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Show Majors Set Early Call . For Season By JUDSON BAILEY NEW YORK, Jan. 28 OP) The scent of wide-open races In baseball's base-ball's major leagues has aroused seven clubs to the extent of advancing ad-vancing their 1941 spring training programs ahead of last year's schedule. Cleveland, Boston and Chicago, In the American league, and St. Louis, New York, Boston and Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, In the National, have arranged ar-ranged to get to work earlier this season. . In addition, Jimmy Wilson, new manager of the Chicago Cubs, will call his entire squad together at Catalina island February 26, Instead In-stead of last year's set-up by which Gabby Hartnett took one section February 22 and another February Febru-ary 29. Thus, most of the Cubs also will have an earlier start Glanta at Miami The New York Giants will set the spring training machinery in motion February 14 at Miami, Fla.; the Brooklyn Dodgers will open the next day at Havana, Cuba; the Cleveland Indians will swing Into action February 17 at Fort Myers, Fla., and all. except two clubs will be under way before be-fore the end of next month. The Detroit Tigers, American league champions, will summon their batterymen to Lakeland, Fla., March 2, and the rest of the squad March 9. Last year the camp opened February 25. The Philadelphia Phillies, perennial peren-nial National league tail-enders, will stsrt March 1 at Miami Beach. Ten clubs will train in Florida this winter, one less than last year. Cincinnati's world champions cham-pions will set up shop at Tampa again February 24; the St. Louis Cardinals will convene at St. Petersburg Pe-tersburg the same day; the New York Yankees, who also train at St Pete, will start on the 23rd; the Boston Red Sox, on the 24th at Sarasota; and Washington, at Orlando, Fla., February 20, five days later than last year. Brooklyn, which trained at Clearwater, Clear-water, Fla, last year, will return there In mid-March to complete Its work. The Giants trained at Winter. Haven, Fla, In 1940. Bees In Texas The Boston Bees, at Braden-ton, Braden-ton, Fla., last year, will share the Texas scene at San Antonio with the St. Louis Browns. The Bees will start February 20 and the Browns, February 27. Southern California again will have four camps. The Chicago White Sox will be at Pasadena, where the first squad will be due February 23; the next day Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh will take over San Bernardino, Bernar-dino, and the Philadelphia Athletics Ath-letics will move Into Anaheim. The Cubs will be at Avalon on Catalina. Cata-lina. Several big league players also will undergo some Individual conditioning con-ditioning at Hot Springs, Ark., before be-fore joining their respective clubs. The Chicago White Sox will have a "fat man" squad there under the watchful eye of Coach Muddy Ruel. The Philadelphia Athletics batterymen bat-terymen also will do some preliminary pre-liminary work and take the. mineral min-eral baths at Carlsbadd before reporting re-porting to Connie Mack. Coach Earle Brucker will be In charge of this delegation. |