New-York tribune., 1920-11-20
Series
Again Planned
By Local Mines
Huggins Favors Jacksonville
or New Orleans: Robinson
May Choose a New Site
By w. ]. Macbeth

At joint meeting of the board of
strategy Of I : Yankees with Colonel
Charles H Ebbets, the Flatbush Squire,
to be held this morning at Colonel
Jacob Rupperts Offices, 1889 Third
Avenue, it may be decided Just where
the 1921 teams of Miller Huggins and
Wlbert Robinson will train next
spring.
For the past four or five years these
teams have been more or less closely
associated in spring training. Indeed,
thrown open to the public the two bor-
cughs clashed in an ante-season series
Of five games. That happened to be
the first year Frank Chance had the
Yankees, and the affair went so big
It has been repeated each April since
For the last two seasons both the
Yankees and Dodgers have trained at
jacksonville, Fla, where two ball
parks are located. Last spring about
dozen exhibition games were played on
the grounds of the Yankees in that
company before closing out the GUS
tomary series at Ebbets Field.
Yankees May Not Shift
The owners Of both the Yankees and
Dodgers are anxious to maintain these
beneficial in the training of the clubs
as well as financially successful. 1t is
doubtful, however, if both teams will
return to Jacksonville.
The grounds which the Yankees have
been using are preferable to the
others, where there are no accommo-
dations for a crowd Of any size. The
management of the Brooklyn cham
pions has considered move further
nd nf ho
Of the New York Americans to Jack
Bonville would be in a position to con-
tinue the spring exhibition games in
the South, joint tour North if mu-
tually agreeable, as we'll as the usual
Tits at Ebbets Field.
1t seems much more probable than a
week ago that the Yankees Will take
enother chance with Jacksonville. Flor
ida continues one Of the most popular
spring states for tie big leaguers. The
Cincinnati Reds have given up Miami,
and it is possible Brooklyn may utilize
their spring base there. The Phillies
will train al Gainesville, Fla, where
the Giants were seen in 1919, and which
is only three hours from Jacksonville.
There Will be many major league
clubs within easy striking distance of
last years training base Of the Yankees.
AS every one in the National League is
now anxious to book games aga nst the
team which has Babe Ruth as an at
traction. Auggins should be able to
pick and choose in arranging the Gus
tomary spring schedule.
Favors Fast Trip North
Manager Huggins, who. of course,
will have the last say as to training
plans for 1921, favors quick jump
Northward carly enough to permit of
acclimating his players after the re-
turn home. The Yankees and Dodgers
last spring made only five stops be-
tween Jacksonville and New York. A
trip to Texas would dlsarrange the
scheme OF quick jumps, but the matter
could very easily be arranged from
such base as New Orleans.
1t now seems that either Jacksonville
or New Orleans viii entertain the
worlds champion home-run hitter of
all time in the spring of 1921. To-day
may definitely decide the matter.
In the opinion Of Bob Connery, the
scout Of the Yankees, who combed the
Far Western territory every season,
Johnny Mitchell, the shortstop recently
acquired by the New York Americans
from Vernon, Of the Pacific Coast
League, is ready for fast company.
Mitchell on the far slope is considered
quite as promising prospect as was
Bobby Meuscl a year ago