Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1926, Page 38

Goslin Hopes Soon to Hit Stri PECK GRADUALLY RIDDING HIMSELF OF WINTER KINKS Joe Harris Shines With Stick as Member of New Bat- ting Order in 4-3 Victory Over Dodgers—Ogden Pitches Well—Ruether Unsteady. BY JOHN B. KELLER. 5 C LEARWATER, Fla. March 25.—This has been an unpleasant train- ing season for Leon Goslin in so far as hitting goes. The Goose, in 10 exhibition games through that of yesterday, when the Na- tionals defeated the Dodgers, 4 to 3, at Tampa, has swatted at only a rate of .184, and those figures are not calculated to please the free swinger who slammed Amdrican League pitchers at a .335 clip last year to be the second best batsman of the circuit champions. = g But the Goose, while displeased, is not werrying particularly over his poor showing with the flail. He apt to step into his regular clubbing suddenly from slumps before. is swinging hard all the time and is stride at any time. He has emerged Goslin was hoping to make a good showing at the bat today when the Nationals encountered the Dodgers here in the last of their two-game series. He went hitless against ‘the trio of hurlers used by Wilbert Robin- son’s club yesterday and was ragged considerably by the opposition for doing so. In three of the 10 games he has been in during the training campaign the Goose has drawn blanks in the hitting column and he has not made more than one bingle in any of the seven other contests. All told, he has been at bat 38 times for a total of 7 safeties. But two of the Goose's wallops have been for extra bases. They were doubles. He has circled the paths five times and driven home only two runs. One of the Nationals' runs was sent to the plate by the lone sacrifice so far credited to Goslin. Not such an im- posing record. The most disconcerting feature in Goslin’s batting has been the weak- ness of his drives. Although he has been swinging with old-time vigor he has been timing his swings poorly. He has hit the ball fairly on 32 oeccasions in his 10 games, but only 14 times has he driven it beyond the infield. Has Fanned Six Times. On six occasions the Goose has been a strike-out victim. There’s nothing unusual about that, however. Even when he is getting plenty of clean, he frequently fans. He d the pitchers for five passes ar, one for about each nine times s stepped to the plate. Thats average he maintains throughout the playing season. stated before, the Goose is mot ng particularly Manager “You know se never has heen any startiing start ¢ to see 2 would like him to get his timing right before we begin our barnstorm- ing next week. We are apt to need his hitting ose battles with the Giants.” Ttoger Peckinpaugh, € who veteran short- bheen grooming himself job, ap id of the ailments ed his nd back muscles. d at his favorite place in with the Dodgers yesterday ) through seven innings bef to his voung underst Myer. Perhaps the warm f this weelk, the first the Na- have experienced here | taken ali the kinks out ble shortfielder. rate, Rogor longer time in this conc left the pastime seemin as fresh as the proverbial dai had lit*le to do afield. H came in chance | he seventh inning, when he ow from Bucky Harris for a But at bat hie was a busy in three trials. s to left fleld. He was aths, too, and in the fourth frame scampered home with his club’s first tally. Joe Harris Delivers. The new batting order, with Joe Har- ris in the clean-up position, was used for the first time. In so far as Joe was concerned, it worked splendidly. He walked the first two times he stepped to the plate, knocked a triple over the center fielder’s head the third time he was up, and singled the fourth time for a rating of 1.000 for the afternoon. After singling Joe gave way to Johnny Tobin on the paths and the latter finished the fray in right field. One of the most pleasing features of the contest was the pitching done by Curley Ogden. This young fellow, thought to have relieved a salary- wing ailment by a term in the South- ern Assoclation last year, had been an in-and-outer on the mound at this training camp until vesterday. #But against the Dodgers, he went through three of the best looking innings one could desire. The raven-locked young fellow from Swarthmore didn’'t yleld a single safety and had he been accorded per- fect support only one Dodger would have gotten on base while he was hurling. Curley retired the opposition in one-to-three order in each of the first two rounds, only one ball being knocked beyond the infield in that time. He disposed of Corgan in the third Inning before walking Mickey O'Neill., Mickey pilfered second after Dazzy Vance was whiffed and Whitey Witt sent an easy roller to Bucky Harris. Bucky kicked the ball and all hands were safe, but Maranville did not prove troublesome. Ogden worked smoothly all the way and apparently was in good enough condition to con- tinue pitching for several more in- nings in the same manner. Ruether Unsteady in Debut. Dutch Ruether, in his debut, was somewhat unsteady and was nicked for five safeties, two of them doubles, in addition to granting three passes. Two of the blows and a walk were clustered in the fourth inning, his first on the hill, but a fine throw to the plate by Goslin prevented a Dodger score. O'Neill opened the Dodger fifth with a two-bagger, and with two gone Maranville strolled. Then Wheat dou- bled O'Neill home. Cox began the sixth with a triple, but Dutch put on some pressure and the Dodger languished at the far corner. Fred Marberry toiled through the last three frames. Two were on as a result of two singles and two were out in the seventh when Jacobson got to Fred for a single that drove a brace of runs to the plate, tying the score. Marberry was powerful against the lower end of the batting order in the elghth, but a double play was. needed to get him out of trouble in the ninth when he was found for a pair of one- basers. Dazzy Vance and Douglas Mec- ‘Weeney pitched three innings each against the Nationals, while Sterling Stryker hurled the last two for the Dodgers. Two of the Nationals’ total of nine hits were gleaned off Vance, but they netted nothing. Three of the four off McWeeney and a pass were bunch in the fourth for two tallies. Peck, Rice and Bucky Harris did the slamming, the last mentioned driving the markers dver after two men had been retired. Joe Harris began the fifth round with his triple and scored as Judge was thrown out. With one gone in the seventh, Joe Harris began the making of the de- cisive run by singling off Stryker. Tobin, sent in to run for Joe, reached second -when O'Neill let one of lS;erykelr':"nltf:;l 'olba' and raced to platter en Ju singled to right field. XF > SETS COURSE RECORD. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., March 25 (P)—Frank Thompsen, Toronto, with a 69, set a new amateur course record here when he eliminated Roy Culver, Port Jervis, N. Y., 6 and 5, in the first round of the Florida Winter amateur tournament. Thompson's card includ- ed an eagle 2. On the 530-yard fif- teenth hole he hit two long shots and from just off the green sank his ap- proach. THE EVENING HAGEN, BY A STRONG FINISH, BEATS JONES By the Associated Press. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 25, —Walter Hagen, national professional golf champion, concentrated to tome from second place and ‘win the West coast open golf tournament with a card of 283, but his battle proved not to be with Bobby Crulckshank, -the unattached professional, who led the first day's play with a card of 130. Instead, Hagen had to play to beat Bobby Jones, national amateur cham- pion, who turned in a card of 144 for third .place in the first day's play, but finished yesterday with a total of Hagen was playing the fourth hole when the news of Jones' finish came to him. He knew he had to have 2 72 to beat the Atlantic golfer, so|W he played at the mark and got a 70, which brought his total for the tournament two strokes under Jones. Meanwhile Cruickshank encountered bad going and was forced to take a 76 in the final round. This cost him the tournament, for he turned in a card of 287, next to Jones. The gallery's interest in the Hagen- Jones duel was further enlivened by the announcement that the two golf- ers have wagered a hat on the out- come of their play in this tournament, | H: ?:e American open and the British n. Jones, - entitled to $500, asked that the money not be taken from the purse, and Cruickshank won second money. Tommy Armour, Sarasota, took fourth place with 291, while Bill Mehlhorn and Al Espinosa, both of Chicago, were tied for fifth place with cards of 292, respectively. A. A. BARS RESIN BALL. CHICAGO, March 25 (#)—The resin ball will not be used in the Ameriean Association this season, President Thomas J. Hickey has announced fol- lowing the completion of a mail poll of the clubs, which showed two votes in favor and six against it. HARADA REACHES FINAL. ORMOND BEACH, Fla, March 25 (#).—Takeichi Harada, Japanese, ad- vanced to the finals of the annual Halifax County tennis tournament here yesterday when he eliminated Fred Baggs, New York, 6—0, 6—. Twenty Years of American Golf BY JIM BARNES. American Champion—Player, Teacher and Student of Golf. IV~CHAMPIONSHIP BEGINNINGS. S O far as the big championships were concerned I had no part in them during the 1911 season. But that year found me winning the Pacific Northwest open, played at the Waverly Country Club in Port- land. The field wasn't a very large one, two of the most prominent players heing George Turnbull, who has passed on within the year, and Bob Johnstone. It was during that season we tried out a plan at the club to stimulate interest among the members. I played a great many matches with differ- ent members on a regular handicap bagis, being rated at plus 4, while the During the period over which these matches we red 67, which w strokes better than par. A little later ted this and finally ope day when the ball was rolling fine. I cut ; two strokes, to developments during that Summer encouraged me a lot, and be- fore the end of the season I had definitély made up my mind to try for the National Open the next year. It was evident that to get ahead as a. tournament player the best thing to do was to get hack East, where there was more opportunity in this respect. Tacoma and Spokane were pleasant places, but the game was developing much faster back in the . Eastern section. Title Tourney at Chicago. The national championship was played at Buffalo in 1912, which meant a long journey to make, also—what was no small consideration—it meant a heavy expense. But it was worth it. I began some weeks in advance to polish up my game in anticipation of the big event at Buffalo. On arrival in Buffalo a few days before the start of the champion- ship I found practically all of the stars of the day there tuning up. Of course it was a good deal bigger prop- osition than the Western at Chicago two years before. Besides Alex Smith, George Sargent, Freddie McLeod and others that had been seen back in Francisco three years before, there were several of the brilliant younger players, including ' Jack McDermott, who had become the first home-bred professional ever to win the champlonship the preceding year. Also there were present Tom McNa- mara and Mike Brady, both fine young players, not to mention several others who were prominent in those days. Altogether it was a great golf gathering, and I recall looking at some of them in a feeling almost of awe. Naturally enough, I watched them closely, especially the ones most known by reputation. One of the first things that impressed me was that you couldn't tell much about a golfer from his appearance. By that I mean both his style of play and his style of dress. There wasn't anything like as much dressiness among the pros in those days as one sees on the links now. And most of those who were dandied up looked the part of a golfer better than they played it. Got Name Into Head Lines. A couple of days for practice before play in the qualifying rounds started showed that almost from the first I was hitting the ball well. In the early practice rounds I was scoring with the best, and the newspapers were good enough to prophesy great things. My name found its way into ‘ll:;!?e“ lines on the sport pages, which was a source ogpt lot of satisfaction, since T wanted to locate a job back East and knew n]ut publicity of this kind would help a lot. l?nt the story of the championshi was different. 1 qualified pretty we up, and on the first day played excel- lently, showing a 77 for the first round and then back in the afternoon with a 78. Alex Smith had a 7C in the after- noon and Mike Brady and George Sargent each had 72 in the morn. il e ‘Wallace Motor Co. NASH 1709 . Sreet N. Just Bast of Conn. Ave. .| members played from their regular club handicaps. ing round. But at that I was only three strokes back of the leaders— Brady, Smith and Percy Barrett, a Canadian professional from Teronto, 11 being tied at 147. But things were different on the sec ond day. It rained pretty well all day. The course was heavy and soggy, and had troubles in handling the clubs. With a 79 in the morning of that day, I took 82 in the afternoon round. That dropped me well back in the list, and I finished with 311, ‘whereas McDermott won out with 294. Of course, the others had to contend ‘with the same weather conditions, but they seemed to know how to meet them better. Tommy MacNamara shot a great 69 on the last round, to get second money. It was the second time 70 had ever been broken in the championship, Tommy having turned in a 69 in the championship at the Englewood' Golf Club in New Jersey three years before. Learned a Valuable Lesson. That experience taught me one va uable lesson—that the golfer who e: pects to'win has to learn to battle the weather just the same as he battles the rest of the players. It isall a part of the game, and the player who al lows himself to get fussed and fretted because playing conditions are bad Is going to do nothing but make bad matters worse. From an artistic standpoint my first shot at the big title was not exactly a howling success, But a few days Iater I recovered some lost ground. The Canadian Open Championship was played at Toronto right after the Buffalo tournament. I got permission from Tacoma ot stay over for it. Sev- eral of the prominent stars went up from Buffalo, including Alex Smith, George Sargent and others. Sargent won with 299, and I finished second with 800. So that the long journey from Tacoma really netted me as much as I had any right to expect, though the final showing at Buffalo still was a bitter disappointment. ST. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES ROSTER FOR 1926 Pitchers. Bentley, John N. Carlson, Harold Crumpler, Roy N, Dean, W%l:nd 0. ..., Decatur, thur R. Knight, Ehmer Bats. Throws. L G Maun, Ernest G. . ONeal bran M. AN IR R ¥ I ¢ FeRIEs ew Willoughby, Claude H.. Catchers. Henline, Walter J. .... nnard, Clarence J. .. Wendell, Louis G. .... fison, James .. Inflelders. Buskey, Jost Dui o Ind Huber, Clarence B. . Kimmick, Walter M. Matfi Leonard R. Sand, John Henry .. ‘Wrightstone, Russell Outflelders. Durning, George W. ... G. Mokan, John L. Nixon, Albert . ‘Willlams, Fred FEE M ¥ CEEINESN IWEN FEE @R ¥ IFEINNCN CINEF Fletcher, Renny Meyer and Bradentown, Fla., traini Waterbury (Eastern) . Phillies . e Phi Phillles lies Phillies Phillies . Phillies . mlumanl (Texas League) %aumor.ni (Texas lmue.) gg Phillies . Reinstated . Phillies .. Played with in 1925, ani . WASHINGTON, D, O, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1926 BOY THINKS M’GRAW IS RACE TRACK TOUT By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla., March 25.—John J. McGraw, master mind of the New 538 | York Giants and Florida real estate Beaumont (Texas) I;Mlllel Columbus-Augusta. (M) 33 lies . 132 manager. Joe Sn.‘l!n. coaches. 1925 rarord-—l"lnhhnle l:' in a tie with Brooklyn, winning 68 and losing 85 games for a percentag A4, el L N ———— | Talks to Boys on Base Ball ~BY JOHN B. FOSTER (This is the ninth of a series of articles by John B. Foster based on letters he has received from boys who seek his advice as to how to train so as to fit themselves to become good ball players.) ARTICLE IX~STRENGTHENING THE THROWING ARM. ¢ ‘THIS Spring I went out for base ball at the high school I attend and made the second team. I played in the outfield and the coach would have given me a regular berth on the first team had it not been for a poor arm. Could you give me a little advice how to strengthen my arm? I alsq like to play first base, but it is hard for me to throw to third and get the ball anywhere near the base. I will be so grateful for any help, as I like base ball best of all.—Troy Center, Wis.” This is an instance where the arm may be aided by old-fashioned calisthenics. But the boy who has written for training advice because he can’t get the ball in from the outfield, or throw it across the infield so that it will reach the third baseman accurately, should not be discouraged for fear that the condition will continue as he gets older. Often the boy who cannot do much, so far as his throwing arm is con- cerned when he is in the growing stages, becomes a very good thrower in later years. However, that does not compensate the youngster who wishes to be a very good thrower when he is young and enjoys play- ing the game of base ball. ‘When an arm fails to meet the ex- pectations of the owner the first thing not to do is to throw until the arm is strained. It is easy to start up a bad arm any time after 14 years of- age. If you are an old ball player you can lame your arm permanently in any season in which you happen to be playing. One throw when the arm is sore may put it out for good and all. If you are a young ball player and try to overexert, you im- mediately start a weakness which will grow worse and worse if the arm is not given complete rest. Penalty for Punishing Arm. In the arm of the boy the muscles are a long way from having reached that ‘stage of development which comes with maturity. The muscles are llke the young fruit tree which is bearing its first buds. If the tree is pruned too closely it: will very likely die and if the boy ball player continues to use his arm day after day when he feels the first pain in- dicating soreness he is being warned of something more than a mere lame arm. The muscles do not like the way they are being treated and they will stiffen and contract and be of little use if the arm continues to be punished. Because & boy cannot throw from first base to third it is no sign that he never will throw that distance. Two or three years later he may be making the throw very well. It will not do any harm to a boy who cannot throw across the diamond if he will take simple exercises with Indlan clubs to help his shoulder and upper arm muscles, Dumbbells are all right, but they are really of more use for the development of the muscles than for the development of arm muscles. However, any boy who sets out to strengthen his throwing muscles should be quite as careful not to overwork himself in his exercise movements as not to overwork him- self when he is throwing on the fleld. Throw It on the Bound. Any boy who cannot make the throw to third base from first on the fly should give up trying until his arm has reached that condition of strength where he can make the ball carry over. Throw the ball on the bound. It is far better to do that than to try to throw it on a line and 7. WONDER_WHAT MERTZ WILL SAY TODAY? 77 At the Sis t the Moon * Close Daily 6 P.M., Saturday 9 P.M. Our Store at 908 F Strest Was Destroyéd dy Fire. Not @ Yard of Fabric Was Saved. An Established 1893 IN OUR NEW LOCATION, Entire New ~ Stock of Fabrics 1342 ¢ st Spring Suits .and Topcoats TAILORED TO MEASURE $30 to %60 All departments are ready to serve you with the greatest efficiency. Your orders will' be executed with the greatest promptness by our tailoring experts. M_ertz & Mertz Co.,.lnc., 1342\6 St... crumple with agony after the attempt. The really best way is to play on a smaller diamond. To train to play on the larger dlamond use old-fashioned arm exercises and keep away from all kinds of lotions, and so on, that are supposed to help weak arms. They do mnothing of the kind. More likely they hurt them. (Copyright. 1026.) Inside Golf y Chester Horton. The medium upright swing suits the average golfer better than the full upright swing because it is somewhat easler to master. The full upright swing might give a few more yards in distance from the tee, but it re- quires more plvot than the average man can accom- plish. For the me- dium upright place the clubhead back of the ball and at direct right angle to the line of flight. Stand I squarely on both feet. Use the square stance. The right shoulder should ‘be ‘slightly lower because the right hand is lower on the shaft. Start the club- head away from the ball, with the hands.. Keep it low to the ground, and, as the clubhead goes back, reach outward with the arms. As the club- head goes back the weight of the body will naturally pass over to the right leg. Make this leg firm to hold the weight. Let the clubhead continue back and out, always keeping posses- slon of it in the hands, and be sure TOP OF THE MEDIUM UP- RIGHT Swil wrist | always to let it swing back. That is, do not lift it up. When it has swung entirely back the shaft will be about even with the point of the right shoulder and slightly hiaher, and the left shoulder should be pointing to the ball. Be careful not to lift the club— let it elevate itself naturally. (Copyright. 1026.) - CALLAHAN SCORES K. 0. EVERETT, Wash., March 25 (#).— Tim Callahan, St. Paul, 140-pounder, won a technical knockout over Muff Bronson of Portland in the second round last night. 500 | speaker’s man, was unknowingly cast in a far different role by a messenger boy at Tampa Downs yesterday. Program in hand, McGraw was saying words to the effect: “Now, I know this horse. You can't tell me 610 | he_won't win.” The messenger boy, unaware of the identity, rushed to tne manager of the telegraph office, brought the manager back and point- ed at the Glants’ leader. “Is he one of those touts?” the boy asked. It was explained that a special po- lice force is maintained on the track to keep "touts” away. A “tout” is the synonym given the race track hangers-on who usually want to sell | so-called inside information on the 65 | horses. 2| JERRY’S WILL HAVE AN UNLIMITED NINE * A number of the District's leading sandlotters are being invited to Jer- ry's Sport Shop, 3307 Fourteenth street, for the organization of an un- limited base ball nine tomorrow at 7 o'clock. Those already signed with the new club are: Lefty Johnson of Martins. burg, Ashton Smith of the Linworths, Lynn Orsley of the Eastern Shore League, Bill Davidge, Bill Inge, Heinz Johnson, Judge Cornell, Jim Maho- nev, Will Mahoney, Doggle Dolman and Jerry Wolfe. Tommy Connors, Bushy Comer, Lefty McIntyre, Jimmy Clark, Pat O'Connor, Bob McCartee, Lew Hollis, Ray Holman, Ed Newton, Les Crump, Hook Dalglish and Brick Newman are requested to attend. Maryland Park and Upper Marl- boro teams have combined forces and will play their first practice game Sunday on the Upper Mariboro field, which will serve as the home dlamond throughout the season. W. H. Edlein is booking games at Hyattsville $09-F-8. Capital City Leaguers will meet to- night at 7 o'clock in room 2, District Building, to adopt their constitution and by-laws. Unlimited and junior teams of the Warwick Athletic Club will hold a Jjoint meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock at 328 Massachusetts avenue north- east, Harry Veihmeyer is seeking a berth as a pitcher with some junior nine. Call Main 4830. NAVY NINE TO OPEN CAMPAIGN SATURDAY ANNAPOLIS, March 25.—A prom- ising baseball season will open at the Naval Academy Saturday, when the idshipmen meet the University of Richmond. ‘The Navy team is for the third sea- son under the tutelage of “Chief” Ben- der, and as the two previous teams coached by him defeated the Militars Academy, the fact that he is in charge inspires confidence. There is an unusually fine balance in the strength of the Navy squad. There is an exceilent string of pitch- ers, two good catchers, material for a really brilliant infield and a reliable and hard-hitting outfield, with plenty of reserve players for all places. At present Myers, Jarrell and Zabllski, the latter a very successful pitcher on the Plebe nine last year, are in the lead in the hurling line, with Graf. Newhouser and' Tuggle in reserve. Haerlein is doing the catch- ing, while Hamilton can be called from first base if necessary, in which case Peasley, the hard-hitting initial bagger of the Plebes last year, would take that corner. The infield has two flashy veterans in Capt. Cooper, at short, and Schwab at second. O'Neill or Mannagan is likely to land at second, while Milliken is another excellent fielding infielder who may get a chance, Leslie, left field, and Ward, right field, are playing their fourth year on the varsity nine. Condra, another hard hitter and reliable fielder, 1§ playing in center, and there are a number of good players on the second string. A big feature this year is its general hard hitting, and it is believed that it will be the strongest in the history of the Academy in this particular. Only the game against Penn State will be played away from Annapolis. The list follows: March 27, University of Richmond: 31, Bucknell. April 3, Yale; 7, University of Ver- ; 10, Fordham; 14, Stevens; 17, Catholic University; 21, Harvard; 24, University of Maryland; 28, Duke. May 1, West Virginia; 5, Gettysburg; 8, Penn State; 12, Washington and Lee; 15, Georgetown; 19, Delaware; 22, Swarthmore; 26, Mount St. Jo- seph’s; 29, U. S. Military Academy. - = The International Polo Cup was first competed for nearly 40 years ago. SPORTS de at Bat : Browns a Smart Fielding Combination MAKING INFIELD BALANCE IS SISLER’S CHIEF WORRY Manager as Yet Undecided Whether to Play Mellilo at Second and Shift McManus to Third or Retain Robertson at the Far Corner. BY JOGHN B. FOSTER. are the St. Louis Browns; alert, nimble, shifty, quick-acting ball TARPON SPRINGS, Fla., March 25—A mighty smart fielding team players, who seem to be inspired by the fact that they are no longer worried as to whether their leader, George Sisler, will be able to take up his full share in the job of carrying them along toward a possible cham- pionship this season. There is no reason to speculate this year on Sisler. He is back almost where he was before he became a victim of that malady which threatened the steadiness of his eyesight for a time. Sisler is how he will make his infield balance. the one who is doing the speculating. He is figuring upon Like some of the other managers of the American League, he has several rival infield candidates of such un- usual skill that they all seem qualified for the job. little difference in their work which stitutes. Sisler's problem begins easily enough, because it puts him on first base. Then it tightens at once, as he isn't quite convinced in his own mind whether it shall be Mellilo at second or McManus. Mellilo is a ball player who re- sembles a pin wheel in the way his arms and legs fly around. In action, it is hard to tell which is arms and which is legs, as all of them move at once. Now and then he makes one think of Herman Long who played shortstop in the olden times for the Boston Nationals. Long moved so quickly that it took a good eye to keep all of him in sight and when in motion you might take an arm for a leg, or a leg for an arm were it not for the fact that he did wear stock- ings over his legs. Mellilo drops to the left side and scoops the ball, and he drops to the right side and scoops it, and the beauty about it is that he scoops it. A ball finds a large concave bowl in the palm of his hand and finds no way out of it. Living Up to Reputation. Mellilo came out of the American Association with the reputation of be- ing one of the fastest ball players that had been picked up in that organ- ization in some time, and his reputa. tlon is keeping steady company with him. He may not bat as well as Sisler would like, and that is why he has not tumbled right into the field and stuck there through thick and thin. The other problematical second baseman is McManus. That any one should threaten McManus seems in- credible, because last year, after Mc- Manus finally settled down to play ball with the Browns, he was regard- ed as one of the fixed stars. The Yankees were reported to be angling for him all the Winter with bait that would bring a shark to the surface. Gerber Better Than Ever. Gerber is at short and better than ever. Some folks say that he is the best shortstop in the American League and yet it is by no means assured that he will get the shortstop's job, for there is another inflelder by the name of Lamotte who is quite well known up and down the American League coast who is giving him a run for a regular berth. Folks have argued that Robertson had third base cinched. But he hasn’t. Sisler has McManus third basing for him part of the time. The fact is that the Browns have a fast inflelding bunch that spark up wheth- er they are rubbed on their backs or their ribs and that the boss of the team s at his wit's end to find which of the combination is lkely to bat the best, for that seems to be the main thing on Sisler’s mind. The Buffalo Internationals, whom the writer looked in on at Palmetto, should have an infleld this season as good or better than any infleld in the circuit. Kelly still is at first. If he were a little more active he would not be with Buffalo. Possibly no young ball player has been scouted more thor- oughly than Kelly. Yet, he still is with Buffalo because he has one or two defects, which, in the eye of the professional scout, are very serious. At second Buffalo has the fastest flelder in the league, and when the season is over this youngster, Thomp- son, should have more chances to his credit than any other infielder in the circuit except possibly a shortstop. Thompson, who was obtained from the Pittsburgh Club, and who once played with the George Washington High School, in New York City, is one of the fastest inflelders in class AA ball. " The shortstop is Sam Crane. Crane is an inflelder who has heen in and out this long time, and yet he still Spring the Young Man’s 1 H is looking for that determines regulars as against sub- {8 a young man. .If he were a good batter there is nothing that could keep him out of the major league show. The third baseman is Webb, who Is well known to the Intérnational League and to some of the major leagues also. Lake Leagué's Best Catcher. Bill Clymer who is managing Buffalo, has the best catcher in the International in Lake. Another catcher is Usemann, but judging by the amount of work which Lake is ready for the other chap won't get much opposition. New pitchers Bennett. The pitcher, who may go prett is a big fellow with an easy delivery. High and Christenbury will be with the team to play the outfleld and they will add strength. Every club in the International League has for its target of course. the champions of Baltimore. “I've got part way toward making it hot for them,"” said Clymer, Buffalo's manager, when he was talking about his team. “If a base ball nine is made up of outfielders, inflelders, pitchers and catchers T am 50 per cent on my way. and if Jack Dunn doesn't look+out L'l get the other 50." Fred Turbyville has blossomed out in a new task and is with the Buffalo team this year taking care of its business affairs. For years Turbyville wrote sports in Baltimore and he is finding the Buffalo cap a novel sort of head- gear to try to wear. (Copyright. 1926.) DERBY CANDIDATES ARE BEING BREEZED By the Associated Pre LEXINGTON, Ky.,, March 25.— Breezing of Kentucky Derby candi- dates has begun here and at Churchill’ Downs, Louisville, to con- tinue until just before the $50,000 race at Louisville May 15. Preliminary breezes pronounced sat- isfactory, tralners are expected to set down their charges for speed trials, beginning today. ‘The only workouts of note turned in by Derby candidates here yesterday were those of Percentage and Over- }lm\ll. l‘\\'u =ons of Midway, owned by z ary are Leverenz and latter is a Brooklyn well. He and Prince Charles worked slow thre-eighths, while Happy Bob's efforts, were limited to an easy five-elghths. 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