Evening Star Newspaper, February 29, 1928, Page 38

LOOMS AS LEADER OF PTCHIG CORPS Lisenbee, Gaston Also Held| First-String Flingers for Nationals. SPORTS." THE FEVENING STAR, WASITINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928.° SPORT NOW HELD BE BY DENMAN THOMPSON. Sports Editor of The § TAMPA, Fla. February 20.—With/ washington's candidates for box berths having made hardly more than a fair| start in the business of conditioning themselves for the coming season. little av be ventured with any degree of authority on the complexion of the stafl as it will be constituted when the 17 now on the roster have been pruned to Jot who will be carried through the Rign. The manner in which thev react to tnstructions of the coaches ‘n the pre- b work now being indulzed in. surc to which they develop ng the batting Is soon to be started and the showing they make under fire when the exhibitions with 1 League clubs are inaugurated | have a bearing on the ultimate of the sheep from the goats. 1t of these tests some of the | exceedingly well thought | 1p in the e tion of the | board of eg! while | is time. nd earn an place on the pay Dope Last Year Weak. ven with nothing definitcly de- to be for at least a couple week: the mound aspirants. ed by t known ability or what ady have indicated, naturally o distinct group classificatio uncement on the sub- has been forthcoming and_none | be until Manager Bucky Harris, the opportunity of thoroughly | all the flingers in camp, his arrival here tomorrow with; other regulars. Basis for a pro- isional rating of the hurlers exists, however, and we will present it here- | but with the precaution of again dir g attention to the fact that it | 1s subject to alteration due to eventual- fties that cannot be foreseen. The advisibility of essaying such a task with a due rogard for the capri- ciousness of Dame Fortune and respect- | ful consideration for the frailities of | human judgment, may be gathered (mm‘ the fact that a vear ago at this time some of the hurlers most prominently | mentioned in camp dispatches included Walter Johnson. Hollis Thurston, Stan | Coveleskie, George Murray, Crowder and Decatur Jones, all now ' separated from the service for one caus2 or another. All right, then, here goes. Most teams have a “big four.” whose especial duty t is to inaugurate battles in rotation— in which scheme of things there is pro- vided usually three days of rest between efforts. Assuming the Griffs follow this | e . we nominate Irving Hadley, | leading pitcher of the team last season | in the matter of games won and | lost and percentage of earned runs al- lowed., for the first position: Horace Lisenbee, runner-up to Hadley in the erage of wins last season, and Milton ston, the veteran obtained from St. | Louis in exchange for Eear]l McNeely | and Dick Coffman, whose 1927 record | with the sorry Browns entitles him to a | high rating. | Picking Fourth Not Easy. Picking a hurler to round out the ! uartet gives us pause for a couple of reasons, and their names are Fred Mar- berry and Sam Jones. Here is the way it dopes at this juncsture. Marberry is anxious to forsake the role of relief | her in which he has earned such ved fame and he is to be he can prove of more value to the team | by initiating combats rather than finish- ing them for some faltering mate. We don't know whether he will succeed. As to Jones, it 15 a well recognized fact that for at least four or five innings h put as much bafing stuff on the | any flinger in the business, would make it seem he was just what the doctor ordered for rescue roles. | But whether Jones will be able to flash his n in for but a few me, when forced to warm | ry day, as relief pitch- | | | have to. is & question that is yet to be answered. o Next we deal with the rescue squad. Garland Braxton, who enjoyed | a notable degree of su last season and ' matler of games participated in with 59, although he failed to officiate in a single compiete combat, 15 a cinch bet. and the equally left-handed, but| eonsiderably younger Bob Burke can be | d with him, 4s he also has demon- | rated ability along this line. The| third should prove 1 be either Mar- berry or Jones, whichever fails to make | hie four.” | Three Not Ready. * point we w D o the bot- | and eliminate a trio of any w sur- | s in this ca- all rivals in g process. They | Lane, the nile Texan, | ). Tampa {4t boy, who also | and Columbus Sams sandlotter, and likewise | is not to indicate that | 1 ball, | a couple of cre the figuring be- In the next group are | 4 three pitchers of experience in | 2 Ed Wells and Clayton must be eonceded | for regular Jobs that any or all | e first flight of g those gratu- on them at who ade is wquad the another y hob sl B ed st the oul- 51l thix dope the best ob y Bnd Ao most, of the 1 b ugstorm for oty of Ve g praciice e fist of Ve f of w lame Wik l ahie b work Yhe v yv, wnd w e progressing fwvor ran n Including Marherry, i vy wie BUIIE V) it ® s ot Uhelr Trsmer Jone ped i with w tele yram st b NIl gt diere ; fuy, wi wil o ke u ¥ s I bew Alvin | g0 vion, developments | Photos By CT TuoNEm Stocky athlete who led Washington mound corps last year is rezarded as likely first choice for regular box four- some. RUEL LOSES GOLF FINAL. | HOT SPRINGS, Ark. February 29| (#)—Baseballdom lost first honors in the annual George Washington birth- amateur golf tournament here | when Herbert Klee, Chicago. defeated | 'Muddy” Ruel. Washington catcher, | 3 and 2, in 18 holes. ffadley Rated Likeliest Griff Hurler : 'RIVALRY IS KEEN AMONG | THREE COAST CITY CLUBS " OF NATIONALS’ PITCHING TALEN York—OQakl. v, wha fu) campe. | o Pacil BY JOHN B. FOSTER. AN FRANCISCO. February 29. Until you have had speaking ac- quaintance with New York City and its metropolitan district, and with San Francisco and Oakland, the bay. it is not possible to how much the base ball situa- tions of the East and the West salt- water sections are identical. New York may be more intimately related to Brooklyn than San Francisco |15 to Oakland, as tunnels take Gotham | | fans to the Brooklyn base ball grounds, | whereas busy ferries carry on the pas- |senger traffic between the two chief bay citics, but the base ball rivalry is | identical. San Francisco has two clubs | exactly as New York has two, and Oak- | {land has its club as Brooklyn has one. | | " Quite a little of the Oakland club be- {longs this year to the Yankees. The| | speculative champions of the American | League have bought the services of {Lary and Reese, a pair of inficlders who had a lot to do with Oakland's | champlonship winning last season. | Not Good Business. | Both of these players must engage IN PENNANT CHASE im0t o o Leapis b 1928 and then they are to be sent to EEERESGS S [ the Yankees. Tough deal for the play- | T T ers. No matfer what they do this year, : there will be some one to criticize. Base Bill McKechnie, who piloted one world | paii ‘is getting too much into the fu- champlonship club at Pittsburgh in 1925 turity stage when it sells players on the and hopes to lead another in St. Louts hoof for future delivery and keeps them | 1. | at home to grow up. | this scason, Is not among those who | %' 2™ (0 BIOE U the Oakland | count the Giants out of the National|club, wouldn't let these young players | League race because of the departure of |go to a major organization unless bnfl; al 5 6f them went to the same_club. Ci sh by R L L [thinks they are a sort of Castor and Bill cxpects the Pirates to furnish the | pollyx arrangement, which could not | chief opposition for the Cardinals, but | pe happy If one were not playing next | I the St. Louls Globe-Democrat quotes | 1o the other. He ek by i opinion | Al |and sent both of them ta the same m'"fx"“"fi:b;:"d the Glants abo ‘\:'yl"h‘:f |club. but that-doesn't necessarily mean E = e s - that both of them will remain Wi clined o count the Glants out of it |{he same club, for they have a habit | alve iy tended Mosnaby HEHE | In e majors of M‘(p]aln]u.l:naulhc best of eve they are ng a great | friends when they fell like it. n:\s(lux.;. : LEHGIRnCa) with McGraw | San pm,,(;.sv{,hmms don't inink Oak- at the helm are always dangerous {land will win the coast pennant again “The punch supplied by Hornsby's bat | this year. That thought is natural, for will be missed, undoubtedly, but Cohen | they ‘have two good teams here in San | 15 said to be a rising star. ~And remem- | Francisco to help lick anything in the | ber, if Cohen fails to fill the bill Mc- |lcague. One is the Seals, the old San Graw will go out and nab some one Francisco outfit, and the other the | who can. McGraw is one you can’t|Missions, a newer organization named keep down.” | for the *“south O'Market” section of = the city. The name is good. if it hap-, i CARDS FEAR GIANTS Moriarty of Tigers Would Make Rice Greatest Base Runner in League—News From Other Big League Training Sectors. Br tha Associated Press red-headed third baseman, Oliver | Sax, has attracted attention at | the Phillies, and Bul Deitrick. young the St. Louts Browns' camp at| shortstop candidate West Palm Beach, Fla, with his | arrivals in camp. Deitrick is to get his | footwork. He stole 61 bases for second major league trial. He was up gingerly Scranton last_year in the New York- going good enough to warrant a season’s | job with Coach Dan Howley's revamped | Browns. While the arrival of Rabbit Maranville | expects and John Pepper Martin at the Cardinal | stowed away by nightfall Avon Park, Fla, camp was no big news, | pitchers are in camp. vet the hustle and enthusiasm they put | into their first workout caused them to . draw the attention of every one. Mar- tin, an outfielder up with the Cardinals for the third time is trying to prove that he deserves a major league berth. DETROIT, February 29 (#).—Man- ager George Morfarty of the Detroit | Tigers has set for himself the task of | attempting to make Harry Rice the| greatest base runner in the American League Moriarty's hopes were confided to | scribes at the Tiger training camp in | San Antonlo with the added informa- tion that Rice s proving an apt pupil Rice, who with Elam Vangilder, was obtained from the St. Louis Browns for Lou Blug and Heinle Manush, was on the field yesterday long after the finish | of regular practice, drilling in starts and | slides while Moriarty coached. | CINCINNATI, February 20 (#).—As reward for his good work as field | leader of the Cincinnati Reds last year, Catcher Bubbles Hargrave has been re- appointed captain of the team. Manager Jack Hendricks announced | Hargrave's appolntment at the Reds' | Spring training grounds at Orlando, Fla CLEVELAND, February 20 (P Fencing has been added to the bas ball training sessions of Jimmy Vor- hoff, recruit second baseman of the Cleveland Indfans, who has arrived at the Tribe's Spring headquarters at New | Orleans Vorhoff, in & previous tryout, re- sembied & Nap Lajoie in the feld, but couldn’t hit. He has been made the subject of an experiment by Keith | New Orleans fencer, who be that effective batting s a mat- | ter of the co-ordination of the eye, mind and muscle and that fencing s the best | sport w develop thix PITTSBURGH . February 20 (&) With anly one g er missing, the Pitts- burgh Pirates settled down W work today al Paso Jtobles, Callf. Johnny Gooch, eateher, falled to join the sec- und squad, which arrived at the train- | e camp yesterday, He §s expected | 1 report before Sunday. | Injuries have taken myers, both rookles. Ervin Brame bher, s suftering from a slightly ocated shoulder muscle, while Fred sell, pouthipaw hurler, has an injured a toll of two NEW YORE, February 29 (A9 Babe Herman, who played first bise for Wil et ubinson tewson, has & new | rmbiton, He wants t becom out fieder | Asa first basemun, Herman left Vhing W e desired, bt he wis Wlerated | because of he patency of his b | Bissonette, International §eag Is tlated W hold down the fi el { And the scheme now 15 o conver! [ Hermun Suto s By chaser so that e bt g UALY of Both can be used dally The fwbins wre sl Clesrwater, Fla Just se John MeGraw was shifting Bk Glants from Hot Bprings . Augus Y, Gu, Zach ‘Taylor, reguler catcher | lurt beuson, gt w surprise 1 the shipe of m lraneler, via the walver route, W e Boston Biaves. Taylor came 1o U | Glints from the Biaves lust Summer AU BV Petershurg, Fla, e Yankees Pt I whial anight be a stietcl of e | Miller Mg naginution e culled work gitn 1 up i ot by i« Chiagmian, Duroches Verton Dnohier expectally deilghited Y mssger s e Qg g ot grounders vt B hdant eane, PHILADELPHIA, Febiunry 29 (7 Maunager Bt Bhotton of (he Phillies 'SAX, RECRUIT INFIELDER, 1on hand by tomorrow for more advanced T. LOUIS, February 29.—A young | practice at Winter Haven, Fla League, and is said to be | sent to the minors for se: fielders on_the way to Fort Myers, Fla., | Manager Connie Mack of the Athletics job as rst string catcher of the Braves. That news cheered the Spring training | camp at St. Petersburg, Fla.. for Zack | | pens to be the mission of the club to | win a pennant. Seals Good Club. “The Seals have some smart ball play- ers. Hal Rhyne, who could play sccond | base for Pittsburgh fairly well, but who | couldn't hit hard enough. will play short for the Seals. Every California fan thinks he wil be a lot better now | that he is to remain at home. He may. He is better at short than at second. Pittsburgh didn't have a second base- man and tried to convert Rhyne. That was one instance in_which the dope of | Barney Dreyfuss falled. Such an ex- posure doesn’t always take. Mulligan, a former American League ayer, is at third for the Seals and second. Some day Subr may Thurston will pitch for San He should win 20 games in 18 as good as he was !last scason. His style of delivery it |adapted to the coast. There is n brother of Cohen of the Glants to vitch for the team, recommended by Jimmy All but six of the roster of 42 were to be gathered in Shreveport before night- fall, and these six will join the squad | | next week. | “The Cubs cut short practice both yes- terday and today as Owner Wrigley was | host at the Uzcudun-Godfrey boxing match at Los Angeles. Al but one of the Cub squad accepted the invitation. Guy Bush said_he would rather bag a few Catalina Isiand mountain goats. Two teams of the Cubs went through a full batting practice before some June pitching yesterday, and “Kiki” Cuyler showed the greatest yardage of any of the sluggers GRIFFS LEAVE HERE " FOR FLORIDA CAM | pi | Suhr at | get higher. | Francisco. { this league if Jimmy Ring, former pitching ace of are the newest with the Boston Red Sox once, but was oning. and out- Three players and two coaches were | i ty that left here this after- | i ol ¥ O'Connell. noon to join the Nationals, who are ex- | “Bi'the way, you can't mention O'Con- pected to report in force at the Tampa | nell to this day in San Francisco with- sbyistisngdop ey |out some one rising with a_splutter of | trabline oo 1" Y eaded the | Indignation o ask ““why O'Connell has Manager Stanley Harris heade ¢ 16 be made the goat?” local delegation, bound for Florida. | With him were Goose Goslin, Joe Judge. | M Find Players. ‘The other San Francisco team is Nick Altrock and Al Schacht bossed by Wade Killifer, who must do With a posse of inficl workout Sixteen to have a regular BOSTON, February 29 (#).—Zach Taylor is on his way back to his old Accompanying the Nationals w : Fred Harveycutter, an ardent fan and | roater for the Washington club, Har-|® Lot POVABNR. . iree: vears| veycutter has attended many of the | more to be quite sure that it likes con- training camps. | tinuous base ball. 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