Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-28
SPRING TRAINING SHIRTS
IN EARNEST FOR MAJORS
AggreSntiOns VIII BE Hard at Work
Before End OF This
Week
BATTERY MEN ARE our NOW
Superiluous Avordupois Is Being
worked ON by Many Candidates.
Several Stars May Upset Dope by
Actions i'm Next Few Weeks.

rhe ,p:ing training season for ma
Jpr !eaSu" clubs Will he In fun blast
within IN" next ;wu or three days.
bU.-ht Tie last fow weeks IL began
~ a tlusultovy sott OF WAY with bat
terry candidates of various teams work
~ ~. SHyy!aHoHs aN"irdUpois at diff
i"i"ml health resorts in The South. and
the iuli list OF agErtE6ueus VIII ur
hna 40 work before the end of the
The ta"iy days Of the coming big
league season, which opens ON Ap',.
a. WA! $how to q certain extent the
tt7i,t',IN" Virtues OF the climate in The
Eastern ana Western sections of the
south. III each OF the TWO major cir
cults the favoritc and second choice
VIII train in different halves OF the
country. The Boston Braves, who a..c
rated ir@i in prophecies ,lucnt the Ma
'l"nai League race. viii drill at Ma
con, Ga; which is near the Atlantic
ScnhoH'd. ana the New York Giants
NH be IN the West. ut Marlin Springs
i.Nas The Boston Red SoN are FIRST
choicc III the American League. They
VII! do their training at Hot SPRINGS
MIX, IN the West. whereas the Ihila-
d"irhia Athletics and WASHINGTON SEN
At"rS. considered most likely contend
crS, VIII work in the East. the Scma-
tors ut chaIlottesvillc Va. and The
Athletics in FloIiGu.
The longest trip 10 h" taken hy any
blS !eAGu" team VIII he by the Chi
ca@o White Son. as during the Iast
several years. They viii toll ~ r.Lso
The entire aspect Of the coming pen
nan, nights * likely TO I've upset by de
N@l"pnratS durinS the next f,.w weeks
in regard to particular Star players
who's" places Of employment are undc-
cidcd. ono OF them Is T. Frank lin
Eahcr. The home run king of the Ath-
lctics. who recently announced his re
tircmcnt from the game umd followed
later with Il declaration that sufficient
money Inducements would lure him
back TO the realm OF the old bas,hit
Tho possibility of his participatinr i'm
trades from one club 10 another and
thcn perhaps to still one more makes
nj" utlWitc destination absolutely un-
certain. Wherever he finally lands he
Is bound Ia II" AN important element in
me success OF some team, it, indeed he.
docsn', get out OF the game ns he.
originality said he would.
Arh'.hdo MfFSans the great Cuban
not yet definitely decided despite an
hounCcmcutS OF various sorts by the
HlHcfcnt factions claiming him. After
jumping from the Cincinnati Reds To
'hH -. Louis FrdcralS, il will he re-
called, he was tied up by the latter club
III Tn" courts. AS his case now stands
there is possibility that he may play
IN cithcr the American or the National
League.
one of The most peculiar cases of this
WIN the Brooklyn Fcdcrals last De
cenbcr though under ironclad contract
to the Chants There is the possibiIii,
mat the New York club may trade the
rune or sell him If he decides not to
Try to play with the FEDS Ray Cald-
well also is pretty much a guessworI,
prop"Siti9n. After hopping from the
New ork Americans last fall he de-
serted the Buffalo Feds two months
ago 10 sign again with his old club.
where he VIII be by the time the sea
son opens.