San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25
GIANTS. MAKE
/ FOR So HERE
Main Squad to Arrive
Wednesday Jennings
! Due in Monday.
yRUINS MUST BEHAVE
:enson Lines Up With Vol
stead Other Base
ball Gossip.

Baseball will resume. the throne as
ing of sports here next Wednesday
+ ght when the main party Of New
ork Giants is scheduled to pull in
sker the 10 20 I.-G. N. from the pre-
minary training camp at Marlin to
stablish the big New York spring
,mmp at League Park on Thursday
blorning.
Z Assistant Manager HugheyS Jen-
ings and Mrs. Jennings are due to
egister. at the st. Anthony Hotel,
Dhich will be Giant headquarters this
bring, some time Monday.
, Reservations have been made at the
5tel for 50. people, including AZ Of
Gals and players, twelve newspaper
EN- and the wives of ten of the
llrty. In addition, there will be the
sual camp attendants and a nun
pr of newspaper writers and pho
bgraphers who will drop in from
me to time for stay of a day or
70 to look things over and light
1T for the next big league training
amp. In all, there probably will be
people in the Giant party.
HoldOuts Are Several.
The following reservation list in
,udes everybody expected at the
Amp. Several of the players listed
Re not signed to contracts and few
Re extremely obstinate, notably Jack
/ BENTLEY, the pitcher,slugger secured
hiring the winter from the Balti-
Hore Orioles for price announced
j $50, Here's the bunch:
Manager and Mrs. John J. Nc
RAW, Secretary James j. Tierney,
assistant Manager and Mrs. Hugh
Htnnings, Coach and Mrs. A. j..
sy' Dolan. Mr.. and Mrs. Heinie
|Aroh, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank ,Frisch;
Ir. and Mrs. Jim O'Connell, Mr.. and
frs. Wilbur Ryan, Mr.. and Mrs.
lave Bancroft, Jess and Virgil
5arnes, Johnny Rawlings. Bill Cum
|4ngham, Emil Meusel, Charles Stem
Mi, George Kelly, Claud Jonnard,
hex CASTOR, Art Nehf, John Scott,
Eialph SINNERS, Walter McPhee,
Glred Mcguire, Joseph billiard, Ches-
Gtr and Charles Il. Lucas, Clinton
Hume, Fred johnson, Earl Webb,
[tichael Cvengros, DIN Voigt, Guy
Morrison, John Anderson, James ker-
Ehn, Fred Kamann, Charles Sches-
II, Travis jackson, Earl Smith, j..
HI Casey, Jack Bentley, George Wal
h rg, Walter james, J. Mcclure,
|, ugh McQuillan. Mahlon Hlgbee,
leoss Youngs, Frank Snyder, and the
Illlowing representatives, of the New
FORK press: Sam Crane and Mrs.
rane, Warren Brown and Mrs.
n lrown, Fred Lieb, Jim Crusinberry,
\ frankie Graham, Harry Cross, Bill
George Daley, Bugs
RIaer, William Wedge, William Han
n and James Harrison.
n Maybe Hank VIII imp.
Ait is noticeable that there is no
Thpire on the list. This gives rise
M the suggestion that the veteran
Hank O'Day, who has been spending
Ne winter here, may officiate.
y When Manager McGraw will arrive
Ii not known. He is not with the
Arty coming from Marlin. At last
sports he was still in Havana. He
AIS declared, however, that he will
hin his team here carly in its train
sg career.
II The LOYAL Fans Club Is growing
Eily and several hundred members
,4ye been lined up, which means that
III few thousand tickets are already
Ild for the four exhibition games
sltween the Giants and Chicago
.fhite Sox here in March. The tick
Ms, by the way, are ready for dis
HihaaSion and fans who signed up
NJ memberships in the fans club
,aay secure their seven ducats each
III the local baseball office, 12OG City
National Bank Building.
slNew York newspapers recently
i-bblished an article to the effect that
I,bsiness men of Fresno, Cal, intent
WI Turing the worlds champion til
I.hts from San Antonio next spring.
5,ropose to finance a half-million-
Us, $500, 0o0-company TO provide
Ornament training camp at Fresno
5ir McGraw's men. San francisco
tfterests are in it, but Fresno is Sc
tcted as the site because San Fran
rlsco's weather is too raw in March.
! hut McGraw likes San Antonio and
an Antonio likes McGraw, although
didn't show it last spring, and we
lie going to give Fresno battle
kfore the 1924 baseball season rolls
/ found.
Switching off to the San Antonio
ears, it was learned Saturday that
fexy Benson has determined to en-
.foider a water wagon on the local
i sat-of-arms. This announcement is
I fore important than it appears at
tst glance. San Antonio's ball club
rs been troubled, in the last few
bars with entirely too many play
Is who used their arms to lift tink-
lhg glasses a whole lot more than
put stuff on the baseball. Here's
hat Benson said Saturday:
si"Certain social attentions and acts
alleged hospitality by possibly well
lieaning but misguided fans have
Zen underlying the Indifferent play
Il of quite few of our players in
l-c1last couple of seasons. These So
! al attentions, which included late
hours and the partakingf of forbidden
i imulants, didn't help the hayward
(Contiuued on next paRe.)