The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-25
TEAM
TO MEET NATIONALS
ONE MORE PRACTICE GAME AND
THEN COMES THE REAL THING
FIRST BIG ENGAGEMENT.

tinue until the end of the first week in
October The time for joshing and the
DAYS of the kidder are over. Six
months of bitter strife are at hand.
Tomorrow the Philadelphia Ath
letics will be in our sandy midst at
the Daytona Ebbets Field for game,
and they vii remain over at the Des-
pland for another on Monday Tues
day morning at 1888 the Superbas and /
Athletics will entrain in amity and an
express, and beat it to Jacksonville,
where the same two teams meet on I
Tuesday and Wednesday. On Wednes- /
day night the Superbas entrain again. /
that time for Washington on the Poto-
mac, to brave the windstorms of Cap
| itol Hill and the American Leaguers
commanded by Clark Griffith. Their
headquarters will be the Ebbitt House.
They play in Washington Friday and
Saturday and once more entrain, but
only for 45-mile ride to Baltimore.
In the Monumental City they are
booked to stop at the Rennert hotel,
and on Sunday they tackle Jack Dunn's
re-Baltimored International Leaguers,
who were run out last year by the
Federals and took shelter in Rich
mond, Va Dunn's team will be play
ed again on Tuesday, and Tuesday
night stakes will be pulled for a long
stay meath the shade of the old rub
Der plant in Flatbush and environs.
The athletes will be both glad and
sorry to depart from Daytona on the
Halifax. They will miss the weather
of Daytona, but they will shed no
tears over getting away from the high
sky and the glare of the sand which
have made in impossible to get line
on the real merits of the outfielders,
or the actual amount Of substance in
i the number of extra base hits which
: the scorers have so literally recorded
: On the whole, the Superbas are in
. excellent shape for their six-months
c grind There is not serious ailment
: in the camp. Even Wheeler Dells
: corned feet are once more in reason
able shape, and the sore arms reported
: are of such a minor character that in
the refiular season they would hardly
be noticed. The men are as fit as they
: could become, physically, but it will
: require the three series in Jackson
0 vile, Washington and Baltimore for
/. the outfielders to find themselves.
C Playing on the sand slows up man
: mentally and physically. If it is con-
tinued long enough the tendency to
e quit on difficult flies becomes notice
able, and has to be eradicated at all
/ cost
Ed Pfeffer and Marquard should
, about be the two Brooklyn pitchers to-
: morrow in the opener with the Athlet-
les, but Uncle Wilbert Robinson has
| not yet announced his selection. If
l. either of those should work this after
y noon it would mean that he would not
be in the points tomorrow.
!. The arrival of Jimmy Johnston late
!. yesterday afternoon completed the
!. squad, whit he exception of Hi Myers,
I. who will join after thes tork has visit
I. ed his home. When Myers does ap-
|. pear he will find Johnston in center
The newoutfielder had been working
out with the horde of ball players who
8 infest Tennessee in general and Chat
ular, and looked as fit as a fiddle He
} said he needed a little practice of the
J mores SYSTEMATIC sort, but that as
} far as his muscular condition was con
} cerned he was ready to go into the
} strife right away.
} Johnston made most favorable i'm
} preston He is ideally built for ar
} athelete, as we'll as could be pudgeG
from his appearance in street clothes
and would be sized up Immediately
for what he is towit, man who should
y be unusually fast on his feet. Hi:
record of more than eighty stolel
D bases for Oakland, in the Coast League
y last year, had already given the til
.34S in such fast minor as the Coas
- League, in which he equalled T!
y Cobb's record on one and One-thirt
hits per game, proves that there ar,
- at least some pitchers he can hit, AM
y he should find quite few of that va
riety in the National League.
Johnston has had more experience
with mapors than has been thought
He was with the Cubs the whole O
1914 season, and received valuabl
70 instruction. His career, in brief, i
, as follows:
q James Harle Johnston was born il
no Cleveland, Tenn, December 10, 1885
ar He stands five feet, nine inches an
weighs 165 pounds. Bats and throw