Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-26
SPORTS OF PRESENT
 AND OTHER DAYS AS
 RECALLED BY uRAVY
New York Giants May Forsake Their Former Training Camp at Marlin, Texas, and Train in Florida.

the New York Yankees would prob ably forsake Macon, Ga, as training camp and go to Florida comes the an- nouncement that the Giants are likely to do their spring work in the same state. AS it is customary for the clubs training close to each other to ar range interleague games ill the spring 1t is possible that the [. oupe of Me- Graw and Huggins will come together ill a series of contests before the opening of the regular season. The Braves and Phillies will .rain ill Flor ida, as we'll as the Athletics, and consequently there is like to be plen- ty of preseason activity between the leagues down in Florida.
 Even though golf is the national game of Scotland the number of courses in that country thirty-five years ago did not exceed thirty, while today there are more than 300. An other curious thing about the game in it's native country is that while it was popular as early at 14U0, there are no records of any clubs or societies be- fore 1744, the date of tn, first min utes of the Honorable Company, the Edinburgh Burgess Society claims foundation of some ten years prior to that year, but can show no record of it's meetings before 1774
 First Chief of the National League.
 Tomorrow will marx the elghtieth of the birth of East Haddam, Conn.,, or Morgan Wardner Bulkley, soldier, statesmen and immortal in baseball annals as the first president of the National League. ss the National League, has Served as governor of State and as member of Congress. He was educated in Hartford, but as a youth left the Connecticut capital to esaMish him. self in business in Brooklyl When the Civil War broke out he jd1ned New York regiment and served bravely throughout the bloody conflict. He was one of the most ardent supporters of baseball in the early days of the game, following the war. He returned to Hartford in 1872, and organized a bank of which he became president. It was when baseDall seemed in danger of eX- tinctiun because of the gambling and other evils which had attached them selves to the organized game that he headed a rescue party Composed of William A. Hubert of Chicago, Nich- olas E. Young of Washington, A. G. Spalding w. N. Haldeman of Louis vile and others, and helped to estap- fish the National League on a new, clean and sportsmanlike basis.
 
 league, MT. Bulkley was the owner of the Hartford franchise, and made his city one of the charter members oI the oldest major. He retired as head of the league at the end of the 1876 sea- son, but continued as president of the Hartford club for another year, when, owing to the press of other mat ters, he was forced to break off his ac- tive connection with the sport. During his brief administration, however baseball was purged of many evils, and under his successor, William A. Hu!bertti who died in 1882, the game was placed upon a sound basis.t
 Very few of the pioneer magnates of the National League remained in the game very long. Hubert was presi- dent of the Chicago club for six years. ,Mr. Bulkley was president of the Hartford club for two years, and J. L.. KecN Of Cincinnati and J. R. c. Lucas of St. Louis for the same period. w.. N Haldeman also headed the Louis- vile club for two years. All the other charter presidents, including N. T. Aprolonio of Boston. William H. Cam meyer of New York and 7. Thomas J. Smith of Philadelphia, retired at the end of the first season. .a