Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1929, Page 29

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1929. STORTS. %) Griffs Pointing for Two-Game Series With St. Louis’ National League Champs HADLEY, CAMPBELL WILL MAKE DEBUTS Brown, Burke and Gooch Are Impressive in 5-2 Victory Over Braves. BY JOHN B. KELLER. AMPA, Fla., March 13.—With a 5-to-2 victory scored in their first encounter of the training campaign with another big league ball club, the nationals today were pointing for the two-game series to be played at Avon park with the ional League champions are * to be tackled tomorrow and Friday aft- ernoons and Manager Walter Johnson has an idea they will be tougher cus- tomers than were the Braves yesterday at St. Petersburg, so he chased his charges through an exceptionally stren- uous drill this morning at Plant Field. The short series with the Cards will bring into action for the first timc this year two more of the Nationals' pitching staff. The program that John- son has tentatively prepared for his moundsmen calls for Irving Hadley and Arch Campbell to toil three innings each tomorrow. These fellows have had more than two weeks of training now and the s they are ready to show in a hurling way, even though they still need more conditioning be- fore they will be at the peak of form. Cantreil Also Listed. Sharing the mound burden with Had- Jey and Campbell in the first of the games with the St. Louis Senior Leaguers will be Guy Cantrell, who pitched against the Tampa team here last Sunday. Long Jim Weaver and Paul Hopkins. others who showed their wares here the first day of the week. are slated to start again Friday. The third pitcher for the final tilt in Avon Park probably will be the left-handed Lloyd Brown, who broke into the battle ;gnmst. the Braves yesterday at St. ete. Those of the Nationals’ hurling staff imay expect an abundance of work from now on, according to Johnson. With the club suffering from a pitching short- age, all of the boys may expect to get into two games a week when as many as five games are scheduled within seven days and some of them are going to be sent into as many as three en- gagements in a week. Really this pitching shortage is a scrious handicap in some ways. The “ pitchers have so much to do during the daily batting drills that picking for games hurlers who have had as much - @ two days’ respite from mound serv- ice is next to imposible. To date, John- son has had at his command but 10 pitchers and some of these he is forced ~o" call upon even though they are not pet fit to take the hill. Johnson had looked for a pitching staff stronger numerically after the first week of practice here, but Paul McCul- lough's illness and Sam Jones' refusal 1o accept the terms offered by the club upset the pilot's calculations. Now Johnson has little hope of getting much, if anything, from McCullough this year. Latest word from New Castle, Pa., McCullough's home, is that he is too dll even to answer a telephone and that he is making little progress toward res covery. Johnson reasons from this gloomy report that the expensive pur- chase from Toledo of the American Association could not possibly get into good pitching trim within three months, il in that time even, should he get up * @nd about within another week. . Johnson intends taking to Avon Park about the same squad, excepting the hurlers that journeyed yesterday to St. Petersburg, and starting the same line-up that opened fire against the Braves, These starters will play through fthe greater part of each game, too, Wi Rter has announced. f Cronin to Be Used. ., Joe Cronin will have more of a ichance than Sam Rice to break into the pastiming, it seems. The young short- stop may relieve Ossie Bluege for an inning or two in each of the games, but Rice is slated to play in part of but one. Goose Goslin, Joe Judge and Buddy Myer will not make the trip to the Cardinals’ camp unless Johnson changes plans at the last minute. They now are under orders to remain in camp here for sound workouts tomorrow and Pri- day, that they may be ready for action When the Braves are encountefed here Baturday and Sunday. Johnson has not definitely decided to send all these vet- erans into this home series, but in all likelihood Myer will play in both games, Wwhile Judge and Goslin may see a few innings of service Saturday or Sunday. Three young hurlers of the Wash- ington squad showed their wares for the first time this year in yesterday's game and were rather impressive. Bob Burke, Adolph Liska and Lloyd Brown performed for three innings each in | the order mentioned and allowed the Braves but six safeties and four passes. Burke, in his three innings, pitched to only 10 batters. The lean left-hander | granted but one hit. A single made by George Sisler after two were out in the opening rounds. Bob did not waste may pitches. His control being of high order, Liska plainly was pressing when he first stepped to the hill for the fourth ryound and walked the first two men to face him. He got out of trouble tem- porarily when Lester Bell drilled into & double play. But Eddie Farrel, the next batter, cracked a double to right that drove in Boston's first run and Eddie got home with a tying run that proved his club’s last when Pete Yoter made a poor chuck after picking up Earl Clark’s hot smash. The purchase from Minneapolis breezed through the fifth inning in TENNIS MATCHES AROUSE INTEREST Tilden and Other Net Stars to Appear in Tech Gym Saturday Night. Tickets for the exhibition tennis matches at the gymnasium in the new Tech High gym Saturday night, in which William T. (Big Bill) Tilden, Frank Hunter, Johnny Hennessey and Johnny Van Ryn will appear, are on sale at Spalding’s and the Racquet Club. The matches have aroused much interest and there is reported a brisk de;-nd for the tickets, which are $1 ea Extra seating accommodations- are being provided for the Tech' gym, will be equipped with special floodlights for the matches. It is expected that Tilden will arrive in the city tomorrow or Priday, but the other three racketers are not ex- pected here until Saturday morning. Arrangements for the exhibition have been made jointly by the Community Center Department and the Washing- ton Public Parks Tennis Association. Proceeds will go to establish a fund with which to entertain the National Public Parks Lawn Tennis Association Jtournament here next year. . Winfree E. Johnson, supervisor of athletics of the public parks, is chair- man of the committee and his asso- ciates are Capt. Frank W. Hoover of the Welfare Association of Public Buildings_and Grounds, Lawrence Baker, Chevy Chase Club; A. . Leech, Columbia Country Club; -Capt. Albert J. Gore, Congressional Country Club; Paul rding, Edgemoor Club; Louis 1. Doyle, Washington Tennis As- sociation; Dr. G. Harris White, phys- ical training department of the public scHools: Mortimer D. Rathgeber, Pub- lic Parks Tennis Assoclation; Thomes J. Mangan, Columbia Country Club; Clarence M. Charest, Edgemoor Club; Robert E. Newby, Central High C Club; Elmer P. Hardell, Tech High Circle T- c}ug. and Joseph Rutley, Edgemoor ub. A, Y. - GARDIN WOULD AVENGE HIS DEFEAT BY TURNER “Demon” Gardin, who tussles with Joe Turner in a ‘wrestling match to- morrow night at the Strand Theater, hopes to avenge an earlier defeat. He lost the third and deciding fall then to the veteran. ‘Tomorrow night's match will get un- der way as soon as the regular theater performance terminates. hand slants over the plate he had the Boston batters puzzled, but he had plenty trouble getting them over. His wildness, however, probably was due at the start of his work-out to too much pressing and later to too care- ful efforts to “work” the batter. But even in his wild streaks, he looked a promising pitcher. Brown Also Unsteady. Brown, too, was wild, but he pitched a heady three innings and but one walk was charged against him. In two in- nings, the Braves nicked him for hits. ‘Two successive singles were gleaned great style, but after retiring the first | Off him after one was out in the eighth, batter up in the sixth, passed a man and was nicked for a single. Then Liska checked the Braves himself, taking | bounders hit by the next two batters | and getting his men at first base. Generally, when Liska got his under- I THE ROOKIES DELIVER L4 3 2 E but he easily handled the two batters | following. Two were out in the ninth when Brown yielded another single, but it netted the Braves nothing. ‘The Nationals swung at the offer- ings of two right-hand pitchers, Bob Smith and Ben Cantwell, and hit both (of them. Smith was found for six | safetles and gave up a pass in the first five frames. Cantwell gave up two hits and as many passes during the re- mainder of the fray. | Charley Gooch and Sam West were | the only Nationals to get as many as jtwo hits. Gooch's blows were a triple | and a double, while both of West's were makes him look easy to hit. ssemssncy e 233usuus30a B [P 2s=m3335mem; $Maranville Totals WASHINGTO! et e Simo; Barn, Biuer, = o —wsssmussasssy ssumsmisnumy, Brown, b. Totals ... *Batted for +Batted for Washington Boston ... 2 Two-base hits—Farrell, e Gooch, Saeri th In eighth ntwell in ninth. [ 0001020 05 S 3o, [ 0 1 1 1 9! singles. Gooch gave the Nationals a # | two-run start when he counted West 9| and Mel Simons, who had singled suc- o | cessively, with a three-bagger, smote @ | after two were out in the opening round. Liska's single and Red Barnes' double, | with two retirements sandwiched be- | tween, accounted for a Washington run @lin the Aifth and in the seventh two o | more markers were chalked up. Then 0| Benhy Tate walked and scored from 8| first when Bell grabbed Brown's sacri- o | ficial bunt and heaved the ball far over 3 | Sisler’s head. Brown, who made second 9 ' on the error, tallied when West singled. o“ A high wind blowing off Tampa Bay across the waterfront Park Field made fly-chasing a hazardous matter. Sev. eral of the Nationals' early hits we: | gale-twisted lofts Bostom outfielde; { were unable to judge properly. Ho the wind didn’t worry Simons. | The Nationals' rookie left fielder chased : | about for several startling catches. Excepting_Yoter's work at third, the Nationals' flelding was good to see. Bluege scintillated at shortstop and off Cantwell. 2 in 4 innings: off in 3 innings: off Brown. 3 in 3 in- By Smith, 2: by Liska, i by Brown, 1. Passed ba e, _Win: ing pitcher—Liska. Losing pitcher—Smith. ‘mpires—Messrs. Barrs and ' Van Grafia ime of sai 1 bour angd 59 minute: Gooch appeared to advantage at first base. Yoter was charged with three errors, all wild throws. Pete, though, is nursing a gore arm. He probably will do better when the wing comesyaround, the foot-ball situation at Cornell. recruits for the foot ball team. | bockworms. “Spor but that we have any varsity teams at all. were given. { annoying privileges of the undergraduates. student body of Cornell is sadl; it were. fun.” | such a serious matter as foot ball prestige. he: hest of enthusiastic admirers, heavyweight champion of the world. This slim southpaw, who at the age of 22 is spending his fourth Spring as a member of the Nationals' training squad at Tampa, is rated as having an excellent chance to stick with the club this season, one reason being that he is a left-hander, of which there are only two others on the roster, Braxton and Brown. Burke, who weighs but 150 pounds for his 73 inches of height, needs the additional power that goes with a bit more heft and it would hel}') he could develop a more “vicious” delivery. As a result opposing batsmen face him with a psychological advantage of great confidence. DOWN THE LINE WITH W. 0. McGEEHAN When Undergraduates Revolt. & OTES of a revblt of the undérgraduates against the interference of the ~ alumpi in student affairs, particularly athletics, have been sounded at Cornell University. It seems that a committee of the old grads of the _university started an investigation into ways and means of improving some if His rhythmic manner of pitching Instead of approving the project of the old grads to bring about an im- provement of the foot ball teams at Ithaca, the main body of the undergraduates, according to an editorial in _the Cornell Sun, resents the interference of the alumni, and in effect suggests that the old grads mind their own business, if any. It .always has been my contention that the old grads are responsible for the overcmphasis of the importance of foot ball victories, and that the attitude of the younger generation is saner at all universities. : All of the evils charged against the athletic systems of nearly all of the universities can be traced to the old grads, in my opinion. There is the matter of proselyting, for instance. It would never occur to the undergraduates to seek “Are not these well meaning graduates attempting to drag us back to a school of thought whose roots are already dying?” the editorial demands. “Here is the strength and the weakness of the alumni position. In all sincerity ‘and truthfulness they argue that nothing can be more healthy and manly than intercollegiate athletic competition. “They would like to see undergraduates take that interest in their athletic teams that undergraduates took 20 years ago. The point is that undergraduates don't have any athletic teams any more. They belong to the alumni and the graduate manager and the high-salaried coach. % “The alumni are only proving that point when they organize a committee, such as the present one, to investigate the situation. The situation does not want | to be investigated. It wants to be left alone. % “Today’s students are not less sport-loving. They derive as much fun from the game as their fathers did, and they want to play the game with the same freedom that their fathers were allowed. When 3,600 students participate in in- tramural athletics in a year it may safely be said that they are not a bunch of “They simply do not like to feel that the university’s president will lose his job if they drop a forward pass. Alumni think that they realize there is no collegiate amateur sport today except the intramural kind. rt is Americanized like universities and Presidents, and everything else in this wide-narrow Nation. The wonder is, not that we have poor varsity teams, “We believe that collegiate athletics would right themselves if let alone. We do not think that today's undergraduates are any more sensible than yes- terday's, but we do think they might be given the same chance their predecessors “Alumni are not doing their university a service by investigating athletic situations and interfering in that which is not theirs, If they ever realize this they will receive the due plaudits of the generation.” A Very Frank Rebuke, ) i Tx—ns is about as straightforward a rebuke as could be handed to the old grads, { {Wo one-sided ball games to their credit, | i but probably it will have no influence whatever at Cornell or at any other | university. A certain number of old grads will insist upon usurping the | It would be interesting, though, to have one college where the athletic and other student activities were run by the undergraduates. There was a time when | this was the case, but it was in the dim, dark ages. Perhaps the only way to bring it about again would be to have a rule prohibiting alumni from ever re- visiting their colleges, for it would be a cruel and unusual punishment to pro- hibit an alumnus, once he is permitted to revisit the campus, not to insist that the old spirit of dear old Whatsis U had deteriorated sadly. The tone of the editorial in the Cornell Sun indicates that the lacking in what the old grad would call the old spirit of the university—that is, if the editos opinion of the student body. It is said that it is, rial is representative of the nd it sounds as though The editorial admits that Cornell seems to have lost foot ball prestige, and says. in effect, “What of 1t? It is not important as long as we are having our ‘The notion that foot ball is a mere sport and not to be taken too seriously is abhorrent to the old grad. With him the foot ball prestige of the university is all important. The matter of the scholastic rating of the college is secondary, and these are strange days when the undergraduates can become flippant over Jimmy Slattery Passes, IMMY SLATTERY, who was knocked out by James J. Braddock at the Gar- den the other night, was one of the many youngsters picked as the “coming weight champion” within the last five years. When he first came to New York and showed against Ovila Chapdelaine (Jack Delaney), who, by the | way, was another “coming heavyweight champion,” Slattery won for himself a A little later the Buffalo youth’s future passed behind him. He was knocked out by Dave Shade. an uninteresting battler and a mere welter- weight. The defeat by Braddock makes it quite evident that young Mr. Slattery, even if he grows into a full heavyweight, hardly will become About the same time that Slattery was being looked upon as a coming | champion young Willlam Stribling was being elected to that office by the South. ern contingent. James J. Corbett was picking Jack McAuliffe, 2d, for heav; weight, champion. McAuliffe was knocked out twice hefore Mr. Corbett was con- vinced, and Stribling showed at, the Battle of What of It at Miami Beach that he was merely an acrobat. The business of picking future heavyweight champions seems to come under the head of hazardous occupations. (Copyrizht, 19200 ¢ MOUND HOPEFUL STILL BATTLING HOPEFULLY FOR A REGULAR BERTH BUSHFINES FOLR FOR CARD PLAYING Illustrates He Means Edict Against Gambling—Giant Cripples Recover. By the Assoclated Pres ASO ROBLES, Calif., March 13. —Donie Bush, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, last year considered one of the most len- ient mentors in major league base ball, is boss this year., He means | what he says. Donie issued orders prohibiting gam- | bling after complaints of hotel officials anent the littered floors, Tauscher, Blankenship, Brickell and Swetonic evi- dently thought Donie's fingers were crossed when the sign was tacked up. xYe:zn-rm«y it cost each §50 for think- ng 5o, SAY ANTONIO, Tex., March 13 (#). —Most of the cripples in the New York Giants’ camp have recovered. Carl Mays, Fred Fitzsimmons and Andy Reese are ready to return to duty. Mays, who broke a thumb when he knocked down a line drive some days 4go, got back into action yesterday, and Reese’s “charleyhorse” has disappeared. Fitzsimmons has been troubled by a leg injury suffered when he stopped a grounder with that part of his anatomy. He is ready now to take his turn on the mound in the exhibition games. Pat Crawford is about the only cirp- ple on the roster now. He is suffering from & sore arm. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 13 (#)—Coach Johnny Evers of the Bos- ton Braves was faced with a serious problem in fielding today. The Braves have played the St. Louis Cards and Washington in the last two days. They won the first and lost the decond, but they deserved to lose both on the fielding record they turned in, | The 'outficlders were the chief of- fenders yesterday. They handed Wash- | ington a couple of runs by forgetting to | g"lnw for the wind or otherwise easy | es. AVALON, Calif,' March 13 (P).-— Manager , Joe McCarthy's Cubs have | their downs as well as their ups. Yesterday his “murderers row” failed to function and his pitching aces, an- nounced as ready for the season's open- er, were as wild as a March wind. The Catalinas defeated the Avalons, 14 to 3, in an interclub game. Pat Malone and Guy Bush were un- able to locate the plate, while Cuyler and Wilson failed to connect with a hit. | Hornsby cracked out only a single, as | did Stephenson, but each scored two | runs after taking advantage of Malone's | and Horne's wildne: | . AVON PARK, Fla., March 13 (P).— Manager Billy Southworth’s regulars will get the call in the remaining ex hibition games of the St. Louis Car- | dinals, he said yesterdav, the experi- menting with recruits being over. Rain caused an abbreviated workout yesterday in preparation for the in- vasion af Bradentown to play the Bos- ton Red Sox. Frankie Frisch, who arrived in camp 1 this week, will be left behind, as well as | Jimmy Wilson, catcher, who has a dam- aged finger. In Frisch's absence the |infield will include Bottomley, Selph, | i Belbert and High. WINTER HAVEN, Fla. March 13| | (). —The so-called lowly Phillies with | {were unusually peppy today as they | made ready to welcome their hometown | rival, the Athletics, in a regular battle | tomorrow. | Manager Shotton used 21 players in ! yesterday's game with the Winter iHavon pile drivers, and probably will i send in the same number against the | Athletics. The Phillies hammered th: pile drivers for 14 hits and 11 runs. BASE BALL STARTED | AT EPISCOPAL HIGH | ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13.—Epis ; copal High School base ball candidate: | have reported to Coach P. H. Callow former University of Virginia pitching ace. | Mizell, first baseman; Robert Nelson and Lee Tilton, pitchers; Henry Conner, i catcher, and James ' Shuford, Robert i Quin and Charles Hooff, outfielders, all | of whom earned their letters last sea- i son. Wardlaw Witherspoon, who pitched iand also played tHird base in 1927, is expected to try for a place. Six of last year's regulars were lost by graduataion ' Your OLD HAT MADE NEW Again \. Gleaning, Blocking _and Remodeling by Experis Vienna Hat Co. 435 11th Street Among the asplrants are Capt. Jack | NOTRE DAME PLAN Carrigan to Start With “B” Team and Then Use “A.” Other Camp News. By the Associated Press. RADENTON, Fla, March 13.— Manager Bill Carrigan of the Red Sox has taken a leaf out of Knute Rockne's book. Following the scheme initiated in foot ball by the Notre Dame coach, he has laid his plans for using two com- plete nines of approximately equal | strength in the grapefruit league, which has_its local opening today with the Red Sox facing the St. Louis Cards. Carrigan's team “A” will start, to be relieved by team “B" halfway through. FORT MYERS, Fla,, March 13 (#).— The Athletics had a let-up in practice today, partly because of their two de- feats of the Cincinnati Reds and partly because of a series of exhibitiop games that begins tomorrow with the Phillies as_the opposition. The Mackmen held the Redlegs score- less for 15 innings. PHOENIX, Ariz., March 13 (#).—An- other strenuous routine drill yesterday, in which all hands participated, start- ed the Detroit Tigers on their last week of preparation for the exhibition season which opens Monday at San Diego, Calif., against the Hollywood club of | «he Coast League. Manager Bucky Harris is beginning to figure on who is to be cast adrift short- 1y. The list of those who are to move on will include two outfielders, two infielders, four pitchers and a pair of catchers, WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, March 13 (#).—Already the rookies know how many places are open for them on Man- ager Dan Howley's St. Louis Browns. Howley set a numerical classification yesterday of 10 pitchers, seven infield- ers, five outfielders and three catchers for his June 15 limit of 25. The roster shows three pitchers, two catchers, two | infielders and one outfielder are due | to get the hooks. The six hurlers fighting for the three | extra places, as Howley considers Crow- der, Gray, Ogden, Blaeholder, Stewart, Coffman and Strelecki as regulars, are Rip Collins, Claude Jonnard, Herb Cobb, Oscar Estrada, John Buvid and Chad | Kimsey. DALLAS, Tex., rch 13 (#).—The | Chicago White Sox and Dallas Steers weré scheduled to resume their haxe‘ ball argument today. The Sox were rained out of a prac- tice session for the second consecutive day yesterday, and Manager Lena Black- | burne is anxious to get his hopefuls back on the job. | _Dan Dugan, Ed Walsh, jr.. and Fred ! Dundon are the pitching nominations | | for today’s game—the fourth with the | Pallas outfit. ‘TAMPA, Fla., March 13 (#).—More | batting practice scems to be the chief need of the New York Yankees. The world champions opened their | exhibition schedule yesterday by nos- | ing out Tampa Club of the Southeast- ern League, a class B organization, 1| to 0. | All told, the Yankees got only eight | hits and three of these went to An- | tonio Lazzeri, who drove in the only run of the game in the seventh inning. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were im- | potent at the plate. Gehrig got on | base once, but only because he was | | passed. ON THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor .~ y DENMAN THOMPSON: T is a pretty well estab- lished fact that base ball pennants are won, and lost, on the field, and not in a hotel lobby, cigar store or any other place where the sport- ively inclined may gather. It is equally true, however, that nothing so delights the average fan as to assemble with fellow bugs and discuss the merits and demerits of this or that player, team or even league. No question is too weighty or involved for them to tackle. A subject has but to be mentioned and the pro and con of it im- mediately is discussed, and be- fore the session is adjourned all problems have been solved, at least to the satisfaction of each individual. ‘This goes for devotees of the astime of all degrees, high, low or middlin’, but it is the means, rather than the end, 1 that so intrigues the average 3 follower of base ball, so that | # even though all questions have been definitely settled he never has to be urged to resume de- bate and settle ’em all over again. It may surprise some diamond bugs to learn that the fellows who earn their bread and butter by writing pieces for the paper about the doings of the athletes get as much pleasure out of fanning about the sport as the cash customers themselves. The man in the street is prone to regard a sports writer, expert or otherwise, as a cynical guy who never is better satisfied than when Aguratively wielding @ hammer, who consents only in a bored way to being questioned when buttonholed by enthusiasts and who confines his observations to articles typed in a spirit indicating it is merely all in a day’s work. But, 'taint so, and in_evidence thereof we are going to give you a peek behind the curtains at a cer- tain_rendezvous in Tampa, where the Nationals are training. There it was the habit of the writers assigned to cover the activities of Manager Walter Johnson’s hopefuls for the Washington newspapers to gather nightly after their arduous labors had been completed and conduct a sort of impromptu forum. trived to locate oné pencil between them, and, with the aid of another round of sarsapariila, the use of old envelopes for copy paper and some helpful prompting by the athletic director, or host, on the identity of the teams that comprise the league, the 1929 flag scramble was settled in a jiffy. When the auditing committee, fortified by an extra bottle of root beer, had finished its labors it was disclosed that Philadelphia will win the pennant this year, with New York and Detroit close up, tied for second place and with the St. Louis Browns rounding out the first division, Here is the eract way the thing was doped out, with each of the scribes represented by a letter rather than his name. This precaution, to- gether with the fact that one of the five writers was absent due to an ex- cessive amount of exerise at the previous session, affords protection Jor all concerned: B Phila, ila. (. Detroit Y. Teve. oston Chieazo . Boston Chicago Boston Chicago Allowing 8 points for a first-place choice, 7 for second and so on down to 1 for eighth. Philadelphia was voted the championship by a total of 23 points, with the other clubs fol- lowing in this order: New York and Detroit, 27 each: St. Louis, 22; ‘Washington, 16: Cleveland, 11; Chi- cago, 7, and Boston, 6. The most surprising thing about this ballot is, of course, the unanim= ity of opinion regarding Washin ton’s fate and the fact that Wash- ington writers should agree that the team will not even finish in the first division, much less be a contender. No_ loyal supporter of the Na- tionals need be discouraged thereat, however. One reason is that the scribes in question may change their views before the season ever gets under way—one of them already has—and another is that they don't know anything more about it than you do, anyhow. Just prior to the 1924 season the consensus in regard to the Nationals consigned them to the self-same spot — fifth place —and everybody knows what happened. It can hap- pen again, “Never take anything for granted in base bal WRIGHT'S SHOULDER MAY CAUSE A ROW By the Associated Press. CLEARWATER, Fla.. March 13.— Glenn Wright seems to have stolen the show at the Brooklyn Robins training camp. The big shortstop was the sub- Ject of almost all the talking that was done here yesterday. He is undergoing treatment for a shoulder injury, alleged to have been in~urred before he was traded to Brook- |lyn by Pittsburgh. Wilbert Robinson | hes threatened to carry the case to John A. Heydler, president of the | I,ague. if Wright's shoulder doesn't re- spond-to treatment. They referred to this place as the gymnasium and to their sessions there as workouts, although aside from the bending of elbows and the use of their lungs for conversational purposes no exercise was possible. It was merely a secluded spot where brains fagged by inditing journal- istic masterpieces might be rejuve- nated and throats parched by pur- suing their duties in the glare of hot Florida sun could be relieved by cooling libations. At one of these conclaves, attended by four of the five scribes who fur- nish the yarns about the Grifimen which appear daily in the public prints, it was suggested, co-inci- dentally with the fourth bottle of gingle ale, that each “write his tick- et” on how the clubs would finish in the coming American League race. - Being typical reporters, they con- |GRIFF’S WORD TO JONES | BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ALLAS, Tex, March 13.— After looking over the three | outstanding teams in the | Naticnal League—the Cubs, the Pirates and the Giants —this much is sure: The Giants have the best pitch- ing staff in the league, all things censidered. They have a mighty dangerous infield to other clubs. They have a better outfield than they had. Their catching staff is no worse. It may be better. They were very close to the St. Louis club at the end of last season. They are better than they were a year ago. At the same time, the Cubs are also better than they were. The Pitisburgh Pirates should be better. The Waners are poisoning them. Besides, they have lost Stro- ner, who seemed to be good for third base, but he had hi This weeks UNITED FEATURE | ( million men a daycan’tbe wrong! ‘That's how many choose to !my their favorite smoke at United Cigar Stores each . We're always strive ing to beat that record by giving you the best. This week our cigar smokers get another treat. We are featurin, Webster and Mi Favoritacigars. Until ou try these cigars you'll never know ow really good a good cigar can be. { You'll find them, with other nation- ally advertised cigars,in their best condition at United Cigar Stores. Stop in and get yours today. WEBSTER CIGARS : The Friend Of Man MI FAVORITA CIGARS | Will Be Your Favorite Tos | This Week At ATl NITED CIGAR STORES | Watch for Next Week's United Feature 'Giants Declared to Have Best ‘ Pitching Staff in Old League | IS “SIGN OR GET OUT” TAMPA, Fla, March 13.— The case of Pitcher Samuel Pond Jones versus the Washington base ball club, involving the matter of salary, may be settled today. President Clark Griffith and the balking pitcher conferred for more than two hours last night without getting anywhere. 1t is understood around the camp that Griffith has told Jones the club has made its last offer and Sam must 2ceept it or get out of camp during the day. The general feeling is that Jones soon will be in line. moved and hasn't quite recovered. It did look like a three-cornered ! race. It may yet be one, but what- ever it is, it will be hallelujah be- tween New York and Chicago, and the music will shortly begin. .2 =AN — — = BTN KING ED N I R aclean, mild, mellowcigar —smoke King Edwards. They are made from the choicest tobaccos grown. And they are wrapped in foil to pre- serve freshness. King Edwards have the distinc- tive taste and the delightful aroma found only in good cigars. You'll like King Edward. D. Loughran & Co. Distributors Phones Msin 391 and in 4202