The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-20
GIANTS MAY MEET
4 OF RIVAL LEAGUE
Tigers and Athletics Likely to
Join Senators and Indians
on Their Card.
MAJORS FAVOR TEXAS
Eight Clubs Select Camps in
Lone Star State-DetrOit
Joins New Works.
MAJORS FAVOR TEXAS
by DANIEL.

While training plans of the Giants
still are in the making it seems likely
that John McGraw's club will meet
no fewer than four American League
teams during the spring preliminary
campaign Contests already have been
arranged with Cleveland in Dallas,
where the worlds champions will train.
and With the senst tors on the way North.
The Giants will Join tho Mashingtons
In Jackson, Tenn probably on Apr.l 4,
and Will travel o.thNa.d with tnerl.
playing in Washington and then al the
Polo Grounds on Saturday and Sunday
preceding the opening o. the season,
which Is scheduled for April IL.
Connie Mack last Friday asked. the
New York club to give him couple OF
dates in the South and he may be ac-
conlmodated The Athletics will train
at Lake Charles. La, which is near the
Texas border. Now that the Detroits
have decided to share the ideal condi- |
tons at San Antonio with the Giants It
seems certain that there Will be several
meetings between Ty Cobb's team and
the McGrcw outfit. No doubt ths Giants
and the Tigers will heal the breach which
was created in the spring of 1917. when
Cobb and Charley Herzog engaged in
fisticuffs at Wichita Falls, Texas.
The Giants will play the San Antonio
club of the Texas League at lcest three
games.
San Antonio Rest.
While the Giants and the Tigers both
will train in San Antonio which without
doubt Is the best training site in the
country. they will not use the same
equipment They will worl; chout three
miles from each other. Tho Giants viii
stay Mt one OF TIL hotels IN the city !
and will train at tho Texcs eaer-c park. /
which IS a splendid nlant A new club
house IS being built for the Glaatr.
The Tigers will DO their tra'~ing at
Hot Wells q rerort which centres about
n group of hot sulphur Torinys. When
we visited the wells last March me plant
was run down. The hotel wac ranlsl,ackle
and the grounds werc In rad sta to. How
ever. we ere told that things ere being
rebuilt there. The Cardinals Under
Miller HugGins. .raiucd a. Hot Wells
some years ago and found tho place to
their liking. lust whore the Tigers will
practise we do not know. They may
have obtained the use of the high school
grounds.
The announcement of TIE camp OF the
Tigers leaves only ore gap IN The major
league list Of training sites. The ST.
Louis. Americans nave decided 10 train
in Texas but have rot q,-ite settled on
the place. They were at TAYLOR Texas.
near Austin. last srrirg and ray 20
back there The Cardinals who traircd
at Brownsville, on the Texas border line
have shifted to Orange. in the same
State.
Trend Into Texas
Examination of the list Of camps
shows that this time there H. strong
trend away from the Atlantic seaboarsl
and into Texas All tho cubs c-e in
better shape than ever financially as the
result OF the fine season OF 1920. and
they are In position to travel further
and spend more money. Texas Ia thN
most favored State. az it has been Sc
lected by eight of the sixteen major
leas ne teams. Three clubs have named
Louisiana. two h~l.o-~~- 4-.7 r~1~'S1
and one California. The Cubs are GO
ing back to Pasadena.
The clubs which will rain in rcxas
are the New York Boston st. Louis md
Cincinnati outfits of the Ma ional /
Les que. and the Cleveland. Chcag =. De F,
trcit and st. Louis teams OF the a .neri
car League. The Braves have SHIFTED
from Columbus. Ga, to Galveston, whore
they may strike high winds but will
live in style and enjoy bathing in the
bay all through tHeir STAY. The Reds I
have dropped NaXahatcnie in favor OF
Cisco, wherever that is. IN the Lone star
State.
brooklyn has selac. "a New Orleans. n
grand old place. where the eating will
be line. but where the races may dis
tract the attention Of tho bell rlavc-e
until after St. TatrlcNs nav. Droc xlyn
VIII be near the Yankees Mt Shreveport
La, and the two clubs viii rovlro Their
spring series.
Phi1lics at Gainesville.
The Pirates WIN go back TO Hot
Springs. Ark. the camp further North.
while the Phllies will train on the Uni
versity OF Florida ground DIS at Gaines
Vile, where the Giants trained two years
ago, after dropping Marlin. Bill Dono-
van says that the state OF Florida has
spent $1,000 in improving the field at
Gainesville. which ought to make the
place nearly ideal.
In the American League, the Wash
ingtons will train al Tampa, the only
club except the Philiics to selecs Florida
which two years ago was the centre OF
training activities. The Phlllics and the
Senators no doubt will play n short
series.
The Red Sox- VIII return 10 Hot
Springs Ark. with the Pirates. and
these clubs also will meet in several con-
tests. The White Sox are going back TO