the
train said that all there was in the way
OF news was the signing of two play
ers-Everett Scott and c. E. Foster.
Scott is an infelder who was with
Youngstown. in the Pennsylvania
League. who was highly recommended
to McAleer by friends in the former
managers home town. Scott forwarded
his signed contract from his winter
place at Bluffton, Ind. and wrote Grit
bile to get into trim for the spring
work. -h..
Foster is one of the trio obtained from
Rochester; He winters in Chicago
where he Is in business. Should the Ma
tfonals be unable to purchase another
man before April. Foster will fight II
out with Ray Morgan for the job at
third base on the local infield.
.... Prefers Georgia.
A plan to obtain a long lease on a
ball park and one old-fashioned farm
house and the installing Of whole
corps of cooks and caretakers in some
small town In Georgia, where the Ma
tionals will do all their spring training.
Is being worked out by Manager Grit
nth.
Each season the demand for places
: In the South is becoming greater. OF
course, the major leagues have sent
/. the. players into warmer climes for
many years, but lately so many minors
have taken to the idea that 1t Is now
more difficult than ever before to locate
Q team on few months notice." Grit
nth said today, In discussing the situa-
ton the Nationals should face should 1t
be chilly at Charlottesville in March.
None of this Hot Springs and West
Baden stuff for mine. The greatest eli
mate in the country In which a player
! may be quickly brought around in the
! Should it not be possible to get the
best Of the parks in one of the larger
y cities, l favor going into the smaller
places. where there are no counter at
fractions, and If team cannot be
primed there, the players are in pretty
bad shape.
Have Good Food.
. i, SIN big farm house the players could
, be held together, while not actually prac-
, ticing,. could get the most wholesome of
food at a considerably smaller price
than is charged In the big hotels, and
everybody would get plenty of sleep.
, which Is as big, a factor as anything
else at the beginning of a training
season.
II have received numerous offers from
small cities in the Pine Tree state, but
J. will not reach a decision as to loca-
tion until after the end of the coming
/, season"
i. Griffith's idea of taking his players
away to one small place for the early
spring work, is a system that Joe Car.
7 tillon has been following with remark.
able success since he left here to take
, charge of the Minneapolis club Caa.
tillon has one of the hardest teams lr
/. baseball to round into physical form
as, almost without exception, It is mad,
up of such veterans as Lever, Ross
man, Waddell, Altizer, Clymer, and 6
host of others who have seen majo:
league service, and are on the way or
The down grade.
). At Hickman, Ky.
Cantillon gathers his whole squad a.
his extensive rancl. at Hickman, Ky.
early In March, and for several week.
the players go through a pretty stiff
course of sprouts In the open. The bes
OF hunting and fishing may be enjoye,
without leaving the property of tn
manager, and when the players hav
nothing else to do they gather up gun
or rods, and hike II off to have a daI
of hunting or fishing.