New-York tribune., 1919-04-04

Two games will be played with Bos-
ton at the Metropolis of the West
Coast, where report has it that Man
ager Ed Barrow has met with most
favorable weather and has his all star
champion cast tuned up to carly season
form. These games are to be but the
prelude to rather prctentious spring
exhibition series with formidable
American League clubs. The Boston
Americans and New York Nationals
will return to this city Sunday and
will entertain the Gainesville folk and
big league baseball next Monday and
Tuesday.
On Tuesday night the northern jour
ney Will begin. The teams will travel
in company as far as Baltimore, Md,
playing Columbia, S. c.; Spartanburg,
s. c., and Winston Salem. N. c., en-
route. McGraw's team Will play Jack
Dunn's Orioles in Baltimore on Satur-
day and Sunday, April 12 and IL. Nov
ing to Norfolk, Va, the Giants will
then engage Clark Gritfith's Senator's
in seven consecutive battles, the last
two of which will be put on at the
Capital City.
The present training trip has been
the shortest ever INDUCED in by New
York National League club since John
j. McGraw has been in command. The
pretentious spring exhibition season
sets in after the Giants have been in
training for only eleven days. McGraw
is an ardent believer in a long spring
grind and strenuously opposed the
thirty days limit adopted by the Ma
tlonal League at its last annual meet
ing. He, however, has held religiously
to the rule this year while certain
other magnates, many of them the
stoutest champions of the limit, have
used subterfuge to cVadc their pledged
obligations.
Fortunately for McGraw, the weather
Aas been IDEAL and he approaches tho
tilt with the Red SoX with his players
as we'll conditioned, perliaps. as any
major leaguers training in Florida. Not
minute has been lost since the club
began work a week ago last Saturday
afternoon. There has been plenty of
hot weather. though the nights have
been cool and ideal for resting. There
has been little wind, which always
hampers quick conditioning.
MCGfaW was more fortunate than
most major managers in that he start
ed training with a veteran cast His
infeld and outfeld were settled upon
before the training season set in. His
only problem was the whipping togeth-
er OF pitching staff in keeping with
the class evidenced in other depart
ments.
It is somewhat premature to venture
an opinion as to the driving power and
defensive strength of the 1919 Giants.
A better line may be had after the
series with the Red Sox. SO far the
players have engaged in only friendly
tilt among themselves, and everybody
knows that in intra-cub games the
boys refuse either to cut loose or take
undue risks. The regulars, however.
have shown that their wind and legs
are in extra good condition for this
early stage, and they have clouted the
best of the Giant pitchers in a fashion
that promises some unpleasant mo-
ments for rival boXmen the coming
year. In the practice games here none
OF the veterans has taken undue libcr-
ties with his arm. Until day or two
ago, indeed, the inhcldcrs were all
rainhoWing to humor sore Dinions. but
the hot weather of tho present week
seems to have effected q cure 10 4
great degree. The inner line is peg
ging a bit now for the first time,
though every peg makes the mighty
Heine Zim vince
tcrdle Schupp, the southpaw sensa-
tion of 1917, has been left in Gaines
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