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Show H Connie Mack Will Pilot Big Squad H Of Athletics South H r Philadelphia, Feb. 19. Manager t J Connie Mack will pilot a young re- B giment to the Southern training camp B In Florida this year. It will be one of B . the biggest squad of Athletics Mack B has ever taken South, simply because B I Mack realizes he must rebuild. H! f With Mack it will be quantity and H not quality, but he has the happy H faculty of being able to make dia- m rnonds out of cobbles and ho hopes M to pick a few stars in thsi year'8 squad B Lajole, Strunk, Mclnnis and Oldrlng B ( will be virtually the only veterans on B ' the Athletics this year, outside of the B pitchers and catchers. Oldrlng had B decided to retire, but could hot stay B away from the game and instead of being a full-fledged farmer in Shlloh. N. J., he will chase files in left field for Mack. Harry Davis Is to be retained as as captain of the team and Ira Thomas will have charge of tho pitchers pitch-ers and catchers. There will be no Spring series between the Phillies nnd Athletics this year, but the Mack men have several series scheduled In the South with the Braves, and on the waj- North will play in five or six cities on the Atlantic seaboard. |