The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-16
PIRATES ARRIVE
 EARLY IN MARCH
PlTTS5uRG WILL BE HERE ON MARCH 2, AND THE WORLD
 CHAMPIONS ON MARCH g.
Change of Ownership in the PhiIa- delphia Club Will Mean That This Club Too, Will Come Here
 in Body.

By H. w. I4anigan, Press Represen-
 tative New York Hotel Co.,
 The Pittsburg Pirates, who would probably have won the 1912 National League championship if the race had been a few weeks longer, and who are the betting favorites for pennant honors this year, will reach Hot Springs March 2, which is practical ly two weeks earlier than usual. Rather, Fred Clarke intends having his pitchers and catchers on deck here at that date. The regulars will make the usual advance trip to West Baden. They will arrive there March 9, and then join the battery boys here March 13 or IA.
 The Boston Red Sox, champions of the universe, will mobolize in Hot Springs Sunday. March J. Manager Jake Stahl intends arriving about February 20. He considers the Spa the banner training grounds of them all and just as was the case last March, will bob up ten days or so in advance of his players. Bill .Carri- gan and Clyde Engle were on deck early in the game with Stahl a year ago. Sir Jacob sends down word that he will be accompanied by four or five of his stars and that they will content themselves doing roadwork until the full squad arrives.
 The Boston and Pittsburg clubs own permanent training grounds in ot Springs and never fail showing up for spring practice. The Red Sox 1 eavort at Majectic Park on the South End, while the Pirates perform at Wilmington Park Treas
 urer Robert B. McRoy of the Boston club, while in Hot Springs previous to the holidays, arranged for lot of changes on the champions green
 The left field fence was torn down | and 100 feet of ground added to the 1 suburb. There will also be 60 feet oi additional space in the right meadow 1 hence Iris Speaker, Duffy Lewis ano the teams other sluggers woH't drive
 as many balls out of the lot as they did last spring. Majestic Park will ] also embrace new set of stands. It is on the cards for the Red SoS
 and Pirates to engage in a spring
 series here and it is probably be | cause of those battles that Fred Clarke Intends having his pitchers and catchers at work at such an early date as March 2. Tn bygone seasons the Pirates have never shown up be fore March 20, and the squad came in a body. Now the battery men will be here as early as March ?, and the iuil team will be on deck little later.
 MT. William H. Locke, the Philadel- phia clubs secretary, who has formed a syndicate which takes over the Philadelphia (National League) club this week, has already stated that the first official act of his reign as president of the Quakers will be to instruct Manager Dooin to bring his players to Hot Springs for practice. The Phillies were here last year. but for some reason or other the Spa
 not seem to make a hit with Dooin. As for Stahl and Clarke they could not be induced to go elsewhere, and as those two shippers always en- counter good fortune, Dooin. who has yet to have a real winner, though he has always owned his share of the talent should be ashamed of him. self for not being a staunch champion of the American Carlsbad.
 The Denver (Western League) champions want to return and Doc Owens. manager of Wilmington Park, hopes to he able to accommo- date the popular Jack Hendricks, the skipper of the Grizzlies
 George Mullin and Wahoo Sam Crawford will come along, same as usual, in mid-February Wild Bill Donovan. now manager of the Proyi- dence club; Jim Delahanty, the ex- Tiger. now with Minneapolis. and the swat champion of the American As sociation: Germany Schaefer. Char ley O'Leary Cy Yonng, who never