The New York herald., 1920-12-02
LATER START FOR
YANKS NEXT YEAR
Three Weeks i'm South Suffi-
cient. and Plans Will Be
Made Accordingly.
BARNES BACK FROM CUBA
Where He Had the Pleasure of
Pitching and Losing a
One Hit Game.
By WILLIAM II. HANNA.

By WILLIAM II. HANNA.
II will be the seventh or eighth Of
March before the Yankees report for
spring training next year. This is
week later than has been their custom.
but Ed Barrow, businss manager. says
three weeks are sufficient for one place
and that more than that tends toward
ennui and staleness in training There
fore the Yankees will cast loose from
their training camp on April 1 and tilt
with the Brooklyns In the usual series
on the way North. Last year the Dodgers
won this series from the American
Leaguers. the year before the latter won
IT, so next spring decides the Yankee
Dodger championship.
Bob Connery who lives in ST. Louis
but aside from that is all right. Will
select the Yank training place and per-
form the same service for the Brooklyns,
who will train In or near by the Yankee
site, so far not chosen. Connery scouts
and factotums for the Yankee club, and
under directions from Barrow will point
South this week The wide, wide world
is his field, if not his oyster. for in his
quest for suitable place for the Yanks
and Dodgers he Will visit Shreveport.
Alexandria ana New Orleans in Louisi-
ana Mobile. Pensacola, Ala, points In
Texas, and Greenville and Charleston In
Mississippi
Charleston is nine miles off a railroad
and eighty miles south of Memphis. A
committee of Shreveport citizens called
on Barrow yesterday to present the
claims of their city to housing and prep
ping the Yanks. Mayor Ford, Com
missioner of Utilities Kahn and City
Attorney Roberts formed the party.
y,~ Ia SC gttl ell 10 NY
are calling for Ruth, but only one will
be chosen.
Jesse Barnes. the Giants pitcher. is
back from Cuba and will pass the win
ter in Kansas. He didn't pitch much In
Cuba, but did pitch one hit game
which, by the way he lost The other
side made its sole hit in the first inning
following which came an error and two
bases on balls, one of which walked a
wanderer home.
Barnes denied the truth of report
that he hurt his arm in Cuba. He re-
tired from game, he said, because
the arm felt weak and he wanted tc
save It. He took no chances. II weigh
only 1856 pounds" he continued land
all I've got to pitch with are my heat
and arm. Maybe some of the Calbar
beer would have done me good.
could use more weight. Ryan and
Perritt were both in good trim in
Cuba. Perritts arm seems to be a:
good as it ever was and 7 look fol
him to be help to the Giants mex
year. I wonder IL McGraw is COINS
ITO get Hornsby? There won't be any
thing to it if he does
John =. Logan, president OF the
Mobile club, is in the city and reports
having signed Herman Bronkie to man
age his team next year. Bronkie ha,
played with Indianapolis and the st
Louis Browns and is a capable thirt
baseman.
The 200 point run at 1872 balk line
billiards by Horemans of Belgium
Tuesday, was fine playing. and though
1t was within Is points of the recorc
of 30s held by Willie Hoppe 1t woulc
not have been a record for the Belgian
even had exceeded that mark. Under
the conditions of his playing 1t would
not have been a record had he rur
zoos. Records are not made in exhibi
tions. They must be made in matche:
with something at stake or in regularly
promoted tournaments with something
at stake. George Slosson passed the
200 mark once in an impromptu game
with Firmin Cassignol, and there would
be some wonderful records II every
performance of that sort was accepted
incidentally, Hoppes S0s is not only the
American but the worlds record.
Percy Haughtons suggestion that the
ball be free on incompleted forward
passes would mean more action by rea-
son Of the lively scrambling for the
ball. Incompleted forward passes and
the necessity of Juggling the ball back
to the spot where IL was put in play
slow up the play. There's always a
drag when they occur. The point
would arise. however. should the change
he considered. whether risk of injury
would not be increased. Football play.
ers go at a loose ball with considerable
abandon.
Just as sure as a football has the
shape Of "a probate spheroid-the rule
book calls II that--the basketball
features Of the game will grow more
and moro dominating under the present
trend, and they are sufficiently that way
now. But would Mr. Haughton's sug-
gestion permit a pass thrown to and
recovered back OF the goal line by the
throwing side 60 be a touchdown Tf sc
there'd be a heat thrown there from
all over in the hope that some would
be recovered in the scramble.
Yale appears 10 be as rich in boxing
az In swimming material. and in nata-
tion the Blue sets the college pace. Eddie
Eagan. winner OF the middle-weight
championship at the Olympic games
and Of the A. Il. r. heavyweight cham.
pionship in Paris. is back. SO IS
T. =. Wood 125 pound champion. Also
G. r. Brewer Of tho 1876 pound division
and Gilbert Colgate Of the f45 pound
class. Albert Into. varsity football
tackle. will try his luck in the heavy
weight class That isn't all the ma
tcrial.