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Show I. LEAGUERS OFF FOR Hill CAMPS Almost Two Months Will Be Devoted to Developing Young Players. NEW YORK, Fob. 21. All trails arc leading to tbe southland training camps these days, and it will not bo long bo-foro bo-foro the crash: of the bat against the whistling horsehidc will resound throughout the land; not long pforo America onco again boeomos affiliated with its summer ailment basoballilip. Of course, unowflakes still flit hither and tbithor in certain portions of this countrv. And springtime isn't so close-lv close-lv upon us that wo 're warranted . m rushing right off to tho neighboring pawnshops with onr overcoats. But to auote Shakespeare, Mr. Browing. 0. Henry or whoever it was thai, said it, "the backbone of winter has been busied." busi-ed." And when a backbone is busted the owner of the backbono usually doesn't linger very long. Already Ihe vanguard of the big league pitchers are encamped in Hot Springs and other purifying; sections of tho u. S. A. The other hurlors will join them in a fow days, and in about two weeks or so practically all .the regular reg-ular and recruit major leaguers will be far sontk of the Maeon and Diron lino, shrieking because of the agony that comes during tho first few days, in training train-ing camps from strained tendons, blistered blis-tered hands, aching muscles and. the cookery that one meets and must cm-brace cm-brace in tho small town southern .hotels. Almost two solid months still must be snatched from the calendar boforo tbe regular season opens two months beforo "play ball"' echoes and reechoes re-echoes through, the now silent baseball stadiums. But in the interim one can feast on training camp news, which, in a wav, satiates even tno most ravenous appefite of tho bnscball hungry multitude. multi-tude. Most of tho big league teams go south this year with a greater galaxy of recruits re-cruits than cvor before. Many of the Tooktes hnvc been press agonted by their minor league own era as second Ty Gobbs. second Honus "Wagners, etc. There's nothing new in such a method of advertising:" it's an old, old story. But somehow the big league magnates this voar.nro Teally expecting something some-thing from their recruit crop really expecting to harvest, a few stars, a few Teal ball players that can lake their places iimong the regulars and stand the gaff. The St. Louis Browns have on their roster just now ihe largest collection of rookies' in captivity. Somothing like rhirtv young athletes gathered from the Ibushe?. The majority of them camo into tho Browns' net labeled as wonders. won-ders. Branch "Rickey, the Brown manager," man-ager," frankly admits he has a 30b mapped out "for him in the culling of those recruits. "From all 1 hear of thoso youngsters." young-sters." declared flick ey, "they have sufficient caliber to crowd out every one of my regulars. Wouldn 't that bo great, if "it were true? But T?m not looking foT any fortune like that; T'll be perfectly satisfied if even fivo of that, army of kids show up well enough to keep." . . Here are the different training camps of .the big leaguors: NATIONAL LEAGUE. New York Marlin, Tex. Philadelphia Wilmington, X. C. Chicago Tampa, Fla. Pittsburg Dawson Springs or West Baden. Boston Macon. Ga. St. Louis St. Augustine,. Fla. Cincinnati Mobile, Ala. Brooklyn Augusta, Gn AMERICAN LEA.GUK. Philadelphia Jacksonville, Fla. Cleveland New Orleans. Boston Hot Springs, AtIc St. Louis St. Petersburg. Fla. Washington Charlottesville, Va. Chicago Paso Eobles, Cal. New York Houston-. Tex. Detroit Gulfport, Miss. |