Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1923, Page 26

26 SPORTS. THE EVENING: STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1923. Giants Again Loom McGRAW’S OUTFIT FIGURES TO REPEAT IN OLD LEAGUE Dope About New York Lacking Pitchers Is All Bunk. 1 0O’Connell Has Added Strength to Club. Reds Their Most Formidable Rival. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. AN ANTONIO, Tex. March 26—Broadly speaking, the Giants of | today still are as they were when they finished last fall, the same | champions that took the Yanks into camp in 1922, The winter, ap- parently, has been kind to all of them. It has not increased their number of gray hairs, nor does it seem to have added that which is the bane of | base ball players and belles—iat. At any rate, if any of tnem had surplus iat when they first got here they have worked it off—not worried it off, for the Giants are not the worrying kind. Naturally the first thing that comes up in a discussion of the Giants is the matter of pitchers. Over in Florida a rival manager hit the pin! on the head when he said. “Yes, they are again saying the Giants have no pitching staff. They said it all last year and then just previous to the world series. Now they're saying it again. It makes me laugh.” If the Giants have greater hitting | player he probably would be streneth from the outfielders in 1923 | magnificent punter with so much sur- the chances to cop again have heen. meet a ball, all other things of course, greatly cnhanced. Many equal of the managers the writer has tal stands at the bat with a loose ed with during the trip about the | actitude. not wasting any effort which mps agree that if the Giant piteh- | ‘might go to help home run:tand things staff strengthened the New | of that sort, but in the Sumlay gam Nationals will get the bunting nst Chicago he w ving) pennant bunting i) e e raction at cach time he tric as been ral result was fouls. 1 pl When he gets into manageme things and recovers from the that he is traveling t o which never has xeen him hefore, of which he knows only by hearsay, when he is identified with the Giants and really is one of them. he will hit | the ball, because he pivots so well in | his joints. O'Connell. however. is hardly likely | ever to miake a second Babe Ruth. | Those who are curious about this boy, Antonio since O'Connell, the who cost the 75.000 hard has been York the swing turned-stile stationed fleld, where he has shown certain grati tng familiarity in running down long flics and catching them. When h was out in California he played first baxe cne vear, but MeGraw didn't want him for a first baseman. or land and t He t 00 th that’s the present argu- Cincinnati—yes, at’ the t potential (Copyright, 1923.) lachieve the rating of a regular. lut | there ia at pr nt a lamentable lack of right-hander: Pitching recruits are so few that it is even difficult to get enough to serve at batting drills and the exhi- bition games now are taking much out of them This extra amount of work, however, was expeoted to bring some of them to a form that would enable Bush to Ort out two | tory jin the i filled by the Tre; S PORTS. as Champions : Nationals Play Four Exhibitions This Weel: BasegaLL - HE'LL NEVER BE wutH A Lo NO-ACOUN AT voune | HANK-~ te's TH' ORNZRIEST FELLERS( — “LEs DIAMONDS ARE THRONGED BY THE SANDLOT SQUADS W turning out for practice. Almost ideal base ball weather, with little wind and a bright sun, made the players eager to go. Yesterd: marked the real opening for the sandlotters, and they started with a bang. Heavy scoring was the rule in the games played day on the Brookland field losers could do little with § pitching. ASHINGTON amateur nincs flocked the sandlots yesterday, prac- BY ROBERT 1Al thqugh Shanghai . T Clover A. C. gained a over the Allstars 1st and streets southea hits were made by Donovan winners. the Commercial a4 Wednesday night | Commercial Bank G streets, at 8| A meeting of League will be h in room $02 of the building, 15th and o'clock A tuntex with th silver. Chin in Park View Junlors, undefeated two vears. took the measure of th Morfeldt A. C.. formerly the Langdon Juniors, on the Langdon field. by a score of 14 to 11 Williams of ‘the winners was relieved by MacDonald fourth inninig of are Plans of the Superba team will Le formuiated at a meet to held tomorrow night in the Keokuk Club rooms, 1012 H stre t 8 o'clock. has its own of one city not ther. Ax n changers reap ey and th Phils A. C. downed the Navajo A. by 7 to 3. Luss of the victors pitched good ball nd Park A. C. would like to arrange games with teams in the sixteen-year-old division terfeiting Chinese and —particularly cerned. of the sea the stores the Cardinal . with a_turnout of Twenty-four players. Teams desirin ames are requested to write W Ryrd, 109 North Fairfax street, Alex- andria, Va Initial practice held yesterday by of Alexandria, V of the Yankee A. C. will tomorrow night rthwest <l aptain the 0 i d. it i pla covered wit, represented irtmental League present at a 1t in the Masonic street, betw at in meeti T Colored ested "hursday 1 11th northwe hampions of the Di Mohawk A. C. trict last year, reports that fifty didates attended the first practic vesterday afternoon. Manager V wuzza, at the Atlas sports store, planning a heavy schedule streets £ the Peerless Juniors would like to arran game for Saturday with fifteen or sixteen year old team. oln W, hetween 5 and o'clock Members Members of the Dreadnaughts of Alexandria, Va. held their second work-out on Baggett's Field. Un- limited teams should write to E. R. Allen, 726 North gton street Alexapdria, Va., for s, = the their first Ozarks defeated 6. Teams in the teen year old cl with the Ozark at Linco! B street southe ot the 1son Renrocs, 11 twe and thir- 155 desiringgam should call John 3246, or write st K Teams in the Treasury League will hold a meeting in the offic S chief clerk, room 178, Treasur d- ing, tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock There is one vacancy in the yeague| and it is expected that this be surer's Office. will - A. €., under the manager- Owen Sut is planning an ason. Raymond Dennis is NEARROT 15 STARTED BY SOAPBOX ORATOR JOMERY, ap box" the of the grandstand the adelphia American - Rochester Binck’s A. C. ran u over the South Brookland C. U. PICKS ITS LINE-UP FOR START OF CAMPAIGN ollc University, which will n Wednesday when it oes down to Qantico for a two day visit to the Mari linenp _nx follows: firat baxe: Mulv Ignace, third hase stops Breslin, center fl mingw, left field; Roddy, right fiel Healy, Eberts or Kerringan, cath- ery Clark. May, O'Connor or Kirby, pitcher. Ala,, March 26.— ‘nter Phil- ball near durin here erd came lor three of the orthodox hurlers for e fal attention. But this has not been possible. : Johnson is counted upon 1 mainstay of the right-handed divis- | {ion of the mound aggregation, but | ho will require considerable support. | as ot that Walter Is to be regarded as sreatly weaker than last season. for it seems that he is not. In his brief <tay here he worked carefully and {8 rapidly rounding into condi- tion. But the club will need at least two good right-handers to take into the race for the flag. So far Hollingsworth, wno came the Nationals by purchase from Minneapolis club of the American relation, appears best of the new right-handed flingers. He has an casy motion and gets much on the| as the athietes are wont to say. is improving steadily, and ap- ntly is a glutton for work Bush. in discussing the former Minneapolis moundsman, does not hesitate to express a liking for his| ability, and, in all probability, it will be this purchase from the association club that will get first consideration when the hurlers to be permanently .ttached to the Nationals staff are about to be definitely selected. The others now striving for mound berths at the camp here have not yet shown any great amount of skill, although two are being carefully watched by Bush. These are McGrew, who was with the squad at Tampa last year before being sent to the minors for more seasoning, and Han- kins, the Florida boy., who was ob- tained from Tampa. McGrew is doing better than last spring, but, physical- ly, he still shows the effects of an influenza attack suffered just before reporting here this vear. Hankins {s an earnest worker, but has much to outtield of 19 that he might b expect a hitter of the Ruth type. The es. On Sunday afternoon, when the pion of all time, is missing from With one hand, in true Steve Brodic bles when he stands at the plate they he were not the least bit worried There isn't cnough modification in But he never hit a lick. A lot « b the think of referring to them except as sught him to smash two if h world champions red othing but fouls, v their games, and equally true they steady underpinnin He 1 arounl far |, Tthat they will get off the truck such splendid calves. which trength to knock them out of first place have looked upon them with bitter | co 5, &0 From the knee up there is not quite | moment the mo RADENTOWN, Fla., March 26.—With the Nationals so far behind Whenever the squad is at home, cven though a game be scheduled in the the exhibition match will be req e ¢ though, for they are cager to achieve These conditioning drills are not merely to be mechanical fielding Gibson and Nick Altrock. E: pecial eries, improve them in the handling sition. classes in signal work, “inside uff’ the first and third base men These with minor league clubs must be come permanently attached to the pitcher und catchers have given evi- fmprovement over their early per- While the exhibition ames are in on the bench are instructed not note ca fully the working out of the This constructive training is not number among the veterans who can Donie has auite a knack of getting that of imparting to his charges a of tha difficulties he must overcome gridge and Zachary he has a great gave ‘promise of last vear, will as- Proves Iychaser. who did so well in Californfa and for ready for his promotion this on darive from the shoulders, which has | Giants played the Chicago White Sox. O'Connell. If the old-timers would atvie. | Also, he played others over san hark back a few years and think about the prospect before him at the the Giants as they today and the Texans who had ceme into th hits they are and as they will be until worth out of the ball, eve lie Reds Their Strongest Rival didn’t count for pennic 2 Qo will have their bad davs. and there is a stocking that is wide r He has| 0 etely, but as they stand today out with such evidence of | 1ikely ould with one peace-loving ex- From ankle to knee they run | “Og Hang such an effect of physical substance |ment. | most of the other big league teams in conditioning work, Manager few of the athletes who are to take part in That is not going to worry the boy nship campaign. and batting affairs. Rather, a Donie Bush school of base ball philosophy Bush is to be dean of the institution attention will be given to the pitch- of bunts and to incre their gen- The catchers, too, will come in for o throwing to bases and working rudiments of the game frequently mastered before the recruits now organization. dence of intense interest in the work formances. These lessons do not end progress those vally playing are only follow the progress of the game, various problems as they present conducted solely for the younger ele- be benefited In some respects, and just that, too. He. of course, has thorough knowledge of the funda- 6 that of develoning a couple of pair of southpaw moundsmen. Brill- sume a prominent place on the staft game v emp fan w leged yes ng the stand of spectators. as ejectd by A a policman for al- toward Athletic whereupon two of his friends on the grandstand and, te language, urged the fans to | appealing for “free speech,” | claiming that the man had a right to { “root” in his own way. They denied | he was abusive toward the players Tt was understood the trouble came about when Connie Mack, manager « tests in this city in the future ¥ the Athleties, sent a note to the fan, will be played in a stadlum costing | appealing to him to “save his loud o e e o | rooting” for some other day than the the | Gabbath alumui are carried out With the announcement that the qampaten ot 38000 cor sraaine ond | SOX EYES. ARE OPENED e ' v BRAVES UNDER WEIGHT| »acox. da. darch the alumni has taken the first step in the realization of the sltad!um 2«‘ i Mo gl oo soon as this sum is made up co 30STON, March 26—The Red Sox| .2 ; f4bs Feloire tracts for grading the field will o o i arhe Red Sox|team and a number of trainers sent out. The field may be used this fall | batting eves. They made 25 hits, five | members of the faculty are here The completed stadium, which it is| of them_ homers,” in an exhibition |for the third consecutive hoped to have ready by 1924, will| game at Hot Springs, Ark., yesterday, | Blue will begin spring training have a seating compacity of 8,000, |which Pittsburgh won, 12 to 11 ; 5 extending 440 feot in length and 280 | At St. Petersburi, Fla, several of | this city. feet in width. It will be built of [ the Braves, including Jocko Conlon, | reinforced concrete. former Harvard star, are under|to be plaved An appeal is being made to each | weight as a result of their severe | place tomorrow, member of the alumni. training. Oglethorpe. abusiveness C. U ALUMNI PUSHING DRWE FOR A STADIM Catholic University foot ball in pas- con- | ars KRe SHANGHAL | [ | [ .—Twen in Georgia_ will when Yale Open Until 6 P.M. At the Sign of the Moon “Wonder What Mertz Will Say Today” Saturday, 8 P.M. For Years We Have Been O'Connell was coached to play the whom nuch was paid, must not He makes casy work of catching long i made Ruth the long-distance cham- he ran over to his left and grabbed. like to know the man he most resem his head and straight at him as if of Sam Thompson Folo Grounds : when they finished the 1922 season to ¢ to spend Sunday and four cents they are thraeshed—and that is, souldn't $75,000 worth. but and It is quite true they can't win all| Nature has lavished on can wear a possibility. as there Is to any ball botter than a skimpy one. | stand |y ore is nothing in Florida that i that the Colossus of Rhodes e antial and with inflation. | exception—-exhibits but if O'Connell were a foot bail BY JOHN B. KELLER. i B Jush has planned a most intense training program for this week afternoon, all except some f ¢ ed to report for morning practice. that form necessary for the opening of the champio and science will be conducted. and have as assistant professors Hack ing recruits, to correct faulty deliv- vral knowledge of fielding their po- much grooming. Gibson will hol batters and co-operative fielding with overlooked in the intng of men with the Nationals may hope to be- At classes far held the young and some of them are showing much with the morning classes, either. coached continua while the men which any player always does, but to themselve ment with the squad. There are a they will be if Bush has his way confronting him,problems other than mentals of the game. Not the least sound right-hand pitchers. Tn Mo- heart, if he attains the form he and_Warmoth working _hard _to to learn. 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RADENTOWN, Fla., March 26—Four engagements are eduled this week for the Griffmen in their exhibition series with National League clubs training in this vicinity and the proteges of Man- ager Donie Bush are rejoicing because they will have to be away from their Tampa camp only twice in the day working period. After today’s affair here, the third and final of the set with the Cardin: the game with the Reds at Orlando Wednesday is the only one listed for a foreign field before the Washington club breaks camp and begins its week's trip north. Two games added to the original list of exhib tions are those with the Tampa team of the Florida State League on April 3 and 5, but they will be staged “at home” and the boys are glad of it, for they have a fiood field at Tampa and are quite content to do all their training there Home dates this weck are tomorrow and Saturda oppose the Griffs in the first match on Plant Field, are to be week end guests. As 2 result of Saturday's exc showing against the Cards, Billy_Smith, acting field secret the “National squad. expects a good | pitchi turnout at the games. He has in- | expec structed all the recent additions to | The squad is taking its work serious the Nationals who may be idle tomor- | 1y, and should be well prepared, men- row and Saturday to be prepared to|tally and physically, assist @4 the box office and gate, |ican League season opens thereby greatly pleasing the young- Its mechanical ability cannot now sters. They are wild about doing|determined. such work, so wild, in fact, that MeG . . Scout-Field Secretary Smith may huve Hlcren ey Cet Work, lim McGrs Texas Leagus Etors g ttia thei on thed string bean, came here with the squad Saturday made the e, e “perk up” considerably & juser chme here today eager to clean up |Mmoundsmen for the third battle with Cards, but if an opportu the three-ga ies and make thei - H e itself Manager Bush ins overba their los, in th - elongated right-hander | hibition m 1f th SUu = i 3 cesstul, they will carry back to Ta T an Inning or two, 4 will carry b to Tan e iniine On by pa more than a third victory over | the St. Louis National Leaguers, per golf opnc haps a flat car will have to be chart- | b ol |ered to conve Plant 1 sanc tLis & Dic kennel for Lrunch Ri eapa el aeainas Hodd s e A AT et tha | gn the links Saturday. and won b Card manager's hat bill also wil be |2 UD. thereby offsetting the defeat increased, for he breaks his straw a0 dhem by SHMiEan Regkna {Telly when angoraed e d man b play off the tie tomorrow. In last . . teh Griffith shot an 83, and unseemly lan ot the Card pilot has been pict a man well qualified to conduct nday school picnic for nice little and girls. But something seems have soured his disposition “Reverend” Rickey Is Gone. the s The Reds are while the Phillies ent | ting on the field a cout | past two games h ry of | ble hitting streng team that in hown conside elding stage nth at Cards h the Nationals angora ns of Tampu strong widely pres an _exceptionall e refraining fr nd too dignif temper. perso former of the Natlonal, now Reading Interna 0 has been training wit big league squad at Tampa, left yesterday for Henderson, N. Reading its camp. | E: bouts will miss Al Altrock with their done much ibitio: boy ition to It may be lorida climate, which pitalized to the nth degre: oughout the peninsula, or it may be the work incendental andling 4 camp of nearly a hundred ball pl lers that hus wrough change in the once diamond boss. But i Rickey is gone and manager who in qu tity of protestation rivals Jaw: Graw in his palmiest davs Rickey so_gentle deme - Nat this town Friday, bursts then were as s murings of a pebble- in comparison with th Saturday. Then he was tion, infuriated by wounds, ing wolf, crazed by hung of ‘other wild things sky and sea. And all EXHIBITION GAMES i At San Antonio, Tex— the old Brar his place is lity and In quan- Mc H. F Chicago (A.) g 1 New York (N.) 8" 1% 0 Batteries—Leverette, Connally, Dav- enport Schalk aham, 'Nehf, Jonnard and Sct in nals visite but his out- ft as the mu ymed_broo; at Tampa the roaring the snarl- of th at on is At Los A Angeles (Paci Aldrige, Osborne 15, Wailace, Th: Batteries Hartnett: Ly« Baldwin, D, and as and t Springs, Ark (A) ho(N) At H Smith e men ague plavers of the Fort Pittshur Western Assoclation squad, t} of the Syracuse Internationa club, the Bradenton Florida leaguers an Cards, all t here, swear ey, mot at The 'St. Lo n admire the their manager fights for them every poin and the veterans with the squad are more Dleased than ever with Bra The temperamental Rickey is like to have some fellow mourners I¥ man agers of other teams to meet the ) tionals have their goats tethered loosely as was the St. Louls Only Five Lack Condition Now. Should Donie Bush's charges tinue mprove they ing the past week the deal of ting from the big leag clubs training in this sunny secti of th ntry. Right now, all of four catchers and five out eight. of the ten pitchers and the nine infielders with the Nationa squad are in tip-top condition. The hurlers not vet ready for duty are Kay Beach, Whose sore arm seems to almost ' healed, and the veteran Iter Johnson, who reported only week. Of ‘the ailing infielders ans still is in the ring, and Peck due to take his pace at shortstop this week. Judge's leg still bothers him, and he probably will be given a longer rest than was at first thought necessary. From t . Fuller- Morrison, Mattox Batteries— b, hin m 2 1 Iphia (A., f hester (L Lo Batteries—H Beall, 3 Savs Rommell 1 Miljus and Lake, ¢ | McQuinn At M . Ala— Philadelphia (A., Mobile (S. A) ries—Jones, Schilling, Rowland: Fulton, Long . Long. 2d team) pilot's At New Orleans— New York (A.). 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