Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1921, Page 16

SPORTS Nationals Quit Tampa and Start Series of Exhibition Contesis that Run to April 10 SPORTS REGULARS AND ROOKIES DIVIDE FOR TWO DAYS . Veterans Are in Daytona and Youngsters in Orlando—Some of Players to Come Base Ball Plot Charge OU1S, Mo., March 28.— Ben Franklin, live stock dealer, | whe. with Cari Zork, waa indict- ed in Chicago for alieged com- | | elicity the world | | meriex in 1919, has emphatically | | denied the charge. Zork, who | | 1x 2 manufacturer of women's whirt waists, also denles he wan | | | Franklin and Zerk Deny i ST. | in “fixing” f | implicated. Home After Tomorrow. ! e e BY DENMAN THOMPSON. |_TRAINING TRIP GAMES fl AYTONA. Fla, March 28—Having leit Tampa until next spring. : : when they will return to “the best training camp in the country™ | At Dallas, = R R and share the unequaled facilities there with some Xunnnal“l-'"":!'ml;‘l Natio ’h“ tatteries—Coveleskle League club, possibly the Giants, the Grifimen today play the local team | coumte aud Wing of the Florida state circuit in the first of eleven exhibitions scheduled | before they arrive in Washington, Friday, April 8 ’ President Griffith and Manager McBrid ve nothing but praise for Tampa, where in exactly one month not a single day of work was lost through bad weather and where the hotel accommaoc ns and meals are | superior to any either has ever found in the south in their many annual visits with ball clubs for conditioning purposes. At Shrevepos terfos—Mayx, Sha « Mitchell und Kre ricans (Texas erivs—Dutiss, Whittuker, Bassler, ilasier and Moore, Ha Tomorrow the Nationals are booked to appear in St. Augustine. and they then move on to Jacksonville for a couple of games with the Philadelphi club of the National League, and where they will be joined by the sec- ond team, which is to play today and tomorrow at Orlando Rookies to Say Good-Bye. At Jacksonville. where headquar- ters will be estab d_at_the ~inole Hotel, Tucker, McHugh Eschmann will bid adieu Thursday evening to their fellow players, the former going to Charlesto the latter pair returming to where they will play this year same time a squad of haif do: cluding Johnson, Torres, Goebel, Schacht and Marhafks on to Washington, while the . mainder of the team starts north by a more circuitous ro The itinerary of the N Brow faii Iy will st the ball. LEWS 15 HITING HARD 'Leads First-String Nationals in Practice Tilts—Thirteen in 1.000 Fielding Class. McBride's squad 2 been doing some fan batting in the tilts in Florida. to fizures compiled by Topham. one of the team's mo. ardent admirers. This fan has kept| e that he knocking the cover AN THOMI'SO! | At Crowley, L J PHiladelphia y Indtanapolis (A Ratteries—Eekert, Whitelouse, Jones and La— New York Natio St Louis Ameries Batteries—X org. . tionals ha fielding ant base ball At Los_Angeles, Cliieage Nationa Vernon, Tacific C Alexa Weaver and ar . cuback, Fromme, Love and Haunah tionals, upon Jeaving Jacksonville, including the |close tab on the performances of the( At Houston. Tex.— R feams they are to play and their head- | old-timers and rookies in their four |St. Louls Nationals .. i i quarters in each town. is as follows: |intrasquad games and four with the | Houston. Tesas Lewgue nio b Friday. April 1, Birmingham, Ala. |Phillies His statistics give ten| Batteries—Kiviere. Haines, Walker and Dil club; Saturday | members of the squad, among them | hoefer ¢ ;. Whitworth‘and’ Wright. Southern Associatio and Sunday. April 2 and 3, Chatta- nooga, Tenn.. Southern Association club, Patton Hotel: Monday, April 4, Jackson, Tenn.. York Giants Southern Hotel a April 5. Knoxville, Tenn., Farragut five regulars. batting marks above 300, and place thirteen players in the perfect fielding s. The squad has hit at a .342 clip and fielded at R. § 1 H eill _and and Wilso Gibson; Duffy Lewis has the best clubbing Hotel; Wednesday, April 6 Peters-!mark of the first-string lot, having ! ¢ Gaiveston, Tex — R. H. burg. Va. Giants, Petersburg Hotel:[hit the sphere for an average of .499 | Hoston Natio 558 ‘Thursday. April Norfolk, Va.jin five games. Tucker, Zachary and| Galveston, Te Giants, Monticello Hotel. Shanks “have better averages, but| Batteries Zach, the only regular in the trio, has not had many trials at bat. Har- ris, O'Rourke, Picinich and Milan are in the .300 class, also the newcom- | ers, Foss and Goebel. Here are the! figures: Play at Home April 8. The Nationals and Giants will take the night boat from rfolk for ‘Washington, where they are to play h and Florida avenue Friday. April 8. leaving that night for New York. where contests Saturday and Sunday, April 9 and 10, will terminate CARDS’ 1921 ROSTER || | BATTING AVERAGES. PITCE the exhibition schedule of the Griff-|rgeker s e men, who will return home the fol-iZachury S e b T Jowing day to get ready for the open- ! Shanks .8 Karl Browa ..o K It ing game of the championship season | Ellerbe b 1 Sl o % L with the Boston Red Sox on Wednes- | Torres -4 Frank Dodsor 50 e day. April 13. s S Marvin Goodwin. R K Pitching duties here today and in jpclus =y Jess Haines 1 St. Augustine tomorrow will be among | Hagris -5 Mike Kirches = Shaw. Erickson. Zachary and Court- | Goebel 7 Juke May R -5 iR ney. with Gharrity and Brotten back (0 Hourke Louts Noxt s of the bat and the “regulars’—Judge, | Picinich . [ Arthur. Kiviers .. & Harris, O'Rourke. Eilerbe, Milan. Rice | jtilan | Walter Schulz and Lewis—in the field. Griffith, Mc- | 482, - Ferd Schupp ... K Bride, Altrock and Schacht are with | \ifitr il Sheridel L squad. Courtne, y Watker. X The Orlando delegation will have | La Moite runk Woodward. R Johnson, Mogridge, Acosta, Brower, | rower CATCHERS Picinich' and Torres as batterymen | Acosta e Clenne it i and will be in charge of Fred Harvey- | brottem . B Ditlhoeters . &Rt cutter as business manager pro tem.. league experience. | first. Yankees Slam the Ball. SHREVEPORT. La.. March 25 ler Huggins' Yankees went on s ting spree yesterda. twenty hits off Miljus an and - drubbing the Dodse Schang, Ruth, Pipp nd o = 4 > . B th ck. Cl e first NDOUBTEDLY the most interesting player who has broken into [1hS altack, each of the firs et prominence this spring is George Torporcer, the bespectacled in-!gle. Pipp made two doubles and a fielder with the St. Louis Cardinals. If Torporcer achieves his | Sin&le and Meusel a tripte object he will be the only regular in the major base ball organization — who plays while wearing spectacles. eyt g There are two mighty good reasons for believing that ’I‘orporcrrlrh woion das el o will be the Cardinals’ second baseman. The first is because he has|training-camp activities tor displayed unusual ability for a player who has never had any minor | fiart Wednesday on a ¥ = Manager Speaker anne ond reason is that there is albanquet here that, barring | vacancy on the Cardinal infield, duel|seen. the Indians would tr to Milton J. Stock. the club's regular!lus_ugain next spriu BESPECTACLED PLAYER IS SPRING SENSATION ng Mitehe 17 Ste be r several days, at the best. | . also is in New Orleans for an operation 1 emoved. ../TWO OF GIANTS’ STARS ARE ON_ M singles. | HOSPITAL LIST Ala.. March 28—“Gold Kati Neay OBII Is, is in a of pneumor Davy B: shght at The Giants play here today eport for pla s returnable 1 not go on the third sacker, being u holdout, - g c E v y. an T - - Toporcer is a York boy e Ras played lot base ball for several He jumped into prominence season a member of the m of Newark. In the! hit _421 and While his fame spread. major and minor league Scouts | hesitated because he wears glasse: They realized that Lee Meadows wears | ! glasses and has been successful, but| he is a pitcher. They couldn't conceive | how an infielder. handicapped by specs, could get by as a fielder and hitter. But Toporeer ‘has fooled them all. [ He has been assigned to the first club, and has been the sensation of the| Cardinal games. In the language of Manager Branch { Rickey. “Toporcer hasn’t done one thing wrong since coming to camp. The newest sensation is twent {years old and ideally built for an ath- lete. He weighs about 170 pounds, {a left-handed hitter and unusually fast. He has made a stydy of base ball, and is never better pleased than when one of the older players takes him ide for a word of advice. His courage is the thing that makes him admired. He doesn’t fear being struck in the eyes or glasses by a batted or thrown ball. “It hasn't hap- pened yet, and even if 1 would be hit T always carry an extra pair of specs with me.” he says. Toporcer's eyes have bothered him since a babe. He wears heavily rimmed glasses with lenses about ~one-six- teenth of an inch in thickness. Without the glasses ‘he is as blind as the proverbial bat. COLLEGES N BIG GAMES Attractive Base Ball List Here This Week, With Two Contests Today. Twelve college ball games will be played here this week, and with Penn. Holy Cross, Vermont, Fordham and Penn State among the visiting nines, probably the most attractive series of contests of the season will be pro- vided, Tomorrow's engagement between Georgetown and Holy Cross at the Hilltop should be one of the best col- lege games of the year. These old rivals are well fortified with pitch- ing material and a spectacular mound duel would not be surprising. Fol- lowing is the week’s card: Todny—Penn at Georgetown; Ca olic U ernity wva. Maryland American League Park. Tomorrow—Holy Croas at George- 616 17th St. South of Pa. Ave. i Plays That P BY BILLY EVA The other da a fan a. three pla to an inf first bas, ¢ T received a letter from ing me to explain the following The batsman hits the ball | The throw beats him to} first baseman is jug-4 gling I as the runner pass Is the batter out? In the runner on first rts to al nd. The throw beats him there and is touched with the ball about three *t in front of the | The force of the touch caus the infielder making the play to juggle the ball. While ball is still in the air the runner re second in safety. Is he safe or out There is a runner on third, a fiy hit to the left fielder. The third holds his base until the ball strike the hands of the fielder, then races for the plate. The ball is knocked out of the left fielder's hand, but is recovered by the center fielder before it touches the ground. When has the runner the right to start? Here Are the Anwwers. In the first play, if the runner passed over first buse while tne first baseman was juggling the ball he was safe. In! the second , despite the fact that| the runner touched before reaching | the base, and the ball was not dropped, the runner was safe. On ail such piz the moment the ball is juggled it nulii. fies the touch. In the third play the runner on third, who held his base until the ball struck’ the left fielder's hands and was knocked out, was entitled to advance at that moment, though the center flelder, completed the catch. 1der. I { at D. J. Kaufman Standard At Mobile, Ala—Louisville (Amer-| ican Association, 2; Mobile Saturdny—Fordham at Catholic | (South- | Universitys Penn State at George- - Altrock .. R b3 000 the other players being Goebel. | Erickson beck R R 335 Shanks, Miller, Foss, Marhafka and | Rice . Lk R 138 La Motte. Eschmann = The end of the camp training finds | Mogridge . S INFIELDERS. the Nationals in uniformly good ! Scusdt Earl Adams R R physical condition. The pitchers, | §ion MRS et With one or two exceptions, are as far : > e ue Lt L advanced as it is advisable for them | Totals ..... 3 Vitogers Hornsby. 1€ R to be two weeks prior to the start of | Lucius James ... L R the pennant race, and the other play- 3 Harold Janvrin .. R R’ | s have worked about all the Sore- | \irock. 1n T G ol | Joun Lavan RR ' mess due to their strenuous exercise T 19 1000 | Milton Stock ... R R { out of their limbs. o 13 10| Tromg Wimer R R H Some of their batting eyes need a 4 3 16 Looo | OUTFIELDERS, { bit more priming and the fortnight %% 8 1000 | cison Heatheote. L L of exhibition contests against South- zo0 7 Faiker irwin .. R & ern Association and National League -l S0 lhusth McHenrs.. R R | hurlers may be expected to remedy 3 o 31 Lestie Mann .... R R this deficiency 30 that when the time 401 & X0 | Siarence Mualiers LSt comes for the bell to ring George 3 4 7 388 Sehattel e ol S, McBride should be able to place on z 0 1 il SRS the fleld a strong, fast and well bal 2 1 1 i L LD I e anced machine capable of getting off e i =3y = Y ' to a good start. ; :i % The SLd llflll'.il_":v'lrdlnlll fi':l J“-V.!’I lwon '}5 mes and_los mes, fimishing_in Schacht Quits Hospital. 757 20 1 Tith the Cubs for Bfth position, with & per: It was found that Al Schacht, who | e er >: e Ba | e vt The jtedmhic 200, asd was taken to a hospital Saturday|Goebel, If. ¢ 71 205 wia | ooad for 801, morning with what was thought to |Miller. cf. + “% “900| The Cardinals joined the National League 86 an st - Banars, . b o5 wgg|in 1576, the firsi year of organization, but ack of appendicitis, was suf. 3 | after the first two seasons they d a fering from intestinal Marhafka, s 1o 847 r seasons they dropped out I3 ntestinal trouble. He H 21 ‘wen|and did not enter again until 1655, This time 34 had so far recovered yvesterday that he was permitted to leave the hospital end came here with the main squd %50 | they repeated by staying in the league for | only two seasons. They returned in 1592 and have been members ever since. & | | | 0" Rourk | taday. Pechmans, Durig their carcer of thirts.three ye ek, %00 | the "National League the Cardinals have oThe pitcher will not be required to| Erickror, 1500 | 1.627 and lost %348 games, ranking last in ‘the any work for several days, appear- | Johuson, p. 000 | lifetime standing, with & percentage of 405, ing at the games solely in the role of | Tucker.’ rf. 000 Ofcers are: Samuel Rreadon, prosident: 1'-::“‘"’; ana n:u‘?“! Tacicsonvitls | Toaie ..o Branch Rickey, manager; H. W. Mason, treas- rsday nigl or shington, 2 £ where he will take things easy until s | CPpreie L) 32Judged by the club physician to be P R B 0 resume toil. = When stricken Schacht's arm was e onas, in better condition than it has been ;S5 1% - 40 G645 8. 613 150 < 40 808 763 Central Nine at Virginia, Central High School's base ball | team left this morning for Char- lottesville, Va., where the University for several years, due to the removal 2 of the kink in his shoulder, and bar- ring a relapse he is expected to be in shape to pitch, if needed, by the time the season opens. The knot raised on Harris' head Send Y our Boy ‘When he was beaned by Walter John- son Saturday has entirely disappeared and “Scrap Iron.” as he is dubbed by his mates, was ready today to of Virginia freshmen are being played | this afternoon in the first game of' the Blue and White's Easter holiday tour. Tomorrow Central will face the Fishburne Military Academy nine Through College by Jump into harness and give his usual aggressive exhibition around the key- tone sack. A noticeable thing about the work done by the Nationals thus far is that neither Brower nor Miller, the play- ers. who have been added to the club largely because of their ability as sluggers, has lived up to their repu- tation in this respect. Miller, with Little Rock of the Southern Association, and Brower, for Reading. in the International League, each set records in home runs for their circuits last year with more than a score aplece. Thus far not a single four-base wallop has been manufactured be either, and even doubles and triples have been mighty scaree with them. Whether they merely are slow in starting or whether they are capabie of knocking the boards off the fences only when pitted ugainst hurling of minor league caliber remains to be established. aithough the showing —_— at Waynesboro. 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