New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-29
Yankees Meet
Reds; Dodgers
Play. Senators
Spring Championship of
Florida at Stake; Mays
and Mogridge May Pitch
Bv w. !. Macbeth

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March o.
The Yankees tomorrow will help cele
brate one of the biggest baseball holt
days ever witnessed south Of the
Mason and Dixon line. Jacksonville's
citizens and transients will be treated
to double header, which will bring
into play four major league clubs.
doped to figure more or less promi
nently in the American and National
League races this year.
The Yankees and world champion
Cincinnati Reds will have the honor
of introducing the big entertainment.
Afterward Wilbert Robinson's Dodgers
will take a fling at Clark Griffith's
Senator's. Tomorrow afternoon from
g o'clock on there should be baseball
enough to suit the most fastidious
looking for bargain.
Proclamation by Mayor
Mayor John w. Martin has issued
proclamation calling upon all the
patriots to show Jacksonviue's sense
of the honor bestowed by attending in
a multitude. If the good people obey
the mandate Harry Sparrow's blood
pressure should recede a few thousand
points.
The battles, as arranged, should
prove about as close and we'll balanced
as could possibly be thought out. In
thes matter of victories, which is the
usually accepted standard Of class.
Brooklyn has laid it over the New
York Americans to date. Of six games
played the Dodgers won five.
All of the games have beeA close,
the breaks mostly figuring in deciding
the issue. But still Brooklyn won the
lions share, and so on early form
must be considered the more forml-
dable of the two.
on the worlds champions quite as
forcibly. These two clubs have toured
extensively about Florida and are
stopping here for the jump-off
northward. To-morrow's meeting be-
tween Washington anc Brooklyn,
then, is sort of worlds series FOR
the spring championship Of the state.
Floridas hot sun and balmy
weather are rapidly bringing the
Yankee regulars around to form and
a week hence, when they hit the
trial home, they should be ready for
their best efforts. New York and Gin
G 6 seem about in the same. boat.
Both took matters rather easily at the
start for fear Of going stale before
the end of the long stay South.
Long Stay for Yankees
New York has a decided advantage
over the worlds champions however,
in that Higgins will remain in his
camp week longer than any other
American League club. So will
Brooklyn: But the other fourteen
clubs will all be on the move.
Nearly two weeks ago New York
went down into the lair of the Reds
Miami and Palm Beach--and took two
out of three from the worlds cham
pons. Higgins believes he can fur
Their profit at the expense of the
proud title holders here. He has
Carl Mays and George Mogridge
pcimed for action on the morrow.
doubtedly reestablish New York
prestige locally. Higgins is not at
all dubious Of squaring accounts with
the Dodgers before he finishes with
them at Ebbets Field
From now until he strikes smaller
pastures Babe Ruth intends to try for
base hits rather than home runs. The
fences are so far removed at South
Side Park and the outsiders play so
deep for him that Babe would have
" oroouce next 10 record drive for
distance to get the circuit. When he
cares to shorten his hold on the bat,
Ruth can place his hits as neatly as
the next one, fact he demonstrated
to the entire satisfaction of Al
Mamaux Saturday afternoon.
Manager Wilbert Robinson of the
Dodgers took the measure Of Ernie
Kruger, RUDE Marquard and Bob
S,hawkey in four-bal golf match at
the Country Club yesterday morning.
ROBBIE shot for an 80. He turned IN
a card of SO his last time ont
~ Colonies Jacob Rupert and T. l..
Huston were due from New York on
the midnight train. There will be-
quite a colony of maonates ,rh On IT,.