Evening star., 1925-03-02

Marshall, Tex, has been released
by the Cubs to Los Angeles for fur
ther seasoning.
The Chicago White Sox will start a
o n e-w o k o u tad ay program at
Shreveport. La, today Manager Col
Inns decided on from IL am. to 2 pm.
Later he may decide to hold two prac-
tice sessions daily after the squad
has grown.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, March with
IL players on hand, Manager iris
Speaker was ready for the frst prac-
'tice today. advices from the Indians
training camp at Lakeland; Fla,
state. Upon his arrival yesterday,
Speaker discovered he had 10 pitchers
at the camp instead of eight. among
them Phil Bedgood and Watt Luther.
The only first squad absentees.
Catcher Luke Sewell and Pitcher
Luther Roy, were expected today.
Bedgood. who went on the volun-
tary retired list last Summer be-
cause of injuries, announced he would
apply to Commissioner Lands for
reinstatement.
Speaker had virtually forgotten
Luther. who signed with the Indians
a few months ago after winning 19
games and losing for Lakeland last
year.
Russell Wright, University of West
Virginia catcher, is working out with
the squad.
PHILADELPHIA. March Fine
weather was reported today at both
OF the Philadelphia major league base
ball training camps and plans were
made by the respective managers for
a week of hard practice.
At Bradentown, Fla. where the first
contingent of the Phillies arrived yes
terday, Manager Fletcher said his
players appeared in good condition
and ready to start hard work at once.
Only 13 men, mostly pitchers and
catchers, were in the first squad to
arrive, but others were expected to-
day and tomorrow.
Manager Connie Mack, at Fort
Myers, Fla, the Athletics training
headquarters, reported his battery
men rapidly rounding into condition.
The pitchers and catchers have been
in camp week and Mack planned
his workouts this week carefully for
the benefit OF the fielders, who ar
rived yesterday. With the exception
of Hauser, Bagwell and Galloway the
Fort Myers camp is complete. These
three are expected in a day or so.
NEW YORK, March 2-Sunday was
a day of rest in the southern train
ing camps. one of the last vacations
that professional base ball players
will enjoy until after the next world
series.
There was a general inpouring of
veterans and recruits at the camps of
the Yankees, Giants and Dodgers in
Florida, fourteen appearing at the
Huggins center of activities in St
Petersburg, seven wandering into the
Giants gathering at Sarasota and
twenty-one preparing TO start stren-
uous work at Clearwater, temporary
home of Brooklyn's hopes.
Babe Ruth headed a small ball club
into st. Petersburg from Hot Springs
and found rain in the sunshine city.
Sam Jones, Wally Schang, Steve
O'Neill and Urban Shocker were in
the party. Manager McGraw of the
Giants saw Hugh McQuillan, Bill
Southworth, Hack Wilson and Fred
Lindstrom, among others, for the first
time in several days.
The Dodgers will start training in
earnest at Clearwater today, with
Manager Wilbert Robinson, recently
recovered from a Winters illness,
directing matters from a chair behind
the batting cage.
ST. LOUIS, No, March 2.-Manager
George Sisler is not laying down any
hard and fast rules for the St. Louis
Browns, now at Tarpon Springs, Fla,
but announces that he will make
every effort to have the players hew
to the line more closely than at
Mobile in 1924.
There are no changes in the train
ing schedule. Sisler says there is
nothing new in base ball, that IL is
merely a matter of perfecting old
plays.
Quickly discovering. that his vision