Baseball Again

Though snow still sifts through bleacher benches of the North, an exotic atmosphere, seeping outward from the baseball training camps, has begun to warm the nation's wintry disposition. Sixteen squads of the game's aristocrats are fattening at Southern hostelries for April openings in the public amphitheatres. Sixteeen majestic managers are polishing vocabularies suitable for emergencies, errors, and umpires of the great campaign. Scores of reverent recruits are standing by while their creaking betters suffer the strained horrors of the first few days. Southern cities entertain with barbecue and jubilee. The last handful of holdouts desert their errant ways in favor of the straight and narrow dotted line. The first box score whines over the wires to feed the flames of interest in the North. Sporting pages stir the cities with vicarious excitement. Winter has faltered.

In fine, Baseball again is knocking at the Nation's doorpost.

The sixteen camps:

National League

New York--San Antonio, Texas.

Cincinnati--Orlando, Fla.

Pittsburgh--Hot Springs, Ark.

St. Louis--Bradentown, Fla.

Chicago--Catalina Island, Cal.

Brooklyn--Clearwater, Fla.

Philadelphia--Leesburg, Fla.

Boston--St. Petersburg, Fla.

American League

New York--New Orleans, La.

St. Louis--Mobile, Ala.

Detroit--Augusta, Ga.

Chicago--Seguin, Texas.

Cleveland--Lakeland, Fla.

Washington--Tampa, Fla.

Philadelphia--Montgomery, Ala.

Boston--Hot Springs, Ark.

Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. Indoor Track Championship: Pennsylvania 29, Cornell 26, Dartmouth 18, Yale 16, Princeton 16.

The title in the U. S. Amateur Hockey League, eastern wheel, was virtually assured for the Boston A. A. team when they took a 1-0 game from New Haven, champions in 1922.