Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-15
BASEBALL TRAINING
SEASON TO OPEN SOON
More Than 700 Athletes of the Big
Leagues VIII BE Scattered Over
the South and Southwest,
GEORGIA. QUARTERS SIX OLUBs
Florida Next I'm Line, With Five;
Texas Takes Care Of -four, and
Virginia Two-There VIII BE No
Shortage os Baseballs.

NEW YORK, February l4.-Within
baseball players will be scattered
through the South and Southwest train
Ing for the annual penhunt races of the
National. American and Federal
Leagues. with the gathering OF veter
ans md recruits the baseball situation
Will paHs through another stage OF the
progress which marks the annual sea-
sons of the national sport. Magnates,
league executives and legal authorities
viii give way to the player so far as
popular interest is concerned. and the
coachers cries silence the wrangling
of rival combinations.
While a majority Of the twenty-four
clubs composing these three leagues
have selected thr spring training
camps and set the dates for the re-
porting OF players there is still a pos
s;bility that TWO or three may alter
their Plsns at The las, moment Az the
lists stand at prescn:, however, he
south Atlantic States will be the scene
or the greatest activity. Georgia will
quarter Fix clubs within hrr borders
while Florida VIII entertain tive. Texas
has been named ~ four clubs AL the
state wherein TO pr pare for the 1918
campaign. Mississippi. Arkansas and
Virginia claim two each. while Cali
fornia. Cuba, Kentucky anu North
Carolina will haY: ~ least one squad
training within thei' boundaries dur
ing the month II March.
The list, arranged by leagues show
Ing the city or town where the train
ing camp will he located and the prob
able dute for reporting, Ia as follows:
National League.
hoston. Macon, Ca, March l.
New York. Marlin Springs. Texas,
March J.
ST. Louis. Hot Wells. Texas, March l..
chicago Tampa, Fla. March !,
Brooklyn. Daytona, Fla. March !.
Philadelphia. st Petersburg, Fla.
March I.
Pittsburgh, Dawson Springs. KY.
March 3; Hot Springs, Ark. March II
cincinnati, Alexandria. Va, March
American League.
Boston. Hot Springs, Ark, March &
Philadelphia, Jacksonv!ils. III,
March J.
Washington. Charlottesville. Va
March |,
Detroit, GuIfport. Fla. February 81
So, Louis. Houston, Tex, February ne
Chicago. Paso Robes, Cal, February
New York. Savannah, Ca, March
Cleveland. San Antonio. Tex. Feb
Federal League.
Indianapolis. Valdosta, Ga. March c
Hh!cngo. Shreveport, Miss. March .
baltimore. Fayetteville. y. c. March
buffalo. Athens Ga, March 10.
nrookiyn' browns Well, Miss.
Kansas City. Brunswick. Ga, Marc,
it,souTGh, Augusta, Ga. March 2
~ LOUIS Havana, Cuba. February cc
An interesting sidelight of the re-.
nj
mitiee was the Informal disrussinm 80 ~
unusual features odl9li PLAYING seoson
i"rhe Davis contributed one of hi,
, ,i records, which showed that
mere were more touchdowns from rmnl
-; 1865 OF me kickoff last autumn than
:" many seasons combined In no AZ.
pare'nent of football is IL so dimn,',,
score az III this play w
me iorty years of intercolleui,,.
,""'oail. 1874 10 1914. this fe., MI =,
,,s' iaiL occurred hut twenty-six timss
proved that the collected dst.
80, 'o"htrS presented sixteen in
| a'"hces OF these runs in 1914 unra
| man half as many az charactcri,. ~
~ rcenih2 forty years OF play
theoretically. the runhack az k;oL
w., W 'ouchoown should be Impossible
- ~ pay Is not surprise like a run
,. .n.' image, which can be mixed
win several different plavs kIcLa g.
ward passes, and the large .Ia. i'
! rake plays. II Is not unexpected h..
opHohents. since upon the kick-off there
can De nut two plays, run-hack mr. -
return or the kick. Again. the defsn
siNe team prior to the kick-ofr. care
,h.. :, Pa p'aces Jus eleven players all over
tue hcid 10 prevent the run back
An examination of these succ..sr,
uh.nAcks discloses that with one ex
'rptioh theS have been Accommodates
a oash straight into the thickest
OF inc opposing front. Runners who
lry 10 skirt the tanks usually are d.
$500 eo s'raiKht up the centre of the
helo' the two teams usually meet In
compact mass about the runner close
10 the thtrty-yard line 1t sometimes
happens that In the tight. tangled mass
OF men. no one can seize tho runner
VINO thus is forced through the mass
INTO an open field beyond where he
races but two or three back field de-
tenders. whom he must outshrin, ar
outdodge on the way TO a touchdown-t
a feat that has occurred counting IN
the 1914 instances, Just forty two times
TN thousands OF attempts
another feature of the 1914 prist
OF runs of this character ia the an6sar
ance for the first time OF a PLAYER Who
has accomplished the run more than
once, and who has done 30. as a. second
distinction, In one season. This PLAYER
Is ]. r. Gallagher, of Christian Broth
ers College of st. Louis
The players who accomplished this
feat In 1914 together with length OF
the run and the game in which it was
made, as recorded by Mr.. Davis. are as
Follows: Ninety-fve yards-H. N Ren
Ter (AlbrighD vs.. Susquehanna; r. +.
Chamberlain (Nebraskal VS.. Michigan
Agricultural College: ]. - Gallagher
(Christian Brothers) ST. Louis vs.. Ohio
Northern: r. l.. Tolley (Sewannee) VS..
Cumberland: w. S. Tucker (Pennsyl-
vania) vs.. Swarthmore: A. L. williams
'CornelD vs.. Holy Cross. Ninety-two
yards-C. A. Toolan CWilliams) VS..
Trinity. Ninety yards-R. w. Winston
North Carolina) VS.. Virginia Military
Institute; George Clark Gllinois) VS..
Chicago; y. F. Lowney COLBY VS.
bates. Eishty-five yards-J. p. Gal
lagher christian Brothers) VS. Tran
sylvania; Braham tMiddiehury) We. ST.
Lawrence; S. S. Robinson (Colgate) VS..
Ohio Wesleyan. Eighty yards-A. H.
bergman (Notra Dame) vs. Roso Poly;
A. Virgins (Ellsworth) VS. Charles
City College, Seventy yards-R A.
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