Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1928, Page 38

SP ORTS THE EVE NG STAR., WASHIN FRIDAY, MARCH D) 1928 Griff Squad Impresses Manager Harris : Waners Socking Ball at Pirate Camp CONDITION OF ATHLETES ~ AT TAMPA PLEASES PILOT Appearance of Youthful by Bucky—Peppery Drills Held—TIlIness of Hadley Worrying Club Officials. BY DENMAN THOMPSO! Sports Editor of The Star. MPA. Fla., March “As fine a looking bunch of kids as I ever have seen.” That was the comment of Bucky Harris today after watching the recruits col- lected for the 1928 edition of the ‘Nationals go through their first complete session of the Spring training season. Harris was particularly impressed with the appearance of the youthful itchers who have been undergoing pre- iminary conditioning since a week ago last Monday and warmly commended Coach Clyde Milan and Trainer Mike | ~ Martin on the success of their directorial | |night, but was relieved by the appli- efforts “T don't know how much these young fellows have got in the way of stuff. and r to find out for several davs anager, who ar- sterday ev from Washing- a party which included Joe Goose Goslin. Oss Bluege. Nick rock and Al Schacht. “They won't be asked to bear down for a while yet. | It's safer to allow them two full weeks | muscles and besides the | hitters aren’t ready to cope with speed | and hooks. You know a batsman needs | training for his eve just as well as a | pitcher does for his arm and about next Monday will be time enough for the | flingers to start putting ‘something on | the ball’ | Pitchers Please Harris. “Instead of not asking them to bear down, guess I should have said we will try to keep them from doing it,” Har- i mused as one after another of the rookies was cautioned against display- | ing a tendency to cut loose while on| the hill. “They're not supposed to do anything at this stage of the game ex- cept get the ball over the plate where | the batsmen can get a fair crack at| it. They're doing that in satisfactory style and I am more than pleased over their obviously good physical condition. 8o far as I can observe there is not a ;mgle' one who is in anything but fine orm." Harris also was gratified with the | way his more seasoned flingers. such as | Gaston, Lisenbee, Marberry, Wells and | Zachary, loomed up. With one or two | exceptions. these were directed to pass | up the toil involved in a full session | of providing targets for batting prac- | tice, but Bucky carefully looked them all over while in the process of warm- | ing up and found little to criticize, al- though his shrewd eye discerned that two or three of them were carrying a bit of excess weight. As a preliminary to the inauguration of the new training program which ‘went into effect today with the players divided into two squads with the first coming on to the field shortly before | 10 o'clock. the second following about | an hour later and all activities ceasing in time for the athletes to invade the dining room for luncheon before 1, the performers on hand yesterday were put through the initial batting and fielding drill of the year. First Sams, and then Griffin, Lisenbee, Burke, Hopkins, Do- mingo and Roy went to the rubber and hurled for 10 minutes or so each. Batters Show Punch. Pete Cooper and Hugh McMullen al- ternated behind the plate and took | their turns at bat along with West, Reeves, Barnes, Tate, Smith, Hayes, Shirley. Gillis, Ganzel, Simons and | Ralph Cooper. Zachary also horned in on the party near the close. and the sound of bat meeting ball ‘must have carried all the way to tel for before the session was over Sam Rice made his appearance and got in some whacks, aithough he had an- nounced earlier that he was not feel- ing very pert and didn't think he would take a workout. This initial wand drill found Foster Ganzel eattracting the lion's share of attention. This sturdy acquisition from Birmingham started in right where he left off last season at Washington, where he achieved a 437 average, to earn nominal leadership of the Ameri- can League for the baker's dozen of games he participated in. Of course, the fingers were merely laying ‘em stralght over, but the other batsmen falled to display anything like the punch | Ganzel fiashed He was swinging easily and apparently with no effort whatever, yet repeatedly sent the sphere | on journeys to the more distant stretches of the outfield. Next to Gan- 2el the best showing with the stick was made by Sam West and Pete Cooper. | Most of the others had a tough time | trying to get hold of the ball. In the initial infield drill that fol- | lowed, with Coach Milan wielding a bat o provide bounders and Benny Tate stationed at the plate, Shirley was at first base, Gillis and Hayes at second, | Bmith at third and Reeves and young | Ralph Cooper at shortstop. This proved | ¥ be a spirited session, with all hands | s in surprisingly agile considering 1t was their hnstl time out, but again there was an out- | standing performer, this time Shirley Shirley Pine at First, | 5o was a fine fielder when he ted from the University of North first received an inspec- the Griffmen, demonstrated | e 15 even better now. He was nering in hoppers from all angles | 1 scooping up throws from every cirection, 10 the expressed delight of the largest crowd of spectators that has Plant Field this season 1 Ehirley, with the Greenville Club of the Bouth Atlantic Aswciation last season, bas improvea much in hitting as the 331 percentage he compiled there would indicate, he may yet give Judge and Sisler a tussle for the initial cor- rer assignment, as he can hold his own on_defense with either of them now. In the iufield drill today one cor- €on was compmed of Shirley, Harris, Feeves and Bmith, while the comprised Judge, Hayes, Gillis, Bluege and Ralph Couper. The complexion of these squads Lrobably be main- teined tnis way for U= being with pitehers split up betveen them The fliness with which J Jey was stricken yestorduy ey ed e a sort of Sumper o of the ihletes Lodsy und cau siderable spprebension s he official of the club. Hadiey has twen w suf- the the ump Had- other | Pitchers Especially Liked 1JUDGE SIGNS CONTRACT | AFTER TALK WITH GRIFF TAMPA, Fla, March 2—Joe Judge, veteran first-sacker of the Nationals, at last has accepted the contract offered him by President Clark Griffith. After a conference this morning, Joe signed the papers and assured the club president he wonld give the Nationals his best, regardless of whether he has to sit on the bench. nosis. He had some temperature last cation of ice bags and will be kept quiet to await developments. If it is definitely determined that his | appendix is the cause of his illness the | condition will be kept abated, if possi- | ble. until after the close of the coming | campaign, when he will be advised to | submit to an operation. Jack Kloza has been added to the list of absentees which already includ- od Ruel, Jones and Taylor. The young outflelder wired Griff last night that the illness of his mother prevented him from leaving home before “today. and as he lives In Milwaukee it will be Sunday before he arrives. i HOYT, STILL BALKING, PLANNING TO GO HOME HOT SPRINGS. Ark., March 2 (#).— Declaring he could not reach an agree- ment with management of the club, Waite Hoyt, New York Yankee pitcher, has announced here leave for his home in Brooklyn Sun- day unless he gets a favorable reply to a telegram he sent Col. Ruppert. HE PASSES UP MEALS, BUT GAINS FIVE POUNDS NEW YORK, March 2 (#) —Ponder- sus Jim Elliott of the Robins' pitching staft at Clearwater, Fla, tried to re- duce his poundage of 230 by passing up { lunches and dinners‘for two days as| well as assuming strenuous workouts. He has gained five pounds. that he would | TON SA Young right-hander, who has pitched |for several teams about the District, | now getting pitching trial at Tampa. COBB WILL PLAY FOR A.S TO MAKE VETERAN TRIO Mack Plans to Use Ty, Speaker and Simmons in Qut- field—Cubs to Play Game Tomorrow—Other Training Camp News. Br the Associated Press, nie Mack, boss of the Philadel- phia Athletics, was happy at Fort Myers, Fla, today because he had added to his basket of peaches for 1928 one of the Georgla variety. Ty Cobb has wired that he will be with the club again this year. No fig- ures are announced. “It took a long campaign to get Ty for other season,” Mack said. “He had virtually retired from tase ball and didn’t want to play, but when I showed him how useful he would be to me next season and, moreover, give us a chance for the pennant, he finally consented to join us. “‘Cobb 1s still one of the greatest play- ers in the game, Right today there is none more colorful. Perhaps he is not the Ty of 10 years ago, but he is still head and shoulders above the majority of flelders. He played brilllantly last year and will deliver again ‘his season. “I'm one manager who rever thinks of age when selecting a ball player. All T want to know is what they can do. Ty will be an inspiration to every play- er and help the whole team. “Cobb, Speaker and S8immon.;! What an outfield that will be with which to electrify the Nation.” Simmons will play left field, Tris | Speaker in center and Cobb in right. At Winter Haven, Fla., the Phillies with all hands putting their stuff on ex- hibition under the watchful eye of Man- |ager Burt Shotton. Nearly every posi- tion will be an open fight this season. Cubs Will Play Game, CHICAGO, March 2 (#).—A regular ball game, Cubs, has been arranged for tomorrow by Manager McCarthy, to prepare the squad for a full nine-nning contest | Sunday at the Catalina Island camp with | e team from the battleship Tennessee. | Tomorrow's fray will last only fiv Innings, with about three pitchers doing the flinging for each side, McCarthy took charge at the sliding | pit yesterday, teaching Woody English, last year's shortstop “find,” how o RO | into the base feet first, and the manager twisted his leg painfully in the demon- stration 1 The first full-time workout for the | White Box at Bhereveport was a bit |, chilly, but the three infield recruits, ' Cirsell, Mann and Fedfield, cut loose with ull they hed. In his first exhibi- ton Cissell impressed the old-timers as possessing talent that would make him & permanent fixture &t short, leav- ing second buse as the only infield prob- lem for Manager Schalk Capt. Willle Kamm, the third-hase regular, arrived yesterday with the Sox new pitching prospect.s Euloglo Luque, Ban Franciseo sandlotter, Kamm has ! Prices Slashed! Great Savings in HILADELPHIA, March 2—Con- | an offer to give u the diamond. put on about 20 pounds during the Stove League season. Red Sox Progressing. | BOSTON, Mass, March 2.—Things | have moved along so smoothly at the Bradenton, Fla, camp of the Boston {Red Sox that Manager Bill Carrigan I has announced that real base ball will | start next week by the Sox entertaining the St. Louis Cardinalgson Wi | Carrigan figures he# al | pitchers ready to “get in there. new arrivals yesterday completed the roster. They were “Buddy” Myer and Ira Flagstead. Myer, who has been in the holdout column, signed up without a raise. Sorrell Impresses Tigers. DETROIT, March 2 (#).—Vic Sorrell, young right-hand pitcher, obtained from the Toronto Maple Leafs, is show- ing well in early training work at the Detroit Tigers' camp in San Antonio, Tex. Lefty Leifield and “Wish” E; eran pitching coaches, who h the Toronto graduate in charge, are en- | thusfastic about the form he has dis- | played- thus far. According to FEgan | Borrell has freedom of delivery and & speed ball that augurs i1l for the Amer- |ican League swatting delegation. The youngster is concentrating on_practice |are working on a twice-a-day schedule, | 0f changing pace to mix with his other assets. Robins Would Try Locke. NEW YORK, March 2 (#).—Roland Locke, famous Ngbraska sprinter, has the cinder path for Acting upon the recommendation of the first of 1928 for the|Dave Bancroft, Manager Robinson of the Locke o report at Clearwater, Fla., for & tryout with the Dodgers. Brooklyn Nationals has invited Bancroft is a friend of Locke, and al- though neither he nor Robinson have seen the Nebraskan perform on a base | out the season So Smooth...So Cool...So0 Satisfying because it’s H XPE DLOTTER WORK CoLumaUsS ! SAMS- ball field they have reports that he dis- plays ability as an outficlder. It 1s understood that Locke will abide by Robinson's judgment as to whether he should abandon the track in his pur- suit for a major league career. Although Dazzy Vance has not signed | a contract for 1928, he pitched two in- nings for the Robins in practice yester- | day, indicating promise of a settlement of the salary controversy. ‘The Giants had their first drill at Warren Park in Augusta, Ga, yes-' terday with a squad of 32 reporting. Vic | Aldridge, the pitcher traded to New York by Pittsburgh in return for Bur- | leigh Grimes, has yet to put in appear- ance. Rookles had a big day at the Yankees | camp at St. Petersburg, Fla. Byrd of | Alabama and Cooke, a Carolinian, per- | formed in the outfield to the satisfac- | tion of Manager Miller Huggins. Lou Gehrig connected for another long swat | to the lake adjacent to the diamond.| Babe Ruth is becoming bronzed by the ]Hlm; with his religlous. patrol of the golf | nks. | Peck May See Action. CLEVELAND, March 2 (#).—Suspi- | clons that Roger Peckinpaugh wnn'!‘} manage the Clevelapd Indians entirely | | from the bench this Summer have been | strengthened by the veteran's workout {at his old position of shortstop at the | Tribe's practice at New Orleans. | Peck, however, hopes the Burns- Ponseca-Sewall-Hodapp combination will . 1keep him off the playing field. In yes- terday’s session he had Carl Lind, rangy Tulane University boy, team with him at second. Lind couldn’t wait until next week, when the rest of the team joins the batterymen. Only Four Cards Absent. ST. LOUIS, March 2 (#).—Sunny | Jim Bottomley and Franklie Frisch have Jolned the Cardinals at Avon Park, Fla., and the absentees number only four— Outflelders Hafey, Douthit and Roettger and Pitcher Flint Rhem. Rhem is the only holdout. Ray Blades left the camp for McLeanshoro, I, to attend the | funeral of his father, who died there | | yesterday. | The Browns at West Palm Beach Fla, faced with the necessity of build- | Ing up a practically new machine, have | taken Ernie Nevers in hand and are | drilling_him in pitching with men on bases. Heretofore he has been ineffec- tive with men on because he needed to | wind up for each ball. Manager Dan | Howley Dbelleves Nevers has enough natural stuff to deceive the major league | batters. Reds Have Two Holdouts. CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 2 (#) — With the arrival of Jakie May at the training camp at Orlando, Fla, the pitching staff of the Cincinnati Reds is complete with the exception of Pete Donohue and Carl Mays, who are listed as holdouts. There are now 13 pitchers on the ground. Ten are to be carried through- | ANDMADE! RT hand workman- OUT WITH GRIFFS $40,000 CONTRACT GIVEN TO HORNSBY| Bs the Assaciated Prese, BOSTON, March 2.—Advices from the Braves' training camp, at St. Pe- tersburg, Fla., about Rogers Hornsby's new three-year contract are that he will recelve $40,000 a year with an an- nual $600 bonus to act as captain. He signed the contract yesterday. ‘The contract was voluntarily sub- mitted to the Rajah by Judge Emil E. | Fuchs, president of the club, and eame s a surprise to Hornsby, whose contract with the Giants, which the Braves took over when he was traded to Boston, had another year to run. Hornsby's New York contract was for $45000 a season. He characterized Judge Fuchs' action as “handsome” and said, “You may be sure that I appre- clate the consideration shown me, and if I can make it up to the Boston Club, giving it the best that is in me, I cer- tainly will do PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 2 (#).— The first practice game of the Pitts- | burgh Pirate club at Paso Robles, Calif., will be held next Tuesday. Other games are scheduled for Thursday and Satur- day of the same week Batting practice_indicates the Bue- cancers will start off in almost the order that carried them to the pennant last vear. Lloyd Waner has been leading off as usual with Sparky Adams next and Brother Paul Waner third TRAVE, LAST UP, HITS LIKE COUSINS Cheers Manager Bush as Do Other New Members of Buccaneer Crew. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. PASO ‘ROBELS, Calif.. March 2.— The Waners are smacking the ball. They can't help it. If the truth ever comes out, it is cer- tain that these boys hit a rubber ball with their rattles when they were babies. After they got a little older, they practiced on Oklahoma corn cobs. Ball players and embryo ball players in other States can well afford to take up that corn-cob habit. For a long time, tI corn-cob market has been sluggish. Smart farmers in the future will take a load or two to town every now and then and sell them for batting practice to the town boys. There is another corn-cob Waner at Paso Robles. He is a cousin of the two baser ball destroyers. His first name is | Travea—not Travis, nor Trellis, as the types have had it and not Tarvia, which has something to do with roads This third edition of the Waners comes of a larger stock and halls from the Oklahoma Teachers' School. He is a first-class member of a first-class basket ball team. He bats right handed and . is about as tall as Earl Smith. though not quite so broad shouldered as the Pittsburgh linguistic catcher. | He has played base ball ever since he | got out of dresses and likes to swing at them abopt shoulder high. When he | meets th# kind. the ball is stung, or “strang,” as Smithy puts it. Bush Watching New Waner, Donie Bush, boss of the Pirates crew, | is looking the third Waner over. When | a_ manager £akes time to look a ball | player over, there is something to the player. Donle has flirted with him on the infleld and also in the outfield. | One of these days he will make up his | mind what the youngster can do_best and then he will set him at it. When they come up to him_right, Travea drives them. All these Oklahoma play- | ers seem to have driving power. There is another player here from | Oklahoma, Brewer by name, a tall, rangy chap. built for an ideal first base- | man. May be he never has played first before, but he s being acclimated now. | He is a left hander, batting. throwing {and all. He can't let the ball go away without putting a curve on it, so he must have speed and a natural twist. Bush is willing enough to develop a kid first baseman if he can. In fact, if there is a player among this more than two score reveling in the sulphur swimming pool who shows the slightest tendency to play first base, he will get more encouragement than a Scotch bass drummer in a highland band. Young Infielder Pleases. There is also a kid infielder, from Silver City, N. M. named Jones, who crouches at the bat and who shows such unmistakable evidence of being a | natural infielder that the Pirates will keep a string on him. He wants coach- ing, but he will take all they can give | him. He gets up before sunrise and | plays one-old-cat out on the lawn. He | is simply a ball playing ball player of | the kind that the old-timers like, one of | those youngsters who makes Jmaginary {curves in his section of pie at dessert | time. | There's another new feature to the' Home Address. Chicago, 1L, Port Royal, Pa. Altoona, Pa. Phillipshurg, Ohlo | 8y Portland, Oreg. 1 C. C. Littlejohn. A. C. Reinhart. Charles F. Rhem Wm. H. Sherdel. Smith. A. McC. Stout.. Catchers. Virgil L. Davis. .. Frank G. Gibson R. A. O'Farrell... Infielders. Lester R. Bell. .. J. L. Bottomley. James E. Cooney Frank F. Frisch. W. J. Maranville Henry G. Schubl T. J. Thevenow. George Toporcer Outfielders. F. R. Blades | Danel C. Clark. | Taylor L. Douthi Charles 1. Hafey Rescoe A. Hol John L. Martin. Homer H. Peel valter Roettger. ~ 11 Williamson “Wher Webster, Mo. . Birmingham, Ala. Austin, Tex. - Waukegan, L. Harrisburg, Pa. Nokombs, Il ranston, R. T. ew York, Rochester, N. Houston, Tex. adison, Ind. New York, N. Y. Y. Y. McLeansboro, TII. Meridian, Miss. Oakland, Calif. .Berkeley, Calif. torm Lake. lowa .Houston, Tex. ort Sullivan, Tex. t. Louis t Worth, Tex. Heleht, 6.01 MANAGER, WILLIAM B. McKECHNIE. Weight. Bats, Throws. Last Year. St. Louls Spartanb’g Syracuse Houston Syracuse St. Louis Syracuse St. Louis St. Louis St. Louis St. Louls FERERRANR FERRLECR @S@ RANASINARACAR SREERNRNN WRENERTR NWn EaNaTanawaten 1 1 1 1 1 1 600 is he now?"—Herman Bell, transferred to Houston; Tony Kaufmann, transferred to Rochester; John Schulte, transferred to Philadelphia Nationals; William Southworth, transferred to Rochester as manager; James Ring, trans- ferred to Philadelphia Nationals. E PR | Pirates’ training camp which has its | | interest. Floyd Scott, before he became | izn outfielder was a catcher, and by no | means a bad one. Bush has no worry | about his outfield. He has quite a col- !lection in one way and another, but he | is anxlous to bulld up the catching staff | a little, and Scott is catching now. “No harm to try him.” said Donie. | e may com= right back to his earlier gait as a catcher, and if he does, I am one catcher ahead, as vell as an out- flelder, because everybody knows what Scott can do in the outfield.” Long on Catchers. | The Cubs never tried Scott behind the bat, as they had Hartnett and Gon- zales, that faithful Cuban. who catches the ball and throws it with a continuous | motion. | Another catcher practieing with the boys is Hemsley, who hails from Syca- more, Ohio, and who played with Fred- erick in the Blu» Ridge League last year. He can throw and can't keep still. He has met with an approving eve. and if he turns out to be a batter he is certain to be retained as a regular. Gooch is not here for the moment, because of the death of his mother. With Smith, Gooch and Memsley, if | the last named continues to develop, the Pittsburghs will be better set up behind the bat than they have for three vears That is another reason Bush carries no crease in his brow. All in all, he is a more satisfled Donie than he was a year ago. when the plaj ers were s BOWLING TOURNAMENT ATTRACTS 2,251 TEAMS KANSAS CITY, March 2 () —With the entry list of five-man teams swollen to & new record of 2.251 by last-minute local additions. workmen today were putting the finishing touches on 28 al- leys laid in the American Royal Build- ing here for the American Bowling Congress tenpin championship tourna- ment March 5 to April 2 IND HERNDON FAIRLOUS WILL MAKE PLANS Herndon Fairlous. semi-pro base ball | champions of northern Virginia, will lay plans for another season tomorrow night when a banquet will be held at the home of Manager McGlincy at ; Herndon at 8 o'clock. All of the 1927 players and other candidates are urged to attend. Players will be measured for uni- hrm:fl and plans for the season dis- cussed. James McNamara, athletic director at Jewish Community Center, has sen® out notices inviting all ball players to attend a meeting at the Center next ‘Wednesday night at 9 o'clock. Kennedy A. C. base ball candidate: will meet tonight at the home o ger Ted Otte, 5213 Georgia ave 7:45 o'clock. Final arrangements , &t for | the benefit dance at L'Aigion on Sat- urday iught will be made. Players of the insect. midget and junior Corinthian A. C. nines are sched- uled to meet tonight at 8 o'clock in Immaculate Conception Hall, Eighth and N streets. 5C-TARGET TOURNAMENT LISTED FOR TRAPSHOTS A 50-target shoot from 16 yards is the high point of tomorrow's Washe ington Gun Club competition at the Benning range. The contestants will switch guns dur- ing the competition. There will be & club trophy for high gun and for high handicap (added target). There also will be four months’ trophy and doubles competitions. 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