San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-02
Weather AT Florida Camp
Terrible and Team Hasn't
Been Hitting - Jackson
and Southworth, New
Cogs in Me =: ne, Are Still
Grinding a Little, Too.
BY JOHN Il. FOSTER

Copyright by The San Antonio Light.
Jacksonville. Fla. April 2.-The
northbound trip of the New York
Giants. in which they arc playing n
series Of exhibition games with the
Chicago White Sox, should tell the
tale for 1924 about the National
League champions. Their stay in
Sarasota. which they broke Saturday.
did not tell much about the condition
of the team. The weather there was
terrible. Even the natives admitted
il. which is more than the natives of
some places will do. And the Ginnts
are hot weather club, so they took
things pretty easy.
1t can be said. however. that the
Giants are all right, so far as arms,
legs, necks. backs and pocketbooks
are concerned There is still some
cash left in the club for trivial amuse-
ments on the trains going north, and,
by the time they play their way to
Chicago. the Giants should have all the
spending money the White SOx possess.
That of itself will compensate for
many prior grievances.
L. Two Material Changes.
The chassis of the Giants presents
two material changes. Travis Jack
son Is shortstop in place Of Dave Ban
croft, who is managing the Boston
Braves this year. And in center field,
Bill Sou;bworth. former Boston right
fielder, is trcading the turf Casey
Stengel trod last season.
Jackson and Frisch will get better
acquainted and much faster as they
play side by side, but they probably
never will be any faster than the old
combination of Bancroft and Frisch.
Kelly, Groh, Frisch. Meusel and
Youngs are all back in the positions in
which they earned their fame, and
are back apparently as good as when
they said boodbye to the Polo Grounds
in 1923. That's all you need say
about them. Maybe they're slower,
but how is anyone going to know until
they are DrI to the real testi They
surely know how to play. and that is
ret TO Ie overlooked. They are not
tie sort oe Layers you have TO tell to
do this "Id that 20 acquire a final
never will get it.
Cards Needed Ainsmith.
To the backstops has been added
Ainsmith. He was with ST. Louis
last season. but the Cards let him go.
Through the spring the Cards trained
just sixteen miles away from Sara
sofa, without n good seasoned catcher.
The Giants may need Ainsmith, but
goodness knows the Cards need him
fworse. Besides Ainsmith the Giants
have Frank Snyder and Hank Gowdy.
who like Ainsmith have been in the
thick of tOpnotch baseball. One does
not expect them to run around like
| school boys at the start of the season,
| but when the smoke of battle blows
| thick these "old" fellows will decorate
: their grizzly scalp locks-if Gewdy
has enough hair left TO make a SCALP
lock- and sail into the game with a
growl like that of tiger for the bone
that some weaker cat is trying to get
away with.
The team took a little trip through
| Florida before they hoped off. fol
the North but did not show much. In
fact, they looked pretty bad with the
bat. but part of The time they were
hitting against good pitching and par
of the time they were playing on SLOW
diamonds. You can't get the Giant:
to exert themselves when they fear the,
will turn an ankle or pull tendon
II they are doddering by the tint
they reach Chicago there doubtless
will be some changes. But it does no
seem likely that this will be neces
sary. There is much excellent materia
in the club and when they really ge
under way they should show 10
more than they have in the Southland
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