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Show B1C1FT GETS LEAD OFF RANK Groh, Young and Frisch Follow in Batting Order of Giants NEW YORK. March 11. Dave Bancroft will open the sea.son with the Giants in the lead-off position, it was reported today In dispatches from the world'-- champions training camp at San Antonio. McfJraw probably will send Groh in behind Bancroft, then follow with Young and clean up with Frank Frisch. Irish Meuse may get the call for fifth position and ong tJeorge Kel-lev Kel-lev -iv i 1 1 bat sixth Ka'ph Sninners will bat before the batti Friach's stick work in the game with the rookies Friday cinched the cleanup clean-up position. He drove the ball out of tho park on a line drive at' about tho same time Babe Ruth. Yankee star, was sending the sphere on ;. record trip over the fence at New Orleans. Jlmmv Johnston, ono of the remaining remain-ing Brooklyn dodgei holdouts surpris ed Manager iioueruon l-nuay ij walking into camp at Jacksonville in time to get into the regulars-yanni-garls game. CBS PI V VNGELS CHICAGO. March 11 Tie Inc. no Nationals were ready to Sleet the Log Angeles club of the Pacific coaet league today In an effort to make up for the defeat handed them by the Portland elub In their exhibition game Friday', according to word from the coast. II URP1 B HAS ill CINCINNATI. Ohio, March" 11. A touch of influenza caused Outfielder George Harper to be left behind when the Cincinnati National leaguers left Mineral Wells for Port Worth this morning, according to dispatches received re-ceived here. The Reds will play two games at Fort Worth against the southern champions. Arrival of Adolfo LuQUe from his home in Havana last night, completed Manager Moran's pitching staff, with nlno right banders and three southpaws south-paws BIGGEST OFFER MADE. BOSTON. March 11 Harry N. Frazoe, president of the Boston Americans, Am-ericans, says he has rojected a proposal pro-posal for n player's purchase that would surpass all others of the kind "I have hcen offered and have refused re-fused more money for Joe Dtlgan than T n . .Ivd mi Pane K'Hh. ' dispatches dis-patches from Hoi Springs. Ark.. Ihe Red Box tr.iiniiiK e.unp. quote Frazee as saying. Thai taJcon to mean that approximately $160,000 wa, placed as the value of th" shortstop who came to the Boston elub durinc: the winter in a three-cornered trade after making his mark as a member of the Athletics. Frazee has been credited as having hav-ing received between- $i:'i.ouo and $1."i0,000 for Ruth. Dugan Is npW convalescing from illness at Ills home in New Haven, Conn. Frazee said Dugan would not be sold. He would not indicate the source of the offer. BASEBALL TODAY. DALLAS, Texas, Mar ii 11. Today's To-day's baseball game between Trls speaker' Cleveland American league team, hich has boon training here, and Branch Rickey's St. Louis National Na-tional league elub. camping n. or-ange, or-ange, Texas, will find the runner-up in the American leanue last season pitted against the third place team of the other major organization. Speaker sent his second team to Wichita Falls, Texas, last night in charge of Jack McAllister. Rickey's second team remained at Orange to play with the Beaumont Exporters today to-day and tomorrow. The first teams of the two clubs play lu Dallas again tomorrow afternoon. EXHIBITION GAME, ST. LOUTS, Mo.. March 11. The local Americans are scheduled today meet ' Mobile doaiheru Asocia-, tlon team in the first exhibition game; 0 fthe season at the local team's training grounds in Mobile. Another game with the Mobile team Is on lo-morrow's lo-morrow's schedule. The Cardinals ; will play the Cleveland Americans to-, day at Dallas, Texas. OBB 54 Rl 1 SIZING. DETROIT. Mich., March 11 Spring training of the Detroit Tigers j will reach th practice game stage at Augusta. (Ja.. next week, when ( Manager Cobb plans td stage five ln-ning ln-ning contests dally that ho may get a better line on his recruit candidates candi-dates for infield berths. At least 10 days will elapse, accord - , ins to reports form the camp, before be-fore any of the 3" men now on ih roster will bo eliminated. Although I 1 0 fans havo written Cobb telling him how to solve the difficulty ex- 1 porienced last year at second base, he still is studying the keystone prdb- ! lorn. "Pep" Young is confident of; regaining his 191i0 form while any of i the other six newcomers, it Jd, could be worked into the second base position. Rain cut short the Tigers' practice I session yesterday. |