Show Must Take Training Course COLUMBUS Ohio Feb 18 UP p- p George M. M president of the American Association followed the lead of the major leagues today and announced the associations association's umpires umpires um urn- pires would be sent south on the spring training trip with their expenses expenses ex ex- paid said he made his decision decision decision de de- de- de after looking over complaints complaints' against the umpires in recent sea sea- sons He discovered most were filed In the first few tC weeks That means he said that the umpires were not in shape to do their best when tho the se season on opened A fellow cant can't spend tho the winter in ina ina a a. garage factory or department store and st step p right out of that job to the baseball fieldI fieldI field I am establishing the American Association training capital at Lake Wales Fla and when the tho teams go 0 south I will invite the umpires to join me there Well We'll spend a week In an intensive study of the rules and during the same time timo will go through a steady training ses see sion Then tho the umpires will wUl be as assigned assigned assigned as- as signed to work exhibition games for tor forthe forthe the Association clubs I I |