New-York tribune., 1921-12-03
Locals Will Meet Memphis
Club Also in Six Con-
tests ON Home Journey
By w. ]. Macbeth

Secretary James J. Tierney of the
worlds champion New York Giants
yesterday made public the plans for
the spring training of that popular
team.
vice-P President Manager John ]. Nc
Graw, who, while not at all supersti-
tious. has always been known to play
lunches, has decided to return to San
Antonio. Tex, in 1922 for preparatory
work. The Giants trained in San An
tonic last spring and eventually won
not only the National League pennant
but the championship of the world as
we'll. and under these circumstances,
perhaps, would have been very fool
ish to go elsewhere. San Antonio,
proud of the advertising it received
as result of Giant success, made
fattering overtures, which McGraw
soon assured Harry j. Benson were
fair and satisfactory. Benson is the
president of the Texas League club of
San Antonio.
Mr.. McGraw. as yet. has not an
rounced officially when he will order
the mobilization of his forces for the
pilgrimage southwestward. Details, of
course, will be left to Secretary Tier
ney. But if one is privileged to read
signs it may be suspected that the
Little Napoleon proposes long train
ing drill for his charges. Indeed. Nc
Graw always has been a disciple of
the protracted training idea.
In the old days, when he was win
ming pennants with sensational regu-
larity annually, he devoted six weeks
or more to training in the South ex-
clusively. A National League ruling
which first limited training to four
weeks and afterward forbade the start
before March handcuffed him for a
few years.
Will Require Long Siege
Doubtless McGraw has laid his plans
for a long siege of training the com
ing spring. His is an old team; that
Is, club composed largely of veteran
players, who require far more time
than kids to round into proper playing
form. Furthermore, his exhibition
season will start as early as Satur-
day, March II.
It is pretentious exhibition series
McGraw has planned for his boys the
coming spring. No less than twenty
one and possibly twenty-five contests
will be played before our proud cham
.psons of the universe square off for
the stern realities of the regularly
scheduled championship season.
The Giants are going to be the little
playmates of Charles A. Comiskey's
White Sox during two-thirds of the
aHtc-SeASou dCtracClOnS. winch means
the renewal Of acquaintance. Giants
and White Sox first met in the cele-
hrated tour of the world back in the
winter of 1913-'14. In the fall of 1917
they met again, this time in the
worlds series, which the White Sox
won after a strenuous tussle. The
White Sox at the time were just hit
ting the stride that made them one Of
the wonder teams of history and as
formidable an aggregation as ever was
gathered under one banner before the
"black sheep" of the outfit began to
sell out.
Fourteen Games Scheduled
Because of the fact that the White
Sox will train at Seguin, Tex, which
is only some thirty miles distant from
San Antonio, it has been possible to
arrange an exceptionally strong sched-
ule for these strong clubs. Chicago
will meet New York no less than four
teen times, providing there are no post
ponements because Of bad weather.
Four of these games will be played
in San Antonio, two in Dallas and two
in Fort Worth. The other six will
embellish the itinerary of the joint