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THE MIAMI METROPOLIS, Boston National League Team's Spring Training Camp in Miami; Stars of the Baseball World Will be Here Within Next Few Days THREE BOSTON BRAVE WONDER WORKERS Braves was the acquiring of the defunct Pittsburgh Feds. The three players were bought for a- lump sum of $18,000 cash and added to the roster of the Braves. Allen is a left-handed pitcher while Knetzer throws 'em over with bis other paw. THERE'S A CAMP OUT AT THE END OP THE STREET CAR line on the western edge of Miami where some epoch making baseball pow-wows are going to be held within a few days. For the Braves from Boston, the aggregation of ball tossers that represents the Beany Town in the National League are going to occupy the camp with all the paraphernalia of battle, and it is there that the Boston team will be rounded into condition for the summer trio along the war-path in quest of the National League gonfalon.

Alrttdy the warriors are getting their material together and before a dozen days have passed Miami will be over-run with baseball players big leaguers who know the game from A to and whose names are spoken of with awe by a million youngsters on the sand lots. It was former president James Gaffney of the Boston National League team who discovered Miami and placed it on the baseball map. A casual trip to this city some months ago caused the baseball magnate to stop, look and listen, and he was so impressed with what he saw and heard that he started negotiations to establish the spring training camp of his team in this city. But he was not alone in his discovery, for a number of other teams had their weather eye on Miami and there was a mass of correspondence with different presidents and managers of ball clubs, each one wanting information on the feasibility of bringing their teams here to' train. First, there was President Hedges of the St.

Louis Browns, and he was cock-sure that Miami was the best little training camp in the world. And then came a letter from President Charles Comiskey of the Chicago White Sox, and he had the idea that Miami would be a tine place to bring the Southsiders. But he also had a high-priced idea when it came to financing the deal, and before it could be settled one way or another the Detroit Tigers got their fiuger into the pie and for a while it looked like Cobb, Crawford Co. would cavort around the Miami lot during the spring months. All of this dope was fairlv sizzlins in the snort kettle when splash in dropped the New er, will probably be used as utility man this year.

The Braves will be accompanied to the Miami camp by a number of Boston sporting writers. Ed. McGrath. sporting editor of the Boston Post, bas already written that he will be on hand to watch over bis flock during the early days of the training, while several others will come along. Games with the Brooklyn Nationals, who are training at Seabreeze, have been arranged for.

while there will no doubt be other contests with other big league clubs during next month at Tatum Park. This year is the first that Miami has entertained a big league baseball Climatic conditions are regarded as ideal for spring training, while everything that modern baseball ingenuity can think of has been done to make the Tatum park a model of its kind. It's just the start of a new thing in Miami, but a thing that means a great deal for the city. It means some of the best advertising in the world: it means that Miami's citizens and tourists will be able to see a bunch of athletes in action and get first hand dope on the pennant cl aces; it that the sporting world is looking to Miami from a new angle, and it's fine that the trigger has been pulled and that in a few days the old bats will cracking again, and tbe fan-blood i "ft i 7' Vt York Americans. Someone had slipped a bug in the ear of the High- yt-9 lander's chief that if he would just train his team in Miami it would be a lead-pipe cinch to race under the wire a winner in the American league race.

And all the time the Boston Braves were dickering and dickering. It all ended with Tatum Bros, of Miami signing a eon-tract with President Gaffney of the Braves for a term of five years in which the Braves agreed to come here to train. No sooner had the contract been signed than work: was started on the Tatum ball park. Gangs of laborers were thrown into the lot, and before long it began to blossom into a fine looking plot of ground. Carpenters built a grandstand in less time than it takes to tell it; the bleachers were built, a fence was erected around the lot, and all he outside work was done.

Along came Dick Shaner then, the ground Dill James, Man)jer George Stallinc and Dick Rudolph (at right). These are the three wonder men of the Beaton Braves mnl to them goes the most credit for the wonderful race the Braes mwle for the 1014 pennant. Mailings was at the helm while James and Rudolph were the men who gave him the most aid in tho fight. Rudolnh and James are both pitchers and will both be seen working out at tho Miami spring training camp in a few days. It's Ed Konetchy who will add the strength to the line-up though Koney batted for .310 and fielded for .996 while with tbe Feds.

He will play first bace for the Braves, taking the place of Charley Schmidt who has retired from baseball. Konetchy made a name for himself in the baseball world while a member of the St. Louis Cards and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Down at second base at the Miami park the fans will have a chance to see one of the best known bail players in tbe world. It is none other than John who bas played ball ever since he crawled out of his swaddling clothes.

It was largely due to the head work of Johnny that the Braves pulled out of the 1914 mess. At shortstop tbe fans will be introduced to Mr, Rabbit Maranville, the midget star who catches 'em like he had the stomach-ache-but who never fails to catch 'em. Maran ville is one of the best short stops who ever spit in a glove, and more than one batter in the big circuit knows it. Over at third base James C. Smith Red will kick up the dust.

Red Smith is another player who has written his name down on the stone tablets as a bearcat, and his exhibition with the Braves has been pretty good. But there is a rumor that Red's job depends a good deal on how he shows up in the spring prac tice and that he might have a lot of opposition for his corner. In the utility infielder line Man ager Stallings has a few dark horses who can fill in nicely. Edward Fitz-patrick, Joseph Shannon, Maurice Shannon and Richard Egan. It sounds a bit Irish, just to read the names, but there's nothing green about those lads and they are just waiting for their chance.

In the outfield Stallings has a few stars of enviable reputation. In the left garden Sherwood Slagee, the hoy wonder, is due to eat 'em up. In Magee, Stallings has at least one man who is sure of his job. Then there is the possibility that Magee may be drafted to play first base in a pinch as it is a position he held down for a' while last year. Fred Snodgrass In center field is considered a and it is possible that he also may fill in at first, as be is familiar with the sack.

Bash Compton is a strong candidate for center field, while Edward Collins is also out for that job. II. L. Chancey of Macon Is trying out this spring for the outfield, it being the time he bas appeared in a Boston uniform. The same is true of J.

W. Wilhoit, who started with Los Angeles in the Pacific Coast league last year. i Joseph Connolly, veteran left field- Qnkeeper of the Braves, and the man I AN OLD STANDBY I -i Art- i if i will be coursing through your veins. I I -O AS GOOD AS EVER 11 VY" Pat Si Don Carlos Patrick Ragan has more than a name tie has a reputation as a mighty good twirler. v.

1 xv i Li 1 14 THE IRISH MEMBER RILL JAMES Here is a Boston pitcher who has the reputation of being the right-hand man of Manager Stallings. with a man or two on. In addition to Nehf, Stallings has Jesse L. Barnes a right hander, old George Davis, who also pitches from the starboard side, Long Tom Hughes, another right hander and Adolphe Luque and therelebrated Don Carlos Patrick Ragan, both right banders. His other southpaw goes by the name of Paul Strand, and is looked upon as a comer in the baseball game.

So it is a bunch of world beaters who will toss 'em over on the iliami lot this spring. There's not a poor one in the bunch. To tell the truth about the matter there is one position that is causing Stallings a little bit of worry, and that is the receiving end of the battery. The Braves have Hank Gowdy, who broke up several of the world series games with his big bat. Earl Blackburn and Walter Tragressor.

All of them are good catchers, but somehow or other Stallings is not quite satisfied, an-1 he is scouring the country for a first line man. It is understood thaft he has his eye on Ivy W'ingo, the phenom of the Cincinnati ReJa and is mating a strenuous effort to sign him up. But the three catchers will be iu Miami and go through with the spring work, but it's a ten to one shot that Stallings will have a new catcher down her before the season is half over. I The latest deal put over by the 93 t. Lg Ci EORGE A.

DAVIS, JR. Davis is a right handed pitcher who Is well known to a host of fans. Fred Snodgrass Booked For Outfield Heavy Fed Hitter Joins the Braves there's the old triumvirate that made a mess of certain bunch of Athletics ia a certain, world series Rudolph, Tyler and James. Richard Rudolph, right bander; George Tyler, left bander and William James, right hander. That's the way the Big Three sign their names to their salary checks.

But the Big Three won't have to bear the brunt of it this year for Stallings has a youngster whom he tried out last year and found to be up to snuff in every particular. This bird goes by tha name of Arthur Nehf, and he hails, from Terre Haute, Indiana. Nehf got his start in baseball while attending Rose Polytechnic University, and he cleaned up all the college teams in that vicinity. He was so good that he broke into the Central League and was there only long enough to break out again into faster landing with the Braves. His work last year was most sensational.

Nehf is a southpaw, and he's the sort of a pifcher who does not confine his activities to the pitcher's box, for back In the Hoosier state there is more than one yarn about Art's habit of smashing the little pill over the fence RABBIT AT SHORT ft-j: 4 4 1 1 4 WALTER MARAWILLF! Rabbit will swn be pii kini: ni up amund at Tatum field. lij1) A. Vt v. -O MAGEE OX LIST h'" SHERWOOD AUGER One man Is sure of his place in the outfield and that is Sherwood gee who cavorts around left garden. park is covered with snow months in the year the fans bear that first call to arms with a thrill right down their fanatical backbones, and when they pick up the paper and see that the Braves have gone to Miami to start spring training for the 19 IS race, you can bet your bottom dollar that the thought brings a rush of joy-blood to their hearts.

It means that the old game will be on again in a few short weeks it means that spring is coming, for there is no surer sign; it means life to the ball fan; it's just the best old news in the world and all this stuff about a lot of boobs shooting at each other over in Europe or Finland or fades into nothingness, for the players are warming up, the dope pot is sizzling and it's about time for the umps bis old robbing soul) to yell "Play A glance over the roster of the Boston Braves, shows that George Stallings has not been asleep at tht switch since the season closed last fall. Of course there are a bunch of the same old Braves practically all of the vets who campaigned through the wonderful summer of 1914 when George brought his team, almost hopelessly distanced, through a spurt that landed tbem first money. It's the same old who will be in Miami, the same old Miracle Man. And he has gathered about him a collection of ball players whose feats are known to every kid old enough to lift a bat bag. The mere incident that.

President Gaffney and bis associates got a chance to sell the team at a fancy pric doesn't make any difference to (he Tans. It's the players they watch, liot the fellow who owns the But the owner, Percy Haug'hton, will be here with liis team and will have ihe pleasure of seeing "bis" team practice for the first time on a Miami lot. When it comes to a gang of pilch-er Stallings has a line that will stick with any iu the country. First, -mi who has been responsible for the successful building of some of the finest ball parks in the country, and he immediately got to work laying out the diamond and fixing up the outfield. The result is that Miami has one of the finest baseball training camps in the world, and the park, in its newness and thoroughness, will be a surprise to any fan who bas been so unfortunate as to have failed to visit it.

And it is all ready Just waiting for the coming of the Braves. Just another exam ple of the Miami way of doing things. And now comes the word that the Braves will be here in a few days. They are expected by the first week in March and some of the squad are already on their way here. The pitchers will report to Manager George Stallings at his plantation near Macon, Ga in which city the Braves trained last year, while the eastern delegation of the squad will leave New York by steamer, get off at Savannah and come on to Miami by rail.

It might be a little difficult for the Miami fan to realize what the announcement of spring training means to the northern fan. Down here where the warm breezes make a man forget the cold and sleet it's hard to organize a winter stove lea-, gue. But back where the old ball He will I 5" 1 m. it Fie-, i ED KO.VETCHV Koney was only reremh secured from (he ritlHirgh Fed plaj- firt for the Craves this year. Kred Snodgrass is another outfielder whom St ailing has a In of faith in.

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