Arizona republican., 1921-11-02
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ATHLETICS SCOUTING FOR NEW TRAINING LOCATION, INVITE TEAM ID PHOENIX

Why not bring one of the big league teams to Phoenix for spring training?
 Every year brings a revival of eff forts to put Phoenix on the baseball map and this year will see results If the Phoenix boosters increase their efforts. according to c. c. Lind, major league ball player who is win tering in the city.
 aGr. Lind has been playing profes- sicnal basebSn. for eight years. play ing with Cleveland, Boston, Balti- more. Little Rock and Chicago. This is his first winter in Phoenix and he is deeply impressed with the climatic conditions. which he says are ideal for baseball training.
 T have played ball in every section of the country" MT. Lind stated yes terday. and have yet to find cli- mate more suited for baseball train- ing than I find right here in Phoenix. ! have been told that spring weather is even better than now, and where could a baseball team go to find bet ter conditions for training than exist in Phoenix at the present time?
 Major league managers have been sending their players to Texas and other southern states for many years, and I can safely state that there is not one manager entirely satisfied with present training camp sites. Fully one third of the training period is hampered by rains and 0orms and by the time the training season is ended the players are just beginning to round into shape. By establishing training quarters in Phoenix the players would have the advantage Of training every day and could tour
 
 home and arrive in better condition for the opening game than many teams find their players two months after the season has opened.
 Climate ideal for Baseball
 Phoenix has every requirement. foR a training site. Take for instance the advantage of arranging games with winter league teams on the coast, and I understand Arizona mining camps have high class cltbs that will fur niSh plenty of practice games for the team while in training
 ~T understand local boosters have tried 10 bring teams down here in past years, but I can't understand why they did not get results if the matter was brought to the attention Of the managers in the right way. They receive invitations from hum
 
 haps they just look upon the invita- r5ons as A matter of form and pass them up. But am going to make an effort to induce one of my manager friends to come down here for a short visit and look over the conditions. l am certain that if one of the mana gers could be induced to come here for aAfew weeks Phoenix would have no difficulty in getting on the sport pages as the finest training climate in the United States.
 Texas. Florida, Georgia and Ala hanna do not compare to Arizona in any respect as far as climate goes. Of course there are other things to be considered, such as ball park and training quarters. but these can be arranged without any trouble.
 T have already written to one Of the major league managers and l have been corresponding with sev- eral sport writers in the east and understand the Phoenix chamber of commerce ~i is getting behind the move.
 Athletics Seek Location
 ~Tust the other day l read an article in the Sporting News to the effect that Connie Mack is seeking a new training camp. I personally
  fled with his Lake Charles, Louis jana training camp for some time and it will not take much argument to swing him this way If the. local fans get behind the move and con vince Connie Mack that they want his team here next spring l have every confidence that the Philadel- nhia Athletics will do their 1922 training in Phoenix"
 Mir. Lind is not the only major league ball player to declare that Phoenix has an ideal training clim- ate and with a little work, this city can break into baseball fame
 The Sporting News story to which MT. Lind refers in his statement follows.
 PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 24.- Outside the news that the two Phil adelphia ball clubs squared away for the 1922 campaign by drafting a trio of minor leaguers-two by Con- nie Mack and one by the club man. aged by Irwin Wilhelm, and that Mack had abandoned Lake Charles