The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-06
ROCHESTER MOGUL
 STOPS OVER HERE ON WAY TO SELMA

Walter E. Hapgood, owner Of the Rochester baseball club jointly with i George T. Stallings, was in Birming- ham last night en route to Selma, where he meets representatives of | the Chamber of Commerce today in regard tc' the Rochester club train-
 ing at Selma next spring. Hapgood | left Rochester, N. l., Saturday night,
 and has two or three places in this section that are very anxious to se-
 cure the Rochester club for next l spring He stated last night, how ever, that it is still open where his | club will train. but that, if Selma 1 offered as good inducements as the
 other places. he was rather inclined l tC believe he would select Selma as training camp. The Rochester club is captained by Fred Merkle, for l years with the Giants, and also has upon it's roster Outfielder Archdea-
 con, who holds the worlds record of
 1S 2-5 seconds for running the bases, and is regarded as the fastest man 1 III pdSGDdll. lie IAOCHSSltT cup AaS
 refused an offer of $25,000 fer this player.
 To Schedule Games
 In addition to selecting training
 camp m the south, Business Manager l Hapgood will, before his return, schedule number of spring exhibi- tion games, several of which will be
 played in some of the smaller Ala
 bama cities, where there is q large interest ill baseball. According to Hapgoodis program, he expects to play about half dozen jcint games with Connie Macks Athletics, who
 are to train at Montgomery, and
 about the same number of games With the Detroit club and with the St. Louis Cardinals, of which team Rogers Hornsby, last years home
 run champion, is a member. It is Hapge od's intention to play the games with the Cardinals in south ern Alabama, and with the Detroit Tigers in northern Alabama. He has
 also been commissioned to schedule
 q series of games en route north be- i tween two major league clubs. Hapgood was the first fellow to
 devise the scheme Of two league
 clubs playing exhibition games dur
 Ing spring training. That was when ne was business manager of the Bos
 ton Braves, six years ago, and since
 then he has arranged nearly 100 such ] spring exhibitions, and he brides himself in invariably making money
 for the individuals or organization
 staging the game. For these games I Hapgood always selects the smaller l places, preferably those that are not accustCmed to see a major league | club in action. The two clubs have 1 about 70 players in their party. carry two major league umpires. who of | ficiate, and the party uses three
 chartered Pullmans and a special ;, baggage ear for the luggage on these i trips.
 | It is not unlikely that the Roches- ter man will consider places like
 Saosden, Piedmont, Decatur. Talla : 1 deea and Eufaula for some of the
 games, althc ugh only one game i. prayed in place. and if a game is
 booked in town, no other game is booked within 30 miles. giving each
 piace an opportunity to draw from wide territory. It is usually the case that half holiday is declared the day of the game, and in many
 cases these exhibition games attract the record baseba cre wd for the 1 town.
 'buslness Manager Hapgood stated
 last night that he would probably be
 at Selma today and tomorrow, and if
 the sports in any of the above towns seriously desire to secure an exhihi-
 tien he can doubtless be reached bs wire or long distance telephone in
 care of the Selma Chamber of Com merce.
 One game that has already been
 booked is with the Athletics at Mont
 gomery on Sunday, March 25.