The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-16
BY DAVID ]. DAVIES,

6y DRNiD y. DAVIES
Sporting Editor Of Pittsburg Dispatch
The club which is going to win the
1912 National league pennant and aft
err that the worlds championships. ar
rived in hot Springs yesterday AMI
is now domiciled at the Eastman ho-
/ tel Under the leadership of Manager
Fred Clarke, one Of the greatest Of
all baseball generals, the Pittsburg Pr
rates, Honus Wagner, Marty O'Toole
and Mike Donlin included trailed in
over the Iron Mountain something
like an hour late, They came from
West Baden, where they had been
quartered for 10 days, and succeeded
in finding here what they looked for
in vain at the Indiana spa-real sun
shine
During the stay at West Baden
there wasn't one day Of outside work
! INDUCED in Arriving at Hot Springs
shortly before noon, the players were
in uniform and tearing things wide
open at Wilmington park before 2:30
That's the difference between Hot
Springs and other places.
have never had the privilege OF
mingling with a more satisfied crowd
of ballplayers than these selfsame
Buccaneers We're when they greeted
Old Sol yesterday morning. Every
man in the squad determined to do
his best and help win the pennant
every manjack Of them anxious for
work. they fretted at the snow ana
siush in West Baden, and kept wish
ing and wishing for sunshine.
When they finally had their wishes
granted. they acted like lot of
schoolboys out for a vacation. Honus
Wagner was among the happiest Of
the lot, for the great German is de-
termined that this year shall be his
best in every department Of the game
This is my fourth year at Hot !
Springs and there is none who be- |
lieves in Hot Springs more than
do In fact, this city seems to be re- |
garded in Pittsburg as a necessary |
adjunct to the Steel City and often
it is spoken of just as though It was
not more than a thousand miles away |
Manager Clarke and President
Dreyfuss believe there is no place
like the Valley of Vapors Efforts
have been made to interest them in
other places for training quarters,
but these efforts always have failed
It is known too, that attempts to
have the Pittsburg club officials to
change their hotel have proved fu
tile, the generous treatment affordng
no opportunity for complaint
have been asked to give my opln
ion of the Pittsburg club and it
chances for the 1912 pennant In
reply TO this would refer readers
of the SentinelRecord to the Pitts
burg Dispatch of which paper | have
the honor to be sporting editor Sew
eral days ago I TOOK occasion to state
in the Dispatch mat in my opinion
the Pirates would win the pennant
aud that If the Philadelphia Athletics
win the American league flag, the Pi-
rates would defeat them in the strug,
sle for the worlds title
The Pirates have the greatest
pitching staff in the world They
have o'Toole for whose release $22. +
500 was paid to the ST. Paul club;
Howard Camnitz, a star at all times
Babe Adams. hero Of the 1910 world
series and one OF the best anywhere;
Claude Hendrix. young spitbal ar
tist from Kansas and sure winner.
Harry Gardner, Lefty Leifield Hank
Robinson, Jack Ferry and three like.
by recruits
The Pirates have as catchers. Mike
Simon, George Gibson, Billy Kelly and
Ray Haley They have the great
Wagner the great Mike Donlin, the
great Bobby Byrne-they have good
men in every position and have five
or six candidates for the first base
iob--the only one which is In doubt