South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-04-02
ALL TEAMS LEAVE
SPRING CAMPS ON
TRIPS N0RTHWARD
Few Real PhenOmS Uncovered
in Training Camps = No
Change in LineupS of Lead
ing COntendeTS.
BY FRANK 6. NIENK@

NEW YORK, April All the
trails lead TO the northland once
again. The southern training camps
have been deserted. The preliminary
work of the 1914 baseball season has
been completed. The players are on
the homeward march now, making
the trip by easy stages. and garner
ing dollars here and there for their
owners by playing exhibition games
I'm the smaller towns throughout the
south and near south.
IN less than two weeks the baseball
hungry public viii be journeyins 90
the different ball parks and engaginE
in a mad scramble with thousands ot
others for choice from which 10 watch
the baSeballlng persons rip the Id OFT
the 1914 season. In less than TWO
weeks the now silent stands viii echo
with the shrieks and the plaudits az
the multitude. i'm less than two weeks
many Umpires will be in danger OF
losing their lives and Messrs. Cobb.
Speaker Jackson, Wagner, Lajoie anu
ot.lrs will be busting fences in tho
old fashioned way.
The training trips this year have
been huge disappointments for most
Of the managers and magnates. The
organized major leaguers tried Out
more than 100 youths that were gath
cred in from the bushes at the close
of the 1913 season. They gave them
all a thorough trN-out-that is. as
thorough "A try-out as can DE given a.
a training camp. But not one pine
nom was uncovered. Most OF the
1 bushers were sent back 10 their old
/ stamping grounds or shunted of Co
some other minor league organization.
A few of the many VINO went alOng
+ on the t'ips, hopeful eager and conh-
/ dent, survived the test. But none OF
/ these has shown as a wonder. They
/ have been graded as good ball play
/ erS- lust good enough To remain as
/ big league substitutes. And SO they
/ have been kept in the hope that few
months on the bench and a few chan
ces To mingle in the fray when the
/ regulars are disabled viii develop
them.
And So il is that most of the blS
league clubs this season will get into
action i'm their opening game with
lineups that will show little change
from that Of last season. OF course
some familiar faces Will q mlssln-
because of the raids of the Federals
but the places of the missing viii bee
taken. for the most part 10y uulltN
men who substituted for them last sea
son.
The dope concerning the training
camp doings Of the Feds has not been
as complete as that from the organ
ized camps. But the reports that
trickled in from time to time stated
that the veterans in the Federal line
ups showed the form that gave them
the ranking of stars in the big leagues
Many of the Federals' recruits. II IL
reported. showed i'm grand style, ana
/ so enthusiastic were some scrihes
concerning them that w may look
forward To seeing a few seconds
on the order of Cobb. Speaker. Col
Inns. Baker, Wagner. ct al when
the Feds begin 10 cavort on their diff
Dope on Feds.
The business of doping out the Fed
/ eral league raCe-which few are brave
/ enough To attempts too difncult "a
task to tackle just now. Gut. from
training camp reports, the CHICAGO
Feds seem 10 have a mighty speedy
combination. Mordeca: Brown, the
/ leader of the st. Louis Feds, is said
I TO have whipped his bunch Of kids
and vets into fine baseball machine.
while Bill Bradley. manager Of the
RroollIv-n Feds. declares that his out
IN right now seems capable OF show
ing its heels to anything i'm the league
Baltimore looks as if il had a strong
clue and the Buffalo and indianapolis
/ outfits rank almost equal 10 them. me
1 kansas CITY and Pittsburgh Feds
\ seem TO have plenty OF speed ana
ability
After a few looks at all the Fed
4 training camp dope one gets the idea
that The teams 0re pretty evenly
matched IF this proves true it viii
mean a thrilling battle all the way in
19f4-something the public hopes for
and something the organized majors
never have provided.