New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-13
Pitchers ard Catchers !,
for a Boiling Time At :
Hot Springs.
CHANCE FOR Baseball
IN BRONX DIMNFp
Hemrstead Still Opposes In
sion Fed Owners Agai,
Turn Toward Newark.
BY HEYWOOD BRGJy

~ O''b Dhfl y
The training season Of the Y.,,.
begins to-day. Captain Illusions 49,.
ers and catchers will head fo- y,
Springs this morning. The new Az,
ers Of the club hope that the bath, :,
the Arkansas resort will boil aw,v a
the bad baseball which the Y,n..,,
showed last season.
The leadership Of the party I, v,,,.,
in Joe Kelley, but as he is a scout -,
no: a player ne will remain unbog.a
Ray Heating. 7ho lives in Brdeenor
Conn, is the only member Of the pa,.,
who IL scheduled 20 make his start f,o,
here. Sweeney and WARRIOR will can.
from Chicago. Kingston, Penn. vii
contribute Carroll Brown. Middl.bur
VI. has promised 70 ship Ray Fi,sww
From Salamanca, y. y. comes CA.
we'll. Out Of Brawley, Cal, King 81.
will travel, while Kelley will pick !,
the tourists in Memphis. Nuranss.,
is already at the Springs, Tn. bcIS.,
begins on Monday.
The chances Of The Bronx for,
baseball team all its own are liu;,
DINNER than az the beginning Of n,
week. Edward G.. Barrow held a losr
conference yesterday with Harry n
. Hampstead, but did not succeed n
swinging the owner o. the Giants from
his opposition 10 an international
League invasion. Moreover. Harry Sin.
clair and Pat Powers did not find auy
location which suited them very vel
in their last shopping tour in II.
Bronx. and they are again turning tbei,
/ eyes toward Newark.
/ Captain Huston is not one Of thos
who think that the Polo Grounds %
not draw many patrons from Tie
/ Bronx. The captain is convinced that
when the new subways are built the
home Of the Giants will be in easy &c.
cess Of the county across the Hsrlsr.
In fact. the secretary OF the Yankees
rates the roofing potentially Of Tn
/ Bronx so highly that he is considering
several sites in that part OF the citJ
3 for the new grounds Of his own tear.
/ Under these conditions il is only fsi,
/ 10 assume that the American LesC,
men in this city are no more anIios
/ for Bronx invasion that the Glanh
Jimmy Duggan, who trained u,
/ Providence team of the lnternaiiohi
I League for the last two seasons, vii
/ be head groom 10 the charley horses u
tho Yankees this year. Duzgsn IS ~!
a bonesetter or doctor, but he ni
mighty good rubber.
They were talking about curves !,
| the Office of the Yankees yesterday, a.:
/ Wild Bill Donovan remarked: "Gsor,
/ Mullen pitched the most deceptive BAL
ever saw one afternoon IN Detroa
Il was a splitter and il certainly had
great break. n you don't believe AZ
ask Charley Hickman. Hickman va
playing first base, and Mullen had Jus
, wet the ball, and was ready to p'ei
when he noticed out OF the corner 0
his eve that the base runner had
mighty big lead. Mullen turned a'oun'
and lot drive 10 Hickman.
"The ball was aimed little aoos
/ Charles head. and that's where "
/ first baseman held his hands oa' o.
fore the ball got to the bag II sno
down with a sudden hop and o'oA
Hickman's nose. II was a great curve
Dick Carroll. business manager .
the Tin Tops. announced yesterday 'n ~
William Upham, who pitched Tor tn
Rochester club last season. nae s'gp'
= contract with the Brooklyn red"
We will cast ono vote this siternoo'
along with several other members
a committee which has been empoHs'.
TO select mascot for the ish,se'
/ OF course. we're neutral, but al olaI
things being equal, VIC want N'
B headed one.
George Davis, the crack Young Ply. .
or of tho Braves. has broken ne ns'
ward strength test record "nlsn ~
formerly held by Tack HsrdwiesS,, ~
mark set BY Hardwick was i''si' "
Davis pushed it up TO l.i5'
ROGER Bresnahan is back IN Onles.
without having had an oppotlun.ss
even to wrinkle that 100000 ne oro ,.s,
70 buy PLAYERS. Roger says me ~
up of the Cubs will be unchangeu w.
! season.