New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
Robbie Not Satisfied with
Beautiful DaytOna as a
Training Camp.
FIELD NO PLACE TO
DEVELOP TEAM WORK
Much Hard Practice Ahead Of
Men Before They Are Ready
TO Battle for Pennant.
From a stan Correspondent, q The Thbun.I

From a stan Correspondent - The Tribune
jacksonville, April Son to Rich
mond!" is the slogan of the Brooklyn
Superbas. The team left Daytona this
morning and arrived in this city shortly
after noon. The game scheduled with
the local club of the South Atlantic
League was postponed because of wet
grounds and cold. but inclement
weather did not prevent Robbie from
rushing the boys out for good stif
workout that lasted for the better
part of two hours. Playing on real
ball field, the boys fairly dubbed with
ginger, and il was hard 10 believe 1t
the same team that scuffed through
that series with the New York Yankees
on Ebbets Field, in Seabreeze.
The team will leave for Richmond
tonight at 8 O'Clock. arriving there
tomorrow evening. On Monday they
will start a two-game series with ile
International League club of that city.
Leaving Richmond behind, Robbie's
minions will storm Washington, ana
spirited fighting may be expected pc
fore the city by the Potomac falls, Tor
Walter Johnson undoubtedly VIII send
his fast ball whiZzing across the plate
in one of the contests.
After a month in Daytona, with It's
broad and placid Halifax River, ITS
stately palm trees and sub-tropIcai
vegetation, the team is not ready BY
two weeks TO plunge into the battle Tor
the pennant.
Wilbert Robinson and the team are
not satisfied with the work accom-
plished. 1t may be said that some con-
ditions will have to be improved greatly
before Robinson will consent to hav-
ing the team train there another year
Ebbets Field in Florida is not the
place to train big league club as 1t
now stands. The outfeld is great
waste OF sand. No player in the game
can go after fy ball with any degree
of certainty, and to judge ground
ball is impossible. The players have
said that to run at top speed would be
to invite Charley horses and pulled
tendons.
Sore feet has been constant com
plant Of all, for the sand. rising ankle
deep, pours into the mems shoes.
The infeld is hard as brick in
spots and soft TO the point OF being
dangerous in others. 1t is regu ar only
in its irregularity, and the felders are
weary Of going in for ball. Hail
a dozen times this trip the boys have
been hit with hard driven balls, and
all hands are gun-shy. This, OF course,
will soon be forgotten when on good
grounds. but team work cannot be de-
veloped over night, and in this respect
more than any.other the Superbas have
suffered.
A deal Of hard work is before the
Superbas. Robinson has been assured
that all improvements will be made
during the summer, and next winter
the grounds will be the finest IN the
state.
Robbie will take a trip to Daytona
during next winter, and will inspect
the grounds before ordering his men
TO report, and IL conditions are not as
thew should be it Is more than likely
that he will cast about for another
camp.
Billy Zimmerman is of" the Jack
sonville restaurants. He went into one
to-day which proclaimed itself the best
in town. Billy ordered a steak He
waited for twenty minutes, and then
waited some more. He remembered
that once some one said something
about things coming 10 those who wait.
After about twenty minutes more he
ventured to ask the negro waiter
where his meal was. To his surprise,
not 10 say disgust, the darby replied:
"Mah. goodness, massa, done clean
forgot TO ordah it,"
Billy tainted. When he revived he