New Britain herald., 1921-02-21
TRAINING SEASON
 STARTS THIS WEEK
Yankees, Robins, Cubs, Indians
 and Senators at Work Soon

New York, Feb. 21.-while a man. tie or snow covers a great part of the territory comprising the two major leagues the sound oi baseball thud- ding against a glove or colliding with a bat will ring out in the South today, signalizing the start of the 1921 train ing campaign. Connie Mack's Ath- letics, WI lS fired the starting gun year ago at Lake Charles, La, were scheduled to repeat some time today on the same diamond. Mack's failure to break out of last place during tho 1920 season apr" ently has not made him superstitioUS about beginning an- other campaign just where he made the getaway last year.
 Before tho close of the current week several other squads will be on their way to various parts of the South or to far off California. For the most part the departing delega- tions will be made up of battery can didates or young players, but in at least one instance an entire squad is scheduled to leave the snow belt this week for the land of sunshine ano balmy weather. Johnny Evers ana his Cubs will climb aboard the train next Thursday for the jaunt to Pasa- dena, Cal, to fit themselves on the estate of William Wrigley, one of the clubs owners, for the National League race. A spell of climbing along the hills of Catalina Island will make up the program for the first weeks work of the Cubs.
 Lee Fohl and a collection of St. I s,t In. the wako of the Mackmen. Connie departed on Friday for Lake Charle and Fohl set out yesterday with. a number of players for Bogalusa, La, which will be reached some timo to- day. Tho first practice of the Browns is scheduled for tomorrow. The American League representatives of Philadelphia and St. Louis had dis appointing seasons in 1920, and both are starting out early with high hopes of improving on past performances.
 Robins Start Work Thursday.
 Later in the week the members of several other clubs will start their training. President C. M. Ebbets ol the Brooklyn champions has ordered a number of his batterymen to stat work at Hot Springs on Thursday, several veterans being included in the
 
 Carl Mays of the Yankees already are at the Arkansas resort and they will be joined tomorrow by Babe Ruth, but there is little baseball on their program. On Friday, the day after the departure of the Cubs, a squad of more than twenty Yankees, mostly recruits, will leave for Shreveport, La, where Miller Huggins will start the training campaign one week from today.
 The squads of the worlds champion Indians and the Washington Senators will begin their advance next Satur- day, the former on Dallas, Texas, and the Griffmen on Tampa, Fla. Both will begin to Timber up @ week from today On Sunday next the entire squad of Giants will begin to move in the general direction of San An tonic, Texas, where practice is to be started one week from tomorrow.
 All other major league teams will start for camp next week. The St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia Nationals arc sched- uled to get away one week from to- morrow. The two Boston clubs, the Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers will leave later in the week for their respective camps, Two weeks from today all the players will be in camp or on their way to begin work.
 With tho major league champion ship races scheduled to start on April 13, even the late starters will be able to get in more than five weeks of training before the opening bell. A rather extensive schedule of inter- league exhibition games will be start ed about March 15 and this accounts for the early departure of so many squads All cIuba except the Cubs. who will not cross the path of any other major league teams on the re- turn jaunt from California, have ,ar- ranged for some exhibition games be- fore the opening of the regular sea- son. Giants, Yankees and Robins have gone into the inter-league plan