The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-05
Gatherings From the World Of Sport

Dan Griner, the big pitcher who
served with the Cardinals and Robins
during rather. brief major league
career and who is now with the Yer
non club OF the Pacific Coast league
made an excellent showing in the re-
cent series between Vernon and St
Paul. He started three games and /
won them all, and did not allow a |
single earned run in the twenty-seven |
innings he pitched. He used his mud
ball" in one game. but in the two
others, which were played under the
American Association rule prohibiting
the application Of any foreign sub
stance to the ball. he abandoned this
delivery and hurled remarkably well
without it. According to Frank Chance
Griner never was az good as he Is at
the present. time. and he may come
back to the major league.
The announcement from Chicago
| that Charles A. Comiskey will not
again take or send the White Sox to
Mineral Wells, Tex, to train, but will
build training camp Of his own some
where below the MasonDixon line.
means that at least one club owner Is
about to do what numerous club own
ers have contemplated doing for sever.
al years. The permanent camp OF the
Sox will not be ready until the spring
of 1921. 1t is probable that next spring
enc Sox will get into shape in one Of
the many small cities Of Louisiana or
! Texas which are now bidding for
them.
=, Comiskey plans, according to dis
patches from the Windy City. to con-
Ha1 tn ipir MI ~
will include dormitories, club house,
dining hall and gymnasium. The club
will make it's own commissary arrange
ments and a training table such as
football teams have will be established.
In this way Kid Gleason will have all
his men so situated that their training
|. may be more carefully supervised
than is sometimes possible at the or.
binary southern resort and grumbling
t because Of inferior hotel accommoda-
, lions or unsatisfactory food will be
eliminated.
This idea may have been original
, with Comiskey, but II 40 he conceived
t | 1t some years ago, for other clubs. not
ably the Giants. have seriously consid
:. cred putting 1t into effect at one time
:. or another. Conditions at Marlin
which is in many respects an ideal sire
= for training camp, inspired John Nc
. Graw to advocate the building Of quar-
y tiers for the club. The chief hotel ir
= Marlin is situated half mile or sc
from the ball park and the arrange
t merits at the hosiery never were very
:. satisfactory to the players. 1t IS posi-
BILE that the Giants may yet erect build
o ings for the housing and feeding Of thu
g players in close proximity to the f1elt
and so make Marlin, where the'
t trained for eleven years. permanent
e site.
= Two major league teams. the Ath
q Ietics and the Cardinals. did thei
S spring training for the 1919 campaign
n at home and it will be interesting t,
- note what decision Connie Mack an
, Branch Hickey make in regard to thei
d training plans for next season. TIL
n fact that the Athletics finished las
is no argument against training a
"a home, for the Athletics have prove
~ conclusively that they can finish las,
v no matter where they train. No on
h seems to know what Mack think
n about the proposition, but Hickey e,
e pressed himself during the season a
having been we'll satisfied with tn
% In this connection comment by JAG
a Dunn. manager of the Baltimore clu
~ of the International league, on sprin
N training at home may be of som
n value. Jack trained his club in Bait
more last spring and then proceede
r. to win the pennant. but he declare
,s he will never again train at home i
~. spite of the success with which hi
n team met He is now seeking a sui
to
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