The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-27
CINCINNATI is
AFTER A CAMP
Reds Already Have One Bid
From q Southern City.

CINCINNATI. O. Nov. 27.-Away
down South in Dixie, where they are
100 per cent patriots ana mighty good
fellows, the baseball bacillus is begin
ming to stir, sit up, and demand at
tention. The little pixie cities are
thinking about mex March, and casting
their nets for big league bah clubs
best evidence that ruc enthusiastic
South has sense, and ~ willing to help
good work along.
War conditions have changed loCa
tons for various clubs. Teams that had
certain training towns m the spring OF
1918 won't have them again. Some Of
the ball yards were taken for army
purposes and completely r%eshaped, 10
that they won't be of any baseball util-
ity In future.
Some Of the clubs went to army train
ing camps to entertain the soldiers
and there won't be any soldiers there
10 entertain In the coming spring, Such
was the case with the Reds. They gave
up their quarters at Shreveport, where
they hid been comfortably Installed for
two years, aud went TO Montgomery,
Just to be with the boys or Camp Shert-
Ian.
Montgomery was all right-finest peo-
pie any one could WISH to mcet-and
the soldiers were delighted with the
visit Of the Reds. But the bail yard
was a hldeous distance from anywhere,
and a cold wind seemed to come up at
bothersome times-hence the Reds did
not like the town rs a place for con-
ditioning athletes, though they never
found more hospitality or moro liNable
folks, Hence the Reds are looking for
q location, and II Is hoped that sundry
southern towns will make early bids,
One offer has come In alneady-frOm
Natchez. There's II live burg and the
citizens claim that the March climate
in NatcheS Is delightful
The Reds have been uuffeted around
II good deal as to training camps, They
were at Hot Springs for awhile but left
the Arkansas resort mainly because
there were so many clubs there that
II was hard to get a s%ufftcncy Of prac-
tiCc on the diamond. They tried CO.
lumbus, Ga, The team got into good
condition there on an excellent field,
but accepted, for the ensuing year. an
offer from Mobile, Tho Alabama city
was a glorious old pace, nut the boys
didn't like the wind. the rain, or the
mists, and migrated to Alexandria, La,
Alexandria was, distinctly, all TO the
good, but the ball park was cut up for
civic improvements, or something Of
the kind, so, after two years. the wan
dering Reds went to Shreveport. This
burg was highly pleasing, and two trips
We're pade to this tar-off city, The
Montgomery offer and the chance ia
lfN'RN NV AA''i'H UNIV Nv NOUS away III
the spring of 1918, and another club
promptly annexed the Shreveport Toe
cation. Oh, well, anyhow, we've seen
a lot OF the South as we Travelled.
Clncinnatis pet ball cIub-neNt TO the
Reds~the fast team of the 136th artil-
lery~-made' up of loCat semi-pros and q
few x-leaguers-has had it's wish Ever
since the boys went TO France they have
been pining for q game with Grover
A~leNander's club ana finally got II.
Alex was In great form, and 10 was
Kari Adams, the former Red and Cub,
who was working for the Artillery team,
Up to the ninth, the score was . to /
then AleNander'S gang cut loose, fired
a heavy Volley and threw the Cincinnati
crowd back into the dugouts, 6 to 2.
Johnny Dell, now Lieut., Dell, formerly
Of the Louisvilles and the Cincinnati
Norwoods~writes that the defeat was
an awful blow, hut that they hope ia
get even soOner or later, AfteI the
game, says Lieut.. Dell, the athletes
were entertained by a tremendous ali
light directly overhead, the planes. al
times. coming SO close mat the faces
Of the a~viator8 could be distinctly seen,