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Show MEAL WORK ES BEGUN Major League Training Soon to Be in Full Swing in Nine States New York, March 1. The month of real work In baseball training began today v.nli probably more than 50 per cent of the major league players : In ady encamped below the 40Hi parallel, par-allel, and the remainder moving to the south today Before another week the major league bat will be In full Bwlng in nine states and even In foreign for-eign territory in one Instance. The third and last detachments of the New Yorks of the American league sailed for Bermuda early this morning morn-ing without a single absentee recorded record-ed when the vessel sailed. There were 17 men In the party and they will reach Bermuda early on Monday morning to report to Frank Chance, their new manager, and join the battery bat-tery squad which preceded them Nine members of the Brooklyn Nationals, under command of Captain Pake Dau berdt, made ready early today to embark em-bark for Savannah, Ga., on a late afternoon aft-ernoon boat. They will reach their camp at Augusta bv ,rail from Savannah Sa-vannah on Wednesday morning and will be joined there by Manager Dah-len Dah-len and other members of the squad. Vanguards on Way South. The an?nards of both the Boston , major league teams are on their way ; south today, the world champions to 1 lot Springs! rk . where Manager Jake Stahl ba? already been at work for a week. The Nationals are on their way to Athens. Ga. Other clubs of the two leagues gen-j gen-j erally have already men at their j camps and full complements are ex-j ex-j pected within a few days, making this year's lineup of training quar-: quar-: ters as follows- National leaRue New York at Marlin, Mar-lin, Tex.; Chicago at Tampa, Fla . I Pittsburg at Hot Springs, Ark.; Philadelphia Phi-ladelphia at Southern Pines. N. C . Cincinnati at Mobile. Ala.: St. Louis at Columbus, Ga.. Brooklyn at Augusta. Au-gusta. Ga.; Boston at Athens, Ga. American league Philadelphia at San Antonio, Tex ; Chicago at Paso Robles Cal Detroit at Gulf Port. Miss Cleveland a Peusacola, Fla ; Boston at Hoi Springs. Ark.; New-York New-York at Hamilton Bermuda. Washington Wash-ington at C harlottesvllle. Ya , St Lou-Is Lou-Is at Waco, Tex Only six of these camps are the :ime as last year. The New York, Pittsburg and Boston Nationals and I the Philadelphia Boston and Washington Wash-ington Americans are In their old I camps, but all the others have chosen cho-sen new sites. Most of the clubs have allowed for a full month or more Of training, moving north as usual, Ith exhibition nnics during the first 10 days of April before tbe league seasons open. |