New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Rain Descenfls on Jack
sonvilIe and Ring Of
the Bat Against the
spheroid Is Missing
Rv W. O. McCeehan

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April IL
to-day and the expensive athletes in
the pay of Colonels Rupert and Hus-
ton got a chance to put their UNUSED
pi1ochle muscles into play. Some
with more intellectual tastes visited
the movies. A few Of the younger ones
fingered moodily in the corridors OF
the Burbridge, for it was rumored that
Miller Higgins intended to give out a
few blue envelopes to-day.
Gene McCann, now scouting for the
Reds, is lurking in the vicinity and is
gazing at few possible releases with
hungry eye. AS soon as Miller Hug
gins gives the word, McCann Will wrap
up any who may be discarded and
take them down the river to Cincinnati
handing them over to Pat Moran.
Southpaws to Work
If the downpour stops tomorrow
there viii be final game on the South
Side lot between the Yankees and the
Dodgers The Brooklynites are now
leading by one game. Despite the fact
that he declares that the exhibition
games are of slight consequence, Mil
ler Higgins will try to leave camp
with the citrus series cvered up. He
has announced that George Mogridge
and Herbert Thormahlen probably Will
be used to- morrow.
Colonel Jacob Rupert plans to leave
here Sunday. The teams will start
NCnlnr .,la l,oi r-<
game at Brunswick, Ga. From that
point on they will make some heart
breaking jumps, arriving in New York
on Easter Sunday, according to present
plans. Phil Schenck, the demon
ground keeper, will precede the team
to each burg by twenty-four hours and
iron out the different diamonds.
The infield on the local diamond is
constructed Of very lumpy clay. and it
is hard to tell just how good the Yam
kee infiold will look when they hit a
real diamond Dal Pratt has been
looking pretty slow, but it is felt that
he will begin TO show some real field
ing when he finds "A place where he can
move about.
The Yanks are considering themselves
pretty fortunate in the selection Of q
training camp. With the exception of
to-day they have not lost an hour Of
their schedule because Of the weather.
However, the end of the season viii tell
best as to the selection. Picking train
ing camps Is about 80 per cent super
stition. If the Yanks win a flag this
year they will attribute part of their
success to the training camp.
Despite the announced selection of
Halas as lead-off man and fielder for
the ianks, 1t is evident that this prob
lem IS still causing the burrows which
appear upon the intellectual and ala
paster brow of Miller Huggins. Samuel
Vlck is being given plenty of trials at
the midget manager might be wavering
Outside of this position the places on
the regular Yankee payroll seem to be
pretty we'll filled
Worry Over Fewster
The absence of Wilson Fcwster is
another source of worry He was
picked as the understudy of J. Franklin
Baker, the Industrious farmer of
Trappe, Md, and the Yanks viii need
ms services badly. if anything should
happen to Baker. The lad needs all the
work that he can get if he is to be
ready TO step into the important bro
gans of the homcrun king on mo-
ments notice. They have proved q
pretty tough pair of boots to fiji. .
The pitching staff is causing no
worry at all. Huggins has more talent
than he could possibly use in this line
and all of it looks tolerably efficient.
fie would like to have Dutch Leonard,
the obduratc holdout of California, but
he can do without him.
fing Bodie is still suffering acutcly
as the result of an adventure with a
flock of bees. A swarm Of them passed
through the city yesterday and a num-
Der OF citizens attempted 10 arrest
their flight by trapping the queen bee.
MIR. Bodie was aroused from his siesta
by the beating upon tin pans.
The noise recalled the pleasant DAYS
he had spent in the shipyards as a
riveter. He dashed out into the street
and Joined the bee hunters. Citizens
explained to him that anyone who
trapped the queen bee would have the
swarm and quite a paying property
Whereupon Mr.. Bodie borrowed a tin
pan from small boy and joined in the
chase.
Not knowing as much about the life
of the bee as Mr.. Maeterlinck, the cele-
brated Belgian bee hunter, Mr.. Bode
acted under the erroneous impression
that an ordinary everyday bee was the
queen bee. He ponnced upon the in
sect with a triumphant outfelder's
shout of 81 got it,
A moment later look of distrust,
which changed Immediately to one of
pain, crossed the countenance of Mr..
Bodie. He dropped the bee and started
to run. AS he ran he waved his arms
to ward off other bees. This is not done
in bee trapping, and Mr.. Bode was at
tackled on several sides.
He made light of the incident to-day,
however, saying, "I'd just as soon have
plain cane syrup on my hot cakes, any