New Britain herald., 1917-02-21
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ANTS AND TANKS
 READY FOR SOUTH
.ropoliS Ball ToSserS to Leave
 This Week

Few York, Feb. 21.-Although the
 cago Cubs, who left the Windy
 < yesterday for spring training
 r Pasadena, Cal, have the honor
 snaugurating the active 1917 base
 season, their right to such dis
 ;tion is technical one. The two
 V York teams, scheduled for later
 rts, will, nevertheless, begin train
 quite as soon.
 The Giants and the Yankees, prime
 orites for the 1917 worlds series.
 | reach their respective camps late
 aday afternoon. Chicago cannot
 sibly better that time. These
 lee big league clubs, then, will
 It of next Monday on an equal
 ting.
 # the two New York clubs, the
 .nts will make the earlier getaway m the big city. McGraw's pros- tive helpers who reside in the East leave town Friday at 10 o'clock br the New York Central for St. his.
 Assemble in Mound City. s,he Mound City is the real assem- hg place of the Giant clan. A start Marlin, Tex. will be made from Missouri metropolis shortly after ('clock Saturday afternoon. The kedule time for McGraw's train de &~ |te camp is practically the sam9 as It from New York to Macon, Ga, the Yankees. The Giants leave |w York a day earlier than the Yan- es, because they have 8 two-day D instead of twenty-four-hour pne of the largest parties that ever kted the celebrated mineral springs Texas will go out from New York St. Louis aboard the Giant spe- ?. Dr. Beers, the we'll known den- 5, and ex-Captain Fitzgerald. of ire department, will head the II delegation of score and more |siocal fans making the trip with New York Nationals. In addi- b to these civilians, there are a len or more unattached players 10 have asked McGraw to look them IT.. Besides a half-dozen correspondents h the retinue of citizenry. the fol- ving players will leave New York h the Giants:
 George Sandberg, the young catch
 recalled from Syracuse; Sterling yker, a semi-professional pitcher. Atlantic Highlands, N. J.: Pie Way, , Yale pitcher; Waite Hoyt, the Asmus Hall phenom of no-hit fame: rdie Schupp, the veteran south v. who has just signed; George lith, the big Columbia right-hander, ,h the Giants last season; Catchers VI McCarty and Bradley Kocher, tf1elder Benny Kauff, Joe Wagner, 'mer Cincinnati infielder, and John McGraw. Al Schacht. of Newark, | Fred Harscher, of the Gas House ague, both pitchers. go unattached in this Gotham delegation. Jack ed) Murray, the outflelder, will re- Tt at Buffalo.
 Big Jeff as Marshall. Big Jeff Tesreau, who has a lot of tight to take off, will marshal the :ond contingent in St. Louis. to -ait the Giant special. In this nch will be Walter Holke, first seman; Bill Ritter. Jimmy Middle l and William Morrissette, pitch ,; J. G. Josefson and Leo Witter, tfelders, and Joe Schepner, in lder.
 William Barrs, a semi-pro infielder Cincinnati, is going along for prac-. e. Holke has signed a 1917 con- act. Middleton is Bill Clymer's ghly touted phenom, supposed to we won a championship for Louis He, of the American Association, st year,
 The following Giant recruits and adents of the McGraw school will } direct to Marlin from their homes: George Kelly, outflelder. from San rancisco; C. A. Causey, pitcher. from ort Meade, Fla; Ernest Kreuger, ltcher, from Mesa, Ariz.; Jim 1orpe. Oklahoma City; Ross Youns, fielder, San Antonio, Tex: Rodri- lez, first baseman, Havana; Pete lldun, shortstop, Chicopee, Kan; L..
 Jaynes; North Carolina; Hans To- rt, from Cuba; A. W. Baird, from e University of Louisiana, and Zeke ,hman, a free agent, from Cuha. The first squad of Yankees to reach aeon Sunday afternoon, in charge
 Business Manager Harry Sparrow Id Manager Bill Donovan. will in- 1de the veteran scouts Joe Kelley Id Duke Farrell, eight newspaper en and the following players: The veteran pitchers Russell, hooker. Love. Caldwell, Cullop and ogridge, and recruit pitchers Fer lson Piercy, Monroe, Ross. Bob cGraw, Jack Enright and Dan Tip e
 Catchers Leslie Nunamaker, Al alters Walter Alexander Ben Shaw Id Julian Olsen, infielder Fritz aisel, and outfelders Frank Gill ooley and Tim Hendryx.
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