New-York tribune., 1922-01-06
Dodgers Again
Carded to PLAY
Huggins's Team,
American League Champions
Plan II Games With Brook.
lyn; Will Also Meet Cards
BY W. ]. Macbeth

no. in f!t physical, condition to open
IN. next championship season the fault
! viii lie at the door OF the weather
man Business Manager Ed Barrow has
fulfilled his Office to & nicely. as can
readily be appreciated by a glance at
the schedule Of spring exhibition games
"a be found elsewhere on this page.
Not only has Barrow provided a min
imum of twenty-five exhibition con-
tests with clubs that should be able to
make Babe Ruth and company realize
the performances arc anything but
comedy. but ne will lead the boys to pas
lures new and along the most inter
cs.ing itinerary the club has ever trav-
eled, either alone or in company with
some National League travelling com
panion
Of the twenty-five games planned no
less than seventeen will pit the Yam
KEGS against strong National League
opposition. Brooklyn is 10 travel home
in joint tour with the New York Amer
leans. as has been the custom ever since
Colonels Rupert and Huston bought
the club No less than fifteen battles
arc to be staged with the Dodgers
weather permitting) all over the
landscape between Texas and Long
Island; the concluding three at Eb-
bets Field, of course.
wo exhibitions are billed with the
dardinais IN New Orleans. The New
Orleans club of the Southern Associa-
ton VIII be encountered three times
early IN the training season. Several
other weekday games with the Pclj-
cans are likely to be played during the
last week OF the Yankees stay in the
crescent City. though these do not
figure IN Barrow's official schedule.
Start Tour March c5
The Dodgers and Yankees will be
fellow travellers from Saturday, March
95, until both clubs reach home the
morning OF Saturday. March 8. For
just two days of all that time will they
split out. The Yankees are to play
< Tort Worth. Tex, on Saturday. April /.
and on the following day. Sunday. will
eHgage Dallas, also of the Texas
League With the Dodgers for opposi
ton the Hugmen will appear in every
other Texas League city with the ex-
eeption of Shreveport, La, where the
champions trained last spring.
Manager Husgins has ordered all his
players TO report in New Orleans in
time to begin practice the morning of
Wednesday, March /. Four DAYS later.
on Sunday following, the first exhibi
ton game of the year will be seen. The
New Orleans Southern Association
team is the selected victim. Games
will be played with the Pelicans the
next week end. Saturday, March II. and
Sunday. March y.
Branch Hickey and his Cardinals will
visit the Crescent City one week later
for weekend games March IS and 19).
The following Saturday, March %,
Uncle Wilbert Robinson and his Dodg-
efs effect rendezvous for the long
spring visit. Brooklyn, which will
tram at Jacksonville, Fla. is making
the long jump West to help share in
the profits of the Babe Ruth "tappine''
OF rev and fertile territory. For al
most fortnight after the Yankees and
dodgers start their caravan it will be
life on sleeper and onc-night stands
Two games Will be played by these
clubs in New Orleans. Then Beau
ncn., Galveston. Houston and San An
tonic, Tex, will be visited in turn. The
teams will split up for two days, the
Yankees playing Fort Worth's Texas
League team on April / and Dallas on
sunday, April 2. On the next day the
fellow pilgrims will meet for action at
Little Rock Ark
Immediately after this game swift
Memphis tnd Bristol, Tenn, prepara-
tory to the longest leap of the junket,
mat from Bristol to Norfolk, Va. A
game at Richmond, Va. on Friday,
Aprll = concludes the Joint tour. On
SATURDAY, April s, the two longtime
rivals Will open their customary series
OF three games at Ebbets Field This
concluded, the teams will have an off
oay 10 move to whichever city the
seneaule committee may have assigned.
s,al.i anis 'fainIns schedule. after close
%4lnaiysls, reflects credit on Ed Barrow.
ne business manager Of the Yankees
1oI - presenting the best cities of the
Lone Ssar State an opportunity to see
Babe Ruth for the first time since he
oroke into his slugging lame. The
.hamplon Yankees will be novelty to
.ne texans. Frank Chance took the
;sew iorK Americans to Houston, Tex,
IN 1914. The club was very ponular
curing 1I months training, but outside
oi houston showed in only two Texas |
ss..es-beaumont and Galveston-and
1or one game only.
ne nue even In Houston the club will be
nlaved way, H,d lor not one Of the mel who
now now with the club. Peck. recently |
Hae9 WS ~ 70 Boston, was the last of the !
tsr S VI uuard bought that following win
VT os the battling colonels.
Alllinger Signs Contract
A.H Hsnn Killlnger, the celebrated base |
psn,, psn, football and basketball star of |
t,.ne .na o'ate, forwarded his signed con-
of tI ~ 10 business Manager Ed Barrow,
i sae Yankees, yesterday. Killinger,
tr;n sex:pected, will make the Southern |
"'p with Hugginss champions.
sor marry frazee, president Of the Red
vs,ta.aI S. ,eis last night for Boston. He said |
ynesssuerday afternoon he had heard |
ro,..;g rJ,..;ng further from Clark Griffith |
de.d''ve dsa, y. TO the proposed three-cornereu
IN s". mat would give him Joe Duean
III. eSnenange for Roger Peckinpaugh.
bov.nuoy noy Wonder of Peoria is hopeful,
fv~ever: fs.. YER Frazee was crowded off the
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