In Camp

Rain turned the red Georgia earth to clay. Manager Walter Johnson, drawn and underweight from influenza, sat on a bench in plain clothes and a raincoat and watched the Giants in the year's first game beat the Newark Bears, 8 to 0. Bill Terry, infielder, knocked a home run the first time at bat. "Gee, I wish I could get out and throw a few" Johnson said, shifting on the bench.

In the Yankee camp in St. Petersburg, Florida, Babe Ruth stopped running on third base. He was afraid if he went on his feet would blister. John Koszciusko Grabowski, catcher, took off a reducing shirt when he was hot, caught cold. Lou Gehrig wrote his mother to send him a jar of potted eels.