New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-14
Shorter Training Season
and Player Limit Said
To Be Contemplated.
BILLY SULLIVAN
WILL QUIT GAME.
Kansas City Federal League
Team, Which Comes to New
York. Lacks 800 Hitters.
BY JEROME BEATTY.

When the American League mag
mates meet next month they will make
two moves toward retrenchment that
were made by the National League last
spring. A player limit will be estab'
l:shed and the spring training season
will be cut short. according 10 men
close to American League officials.
Already ;he managers in the clubs in
the younger organization are making
their arrangements so that they Will
rot be interfered with by the expected
ruling. The Yankees will not begin
training until March i, although few
pitchers will slip down TO Macon I'M
officially the last week in February.
The Chicago White SoX, who usually
started on their training trip to Cali
fornia in February. will train in Texas.
and will not leave Chicago until March
/. The Detroit Tigers also are ar
ranging to go South later than usual,
and the other clubs will follow suit.
The Giants protested vigorously last
season about the limit, for they had
number Of veterans, held by long term
contracts. who were of little use, but
who filled up the club roster
Other clubs, however, found the limit
rule TO be a success, and the system by
which the training season was snort
ened cut off good sized slice OF the
general running expenses.
1t always has been question as 10
whether long training seasons were
worth while. They were expensive, and
often clubs got to their camps so early
that warm weather had not yet ar
rived. The Giants, in Marlin last year,
came in between good spells of weather,
however. The sun was warm until they
arrived, but disappeared, never TO re-
turn until they got out Of town.
The Cleveland American leaguers are
optimistic persons. They still have the
name of George Stovall on their re-
serve list like light in the window
that the sailors widow keeps.
Captain Huston is planning now on
the gates for his new park.
"But what" asks a curious person,
do the Yankees need with entrances to
their park"
Billy Sullivan. former White Sox
catcher. who was with Minneapolis last
season. announces that he has quit
baseball forever Sullivan was unique
in his use of explosives. When an.
gered he would cry Gee whiz!" but II
UTlNen 10 ut MOulh AAN o.
en- umpire these terrible words, Holy
COW, MIR. Umpire Whatter you givin'
us? Holy cowl"
The player limits in the major
leagues are cutting down the number of
drafts. This season only thirty-four
men were drafted by the majors, az
against forty-tEree year ago.
OF the seventeen players drafted by
the American League, the Yankees took
seven. The Giants drafted four.
A. Philadelphia paper wonders why
there is less roofing now at baseball
games. Perhaps it's because in these
new stands it is easier for the players
to reach the fans and do something
more than to talk back.
The Kansas City Federal League
club. which will be brought TO New
York, was seventh in batting in the
organization and did not boast of one
800 hitter. II probably, in fact, did
not boast Of any Of its hitters, with
the possible exception Of Kenworthy.
who batted .297. George Stovall hit
only .218.