The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-03-16
No Green Light This Year
But Clubs Hope For I'm
interrupted Campaign;
Train In North
BY DILLON GRAHAM
APP Features Sports editor

no bright green light for base
ball this spring as training be-
gins for another season.
Major league clubs, hoping fol
an uninterrupted campaign, will
be at northern training camps
by the third week of March but
no government authority has
flashed the go-ahead sign, as
F.D.R. did year ago.
They say it's the unexpected
happening that makes sports ex-
citing. If that's true, then this
should be an interesting ball sea-
son, fer no one knows what to
expect.
No baseball man knows
whether this will be full or
curtailed season.
No one knows what players
will be available Throughout
the campaign.
No one knows whether trans
portstion problems will affect
the schedule.
No one knows how success
ful sppring training will be in
the colder practice bases.
Everything is uncertain, except
that there'll be some new wrin-
kles in training, and a full quota
CT humorous episodes at the
camps in the sub-freezing tenn
peratures.
Some clubs--Brooklyn, Cleve-
land, Cincinnati and the two
Boston teams-have selected
training sites where they can
drill indoors in field houses when
the snow man is around. Some
are near gymnasiums that can
be used for limited workouts
while others, figuring indoor
work is of little value, are de-
pendent entirely on outdoor
fields.
The world champion Cardinals
are going to be introduced to
long indies, probably red flan-
mel, to keep muscles warm
against the wintry blasts. The
Phils, under new owner Bill Cox,
and new pilot Bucky Harris, are
going in for commando train
ing. Cox explains that that
means they're going to get more
strenuous conditioning assign
ments that will make them
tougher than the old Gas House
Gang.
The Reds are going to dispense
with the usual caliSthenics and
depend on a new method of OBJ
tanning muscular strength and
relaxation as propounded by
Bill Miller of Tulsa University.
Cincinnati players will have to
order their meals "A hours in
advance-to avoid food waste at
their hotel.
Many of the clubs will train
en- university athletic fields.
Three will establish quarters at
resorts-the Yankees on the
seashore at Asbury Park, N. j.,
and the Cubs and White Sox at
French Lick, Ind. Farthest north
base will be that of the Red Sox
at Medford, Mass, while the
Browns will be at the other ex-
IRENE at Cape Girardeau,
Mo. The two Chicago clubs and
the Giants will practice on dia-
monds laid out on golf courses,
the New Workers using por-
ton of the links formerly own
ed by John d. Rockefesler, Sr.,
at Lakewood, N. j.
Three new managers will take
over: Harris of the Phils; Ossie
Bleuge, his successor with Wash
ington; and Steve O'Neill of the
Tigers.
Here are the locations and
dates for opening of the major
league camps Ia number opened
yesterday:
National League
Giants Lakewood, N. j., Mar.
Is.
Dodgers-Bear Mountain, N.
T., Mar. Is.
Phils-Hershey, Pa, Mar. Is.
Braves Wallingford, Conn,
Mar. %.
Cardinals-Cairo, Ill, Mar. Is.
Pirates--Muncie, Ind, Mar. Is.
Reds-Bloomington, Ind, Mar.
Is.
Cubs-French Lick, Ind, Mar.
81.
American League
Yankees--Asbury Park, N. j.,
Mar. IA.
Red Sox--Medford, Mass, Mar.
70.
Senator's College Park, Md,
Mar. Is.
Athletics - Wilmington, Del,
Mar. 2O''.-
Browns-cape Girardeau, Mo-,
Mar. Is.
Tigers-EvansvilIe, Ind, Mar.
Is.
Indians--Lafayette, Ind, Mar.
Is.
White Sox-French Lick, Ind,
Mar. 10.
Yankees, other than battery
men, report Mar. Ill
HAthletics. other than battery
men, report Mar. 24.)
Instead OF the usual six weeks
or more trainino l., a. C.t.