Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1929, Page 36

SP ORTS.' THE iiVE.\'L\'G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 5. 1929. Griffs Begin Heavy Training at Tampa : Garden to Stage Percenlage Fighis LARGE SQAD GETS BATTING PRACTICE Infield, Outfield Workouts Start—Four More Report at Florida Base. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. Sports Editor The Star. MPA, Fla., March 5.—Was| - ton wasn't the scene of the only inauguration vesterday, for it was then that real ball training was instituted by the players who will represent the Capital in ‘the approaching American League flag hunt. In the matter of weather, at least, the | doings here were superior to those | marking induction into office of the thirty-first President for balmy air and a bright, warm sun provided almost | ideal conditions for the first full work out of the Nationals under the direc. tion of Manager Johnson and his corps | of coaches, Zeb Milan, Nick Altrock, Pat | Gharrity and Al Schacht. ‘With all but a handful of the players comprising the 1929 roster on the| scene, there was action aplenty from be- fore 10 o'clock until well into the after- | noon and about the only form of base bal activity not indulged in on the newly constructed diamond was that of base stealing, the athletes’ leg muscles being adjudged a bit too tender for such strenuous exercise on the first day out for one thing, and the new pit| where the art of hook sliding is to be | practiced being as yet uncompleted, for | another., Batting Drills Start. i These training sessions are much | alike. They differ but little from day to day, save for the identity of those who enact the roles. In the initial one, ail hands first warmed up through the me- | dium of plain tossing and the fielding of bunts and then the important and popu- lar batting practice got under way. For this Gharrity, Bool, Kenna and Muunro, the last-mentioned a former Washington Eastern High School lum- inary, who is helping here, took turns with the mask and windpad and, backed up by the portable batting cage, re- ceived the shoots of a string of pitch- ers including Liska, Hopkins, Burke, Cantrell, Campbell, Weaver and Brown. Marberry and Hadley were excused from performing in the -initial session at the behest of trainer Mike Martin, who figured they could emgloy them- selves more. profitably otherwise—in jogging around the track, for instance, this being calculated to facilitate re- moving the few pounds of excess weight each is carrying. The athletes who were accorded the privilege of wielding bludgeons in the wand drill, in addition to those who performed in a receiving capacity, were Ruel, Cronin, Myer, Rice, Stewart, Barnes, Hayes, Harrls, Yoter and Simons. ¥ Infield Is Active. Between their turns at bat the in- flelders cavorted about the diamond re- trieving the balls kndtked about and the outfielders, reinforced by pitchers not otherwise employed at the time, chased around in the garden after flies p lled by the fungo Milan wielded. Following this there was an infield | drill, with Yoter covering third base, |- Gharrity on first in place of Young ley Boss, whe was in uniform, but || itted to do no work because of the to his band in an auto- ‘mabile mlfi& :%' ago; Cronin at shdrt and both Hayes and Stewart at The latter pair both handled them- gelves well as did Cronin, while Yoter, been inspected only 1, proved ade&t at 3 The, latter is ual;, almost bald. “he isbut 27 years two about early training by carefully refraining from attempting any hard , as did the other infielders. their wings s i Tor. the pitchers, nots tanding they had had a week of preliminary conditioning. They generally displayed a very fair brand of control and as a result the bat wielders connected for some healthy drives, Myer, Barnes, Harris, Rice and Bool being the leaders in this respect. More Athletes Report. Infielder Charley Gooch was on hand, but unable to participate in the drill owing to the non-arrival of the trunk containing his paraphernalia. It was expected he would be in action today along with Oss Bluege, Sam West and Garland Braxton, who arrived too late $30,000 PITCHER Device So as EW ORLEANS, March § (#).— Willis Hudlin, the young Cleve- of the batting range tilted up on stilts| and surrounded by a net. Out in Parsons, Kans., this Winter, Hudlin spent his days throwing base ball. at the dummy, and says now he can hit it every crack. Rain is slowing down the Cleveland workouts. PHOENIX, Ariz, March 5 (#).— Manager Bucky Harris of the Detroit ‘Tigers gained some satisfaction from a wire received from Roy Johnson, out- fielder, purchased from the San tomorrow, to get into initial drill. cisco Seals, that he will report 'y but this was offset by the fact that Not Enough Cardinals in Camp To Stage Scheduled Workout By the Associated Press. VON PARK, Fla, March 5— What was to have been the first workout of regular St. Louis Cardinal team“turned out to be somewhat of a dud here yesterday when only three players, Jim Bottomley, Andy High and y Selph, Jjoined the batterymen in the morning and afternoon sessions. Not one of the regular outfielders put in appearance for either morning or afternoon practice and Manager South- worth put an end to the day’s labor at 3 o'clock. Shortstop Charley Gelbert arrived in 'y camp late yesterday afternoon. | By the Assnciated Press SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March 5— John McGraw, who does all of the New | York Giants’ “master-minding,” has a new stunt for training camp use. He calls it “continuous base ball.” ORLANDO, Fla., March 5 (#).—Ech- oes of great tumult and shéuting were heard on Tinker Field today, scene -of “Civil War” in the Cincinnati Reds camp. With the first exhibition e sched- uled Saturday, Manager Jack Hendricks chose to give his athletes a rea] con- test among themselves. Instead of the usual vet-colt fray the Red pilot divided his squad into. two teams, so that while President Hoover was being inaugurated at Wash- ington the base ball season and the | fi first box score were being inaugurated ere. CLEARWATER, Fla.,, March 5 (#).— With Wilbert Robinson at the helm,| the Brooklyn Robins have gone to work in earnest. Robinson yesterday took over the NOW TOILING Hudlin, Indian Pitcher, Invents to Gain Control Chick Galloway, infielder, who was hit by a pitched ball last season, may be out for the rest of the season. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, March § (#).—The unexpected arrival® of Fred St. Louis Browns' center flelder, blazed the trail for the incom- ing regular outfielders and infielders due m' nrfl;‘?flzg-‘enmld;y to go into train- at eld. Three of Schulte’s teammates in the outer garden are yet to check-in and they are expected today. They are Henry Manush, Earl McNeely and Frank McGowan. Otis Brannon, Lu Blue, Frank O'Rourke. and Oscar Melillo, all four expected tomorrow, will complete the infield roster. BRADENTON, Fla, March 5 (@).— The Boston Red Sox, 39 strong and boasting not a single holdout, looked today as if they had been South 10 days like most of the other clubs, al- though they arrived only 24 hours ago. It appeared to be a group of tired bank clerks that Manager Bill Carrigan led into town yesterday, but an hour and a half practice followed by a swim in the Gulf of Mexico painted a sun- burn on every member of the team. FORT MYERS, Fla, March 5 (#).— With the training camp cluttered up with athletes, Connie Mack is having trouble to find places for all the Athletic regulars and rookies in practice games. For the present he is using the 10-man team plan, making it unnecessary for any of the pitchers to go through the motions of batting. In yesterday’s regular-Yannigan fracas, which the regulars won, 19 to 4, Boley did all the batting for the regular pitchers and Capt. Eddie Collins en- 'lchtfd the same role for the Yannigan gers, Nick Borrelli, former Muhlenburg foot ball and base ball star, worked at third for the regulars. With Max ! Bishop still a holdout, Hale and Dykes ! plaged second pase. \YANKEES HELP FORM WITH NATIONALS HAS “IRON MAN” RECORD This husky hurler, purchased from the hurling for the Orioles last year and was about the hardest worker on the hill in his cireuit. Baltimore Internationals, did much good ARM IS FEELING NORMAL, HERB PENNOCK DECLARES ST. PETERSBURG, Fla,, March 5 (#).—~Babe Ruth will let his golf game alone for a while and get down fo the serious business of pre- paring himself for the base ball cam- paign to come. He came out for his first work- out with the New York Yankees yes- terday and immediately gave the spectators a_thrill by poling out sev- eral long drives to the shores of Crescent Lake. Another important figure on the Yankee roster, Herb Pennock, also did his first work of the season. The slender left-hander, forced out of the game by neuritis for a good part of Iast season, said his arm felt nor- mal again, 2 He weighs 175 pounds, 10,pounds more than he ever has since he first joined the Yankees. . | Dallas, where the White Sox are being WANDERING HURLER SIGNED BY CHISOX | By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., March 5—The wan- derings of Harold McKain, former Cleveland hurler, declared a free agent + by Commissioner Landis, have ended at i put through their Spring training paces by Manager Lena Blackburne. | McKain, who won 20 and lost 6/ games with the Decatur Club of the ‘Threé-Eye League last season, has sign- | ed & Sox contract. | Blackburne sent the Sox through four hours of strenuous workout yesterday. “Red” Faber, the 41-year-old Cascade hurler, and' Tommy Thomas let loose with a few mid-season tosses. ‘There are still three absentees, but Alex Metzler and Moe Berg are to re- port Wednesday with their signed con- tracts. Second Baseman Bill Hunne- AMPA, Fla, March 5— | The shifting fortunes of base ball this year have reunited the Damon and Pythias of the game—Walter Johnson and Clyde Milan. Of all cases of friendships formed on the playing field there prob- ably has peen none more nota- ble than that of the former monarch of all moundsmen and the-ex-star outfielder and champion base runner of the American League, thrown to- gether again after a separation of six seasons, following 16 years of a companionship that is believed to be without parallel in the annals of the pasttime. Johnson, whose fame ex- tended to all corners of the base ball world through his remarkable feats of pitch- ing covering a career of more than 20 campai gns with the W ashington ball club, joined that organization as a gangling, raw-boned youth of 19 in August, 1907. One month Yiter i oy Walter Johnsen, built, fleet-footed ana ruddy faced native of Linden, Tenn., 20 years old, came to the Cap- ital from the Wichita -club, then in the Western associa- ticn, and which was a pennant winner that year, and the closely forged bonds that have endured since were formed. It was Joe Cantillon, manager of.the Washington club at that time, who coralled both of the players, who later became stars. He authorized the trip of a temporarily disabled catcher, Cliff Blankenship, to Weiser, Idaho, where Johnson was play- ing one game a week and toil- ing as a telegraph lineman the other six, that resulted in Walter gtetting to Washington. This, after Johnson cannily had demanded and received his return trip fare in advance. Blankenship also was responsible for purchasing Milan, having scouted him prior to visiting Weiser. through ‘an odd coincidence, Pongo Joe, now chief of umpireseof + the American Association, and who was pilot of the Minneapolis Millers for upward of two decades, now is vacationing in Tampa, where the Nationals are training, and nightly enjoys fanning about the old days with Walter and Clyde. . The mutual attraction between the altitudinous Kansas farmer boy and _the slim Tennesseean became evident as soon they met. Both new to the -big league and its ways, they com- pared notes and exchanged confi- dences, and before the end of that waning season had become pals. To- gether they journeyed to and from the. ball ‘l:,n,te their meals, spent field, however, is classed as a holdout. Jine as any imported their o and did their sleep- REG. U.S. PAT.OFR ON THE SIDE LINES ‘With the Sports Editor By DENMAN THOMPSON: Roommates from the outset their attachment was so strong that where one was the other usually also was ‘to be found, and, despite the dis- crepancy of several inches in height and some 40 pounds in weight, they came to be referred to as the Gold Dust Twins. As the years wore on traveling, working and playing together they finally found that association during the ‘Summer months did not suffice, s0 they got in the habit of visiting each other’s homes during the off seasons, with Milan playing host for fishing, to which he always has been an ardent devotee, and Johnson con- ducting erpeditions of hunting, his favorite form of recreation. Season after season um first, Cantillon, then Jimmy McAleer, Clark Grifith and George McBride as managers they performed for the Nationals, each attaining to star- dom, Milan as an outflelder and Johnson as a moundsman, until the season of 1922. Then Milan, whose active career was drawing to a close, took over the reins of the Washing- ton Club and issued orders to his roommate and buddy, stil an ace of the firing line. For the first season since they met Barney and Zeb, as they called each other, were separated in 1923, when Milan performed as an outflelder with the Minneapolis Millers. The nezt year found Milan installed as ‘manager of the New Haven Cludb of the Eastern League and after one term there he advanced to the pilot- ship of the Memphis Club of the Southern Association, where he held forth through 1925, °26 and °27. All this time Johnson had been carrying on with the Nationals and last year when Walter assumed the only Job he ever held in | professional base ball aside from| Washington by | going to Newark boss the Bears off Griffith’s pay roll in the c:}tnclly of j ! as manager Milan as coach. ciyge Milan. Once more they are roommates, occupy a “two-seater” table in the dining room and confer constantly on the task that is upper- most in the minds of both—converting Washington’s entry in the American Leaguc pennant chase into a winner. ks into Blal bacl M hile reminisc- ing, “and it recalled something he said | the first time I ever met him—some: thing that always gives me a smile in view of latter developments. It was when he had been assigned to scout. ing duty because of a broken finger znd came out to look me over. ‘T've , 8ot to go up in Idaho and inspect a pitcher named Johnson,’ CIliff com- ! plained, adding, ‘He’s probably some big busher that isn't even worth the | car fare to scout.’” D. C. BOY ON UNION TEAM. SCHTENECTADAY, N. Y., March 5. | A leading member of the Union College swimming team here is Arthur Taylor of Washington, D. C., a senior. He competes in the dashes and is' 4 relay man. . T Boxers to Get “Cut” of Gate Meet Paulino. BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, Msrch 5.—With ¢ | arrival in New York of Willic | F. Carey, vice president of | o poration, and a contingent of fight correspondents returning from Miami Beach, it is predicted that events will begin to move toward a clearing of the air in the heavyweight champion- ship muddle. meeting on Tuesday of the Madison | Square Garden directors fo select a successor to the late Tex Rickard. Opinion is general that the job will go to Carey, whose success in staging the Sharkey-Stribling fight in Miami Beach of ability. Carey is, first of all, a busi- ness man, whereas Rickard shone as a showman —buf the former has some ideas about guarantees and percentages for fighters that are bound to meet the approval of the Garden directorate in Carey says in effect: “Nix on the guarantees hereafter. A fighter is worth no more than a percentage of which he will draw at the gate, and a percentage is what he will get from now on, if T have anything to say about it.” | ard’s shoes, the fight fans can look for | big doings in the heavyweight ranks. | Carey’s idea of a popular match is to send Sharkey in against Paulino Uz- cudun; or, if that falls through, to Sharkey and Max Schmeling when the favor a,Sharkey-Paulino match as the next card in the heavyweight. elimina- tion tourney, and most of the fight critics who saw Sharkey's work in the ring with Stribling are convinced that the Boston sailor cannot stand up DA fier Fanling has eliminated Sharke ] 0 el ted there will be time enough before !ep-’ tember to speculate on Jack Dempsey's intentions of getting into another heavy- weight championship bout and on Max Only—Sharkey Likely to Madison Square Garden C First on the calendar is the special has marked him as a boxing promoter these days of million-dollar gates. When Carey officially steps into Rick- Iatter returns from Germany. The odds against the bull-like rushes of the Schmeling’s chances of mo jthe top-notch Ameritan heavies, s (Copyright, 1929.) | “RED DEVILS” WILL RIDE. CHICAGO, March 5 (#).— Alfred | Letourner and Paul Brocardo, the French “Red Devils,” have been teamed for Chicago’s twenty-first- international six-day bicycle race opening Coliseum March 16. The French pair won second in the New York, ; and Detroit six-day grinds this year. Auto Bodies, Radiators, Fenders L ¥ Rapalvods ales, Hew. Rudlsboan Harrison radiaters and ceres in Wittstatts, 1809 14th - Notth oy -J'...._'"' TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F- TERS SMOKE TALKS by the DUTCH MASTERS After a good dinner you naturally think of a good cigar. But aslong as Dutch Masters remain as inexpensive as they are—why - should we deny ourselves this enjoyable treat at any hour of the day? “Is it really true that a big majority of (K] the American business leaders are cigar Instead of having . change of side S . 'g‘ smokers?” writes a correspondent. We S after three put-outs, John has his regu- | lars bat until 27 outs are recorded. Then reins Max Carey has held since the | LONDON SPORTS CLUB Robins’ camp opened and immediately / ordered a 3-hour workout, including one | he calls in the second team to bat until they've exhausted their quota nfl‘ outs. ' The “Little Napoleon” thinks his | scheme is good because it saves so much time. i ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 5| (®) —That_37-year-old veteran, Walter “Rabbit” Maranville, demonstrated in his first workout with the Braves here that he is the youngest old-timer in|2 base ball today. He raced around the short fleld pick- ing up ground balls and catching fiies with hands folded on his chest until} President Emil Fuchs told him to call| it a day. Then he went in for a shower and came back for more. He was the last off the field. i Dr. Eddie Farrell, the reulcitrlnl‘ dentist from Binghamton, N. Y., was out practicing for the first time yes- terday. i AVALON, Calif., March 5 (#).— Nor- man McMillan, an infielder who filled in at second, third and shortstop for the Cubs last season, may solve Man- ager Joe McCarthy's batting line-up ‘worries. McMillan, has met favor in the eye of Manager McCarthy and if he or; Clarence Blair, a rookle infleld candi- date, supplant Clyde Beck at third base they will be No, 2 in the batting order. - The Cubs complete their three-game inter-club series tomorrow and then move to the mainland for the first of a three-game series with the Los An-|batting order. Hargreaves and Hemsley ,finud geles Angels. full nine-inning game. Among the spectators were Dazzy Vance and Doug McWeeny, the Robins’ right-handed pitching aces, whom have refused to sign the con- | tracts the club has tendered them. WINTERHAVEN, Fla, March 5 (#). —The Phillies are going through a two- lay program, but no serious drilling is attempted. g Don Hurst, first baseman, and Fresco ‘Thompson, second sacker, reached camp yesterday. The other infielders and out- fielders are not due until the end of the week. Hurst scales 215 pounds, 20 pounds more than he carried last season. He is so anxious to get down to weight that he didn't answer the dinner bjll yesterday. PASO ROBLES, Calif.,, March 5 (). —Jim Stroner, Wichita recruit third baseman of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who was named the “key” man of the con- templated 1929 team, seems destined for another role. Harry Riconda, received from Brooklyn with Jess Petty for Glen Wright, shortstop, is mentioned for third base. Chagnon, Mahaffey, Mackay and Erickson, rookle pitchers, are mentioned for release to the minors for more ex- perience. With the Waner brothers holdouts, George Grantham, last year’s first baseman, has been giving the right- field berth and clean-up position in the are sure of catching bel A By the Associated Preghi.. ; Americans are associated with sports- men of ten other nations in the forma- tion in London of an international club of sportsmen and sportswomen, the {Dafly Mail announces. The club was inspired by a sentence in the speech the Prince of Wales made at the golden wedding anniversary of Lord Lonsdale, famous sportsman, last July. The prince said, “The best friendship whether individual or inter- national is that made on the fleld of sport.” The promoters, adopting this cue, conceived the formation of the club to be a great home for sport in the heart of London where men and women of all nations meet. They obtanied premises on fashionable Park lane, where the club, equipped on a lavish scale, 1 be open during the present London season. The Duke of Westminster, the Marquis of Londonderry, Harry Payne Whitney, the American sportsman, and the Duke of Penaranda, poloist relation of King Alfonso of Spain, are associated with the scheme. The advisory committee includes Louis Stoddard, of the American Polo Association; W, Plunkett Stewart of Philadelphia; Joseph B, Thomas, repre- senting the United States; Alfreda de Rena, for Argentina; Col. W. A. Bishop, for Canada, and Baron Raul Schroe- ders, for Chile. Other countries repre- are Belgium, England, PFrance, ish Free State, Italy and Scotland. A ) onobins | LONDON, ‘March 8—A number of |, Consolidated Cigar Corp. New Yug shouldn’t be surprised. You'd expect a man shrewd enough to make a success of business to know the best way to get the best out of good tobacco. 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