Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1932, Page 61

A} SPORTS SECTIQON The Sunday St Bowling and Golf WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1932. Part 5—4 Pages Gulli Tops SHOOTS 385 T0 WIN AS CURTAINFALL Daly’s 679 Remains High in Men’s Division—M’Quinn Flashes 658 Set. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. LIMAXING what threatened to be a mediocre perform- ance with five brilliant de- liveries that accounted for 108 pins, Lorraine Gulli last night punctured the clattering cre- scendo of The Star's fourth an- nual singles tournament at the Lucky Strike with the biggest ex- plosion in the history of the clas- sic when she rolled 385 to emerge from a conglomeration of 1,364 men and women, stars and dubs, to share championship honors with Carroll Daly, whose 679 score withstood the efforts of seven men who zoomed into the “800” class on the closing night. ; Defying the jinx that kept her from winning the title in the three previous Star tourneys, the national champion wound up her first and third games with couble-header strikes and topped off the second with a spare to batter down Margaret Brunelle’s 355, which many regarded as almost certain to be the winning score. Her games were 124, 128 and 133. Big Scores Many. It was a fitting climax to one of the most sensational and largest duckpin tournaments in Washington bowling history of a tourney which saw all previous winning marks far surpassed and which produced no less than 37 gets of 600 or better by the men and 57 of 300 or better by the girls. The chances of the newly crowned ‘wcmen's champion appeared slim when Miss Gulli arose to roll the eighth and ninth boxes of her first game. But she threw in two lusty strikes which added 49 pins to her total, bring it to 124. She did better in the second game, but it was a spare that ac- counted for 16 more that produced the 128 string. Needing a score of 104 in her final game to surpass Mrs. Bru- nelle's 355, Lorraine again struck twice in the last two frames for 44 more sticks and the title. Miss Gulli's sensational score marked the second time in the tourney that the record score for women was bro- ken, Mrs. Brunelle's 355 being the first to smash Margaret Miltner's 344 rolled | in 1928. The men's previous record of 652, also established in 1928, when an unknown. Clarence Taft, won, was broken ‘six times. Carroll Daly's winning score of 679, rolled last Wednesday, withstood a bat- tering assault last night when seven pinmen rose to challenge. Each fell short. however, but H. L. McQuinn, of (Continued on Fourth Page.) Varied Sports Basket Ball. Gallaudet, 33; Columbus, 16. Syracuse, 33; Michigan, 30. Colgate, 31; Columbia, 23, ‘Waynesburg, 29; Monmouth linois), 27 Minnesota Depauw, 25 Carnegte (overtime) Vanderbilt, 28; Miami, 22 Princeton, 43; Cathedral College, 19. Michigan State, 29: Cornell, 26. Johns Hopkins, 42; Loyola (Balti- more), 41. Dartmouth, 39; Manhattan, 24. Loyola (Chicago), Bradley, 20. St. Louls U., 25; Arkansas U., 23. Mount St. Mary's (Minn), Ripon, 19. Manchester College, 31; Bluffton Col- lege, 21 (- 19 Carleton, 14 Cincinnati, 23. Tech, 40; Chicago, 39 26; Pro Hockey. Detroit, 2; Cleveland, 1 Pittsburgh, 1: London, 0. Buffalo, 3; Syracuse, 2 New Haven, 3; Bronx Tigers. 0 Philadelphia Arrows, 3; Springfield Indians, 1 Detroit Olympics, 2; dians, 1. Montreal Canadians, 5; Montreal Ma- roons, 1 Buffalo Bisons, 3; Syracuse Stars, 2. College Hockey. ‘Toronto, 4; Yale, 0. Harvard, 4; Princeton, 3 Cleveland In- | Boss Joins Liska | On Lookout Team OLLOWING announcement made yesterday morning of the un- conditional release to the Chat- tanooga club of Pitcher Ad Liska came the news last evening from local base ball headquarters of the transfer, on option, to the same team | of First Baseman Harley Boss. |, Boss, originally obtained from Lit- tle Rock in midseason of 1928, was 1l and out of action the following year, but resumed playing in 1930 when he saw service with the Jersey City, Reading and Kansas City clubs and spent last season at the Na- | tionals’ Southern Association farm, | to which he now is returned. With | both Kuhel and Judge available for | first-sacking here, it was decided Boss would not be needed, although he goes back to Joe Engel's club with a string attached. ARMOUR INCREASES MIAM GOLF LEAD Seven Strokes in Front at Halfway Mark With 139. Mehlhorn Second. | | | | By the Associated Press, IAMI, Fla, January 2.—Tommy | Armour of Detroit recovered | from a bad start today to in- | crease his lead in the $2500 Miami Open Golf Tournament with a | stellar 68—71—139 for the 36-hole half- | way distance. Wild Bill Mehlhorn of New York, who captured first money in the 1930 $15,000 | La Gorce Open Tournament, was the only man who could come near the | British open chompion as today's play | | ended. He scored a 73 for the day, re- | peating an earier score to count 146, seven strokes behind Armour. Four players were tied in next place | with 147s. They were Arnold Bob Gray. | Yonkers, N. Y.; John Kinder, Caldwell, | N. J.; Eddle Willlams, Cleveland, and Henri Ctuci, Mill River, Conn. | Chase Leads Amateurs. Lee Chase, Buffalo, retained his lead of the simon-pures in the tournament, with 150 for his two days’ play. Joe Turnesa, Elmsford, N. Y., defend- ing champion, was well back of Armour with a 149. By virtue of his lead-tightening victory | | today, Tommy established himself stiil | further as a favorite to win the opening | event of the Florida Winter golf season. | Irritated by crowding of the course at the second hole todsy, the Scotsman | played a bad twenty-third bole, taking | a 4 instead of a par 3. Then he 3-| putted at the twenty-seventh, and was | 2 over par with a 38 for his outbound trip. Tommy Shatters Par. Tommy stroked a magic set of clubs on the way back to the club house and reported a 33 for the last nine holes, 3 under par and tying with his last BLUE RIBBON BOWLERS. JORRAINE aoLLl — WHo CAME BATTLING ALONG TO BUA T0 THE TOP N THE EVENING STAN TOONEY LAST NIGHT WER SSOAE OF X35 TOOIK YO {129 & @ HONORS ... FINNS HAVE IN LEHTINEN | NURMI'S PEER AS RUNNER U. S. Again Due to Win Points, but by Decr: Other Nations D nine mark during yesterday’s record- breaking 68. His card Out... 44454534538 In...443353434—-33—71—68—139 Tommy m2de his return trip with the ald of three birdies, on the thirtieth thirty-third and thirty-fourth holes. MAKES GREAT SKI JUMPS | Blood's Two Leaps Enable New Hampshire Team to Score. LAKE PLACID CLUB, N. Y, Janu- ary 2 (/) —Two breath-taking ski jumps | by E. J. Blood today won for the Uni- | versity of New Hahpshire the President Harding Winter sports trophy at the conclusion of the annual intercollegiate games here. Blood’s jumps, 50 meters (164 feet) each, also won him the Marshal Foch trophy for ski jumping. The intercol- legiate cross-country ski champion exe- | cuted the leaps with form that brought | cheers from the gallery and loud honk- ings of automobile horns, | The victory returned to New Hamp- | shire the Harding trophy which Dart- | | mouth had held for two years. New | | Hampshire’s point total was 29, Dart- | mouth’s 25. McGill was third with 20 Lioyd Ellingsen of St. Olaf College, | Minn,, made the longest jump of the meet, 51 meters (167 feet), but poor form on another jump of 49 meters Jowered his score. :I‘ulane Gridmen Start Home With Praise o |on the Olympic program from f Triumphant Foes Ringing in Their Ears By the Associated Rress. ASADENA, Calif, January 2— which echoed more strongly than even those of 83,000 spec- glorious defeat, 35 green-shirted heroes of Tulane foot ball history left here to- train, At 8 o'clock, Pacific standard time, and the bowl where Southern Cali- fornia beat back their gallant bid for Year day classic of the gridiron, wind through the orange groves and slip bound for New Orleans. Today, as they rested at their hotel ers, they saw and read in the after- math of their battle in the Rose Bowl With the plaudits of their rivals, tators, who saw them go down to a night for New Orleans on a special they bid adieu to the roses of Pasadena foot ball fame, 21 to 12, in the New down & mountain pass, homeward here and received scores of well wish- yesterday nothing but praise for the game they played with the far-famed | band of Trojan men It was not so much the victory of Southern Cdtifornia that claimed the attention of writers as it was the great team that Bernle Bierman and his as- sistants brought Wes—a eam which the majority hailed as one of the finest that ever fought in the Rose Bowl One of these chroniclers, a booster for Southern California, had this to say “It is possibly true that our Trojans were lucky to Liave won at all because _head over heels. Tulane’s backs were | showing us how a foot ball is supposed | to be carried and Tulane’s fight was | demonstrating that a flerce disposition can go & long way in a foot ball argu- ment. “Natives of the West Coast have sa- | luted previous Dixie teams for having ‘ngm, but we never gave them enough | credit for having something else to go | along with it. Tulane had that some- thing else in large quantities. It packed ability and used it. “You can put this down in your hat- band, that but for Pinckert the Tro- | jans wouldn't have had a shadow of a | chance yesterday. He was half the team.” | And so ran the tenor of posthumous | discussions from every corner of the | foot ball board. Erny Pinckert, twice Southern Cali- fornia’s all-American blocking halfback, brought all his skill into play to punch two holes in the onrushing tide of green and score twice, giving his team its \ margin of victory. | Some of the Tulane followers left last night for New Orleans and the re- | mainder will ride back with the players tonight over the Santa Fe on the ‘green wave” spscial, arriving in New Orleans at 1:30 p.m. (Central standard time), January 5 Victory was not sweet to most of those in Southern California who bet on the game. for margins of 14 to 20 points were granted commonly to the Tulane supporters and victory was | earned but by nine points. Most of the players on both sides came out of the game unscathed ex- BY DANIEL J. FERRIS, | National Secretary. Amateur At Inion EW YORK, January 2 (A).—For the 1932 Olympic games, Fi Jand, our greatest rival for scor- ing honors since the war, has developed in 22-year-old Lauri Lehtinen an even greater runner than Paavo Nurmi. A few years ago this seemed impos- | sible. We all regarded Nurmi as a superman and did not expect to see| his equal, at least not in this genera-| tion. Now Finland comes along and| develops another, who they claim will wipe from the recora books all of Nurmi’s marks. | Although a compaiative newcomer, he has run 1,500 meters, 3000 meters, 2/ miles, 5,000 meters and $ miles during the past year in times only a fraction of a second behind the world records held by Nurmi. During the past sea- son he has scored several victories over the former invincible Paavo The Pinns expect Lehtinen to per- form just as sensationally at Los An- geles as did Nurml eight years ago in the Olympic games at Paris, where he won four Olympic championships. | Finns May Get Clean Sweep. | With such splendid material avail- able as represented by Lehtinen, Nurmi, | Virtanen, Iso-Hollo, Lavrva, Purje, Luk- | kola and Ritola, the latter now in Flor- ida training for the Olympic marathon race, Finland's hopes of making a clean sweep of all the distance running events meters to the marathon may be real- ized Despite these Finnish threats, T again expect the United States to score a decisive victory on_points in the Olvmpic track and field competition America will send to the mark poten- tial point winners in practically every event on the program. If one of our representatives fails to perform up to his standard we may reasonably expect one of the other two to fill the gap. Other Nations Creeping Up. No other country is et in that posi- | tion. All of the foreign nations, how- ever, gradually are creeping up on the | United States, and America's margin of victory grows less each year. | The field events always have been| America's mainstay. However, marked improvement is being shown in all parts of the world in the field events, and America’s pre-eminence in this depart- ment is fast reaching an end | To illustrate my point, eight years ago at Paris we won all of the field | events on the program with the excep- | tion of the javelin and hop. step and | jump. Four years later at Amsterdam the hammer was added to the other two, and this year at Los Angeles the| number probably will be increased to| four, namely, the running broad jump. | javelin throw, hon, step and jump and | hammer throw. Further than that, the | shot and discus are more in doubt then | ever before. Three of the representa- tives of foreign countries had better discus perfarmances the past vear than American, and two of the three bettered 160 feef Several nat‘ons which heretofore have not caused us much concern will be represented at Los Angeles by one or more potential winners. Thev include Italy. Huneary, Japan, Poland and| Czechoslovakia. Japan scored its first Olvmpic victory | at Amsterdam four years &go, When| Mikio Oda led the world in the r\lnmng‘ during the major part of the surprising | cept for a bruise or two and for 23 hop step and jump. Barring accidents, game they were on the run and bat- was oul | men, 13 from Southern California and he should repeat his victory of four| Thomas Heuston of 10 from Tulane, it marked the end of years ago, 8s his new world record of | tling to hold their own. Tulane's line tcharging Southern California | their college foot ball cagpers. |51 feet 1Y inches is nearly 2 feet bet- Olympic Track Title on eased Margin, With eveloping Stars. ter than any performance shown by an American in several years The Land of the Rising Sun has pro- | duced another candidate for Olympic honors in Chubei Nambu, who last Sep- tember cleared 26 feet 214 inches in the running broad jump, bettering the ac- cepted world record. Hungary has developed a 162-foot discus - thrower, a 51-foot shotputter and a middle-distance man who has run 400 meters in 48 seconds and 800 meters in 1:53. In Kusocimski, Poland believes she has the winner of the Olympic 5,000-meter championship. He ran the distance in 14 minutes 42 sec- onds within the past eight weeks. | ‘America’s shotputters will have trou- ble retaining the honors won at previous Olympic games. Duda, the Czecho- slovakian, equaled the world record of 52 feet 714 inches for the 16-pound shot last September, and Hirshfield of Ger- many, the present world record holder. who was a close second to Kuck of America at Amsterdam, has been toss- ing the 16-pound ball over 52 feet con- sistently. Hart of South Africa is an- other 52-foot man. Ircland has a sure winner in Dr. O'Callaghan, the present Olympic champion, in the hammer throw. The | g; big Celt has been doing better than 180 | feet in competition. His best mark to date, 187 feet, is at least a dozen fect better than the best American. DEFENDS HER NET TITLE Katherine Winthrop Keeps Indoor National Championship. BROOKLINE, Mass., December 2 () —Katherine Winthrop of Boston, today became the first 1932 national tennis champion by successfully defending her girls’ indoor title against Helen Jones of Swampscott, by & 6—3, 6—4 margin on the Longwood covered courts. ‘After a brief rest, Miss Winthrop and Miss Jones joined forces for the dou- bles final and became the girls’ national indoor team champions by defeating Marian Wood and Louise ‘Harding, both of Brookline, 7—5, 9—7- | d M gone around that the 5entimentsi 1. mind at once. thing, as a waiter can testify. oM Dosrer, WUCy STRIKE AUE'YS uoe. DALY WHOSE vaLLY ofF 675 PINS SToOD “THE ONSLAUGHTS OF A SMALT FIELD LAST MIGHT. HE ° TOOK ToP HOWOMNS N MEN'S prvision —By TOM DOERER THESE BOWLING GALLERES HAXE A WOALD SERIES LROWO STOPPED FOO- ACTON. .- IN THE MIDST OF THE / UPROAR Hil MC QUINN SHOT UP A NIFTY MARK. THE g Silly Season On in Base Ball But Players Have Less to Palaver About in Contracts. BY TOM AJOR league moguls are sending out their annual greeting cards to ball players and the word has re left-hand. There are not even as many dot- | ted lines for the signature as con- |tained in last year’s contracts. And the text has been pruned “Take it or leave own to read: Which is making up the ball tosser’s He never leaves any- This is the first year in many that the pea flippers have not had a ready alibi for dropping the parch- ment behind the bard. “I would rather stick to selling bonds and au- tomobiles,” was a No. 1 answer. Then the big boy would mortgage the | last cow and wait another week. But he would wait two weeks hang- | ing around Center Square and the vil- | lage pool room before wiring: Dear GRID 7GiA7ME7.J7A7N7U”A”RY 24 |boss—Am in a receptive mood, what Carideo Will Lead One Team in Coast K. of C. Attraction. SAN FRANCISCO, January 2 () — Foot ball is still lingering on in this section. The second annual charity | game sponsored by the Knights of Co- lumbus organization in the State will be held here January 24. Frank Carideo, former all-America quarterback at Notre Dame, will lead one of the teams. His squad will be selected from former Notre Dame, St Mary's and University of California players. ALLEN WINS CUE OPENER AL R Beats Ponzi, 125-100, in New York State Pocket Tourney. | | sij NEW YORK, January 2 ().—Benny | Allen of Kansas City defeated Andrew Ponzi of Philadelphia, 125 to 100, in the opening match of the New York State Championship Pocket Billiard Tourrament at Dyers Billiard Acad- emy here today. Allen won in 14 inn! finished run of 57. was 65. { Philadelphia and ColE ? New York City were in the second matcl h lock tonight. ings, with an un- Ponzi’s high run scheduled to meet ! of the tournament atyd 0°C year ;loolg at his bank account, his last sea- | son's haberdashery and what the stock | | market did to him last year, he will| ave you to offer?” “Something a little less than the last time— have taken in four outflelders in a trade and the law only al- lows three to play.” He then became the world cham- pion swiftest con- tract signer. But there will avering in the mar- not be much pal- ket places this When the bean shooter takes a gn the papers in tears and gratitude. | Yet there will be a dissenter pop | up to make the headlines and hero- ism. He may hold out as long as three weeks. But he will not act | boisterous about it. | Base ball is frowning its toughest frown on holdouts who yodel in the open. Hollow, Nebr., will wire out a plaint and the war will be on But a correspondent out in Cow “Gus Zilch says he would rather stick DOERER behind the plow than agree to Wash- ington's salary offer,” reads the wire. “Well, he was hitting with a plow last season,” will likely be the retort from headquarters. “Zilch,” roars the headlines, “returns another contract.” grandpap,” =~ Mr. Clark Grifith will enlighten, “but not to this office.”” And the roarin will go back an March 12. more Zilch for the very simple reason that Gus had until that date to send in his original contract— and did. Gus Is no pumpkin head. He | knows that when the pappies of base ball start to hog-call you either are | coming in real fast or get your base | ball from the village weekly. This is the start of the silly season in base ball—that is, silly for the ball player who wants more than his bat- ting average calls for. But silly, too, for the club owner who wants a good | hired man at a punk worker's wage. THOMAS PARROTT DIES Famous Hitter of Old-Time Base Ball Succumbs at 63. PORTLAND, Oreg., January 2 (#).— Thomas W. Parrott, 63, one of the great hitters of old-time base ball, died at his home near Newberg yesterday. Parrott, a pitcher and utility player, 1893 in the old National League, and later played with Cincinnati and St. Louis. He went to Chicago from Nash- ville, where he played in 1892. G. W. VWill Battle N. D. Aggie Eleven ARGO, N. Dak., January 2 (#).— C. C. Finnegan, athletic direc- for of North Dakota Agricul- tural College, has announced he has accepted the invitation of George Washington University for a foot ball ‘glme in Washington Novem- ber 4. On the same trip the Bison will meet Wgst Point Novemgber 13, 1 “Maybe to his forth until about ‘Then you will hear no from Gus was with Chicago under Pop Anson in | | Griffs’ Probable Opening Line-Up T'S a bit early for forecasting in regard to an event more than three months away, especially in a sport as uncertain as base ball, but they don't issue pink tickets for parking guesses, s0 here’s n shot at the way the Nationals will take the fleld when the barrier is sprung on the pennant race April 12. . Myer, second base. . Manush, left fleld. . West, center fleld. . Cronin, shortstop. . Reynolds, right field. . Kuhel, first base. . Bluege, third base. Spencer, catcher. . Brown, pitcher. Maybe you think you can pick a better one. If so, hop to it. It costs nothing. SPITZ HIGH JUNP CLOSE T0 RECORD Barely Tips Bar in Try for New Mark—Siegel Proves Sprint Sensation. ; By the Associated Press. his first appearance of the in- door season tonight in the sixth Council, Knights of Columbus, George Spitz of New York University barely record of 6 feet 7 inches in the high Jjump. petitors, all of whom were given handi- caps, with a jump of 6 feet 6 inches, but 73/, inches. On this third and last try for what would have been a new it appeared he would clear it clean. W. B. Newkirk of the New York Ath- 6 feet 4 inches. Arthur Franz of Se- ward Park High School was third at DWARD SIEGEL, an 18-year-old representative of the Swedish- York City, proved himself the sensa- tion of the meet sweeping the boards gram. Competing in his first invitation tournament, Siegal won the 60 meter, fleld that contained some of the East's leading sprint stars. crowded the 106th Regiment Armory cheered the unknown lad lustily. and now an employe in the financial district of New York City, appeared as meters in 7 1-5 seconds. This tied the mark set by Bob McAllister in the same was 9 1-5 seconds; for the 100 meters 11.5. the Millrose Athletic Association placed second in the 60- meter, only inches back of the winner. versity Athletic Association was second both in the 80 and 100 meter events. Athletic Club, put on & rousing finish to win the half-mile race after Prank the pace all the way. Venzke's time was 1:58. blond speedster of the Central Y. M. C. led a crack field in the Columbus 500- ton Sandler of New York University by several yards in a driving finish. placed third. The winner’s time was 59 4-5 seconds. \}Amateur»Pro Teams Slash Par in | i Santa Monica Tourney. Scoffing at such adverse conditions as a soggy courte and a strong wind from teur-pro teams slashed the 171 par municipal course today with the best- of the second annual Santa Monica $2,500 tournament. was turned in by Chet Beer. Bakers- fleld, Calif, who teamed Wwith Lloyd | shoot a best card of 34-31 to tie for | the lead. day’s qualifiers for Monday's final round | included Bobby Tobin, New York ama- | Bloomfield, N. J., with 33-32; Harry | Wesbrook, Pasadena simon-pure. and | and Harry Ward, jr., Chicago amateur, paired with Gwynn Bowen, Los An- NEW YORK, January 2.—Making annual meet of Columbus failed to equal his own world indoor Spitz easily outleaped a score of com- he failed when the bar was set at 6 feet record he barely toppled the bar after Jetic Club placed second with a leap of 6 feet 2 inches. American Athletic Club of New clean in the three sprints on the pro- 80 meter and 100 meter events over a Two thousard spectators who Siegel, two years out of high school Olympic timber as he raced the 60 meet in 1927. His time for 80 meters Ira Singer of Bernard Krosney of New York Uni- Gene Venzke, star of the New York Nordell of New York University had set Max Wakely, tall P yard invitation event, beating out Mil- ward Blake of the Boston Athletic Club —_— FOUR PAIRS SHOOT 65s SANTA MONICA, January 2 (®).— | the Pacific Ocean, a quartet of ama- ball cards of 65 to lead the qualifiers ‘The best individual card for the day Stround, a fellow townsman amateur, to The others in the front rank of to- teur, teamed with Clarence Clark, | Johnny Golden, Stamford, Conn., 32-33, geles, 34-31. GALLAUDET QUINTET !Goes on Rampage in 33-16 (ame | | After Being Tied in First | Hslf by Columbus U. Bombarding the cords in the second | half, Gallaudet swept to an eéasy basket ball victory over Columbus University tossers, 33 to 16, last night on the court. A shot from scrimmage by Downey Rice enabled Columbus to gain a 10-10 tie at half time. In the second half, however, the Blues opened a devastating attack, led by Capt. George Brown, and soon had the game in the well known bag. | Brown scored 15 points; 13 of them coming in the second half. Jensen suffered a nose injury and had to quit the game, but not until after he had scored 8 points, Summary: Gallaudet (33) G.FPt .6 0 < Rayhill, Monaghan, . 1 16 vl scccccccown! Totals ....13 333 Totals | Referce—Mr. Wurdeman.s. ' WINS BY GOOD FiNISH| Takoma-Silver Spring High School | Women Rollers in Tourney : Salary Saving Contracts Go io Griffs BATTERY RESERVES ONLY YET UNPICKED j’PiIot Johnson Has Merely to Decide on a Sub Catcher and Three Pitchers. BY DENMAN THOMPSON, Sports Editor, The Btar. HOSE strange noises audible to followers of the Griffmen since New Year day are not echoes from the halls of Congress nor the reverberations of broken resolutions, but moans | of anguish by members of the Washington ball club, induced by perusal of the salary terms in their 1932 contracts. The wails started emanating from all sec- tions of the country with the mailing of the official documents from local headquarters shortly before the first of the year and may be expected to increase in volume this week when the last |of them are delivered to the | athletes. The lamentations are due to the action of the local authorities, in line | with resolutions adopted by the big | league owners at their Winter meet:ngs in Chicago last month. in cutting | sizable chunks from the stipends the | players received last year. So far as the Natlonals are con- cerned the reductions, averaging 10 per cent, apply only to those in the upper price brackets, the more modestly salaried performers—those who draw | around $5,000 a year—being exempted, | but there are a surprisingly large num- ber affected and 1t will be interesting to | observe their reaction to the demands of Gen. D'Preshun. | It may be that the lopping off process | is not being followed in every case and | it's entirely possible that in one or two | instances a boost in emolument will be forthcoming—as with Sammy West, who blossomed into a real star last year— but the alum-bath treatment will Le applied to contractual figures in suffi- | clently widespread degree to cause gobs | of distress and it is conjectural to what extent! this will delay acceptance of the offers. | | RANTING that all eventually sign, as they invariably do, Manager ‘Walter Johnson will be in the enviable position of having to do no experimenting so far as his regular array is concerned when he assembles the boys at thelr conditioning base In Biloxi next Spring and to fill out the squad to the new limit of 23, which it already has been decided will consist of 5 outfielders, 6 inflelders, 3 catchers and 9 pitchers, he will have little pick- ing to do. | With players of esteblished ability | available for. all of the infield and | garden positions, the only problems con- | fronting the pilot will concern battery- men, and these are not so complexing they cannot. be solved in the course of the training maneuvers or a deal of minor magnitude. Acquisition from the White Sox re- cently of Carl Reynolds, orthodex swing- ing slugger, tentatively assigned to right feld, is regarded as having plugged the only hele in the outer works. Sam West, the far-ranging ball hawk who topped all his mates in hitting last season and whose ailing wing is be- | lieved to have yielded to the wizardry of a surgeon’s scalpel, has the middle pasture berth sewed up, and Heinie | Manush, despite a poor year, for him, with the fiail, again will be cast for the assignment in left. | Unless something develops to alter the roster of the club as it stands at present, any emergency work neces- sary will be taken care of by Sam Rice and Dave Harris, who last season strove to fill the right fleld post in a manner that left much to be desired. The latter, if able steadily to main- tain his best batting pace, would prove thoroughly -adequate in an attacking way, althcugh a bit: deficient from a defensive standpoint, but he is a streaky hitter. Rice, still a capable all ’round per- former notwithstanding his twoscore vears of age, 18 of which have been devoted to professional base ball, is a first-class relief man for any sector. He can travel at a fast pace for a few | weeks, but due to the inroads of Father | Time requires occasional layoffs for re- cuperative purposes. Four other picket |men are listed—Ralph Boyle, Tom | Clerk, Dave Banks apd Jake Powell— but all are slated to be disposed of. T this writing there are eight in- | fielders on the reserve list of the Nationals and, barring a com- plexion-altering deal, all but two will be ‘carried throughout the campaign. Oss Bluege, one of the best defensive | men in the circuit and also a danger- | ous man at the plate, as his 1931 rank- ing of second best run producer among | the Grifimen attests, is a fixture at | third hase. Of course, Joe Cronin, the spark plug and big punch of the Nationals, | whoewon the “most valuable” player award in 1930 and crashed nearly every | all-big league team named for last | season, has no opposition at shortstop, | and it is unlikely Myer will have to | combat any serious contention for the | keystone covering chores. Buddy was off a few points in his | stick work during the most recent race, | but offset this with greatly improved | flelding ability and has an established reputation as a dependable batsman. According to present plans, Joe Judge will have contest with Joe | Kuhel, the flashy youngster who dis- | placed him last season, for the job of guarding the initlal station. The vet- eran, whose career as a Griffman has been contemporary with that of Rice, although a couple of years his junior, figures to have fully recovered from | the effects of his appendicitis opera- tion by the time cam| ng is re- | sumed and should make the lad from &ansas City hustle for all he is worth to retain the position. To Johnny Kerr, who comes from the White Sox, along with Reynolds, will_be given the role of understudy for Bluege, Cronin and Myer, the niche J&cck gon.);s fliloeg last mh The Pa- c t product, while appearin; with the Pale Hose chiefly as lpmlddlg cushioner, is regarded as well equipped to afford temporary protection at third | or short and, for that matter, both | Bluege and Myer effectively can play | more than one infleld position. The two other inner cordon actives, Cecil Travis and Jim McLeod, are due some additional seasoning in the minors. ONTO the capable shoulders of Roy Spencer again will be piled the bulk of the backstopping duties, | but who will act as second-string re- ceiver has not yet been determined. Clif Bolton and Gordon Phelps, youths who ‘both pack a wicked wallop, are a bit shy on experience for pastiming back of the bat in fast company, and Coach (Continued on Boeond' Page P | | | |