The Washington times., 1917-01-18
YANKS TO TRAVEL
IN DE- LUXE TRAIN
Thirty-four Players Will Be
Tried Out by Bill Dono-
van This Spring.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1S-Transporta-
tion de luxe will feature the jaunt of
the Yankees and Braves during their
series of exhibition games in Georgia,
Alabama, and the two Carolinas as
part of their training campaigns.
Four Pullman cars will carry the
players of the two clubs out |of Ma
con on the night OF March %, and the
same cars will be IN use when the
teams leave Fayetteville, N. c., on
April on the journey North. It Is
possible that the game at Fayetteville
will be the final contest OF the series,
though efforts are now being made TO
book another game.
The Yankees. are scheduled to play
the National League champions ON
Saturday, April Z, at Ebbets Field, so
the Good Friday exhibition must be
played within a nights ride of New
York.
Usually a ball team works its way
North after finishing its work at the
training camp, but the Yankees will
work along opposite lines for the first
week of their exhibition tour. The
Yanks will travel South for several
days after bidding farewell to Macon.
Not until they reach Columbus, 8. c.,
one, week after the FIRST game of the
series is played, will Donovan's forces
be farther North than Macon.
r. where They'll Play.
The list of dates and towns for the
Yankee-Brayes series is as follows:
March 26, Macon, Ga; March %, Dub
lin, Ga; March %, Cordele, Ga, or
EufauIa; Ala: March 20, Dothan, Ala:
March 80, Moultrie, Ga; March 81.
Waycross, Ga; Sunday, April /. no
game: April 2, Columbia, S. c.; April 3,
Florence, S. C.; April 4, Whining
ton, N. c.; April 5, Fayetteville, N. c.;
April 6, pending. The Yankees are
due in New York on the morning of
Saturday, April Z, and are scheduled
20 play in Brooklyn that afternoon. On
Easter Sunday Donovan's team will
play Newark, and the next two days
will be given to the series with the
Robins.
VIII Have ThIrty-fouF.
Bill Donovan will have thirty-four
players at the Macon training camp.
The list. of course, is subject to
change and some OF the players who
are on the ragged edge in holding
their places on the team may be cut
adrift II they show too great an in
clination to do strike duty. Players
who put .another's quarrel before their
own private interests may learn too
late that IL pays to be sure OF major
league berth before getting into
fight with those who pay the salarieS.
The players who can be spared, and
many may be classed as such, will
r. "A. - kn
strike without a grievance" in So
far as the major leaguers are con
cerned.
|. The Yankee squad as made up be-
fore the strikers began to show Wha:
they were going to do comprised
fifteen pitchers, four catchers, eighT
infieIders and seven outhelders. Six
pitchers, one catcher, one infielder and
one outfielder have yet to show their
skill at the Polo Grounds.
Fifteen Pitchers on List
The pitching division is made up of
Bob Shawkey, Ray Fisher. Ray Cald-
we'll, Nick Cullop. George Mogridge,
Slim Love, Allen Russell, and Urban
Shocker. of the 1915 team; Bill Pier
cey, Dan Triple, and Sam Ross, who
were tried out last spring and later
released to minor league clubs, and
four newcomers, McGraw, of Colorado
University; Enright, of Newark: Fer
guson, of Bloomfield, N. J., and Mon
roe, from the Southern Association.
The catchers are Nunamaker, Wal
tiers. and Alexander, of the 1915 team,
and Ben Shaw, drafted from Macon.
The infieIders are Pipp, Mullen, Ged-
con, Baumann, Peckinpaugh, Baker,
and Aragon, all veterans, and
knapp, of Shreveport. The outfield
ers are High, Gilhooley, Magee, Mai
sci, Hendryx, Miller, and Bankston,
the last named from the Richmond
club, Of the International League.
Donovan will be assisted at the train
ing camp by Joe Kelley and Luke
Farrell, who have been with the Yam
Lees since Donovan first took charge