The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-02
new YORK YANKS
FIRST CLUB To
START TRAINING
Twenty-Six Players Arc Ordered to
Report i'm Macon Camp on Feb.
22-Seventeen Are Twirlers.

New York, Feb. If other clubs
intend to cut down expenses with
shorter training trips ard condensed
rosters. not so with the Yankees. The
Donovan band will be the first big
league team to pitch its training tent.
and Wild Bill will chaperone one of
the largest, IL not the largest. class
of rockies ever taken below the Ma
son and Dixon line.
On the morning of Washington's
birthday Wild William will open his
spring class in Macon. Ga. and he will
have with him twentysix tossers.
seventeen of them being twirlers.
Donovan will act as supervising prin-
cipal. and his faculty will consist of
Duke Farrell, Joachim chief; Jo-
sephas Kelley, chief Of scouts, and
Germany Schaefer, professor of light
comedy.
Donovan's Washington birthday
party will consist almost entirely of
batterymen. but on March / the
score of infielders, outfielders and
prepared pitchers.
Squirrel Food Galore.
down in Macon. as the seventeen
pitchers include no less than eight
left-handers- All southpaws are not
squirrel food exactly, but between
Germany Schaefer and eight left
handlers there should be some breezy
doings.
The players ordered to be ready for
training in Macon on February 20
are: Pitchers Ray Heating and Cy
! Pieh, who have been with the club
/ for several seasons. Nick Cullop. the
| former Kansas City left-hander;
! George Mogridge. left-hander from
! Des Moines; Dan Triple, the $500
right-hander from Indianapolis, Cliff
! Markle. highlander from Waco; Al
! len Russell, right handler from Rich
! mond. Dazzy Vance. the golden
! haired right handler from st. Joseph;
! Slim Love, a feet inches left-hand-
er from Los Angeles; Neal Brady
right handler and king of the Texas
+ League: William Piercy, crack right
/ + CIDER from Vernon: Tom Blodget,
/ lelt-hander from Omaha. Ford Mead
ows. left-hander from Richmond;
Sam Ross. left-hander from Chatta-
nooga; Urban Shocker right handler
from Ottawa, in the Canadian League,
! Gilman Gay and George Vim, two
| left handed mi-professionals
Catchers: Leslie Nunamaker and
Plus Schwert, of last years team;
/ Walter Alexander, purchased late in
the season from Kansas City, and AL
bert Walters, young acquisition from
Waco. where he caught Cliff Markle.
Infielders: Joe Gedeon the much
discussed player bought from the
Feds, who was with Salt Lake City
last season; Hal Gable, James Nc
Govern and Howard Elliott the last
two being semi-professionals out
fielder: Dom Brown, of Topeka
Regulars Report March 4.
These players viii be joined on
March by Pitchers Ray Caldwell,
Ray Fisher and Bob Shawkey. Infeld-
ers Walle Pipp, Charles Mullen, Lutte
Boone. Roger Peckinpaugh, Fritz
Maisel and Paddy Baumann, and Out
fielders Hughie High, Luther Cook,
Frank Gilhooley, Lee Magee. Tim
! Hendryx, Charley Miller, Gene Layden
and Birdie Cree. At present the
! Yanks have under reserve twenty
pitchers. six Gathers, eleven inhelders
and nine outfielders, forty-six players
in all.
The club is now trying to dispose of
Sweeney and Cree. and the former
will not be taken 10 Macon. However,
II Birdie Is not disposed of before
March /, he VIII report for training
The absence OF Dom Paul Kruger 5
name from the list of catehers would
also make II appear as though this
young fellow will be disposed OF IN
the near future.
| zap iIuStpii, SFOIEhaiS Va LAA@ tAIA'>7'
returned yesterday from the East
Shore of Maryland. where he had been
duck shooting with Wilbert Robinson
and Joe Kelley. The Cap said he was
not near Trappe on his Maryland eX-
t cursion, and that he never gave Baker
a thought while he was away.
, Bill Donovan is now In Macon,
, where he has gone to look over the
, field and see that everything Is in
readiness for his squad wien IT ar
7 rives on February 81.