The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-26
TEXAS IS MECCA
FOR BALL men
Magnates Choose Lone Star
State For Training Camp
For Players

New York, Feb. 2G-Winter hangs
on with such persistency in the north
that the baseball managers are hope
full of an early spring in the south.
Possibly the weather cannot be order
ed to suit both the ball players and the
southern farmers. though nj agricul-
turist who cultivates cotton and straw
berries has been heard to criticise
sharply good growing weather." and
weather of that mean grade will never
find disfavor in the eyes of the base
ball managers.
a late spring will hit harder those
teams which train close to the Atlantic
seaboard than it will other mines.
which are taken into Texas and
Louisiana There are some who be
lieve that the players are better of
for training in Il semi-baseball climate
Ii is doubtful. Never has IL team come
away from Il training camp in which
the players We're in such splendid con-
dition as the Giants We're in 1911 and
they showed the value of their %sojourn
/ at Marlin by the in which they
| slipped through the season without
serious illness to any of them.
Highlanders Train at Atlanta
The H~ighlanders will train at Allan
ia. Il charming and delightful city
| but swept by breezes. Not ocean
breezes either. The cold win which
| blows over the plateau on which At
lanta looks down upon other rivals
will knock more baseball out of IL
players anatomy than he will absorb
in the work which he is able to get on
the diamond. Atlanta IL have an
exceptionally good spring to be of real
value to players.
Birmingham, some $50 miles away.
is better adapted to ball players than
Atlanta, because it is not SO high. 1t
is surrounded by mountains and is not
81 mountainous elevation. Augusta, in
"a lower latitude, is fairly satisfactory.
and Savannah was once a favored
city. Somehow northwestern storms
got in the habit of calling upon Savan-
nah right in the midst of h training
| season and upsctting all OF the work
| which had been done for a week or
two, because the players were COM
PEELED to remain idle. So managers be-
gan to give up going there. Z.
Mobile has been tried with varying
success and so far as the climate goes
is nearer the standard which h base
ball managers seek. New Orleans
would be better if it We're not SO damp
and so low that approximations ball
players are inclined to believe they
will be immersed in a bath of malaria
before they get out of the city.
Hot Springs, Ark, has always been
favored by ball players because of the
springs which &c with the climate. It's
4 fine thing to have a bath handy for
Il sore arm after n has been gall
wanting around a baseball field all the
morning, with twinges of pain resem-
bling those of govt and rheumatism
shooting through elbow joints and
shoulder blades.
Texas Seems Ideal
Yet. of all the climates which go
| with baseball for spring work, there
seems to be nothing which is of so
much value from the time that g sea-
son begins until it is time for h play
| crs to take the train to the north than
Texas. where there is heat and little
moisture in the air. The advantage OF
| Marlin. where tho Giants so to their
work is tina natural springs gush forth
from the earth in that thriving little
benefit of the medicinal water m the
baths, into which they tumble after Il
hard workout ON the field.
McGraw says that he has tried ey-
crything In the way OF training and
has come to the conclusion that the
further a team keeps away from the
Atlantic the better for ii. Zone good
easterly storm off the ocean, with plen-
ty Of wind and steay rain, will waste
l 4. " y VI 'Iltb u " w Nv ~
ncar the coast" sail the manager.
Those DR., ho, winds which blow
across the Texas plains ar. worth more
10 ball players than a Turkish bath"
continued th.: pilot of the Giants. You
notice that Connie Mack is going into
the Lone Star state for work. The De-
troit club has been close to the boun-
diaries of Texas for Years and the Chi
cago Americans after circumnavigat-
ing more of the globe, have finally
come to the conclusion that Texas Of
fers more advantages to ball players
than n state in the union and they
are quite right. We have had fair re-
suits with the Giants no matter in
what town or city we trained. but.
speakin gfor the players of the team.
I know that most of them, all of them
Tin, fact, say that they fell better after
their work in Marlin than they have
after training at any other city which
has seen in Our belt of travel"
The French army will purchase no
fewer than $50 aeroplanes during 1912.