Evening star., 1915-02-28
BRAVES HIKE SOUTH
World Champions Leave Bos-
ton for Macon Training Camp.
STALLINGS TO MEET Them
Players Confident of Again Annex
ing League Pennant and
World Title.
sTALLINGS TO MEET THEM

BOSTON, February 2T-The world
champion Braves, or rather as-many OF
them as make this part of the country
their winter headquarters. pulled out
of the South station a half hour before
midnight tonight with Macon, Ga, as
their destination. There. under the
critical, requiring eye of Manager
f;eorce T. Stallings, they Will prepare
for another seasons campaign. which,
eyerv one is confident, will prove quite
as successful as that of last year. Ac-
.omnanying the actual players were
rho usual delegation of scrfbes ana OF
newspaper photographers, also haif
dozen of We faithful fans who are go
,r, down at their own expense TO
ra,cb the preliminary work OF their
favorjtes and to escape the HIarcn
-;,,ss for which the New England cll-
mate is no'orious.
Tbere wasn't a member of the parry
raaaine southwark tonight who DID
not believe the Braves OF ls!o "uuiu
he lust as good. even better, than tnes
were in 1914, when their rapfo riss
from last place to first was piS.s .oppgs
off by the winning of the woria
series in four straight games-the lat-
ter being a feat never before accom-
nlished in world series history. inese
braves of course. do not propose !nls
wear. to get themselves into the Dox
IN which they found themselves last
Fourth of July-a seemingly hopeless
Iast-but rather they expect TO go OUT
in front and to stay there. sett1hs .hs
pace all the way. and amasslne ieau
~ snfIicient proportions to avoid the
tremendous nervous strain they unoeT. F.
went during the latter part OF the 1914
On paper at least. and on the score
l.
rnittedly look the best of the lot In the
National League, and II there IS any
virtue in confidence then those same
Braves have the pennant i'll the Na-
tional League for 1915 won alreaoy.
Sometimes 1t seems as though the con-
tdence Of the players was DIT 100
great, and that the club might suher
IN consequence. But Manager StaiiinSs
IS not the sort of a manager to permit
any overeonfidence to exist uncuroeo.
one of the chief things he proposes
to do the moment he takes control OF
the team Tuesday morning will be 70
impress it upon the men. individually
and collectively that pennants are won
on the bail field, not in the dressing
room; also that the Braves. however
they may feel about it personally and
however they may have talked about
Il during the winter, haven't any lead
Fine cinch.
Fears Giants and Cubs.
Md in this connection it might be
aid on personal information that the
manager of the Braves firmly believes
there are two teams that are going to
require watching all the time. Stallings
is not of those who believe that the
Giants are all in. Not bit Of 1t. He
has frequently expressed himself upon
that point. 1t IS that McGraws men
have Just as much of a chance to come
hack in 1915 and make trouble for the
tedlas that robbed the New York clut
Uf thee pAnuant and a share of the
N.orid series coin as did the Athletics
we YEARS ago after the Red Sox butted
INTO the championship column in 1912
The other club most feared by Stallings
IS the Chicago Cubs. The Braves boss
mas q mighty high opinion of the Cubs
pitching staff. He thinks 1t one o1
the best in the league. but poorly man
aged last year by Hank O'Day. He
looks for Bresnahan to use about foul
Of the Cubs best twfrlers in fairly
system will greatly increase the Cubs
treneth and fighting ability.
Stallings may have the world cham.
pion team of 1914, and team thai
light back and repeat, nevertheless:
there are couple OF conside ration:
that are causing Stallings and the fan:
who follow the club the closest no lit
lie Worry. One of these Is the condition
Of Johnny Evers. the other has to dc
with the immediate future of big Bill
.Iamea Evers. as every fan knows. wa:
stricken with pneumonia while attend
ing the National League meeting IL
New York last December. Three week.
later. to q day. he was able to leave
for his home, mp state. in Troy. bu
he did so against tho advice Of hi.
physician. and shortly afterward Ever:
round it necessary to resort to CAM
pfs I'm the Adirondacks in the hope:
Fiat the after-effects of pneumonis
,night wear oft more quickly and tha
his strength might come back NOR,
rapidly. 1t is significant that a few
weeks ago, upon his doctors advice. h,
went south and has since been leading
an outdoor life under as favorable 1
climate as possible
ClpH ef3aiais have naturally attempt
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