New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Giants Finish
Marlin Season
In Good Shape
All Except Pitchers Are
Ready for Big League
Opening
By Louis Lee Arms

MARLIN, Tex, March 2S.-Anot
Marlin training season has slid into
history. The Giant regulars concluded
their work k-out at this sunny little Spa
this afternoon by defeating the Yam
nigans, 12 to s, in an exhibition game
ceipts were donated to the Catholic
charities. This game is institutional in
the Giants training season programme,
and this afternoon was we'll attended.
Tomorrow Manager McGraw will
take the regulars to Waco, where they
will recngage the Waco Aviators in an
other exhibition game. The team will
be the guests of the aviation concen
tratlon camp, and a dance will be held
that evening at the barracks
Manager McGraw is by way of be-
coming bug on airplaning If the
weather is suitable day he expects to
make another flight with Major Gilkin-
son, the instructor at the Waco camp,
and will go through The entire aerial
programme of tricks.
Surveying the training activities of
the last two weeks it may be said that
no Giant team ever got more out of
two weeks work than the 1918 aggre-
CATION. AS result every Giant regu-
lar, excluding the pitching staff, could
open the official league season to-mor-
row were that necessary.
AS yet the pitchers are not in shape.
Barnes and Perritt arc underweight,
Sallee's arm is ailing, Tesreau is over
weight, Schupp is unusually slow in
rounding to form and Benton. Ander-
son and Demaree seem to be the only
veterans who are in the pink
The backwardness of Schupp is
source of genuine worry to McGraw.
He has shown SO little in practice that
his fellow players have given him the
sobriquet Of Nap Rucker, meaning that
his pitching is reminiscent of the last
two years Of kucker's career at. Brook
lyn, when he had little except glove
and a lot of hope.
come bound and he doesn't seem to be
able to "thaw" them out.
81 don't think it is serious" he said
to-day, "but l never had like ex-
perience."
The Giants plan to get running
start in the National League this sea-
son, but they are hardly qualified to
do that unless the pitching staff rounds
to condition appreciably better than it
is IN now. There is consolation in the
fact that most of the fingers are
veterans who annually take plenty of
time to get in shape. Yet when the
season opens they are there or there
abouts.
In spite of his loss of poundagc Jess
Barnes showed lot in the workout
and barring long double to the CEN
tretield fence by BIB Jim Thorpe he
held the Yannigans we'll in hand.
Rimcs Park is the home Of the home
run. A short right field fence makes
It easy to clout out circuit drives, and
Laughing Larry Doyle, Heinic Zm,
Eddie Hemingway and Howard Baker
took advantage of that fact to-day.
Each hit the ball into the adjoining
woods, and IN each instance there
were men on base at the time of the
blow.
The Yanngans will finish their work
out here tomorrow, one Pullman lcav-
ing from Marlin and the other from
Waco. Saturday the Giants open
against the San Antonio team of tho
Texas League in San Antonio, and will
bc there five days before picking IN
the CLEVELAND club for the trip north.
Ihc lineup to-day:
fann'gans: Pitt, right field; Scha
Ter, second base; Hemingway, third
base; WiIhoit, centre field Rodrjruez
shortstop; Baker, first base; Oaslow
and o,NcIll. catchcrs; Smith, Hubbcl
and Johnson, pitchers; McCarty, Lewis
and McGraw. pinch httcrs.
Regulars: Young, right field; Kaufr.
centre field; Burns. left field; thinner,
r'an' IVA, 'h'rd base; Doyle, second base;
r'etchoT, =, shortstop; Holkc, first base:
Warden and Gibson, catchcrs; Pcrritt
and Barnes, pitchcrs
Ihc score by innings:
ya,r,c,rs n IT, +,
l'esuars.... : 5 o ia IS !
Summary Two base hits 1horve (2) you,
',an maI's ,aomc runs runs Hemingway, Doyle Zmmer
an '",NI ngye ri Fletcher Double play" Baker
.r I,an i.o"I's"e@ Ease on balls or Pcrritt / or
har,cS oN Johnson. g. Ilits-Of rrrritt VI.
!" a., n"imSs i,',, or barnes. in innings of smith
III III :. innings: CIR lubbel, 6 In innings. IN
,'ohnson. in , innings. Strlck oui-By Barncs "s
J. pS smith, |. lmpre-Swiglcr. ''