The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16
3 CONDITIONS
 AGREED TO FOR
 SPRING GAMES

Washington, March 16. UP)- Elimination of almost all travel dur ing spring training was arranged yesterday by the presidents of the National and American leagues.
 The decision was announced by President Ford Prick of the Amer ican league and President Will Har- ridge of the National league after a 45-minute talk with Transporta- ton Director J. Monroe Johnson.
 Making a slight change in the original agreement with the office of defense transportation, Prick and Harridge said spring games would be allowable under only three con- ditions:
 l. Games between clubs training in the same city or suburban areas of the same city.
 2. Games with Army and Navy teams, or at Army and Navy camps, with the armed services providing transportation.
 3. Games scheduled with clubs on direct route from the spring train- ing camp to teams home city, provided no side trips are involved. This means the team must have broken up it's spring training camp and is on the way home to open the season.
 Clark c. Griffith, owner of the Washington Senators of the Amer ican league, accompanied Prick and Harridge to the conference.
 I.., V1..a~ said that lin order to cooperate fully with the ODT, MT. Prick and MT. Harridge will recommend tc their clubs cancellation of all spring training games involving any pulp lie transportation" not in accord with the above conditions.
 "The clubs may play intra-camp games and games en route to their home parks or intra- -city games pre- ceding the opening of the regular season. the statement said, "pro- vided the cities where the games are played are on direct ruote home and no additional transportation is involved"
 The statement said teams may play at Army or NUavy camps pro- vided transportation is not by a public carrier but is provided by the Army or Navy"
 Prick and Harridge could not esti- mate accurately the number of games that would be cancelled. But both expressed the belief that mot many" would be as an illustration of what will happen under each of the conditions Harridge gave this explanations:
 Under coalition I the Washing ton Senators training in College Park, Md, suburb of the capital, may play there, or in Washington, with the Boston Braves of the Ma tional league who are training at Georgetown University in Wash ington. But neither team, for in- stance. he said, could go to Fred erick, Md, where the Athletics are in camp, nor could the Athletics come here.
 The Boston Red Sox are at Pleasantville, N J., a suburb of Atlantic City where the Lankees are training. They will be able to play at either of their camps. But the Giants at Lakewood, N. J., cannot go as far as Atlantic City.
 Under condition 2 teams can go practically anywhere as long as the armed services carry them.
 Tn the third instance the Bos- ton Braves could break camp at Georgetown and schedule games on their way back to Boston with the Philadelphia Phillies at Wilmington. Del, or either of the Philadelphia teams at Philadelphia, or any of the New oYrk teams at New York because all those cities are on the normal route from Washington Boston.
 Prick said he thought most teams would spend less time in training camp and would arrange longer journey homeward and a longer preseason stand in their home cities.
 He said the hardship would be for teams in one team cities.