The New York herald., 1921-02-21
BABE RUTH LEAVES
BLIZZARD FOR SOUTH
Starts for Hot Springs to
Begin Getting. Into Trim
for Season.
WARD IS LATEST HOLDOUT
Yankee Infielder Joins Schang
and French-0ther Base
bali News.
by DANIEL.

Baseball and blizzards became very
much entangled yesterday. While
New York was trying to dig itself out
of the long delayed visitation of the
beautiful white, Babe Ruth made a
start toward conditioning himself for
an attack ON his own home run ~ecord.
The Babe, accompanied by Mrs. Ruth,
boarded the st. Louisan at the Penn
sylvania Terminal at 4:50 p. NJ, bound
for Hot Springs, Ark.
While Ruth was entraining here
Carl Mays and Mrs. Mays We're leav
ing their home at Mansfield, Mo-. also
bound for the Springs. At the Ar
kansas Spa the Babe and Carl Of the
submarine delivery will join Harry
Harper, southpaw, and Waite Hoyt,
Highlander. in conditioning regi-
men which will include nothing con-
nected intimately with baseball. They
will not handle a ball, glove or bat
but will confine themselves to taking
the baths. hiking. hill climbing and
horseback riding.
Ruth carries considerable excess bag
gage. particularly up around his
little trouble in getting rid of 1t at the
Springs ard reporting at Shreveport in
first class shape AS weight reducers
the baths and outdoor exercise make an
unexcelled treatment.
SchanE May Join Them.
It may be that during the week
wallie Schang will join the little coterie
OF Yankees down in Arkansas. Just
now Schang is a holdout. He was
listed to get away with Harper and
Hoyt last week, but declined to make
move until the club had settled with
him on the matter of liberal expenses
for living In New York. After spending
a winter In Philadelphia n man ought
to pay bonus for the chance to enjoy
half of. the baseball season in balmy.
breezy Gotham.
Schang, by the way, is not the latest
holdout. Aaron Ward deserves that
distinction. Ward has announced that
the contract offered to him was salts
factory In every particular except that
which names the salary. This. he holds.
is not big enough for n man of his all
around prowess. So there you a--.
Schang. Ward, French and we don't
know how many more. The club will
not say who has signed and who has
not but the holdouts get their little
system Is a poor one.
Wards rise to a leading position on
the Yankees reminds us OF the day when
he was not so prominent Only two
years ago Ward was offered to the Gin
cinnati club in payment for Pete
Schneider, the pitcher who was waived
out OF the National League SO mysteri-
ously. Gene McCann, then scout for
the Reds and now manager of the
Did .f..f. 4t.. I-,e ta-y, ar~tYe
came to Jacksonville to get an infielder
from Miller Higgins
Reds Needed Innelder.
The Reds had traded Kopf to the
Dodgers for Jake Daubert and then.
when Kopf refused" to play ball any
more they sent Lee Magee to Brooklyn.
Kopf. II developed. did not relish the
transfer to the Dodgers and created the
impression that he was through with
the game--an impression which was dis
sipated by him just as soon as Magee
was sent to Brooklyn IN his place.
At any rate. the Kopf-Magec mixrp
left the Reds in bad way for infielders
end they demanded a spare man from
the Yankees. Hugglns asked Pat
Moran to take Ward. and Moran re-
piled that he did not want a "busher"
He intimated that he would accept
Fewster. whereupon Higgins sent word
that Fewster was going to rticlS with
the Yankees and some day would be the
star second baseman of the club. The
coming season may prove Huggins to
have been prophet. We do not re-
member just how the Yankees cancelled
their debt to the Reds, but we have the
impression that they got Sam crane
from Washington and sent him along to
Moran.
The Schneider mystery. by the way, is
not as mysterious now as it was when
the pitcher was released out OF the Ma
tional League. A great many mysteries
have been cleared up in the last six
months. And there are several which
never will be cleared up.
Neither the Giants nor the Dodgers
are bothered much by holdouts this year
The only known disgruntled player
among the McGrawmen is George Kelly.
the first baseman. who recently returned
his contract to the club unsigned, with
n demand for n lot more money than
Lad been offered to him.
Among the Dodgers the lone hoidout
is Dutch Ructher, the pitcher. who wants
very little moro than Brooklyn wants to
give him. and no doubt Will get Il.
This is one year that George Burns
will not join the Giants on their way
South at some point up State. Burns In
In Havana and viii come up TO San An
tonic with McGraw.
pitcher Nick Carter has been traded
by the Cubs to Kansas City. whence he
came.