The sun., 1919-03-20
PRATT WILL sign
WITH THE YANKEES
Notifies Higgins He VIII Go
South With Team-Giants
Leave for Dixie To-day.
NJ rnEprRIcK q. LEE.

hCuNO Aux DlA1O Az ueSys
NJ FREDERICK q. LIEB.
There was great Joy in the Yankee
baseball camp yesterday. for It was
learned Derrill Pratt would sign his con- |
tract to-day and sail with the team for
Jacksonville on Saturday. Lake Frank
saker. Pratt was holding the New York
fans In suspense for the fun OF II.
Tho club sent Joe Kelly up to Leba-
non, Pa. where Assistant Superintendent
Pratt il employed, and last night Joe
called UP the club by long distance
accepted terms. He will be In New
York Saturday morning, and will leave
for Jacksonville. with the other Kew
York players"
While the Yankees may not have
yielded entirely TO Pratt's demands Kelly
unquestionably had authority to meet
Del half way. Like Baker. Pratt was In
q position where It really did not make nal.
much difference whether or not he played,
| az he had lob paying him $4,000
year.
Tho signing OF Baker and Pratt within
few days has brought great JOY to the
men at local American League headquar-
ters They believe their club now looks
| better on paper than any in the league.
Only Pitchers Shore and Leonard are
unsigned, and Shore will be in Jackson
vile to talk things over with Huggina
! The signing OF Pratt on top or the
promise OF Baker to return to the team.
destroys whatever possibility there was
OF Charley Herzog coming to the Yam
KEGS. Harry Sparrow. business manager
lof the Yankees. said yesterday that the
New. York Americans had waived on
Herzog when a request for waivers was
sent to the local Office.
Giants to Leave To-day.
From to-day on fans may expect news
of some real action on the baseball
front as the prides of Harlem. Nc
Graw'e Giants. begin their march TO
Gainesville, their Florida training camp.
tonight.
In many former years when the Giants
took part in worlds series the baseball
show hereabouts stretched into the latter
part Of October and by mid February the
Giant rockies would be prancing over
the prairie diamond at Marlin.
This year the baseball intermission
is nearly seven months. The 1918 sea-
son shut down last Labor Day. Sep
TENDER Q. Ind the teams will not get
down to real training until near the
end Of March.
Thirty players will be taken TO Gaines
| VILE, and most OF them are grtzzled vet
Grams Unless McGraw makes some
trades between now and the opening OF
the season there will be no position open
, to competition on the Giants except
pitching. Winters and Johnny Jones.
the most promising Of the young slab
sters. will have quite an opportunity be-
fore them. especially II Perritt and An
derson fail to show up.
Youngsters % Get Trial.
or the youngsters who will be taken
to Gainesville three-Brogan, a pitcher
O'Nsill, a catcher, and Pitt. an outfielder
! ARE the property OF the Rochester club
| OMEN and Pitt were with the club in
! Marlin last spring. and McGraw is TAX
!, ing them along for further observation
The other youngsters are mainly free
agents or boys not under contract who
have been recommended TO the club foi
trial.
McGraw and Mathewson left here last
Tuesday for Jacksonville and will beat
the club into Gainesville by day
Eleven players will leave here TO-
] night--Hal Chase and Mrs Chase
Heinie Zimmerman. George Burns
|, Larry Doyle. Lew Mccarty. Georg'
q Dill ftyhH, Jech oiitoopic, pou
: frey BroEan. George Terhune and How
. ard Clarey.
Clarey already has surrounded him
self with q cloud OF mystery. He is I
8 discharged soldier. who doesn't want thu
r club TO tell the name of his home town
5 where ne pitched or who recommends,
him He promises to be interesting.
Pick Up Men en- Route.
q pitcher Bob Steele and Nocl. a forrne
- West Virginia University player. vii
!. Join the party. at Philadelphia. Will
u Pitchers Rommell and Lyons vii
+ ,oin the club at Baltimore and Wash
. inston respectively.
" Tho other players will leave 70
Il Gainesville from the points nearest thei
l. homes. Arthur Fletcher, Clarence Pit
a and George O'Neil, from 81. Louis
= pitcher Hubbel. from Bull, Idaho; To
:. Miller, from Chicago; Benny kauff an
;. Eddie Sticking. from Cincinnati; Fran
from Yale. Okla. Earl Smith. from He
- Springs. Ark jess Barnes, from Circle
willie, Kan. Al Baird, John Paul Jone
and william Perritt, from Shreveport
- La; Ross Young and Jesse Winter
| from San Antonio, Tex: Ferdie Schupl
from Louisville; Rube Benton and Ere
Anderson. from Fayetteville, n. c.
y Czech Causey and Sydney Ross. pitcf
ers, already are in Florida. Perritt an
Anderson are not under contract bt
4, received orders to report at the cam
a Tho club Is not certain whether Lieu
=. Jesse Winters has been discharged froi
q service.
~ Dodgers on to Camp.
ut Three doughty Dodgers, accompanie
s. by five newspaper men, also VIII e
T. away from here to-day. The party WI
is sail shortly after noon on The Comanch
I'd The players who will go to the Dodg'
I'd camp at Jacksonville by boat are GU
I'd Gelder Tommy Griffith IN" player o.
I'd tanned from CincinnatS~hJr panJer
Ollie o'Mara and Sheridan. Brookly
I'd semi-professional.
d. wilbert Robinson. the Compliant lead
C. of the Dodgers. yesterday started pra
; tice with his battery men at Jacksonvill
y, Leon Galore, Al Mamaux. Rube Ma
&c, GUARD and Otto Miller were preset
10, when Robby held the frst roll call
=, Burleigh Grimes. who was Brooklyn
ia. pitching prince last season, winning min
,et teen games and losing nine. will not
permitted at Jacksonville unless he slgl
~ a contract.
~. "Grimes says he will spend the sur
mer at a three acre farm near Kensin
" ton, o." said Charles Ebbets, Jr,, seer
~ tary OF the Dodgers. yesterday. u
Il. can stay up there until doom's day