The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-04
BATTERIES NOW
 IN TRAINING
RED Sox BOxMEN AND BACK STOPS TAKE THEIR FIRST
 WORK OUT YESTERDAY.
Regulars of the Team Are Expected to Arrive in the City Early
 Next Week.

| tatlNe New York Hotel Company
 They re off! Boston's gallant Red Sox, the dhampions of the universe are getting ready for fresh conquests. Eleven of them, including Manager Garland Stah, hit it up Monday at | Majestic Park between the hours of 10:S0 and 12:30, so MT. Mack's Ath- letics, MT. Griffith's Nationals, Mir. Callahan's White Sox and Mr Jen- nings' Lambs can start to tremble, as the Bostonians enjoy occupying their present proud perch so well that they | do not intend being swatted off it. Boston deserved all the honors it won last year, and, if looks on the l lfield and chat around the Eastman hotel lobby go for anything, it is go. | ing to be hard to head off in the com | ing race. Thus Chief Stahl only has lhis battery men in the Spa After he | booked the nine-games series with
 Fred Clarke he thought it for the best to ship his pitchers and catch
 CTS South week in advance of he regulars, so as to have taem ready
 for the Pirates.
 Sunday was reporting day for the battery artists, regulars as wei as rockies, while it don't be until next Sunday morning that Captain Wagner Iris Speaker, Larry Gardner. Duffs Lewis and the teams other topliners come to town. The weather is clear, if a trifie chilly.-the thermometer, Iregistered 52 degrees at one o'clock Monday afternoon and until Old Sol goes to work in earnest Stahl will contend himself wi;n giving his ath- letes a single workout daily.
 He has wisely seieeted the hours
 of l0:S0 to 12:30 or 1 as the time
 for work at Majestic Park, tlus get
 ting the full benefit of the midday
 warmth. The Spa had a lot of TO- degree weather during February, 20
 most any day, as long as it keeps clear, it will be red hot again and
 when the weather turns warm it will probably remain warm, as March is
 always one of the prettiest monts-
 in Hot Springs calendar.
 Rising hour for the Red Sox is IS o'clock, the same as last March | After breakfast Stahl bade his war Iriors pack up their baseball togs and accompany him to the Buckstaff, when the champions will bathe. the
 same as a year ago. Shortly after 10 I all hands were in their diamond
 clothes and they strolled ou to the
 Majestic park, distance of about 1.-two miles. Stahl is more than pleas ed with the condition Of his spring ball yard. It is absolutely in shape All the fences have been showed baos from GO to 100 feet since last spring
 and now Speaker, Lewis, Stahl and
 the teams other sluggers will be
 we'll entitled to whatever raps they
 drive over the walls
 When Stahl's squad walked out
 on the green there did not appear to be single member overweight. Stahl himself is twenty pounds lighter than
 this time year ago Charley Hall has a little weight to take off. All three catchers, Nunamaker, Carrigan and Cady are at weight, or very close
 thereto. Bedient is in the pink os
 trim The five young twirIess mak- ing their bows in Boston uniforms, Mosely and Ainsworth of Youngstown, To-, Watkins of sharon, Pa, and Martina and Foster. graduates of the
 Texas League, can scarcely be tot
 ing around much excessive avoirdu- pois, So well groomed did they look
 Tn their togs,
 The maiden work was necessarily l light. Hall, who did some early work at his home in Ventura, Cal. before coming East, pitched to the batters. l Bedient and the five rockies toss. ed up some slow ones, cutting loose l just enough to get the kinks out of their arms, to the three receivers.
 Edgar Willett, the Detroit pitcher. Charley OLeary, the Tigers old short stop, who expects to be sent to h. dianapolis or possibly 10 Providence; Harry Smita, Newark's manager; George Bell and Raleigh Aitchison. two of his boxmen Jimmy Burke, Tt. Wayne's manager; Bob Connery, chief of Miller Higgins scouting bu- reau, and Frank Roth, the former Cincinnati catcher, were prominent among the band of tossers who look cd on while the Stanlites were going through taeir light workout. At 12.- 90 Stahl called the session over and jogging back to town, led the early birds in a hike of some five or six miles over the mountains. Then, fol- lowed the tub scrubs at the Buck staff
 Joe Wood ye marvellous ilglt-hand. CT, and Thomas. the Red Sox fourth CT, arrived from the North shortly
 late in the afternoon Wood appears to be close to his fighting notch. Thomas, 'ffis too is practically at weight With Buck O'Brien at home atteni- ing his mother, who is critically i'll, and Ray Collins still a member of the Grover Brand are the only absen- tees They are Eastward bound from Fresno, Cal, and should arrive in the morning.
 Stahl Is counting upon Leonard sticking with the team this season. He was shipped to Denver last May. where he pitched Jack Hendrlcks' lGrizzlies to the championship, and is generally rated one of the most prom. Using Southpaws in baseball Brand is Stanis third Texas League capture. | Watkins is u left handler, so witt Collins and Leonard, gives Stahl three poft7siders.
 Yesterday manager Stahl of the
 Boston Red Sox, received ten-pound
 rosewood bat by parcel post He | may not be able 10 use such d heavv