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HOW MAJOR LEAGUE TEAMS Flying: Racing: Shooting: Fishing: Bali. I LOOK AS SEASON. OPENS. No Great Strength to Any of Them Seven National League Clubs Have a Chance for the Pennant. American League Flag Looks Sure for the Athlctien.

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Spring training has done little to ehow the fans and students of the frame the possibilities of new strength for beyond doubt it has been the most wretched training season in the history of the modern game. Not one team today is really fit and in proper shape to start a season. The advantage in the training, if any, has accrued to the Philadelphia CRAVATH IS PROMISING. In the National League the dis coveries are not so promising, but several of the clubs are still hanging 27 Different Sizes3 for -25c and Upward AT YOUR DEALERS M. A.

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Prospects for the first six weeks of to men without really knowing whether they are ripe or not" Pitts- burgh seems stronger than It looked when the spring' training started, but the only element of strength likely to count is in securing Mike Donlin for his hitting and in the pitching of O'TooIe. New York evidently has not added any strength, Philadelphia is stronger only because Schultz, former University of Pennsylvania star, seems to have settled and learned td pitch major league ball, and Cravathi is going well. Cravath Is essentially a minor league player, but It is a possibility that he may have davel oped or that the league may hav slipped back to his caliber. The Cubs haven't helped them selves much, except as to Lennox who seems to have recovered hl health and is playing fine ball. He Is determined to come back strong, and, according to Chance, he has already shown that he can.

Chance and Evers will be able to start and I think Evers will stick It out as his health, is better than It has been In three-years, and he seems to have ered from his nervous troubles. Lavender is promising as a spitball pitch the season aje for a lot of miserable up and down baseball, with the teams possessing tin best conditioned pitch ing corps leading. After the first of June the teams will begin to show their real form, but up to that time any club lucky enough to have four even fair pitchers working right ought to make a hard fight. I have had letters the last week from seven major league managers. All seven complain that the weather has held back the development of their teams, has prevented, In a measure, any chance of getting an accurate Una on their youngsters, and, oddly enough, five of the seven declare that while their teams gen erally are not in good shape, the 'Tis the "Age of Steel" and Vanadium is the steel of the age toughest, strongest, lightest.

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No Tlmo for It Cosmopolitan. pitching staff is in fair condition. This can mean only one thing and that is that every major league manager has been devoting all his efforts to getting his pitchers into condition, each hoping to gain the start on the other clubs through steady and consistent work. ATHLETICS BAD LUCK. It looks, sadly enough, as if the strongest team in the country has come out of the spring training In bast condition.

The Athletics had more luck with the weather and played more baseball than any of the other teams, although Comiskey SKY EAGLE OUT FOR MARATHON. NO FIGHT CLUB HERE FOR JIMMY C0FFR0TH. INDIANS TRAINING HARD TO SHOW WHITE BROTHERS. BY GREY OLIVER. and McGraw had two or three troops of comedians playing under the alias DON'T know anything'about any er and Northrup.

the former Buck-nell star, is highly touted, although the box scores against minor 'league teams don't look so good for him. If Bues manages to play third for the Giants it will give McGraw a chance to shift some of his men back where they can play better. HOW HE PICKS 'EM. If compelled to pick the way that the eight clubs in each league will finish, I would line them up as they appear at the head of this column. That is the way they figure, but so close do some of them figure out that a couple of bad decision or three or four passed balls might change them all around.

To me the National League race looks to be the most promising, for there actually are seven clubs with a possible chance to win that pennant, and Boston is such an oddly built ball club it may turn the whole race upside down, even if it still remain eighth. That club is going to muddle everything, because it is just as likely to beat a strong team as it Is to beat a weak one. It can hit terrifically and whenever a pitcher lets down an inning or two it will be all over. I figure that the Philadelphia have the best chance, as their pitching staff seems more consistent than any of the others. But it looks as if the first four Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago will be all In a bunch until some accident or bad run of luck befalls one.

St Louis and Cincinnati ought to be close up, with Brooklyn not far hnHlnri Tt tn ha tha ttl I ne A cm of the Sox and Giants and gathering ew fight club at Venice or at any other point In Southern Cal Entry List Now Embraces Athletes of AH Ages and From Many Na-tionsi Southern California Athletic Club Has Big Squad Training. Directors' Meeting Sunday. ATTENTION in nickels at tank towns. Some do not yet realize that major league baseball Isn't a nickel moving-picture show. I doubt if two teams in the country paid expenses on the training trip, and the results financially, as otherwise, were discouraging.

The Boston Nationals have been the greatest surprise of the spring to me and still have me puzzled. They RIVERSIDE I race th National League ever has Tom, "and I think I would know if anyone did. I asked 'McCarey over the phone several days ago if there was anything doing here for Conley and he said he might be able to use him either the latter part of this month or in the early part of May. "I promised to see McCarey, but as there was no particular hurry, I did not see him yesterday. "I would allow Conley to fight At-tell, Mandot or Moran at 125 pounds at 10 o'clock in the morning, or Bat Nelson at any old weight, but with the exception of Nelson I would not let Prankie meet anyone who outweighed him more than five pounds." Tom Jones has received an offer from Coffroth to have Wolgast box in San Francisco on May 4 and Jones replied that Ad would if the inducements were to his liking.

The ones that Coffroth proposed were Britton, Brown, McFarland or Rivers. However, these bouts would have to be for four or six rounds. "I got an offer from Tim Hurst." said Wolgast yesterday, "that I had to laugh at He offered me $35,000 for three bouts. One was for for Wells, and the other two were for $10,000 each to meet McFarland and Knockout Brown. Of course, I laugh at these things.

"I got another one from Jimmy Dime that also made me laugh," continued Ad. "He has promised me $6000 to box six rounds with Willie Ritchie, but of course, I will not take that "By the way, I may be a manager myself, for I have wired Fred Hicks to come here at once. He Is a crack middleweight and McCarey has promised to put him on with the winner of the Morrow-Fagan fight next Saturday. After that it Is the intention to match the winner with McGoorty. I think Hicks is a real live one." ifornia," remarked Jimmy Coffroth, last night, "and I am not going into any such scheme." This is Smiling Jim's answer to the rumor that he is here to get into a new club in opposition to the Paciflo Athletic Club.

The story is that Coffroth, or interests he is friendly to, have figured on taking over the license that Bill Aldridge is said to have for Venice, and putting in a big club in the beach city. Coffroth stated last night that Aldridge had made an informal appointment with him on some subject but that Aldridge did not state the nature of the business he desired to talk about "I've got too much business in San Francisco to bother my head about anything else in the fight line In this end of the State." added Jim, "and I would be foolish to think of such a thing. There is absolutely nothing doing for me in that line here and you can make that as strong as you like." Tom Jones stated last night that he heard of such rumors, but he knew nothing definite- about them. He was not to be interested In any of the new proposed clubs, and as far as he knew, neither Harry Monohan, Jeffries, or Clarence Berry were to be interested in any such clubs. "I've heard talk of an opposition club, but I know nothing about it" declared Jones.

"I believe, however, that there is room for one or more new clubs, and these would make competition and that is the life of business. That is what every line of business needs." Jones was rather amused last night about the tales that Conley was to meet Jack White or anyone here. "That' all news to me," remarked FREE AUTO SHOW OF THE GREAT 1912 MAXWELL AND COLUMBIA LINES AT E. L.Pequegnats Today, April 11th EVERT TYPE OF MOTOR CAR FROM LITTLE RUNABOUT TO PONDEROUS TRUCK, and the FAMOUS BY OWEN R. BDHD.

The Times Modified Marathon Is fast taking on a cosmopolitan nature, on the entry list will be found old and young, Americans and English, Germans and French, Italians and Greeks and last but not least will be found the Indians, who are going out to represent the original American citizen in the big race. The American Indian is usually a stoical individual, but in regard to The Times Marathon the ones entered are far from that, all are out training night and day, and are counting on making some of their white brothers travel to get within the prize list. Sky Eagle came In this week and signed up as a running mate of Judson Cabay. This Sky person has an interesting career. He started to school at the Mt.

Pleasant Institute with Cabay, and after a great athletic record as a football and baseball man, he was graduated with scholastic honors. Cabay went on to Carlisle, where he became a long distance runner of some note, but Sky Eagle was taken by the glare of the footlights and went on the road with a one-night stand barnstorming troupe. Sky Eagle has been doing a little of everything since that time, but all the time has been training. He has never been in a regular cross-country (Continued on Fourth Pago.) don't seem to have any pitching strength at all, yet this spring their pitchers have been holding all opponents to low scores, and as far as the box scores indicate, the team has been playing well in defense. It can hit beyond a doubt.

RECRUITS NOT WONDERS. There is no serious reason for believing that any one of the major-league teams has added any great strength. The American League appears to have had slightly the better of the new material, but that may be because several of the teams were badly in need of patching. The newcomers who are likely to create a furore and step up into the star ranks right away are Cashiun, the big right-handed pitcher of Washington, who, according to Griffith, has shown even more promise this spring than he did last fall; Peters and Delhi of the White Sox. especially refers; Buck O'Brien of the Boston Red Sox: Kuhn, the Coast league catcher belonging to the Sox.

and Rath, who has earned a steady place at second on the Sox. Connie Mack has Danforth and Harry Wolverton has a bunch of new talent most of which slipped so hard after being puffed to the skies that he opens practically with the had, and I do not expect any club to get far above the .500 mark before July 4, and I think a percentage of .620 will win the pennant ATHLETICS SURE WINNERS. The American League race appear all over now, so far as the pennant la concerned, as the Athletics appear to be the class of the country, and to be stronger this season than they were last At that I -do not expect the Athletics to win as many game as they did last season, as the competition will be keener. Boston figures as second, with Cleveland and Detroit close up. I believe Boston, Cleveland and Detroit will be in a bunch, forty or fifty points behind th Athletics, the major portion of tta season.

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