New-York tribune., 1918-03-09

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New York's major league clubs are
tate real action in various sections 0
next week has rolled into the dlsca
Practically all the major league clubs
will follow closely on the heels of the
Yankees into the Southland. Doubt
less many would have been there al
ready but for a sort of gentlemen'S
agreement which, in the interests Of
economy. limits spring training to one
month this season.
The American League, presumably.
is not going to hold its members to
such rigorous confines as is the Ma
tional, for Huggins and his followers
have not gone to Macon to admire the
scenery. If certain National League
clubs resort to subtcrfuge or sharp
practice (and get away with it), well,
that's another matter in the young life
of John Kinley Tener.
Cripples at Hot Springs
IF the truth must be known, certain
Giant cripples have been az Hot
Springs, Ark, several days now dis
porting in the mud and mineral baths
and otherwise exercising and thawing
out the reinforced repairs of broken
bones and strained ligaments. Wheth-
er or not the implements of baseball
warfare are TABOO dU lIc AIhdIlosto
health resort is beside the question.
Charles II. Ebbets, the genial Squire
of Flatbush, does not propose that the
big end of the Bridge is to have any
advantage over his highly paid sons
of swat.
The pioneers of the 1918 Dodgers
therefore will set out for this same
Arkansas health resort to-day, and
Squire Ebbets, who fathered the bill!
n fO month SWp2rS
by all the prophets that none of them
will be so far allowed to transgress
the spirit of the rule as to oil glove
or "bone' bat.
Mr.. Ebbets seeks refuge behind a
ruling of Mr.. Tener, to the effect that
it is no transgression for veterans to
go to the baths as much as they please
before they begin actually to train with
baseball accoutrements.
Wherefore, this afternoon it is ex-
pected that party of Dodgers, con-
sisting of Pitchers Marquard, Russell.
Heitman. Cheney and Pitt, all of whom
live in New York, and Catcher Otto
Miller. who still lives in Brooklyn and
is not ashamed of it, will set out for
Hot Springs from the Manhattan Ter
minal at 2:04 p. m. Manager Wllbert
Robinson, who hibernates in baltlmore
is expected to join for a little skull
practice ~at Harrisburg, Penn. Dan
Ccmerford, traffic manager, will accom-
pany the delegation. All the other
players have been ordered to report
directly from their homes in time to
reach Hot Springs not later than the
evening of March 16.
There is need for early mobilization
OF Robinsons forces at Hot Springs
The Boston Red Sox will train at the
same city, and will engage the Dodgers
n ,or;oc Of oyI ibitOn Games at C1nlC
as we'll as in an ante-season exhibition
tour of pretension. Manager Ed Bar
row and his Red Sox will start active
training at the Arkansas Spa Monday
President Frazee, Barrow and half g
dozen of the Hub players will depart
from this city this afternoon on the
train that bears the pioneers of the
Dodgers.
Will Waste Little Time
Brooklyn and Boston will not waste
much time before they meet in deadly
combat The first exhibition is billed
for week from Sunday, just one day
after the official opening of Nationa
League training. Games will also be
played at Hot Springs the following
two Sundays. On April the two team:
will begin joint pilgrimage to the
Southwest, swinging through Texas
Louisiana, Alabama and neighborint
states. The tour will furnish the rival!
daily practice until they finish that ex
ercise at Chattanooga, Tenn, OF
April 10.
On the eve of the departure of hi:
first squad for Hot Springs a goot
omen penetrated the good ear of Squire
Ebbets. This was the intelligence tina
Ivan Olson, shortstop of the club, hat
signed his contract and would leave
IN n FOL
Olson broke the news by wire. Th
acquisition of Olson assured Robinso,
intact the infield with which he plan
TO open the season. Jake Daubert i
working under war time contract
Frank O'Rourke, Chuck Ward AM
Ollie O'Mara, who will fight it ou
among themselves for the two opel
infield positions, have all signed within
the past week or two. Olson last yea
proved one of the most valuable in
fielders, or rather players, on tn
Brooklyn team. He fclded better thai
at any time in his previous career, an
hi. .26e. His hitting was unusuafl
timely, too.
The Federal League edifce know
as Washington Park, constructed b
the Ward brothers on the old HON
site Of the Dodgers, is soon to be dis
mantled as result OF the report o
the joint committee appointed by th
two major leagues to make dispositio
Of the "outiaw" holdings which az
crued to them as result Of the recer
settlement with the Gilmore revolt
tionists.
James Foster, who built Brish Sts
dium, visited the former F'eders
League citadel, in company with Harr
y. Hampstead. Of the Giants, yesterda
afternoon. He believes the steel an
other material that may be rescued fo
building purposes will more than pa
for the cost Of razing the steel an
concrete stands. The property as
real estate attraction, Of course, wi
be greatly improved once the CRANE
stand and bleachers have becna tor
down.
John q. Foster has completed a
arrangements for the departure Of tn
Giants for Marlin, Tex, on Monda
While It is not planned to open acti,
training until one week from to-da
John buckingham does not propose
draw hai- line decision with the raj
&1yg. lie figures a trim that ,,sual1