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Show WHITE SIX if WIN TEXAS Comiskey Favors Lone Star State, but Has Not Yet - Picked Camp. By I. E. SANBORN. Chloajro Tribune Special Service. CHICAGO, Nov. 26. "Somewhere in Texas" the White Sox probably will do tiielr fpring training in K'-'O. although no def.mte location has yet been picked for the south side team. U reports are true that the world's champion Heds of Cincinnati have re-It-a.sed their claim on Waxahachle. that camp may be selected by President Com!key. who is strong for the Lone Star state after the experience he has had there. The Reds tackled Texas for the first time last spring and encountered an abnormal ab-normal season, in which more rain fell than the state had seen for more than thirty years. They were d splea-io-i with Viixahach:o on that account, but for no other reason. Carry Herrmann still has first choice on his 191D camp. but. according ac-cording to recent reports, he has decided to take the champs to Florida next spring. If they cannot locale In Waxahachle. the White So may train In one of the mora southern cities of the stale, Houston being an applicant, also Beaumont Beau-mont and Snn Antonio. One by one the available camps are being be-ing appropriated. Lafel Charles. La., which was angling for the White Sox. has been selected by Connie Mack for his Athletics. Urownsvlllr. Tcx:s. hi" ben engagi-d for the Cardinals, but ther ar several camps In the Mleslss'ppl valley or close to It still open to the White Sox. Including Shreveport and Alexandria. Tampa and other cities on the west coast of Klorlda are Linking for major Irsgue teams to come back and spend some money there, ns the Cuba and Phillies used to do. but that Is a long way from home, according to the owner of the White Sox. who hnd his fill of long training trips in the six years the Sox Journeyed to California in search of sunshine. mm. The one thing certain shout the White S"X trnlnlrg trip Is thnl they will not return to Mineral Wel'.s. where they hnve onrwdvd Qm rMortan and oil speculator oul of hotel accommodations for the last four years. The climate there Is too dry In permit growing grass enough (or UMtsM diamond and that Is what the major ieaguo players demand for train- 'Another tMng that Is certain Is that the ''ins will go to California next spring for (he'r cndltlon'.-ig. ."tuning .it Pasadena Pasa-dena and loverlng as much ..f the Psclflc coait as the training trip will permit. |