New-York tribune., 1920-03-02
Southpaw Holding Out
for Increase; Re &C h
Camp in Good Shape
By w. O. Mcclellan

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. March 1.-The
advance guard or the Giants crept into
San Antonio little before midnight
and will be modified at the local ball
park some time tomorrow, There are
still few absentees and the gathering
will not be quite complete until the
end of the week.
There were no serious casualties on
the trip. few athletes have stiff arms
from the games of African golf and a
few elbows are sore from dealing them
from the top and bottom of the deck
George Sis'er and Big Bill Jacobson
Joined the exr rcdition at st. Louis, but
left it fiat at Taylor, Tex, where the
Browns are being interned for the
duration of the spring training season.
Big Bill had already started doing his
annual baseball thinking and was con-
fding to George Burns some plans and
specifications for a new type of base
ball bat, which, he said, would be a
curve destroyer fer fair The plans
were the secret of the American League
up to this time.
Barnes Discards His Furs
The expedition started to pick up
some real baseball weather in Texas,
and Jess Barnes discarded his furs for
the year. The wisdom of the selection
of San Antonio as training camp be-
i
be no time out for rain with this expe-
dit!on.
1t has leaked out that Rube Benton
has not yet fixed his fine Italian left
hand to a contract for the season. The
Rube needs little more change to pay
the deficit on last years cotton con-
tract. 1t is hardly probable that he will
have much difficulty in getting it.
Sinister Dick Kinsella, the noted
ivory hnntor tho ovnoAition rT OF
st. Louis. Richard was suspected of
lurking in the devasted beer gardens
of the upper Mississippi with sinister
designs on Rogers Hornsby, who is the
boast and pride of the municipality of
st. Louis. Sinister Dick denied this.
He said that he was just around to put
his son, Robert. a Giant recruit, on the
train.
The sinister one $discussed the pro-
spective return of Ed Roush to the
Giants. Dick confessed that he almost
ibought Roush once, but that he turned
him down because he did not seem able
Ato throw. Dick now regrets that he
hesitated.
g Congratulations, Fletch.
: Art Fletcher showed up for few
fninutes in ST. Louis, but merely to
announce that Miss Fletcher, one day
old, was up at the Fletcher home. He
VIII report as soon as ne receives per-
mission from his new daughter.
less BARNES, who usually spends the
winter playing basketball, conhded
that he has spent the winter which we
have just left simply resting up. He
believes that basketball is wonderful
conditioner. but the conservative base
ball lads finally convinced him that a
ball player should hibernate through
the cold season.
George Sisler expresses himself as
being delighted with -the abolition of
freak deliveries. He declares that the
batting in the American League will be
vastly improved by this. There will
be some decided fattening of averages:
The race in the American League will
be between the Yankees and Cleveland.
he declared
The only book read on the trip was
the schedule, the title of which is
"Three Weeks in the Sticks" by Ell
leanor Glyn O'Brien, secretary of the
gsw k Giants. The general senti-