Evening star., 1915-03-06
BERT GAL[|A JOINS
ROCKIES IN VIRGINIA
Pitcher Completes Long Trip
From Texas to Camp at
Charlottesville.
PROSPECTS FOR MONDAY
WORKOUT SEEM BRIGHT
Second Crew Likely to Be Able to
Start Outdoor Training
Again Then.

CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, March O.
For twofold reason this, the sixth
day of the Nationals sojourn, finds un-
mistakable joy in Camp Griffith.
In the first place. one Bert Gallia, the
only prospective camper unaccounted
Tor. crept in in the still of the night,
and greeted the boys when they an
swered taps for breakfast this morn
ing. Gallia came direct from his home
in far-away Texas, where he was de-
tained on account of the illness of his
mother. Second in matter of impor-
tance is the fact that twenty-four
hours of the beautiful white is fast fall
ing a victim to Charlottesyilles near
sewerage system, aided by natural Of
feringS, and particularly "Old SOL" who
is beginning to fiirt around the corners
of fast-disappearing flock of leaden
clouds
simultaneously with the morning
workout of the Nationals in Fayer-
weather gymnasium a corps of men
started clearing the snow from Lam
beth Field. The air, although some
what chilled, is anything but uncom-
Portable. and it really looks as if the
magic wand is going to wave in favor
Of the second crew when it is ready
tO tdhc tHe ucIu iOT start MONDAY
morning.
There was no real change from the
program of Yesterday in this mornings g
pitchers to a fifteen-minute warm-up
that will be sufficient in this line for
zach day while the practice is held un-
der cover This Was followed by
basket ball game of limited duration.
Then the entire bunch took part in a
long trip around the track that sur
rounds the gymnasium The course is
estimated at thirty laps to the mile,
and only few of the sixteen players
cropped out before they had completed
this distance.
Is solid weeks start on the rest OF
= the crew going to have the desired
effect on sixteen servants of the house
of Griffith To those who have watched
the players during the periods they
have devoted to actual work, the an
swer is decidedly in the affirmative
When the big chief and his body.
guard invade the camp tomorrow they
are going 20 be greeted by the best
conditioned bunch of advance explorers
they have ever encountered. The abso-
lutte harmony. general satisfaction anG
total absence of complaint lead TO this
belief expressed in all seriousness anG
rouchsafed by all who have followed
the plan of procedure for which Bosse,
Ryan and Martin are indirectly respon
sihle. of course. this worthy pair o.
Geutenants had their daily orders from
Headquarters some 1lo miles away. Bu
TO all appearances they have beer
highly successful in their personal su
pervision of affairs in general.
il is not going to take very long
either. to convince one Clark Griff1tl
and band of regulars that they arr
starting under a handicap-that the.
Will be forced to take the field in thi
annual intrasquad combats against
well prepared and determined opposi
ton.
In these days of rain. sleet. snow an'
adverse conditions in general the Ma
fionals NAV well consider themselve
fortunate in having the advantage of :
training camp such as they now clam
as their own
How many clubs in the big leagu
circuits have advantages such as ar
offered here. Practically nothing wa
lost when the squad was forced to d.
its work under cover YESTERDAY y
course had the storm developed late
In the campaign il might have beel
disastrous to the best interests of tn
club But Fayerweather gymnasium
has served the purpose to nicely. II
that the work required at this june
ture can be accomplished with ease II
the gym The great majority of bas
ball clubs have nothing to do but 81