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- —~— Che WASHINGTON, Griff Hurlers Beat Training Schedule : C. U. Meet Offers Pretentious Card ABOUTFITTOTOSS O £he PECKWILL DEPEND GAMES WILL LAST e FULY FOURHOLRS INBATING DRLLS S Lines 0N SH SLABBSTS ‘ With the Sports Editor. ‘ ax | That Will Start at 7:30 Fhening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932. PAGE D—1 1 | | | BRUSHING THE CLOUDS AWAY. Ruth Reduces Golf as Waist Fades—Harris Bewails Pitchers Expected to Cut Loose Monday—Camp Night | BY DENMAN THOMPSON. Life No Worry. BY TOM DOERER. ILOXI, Miss., February 26— | Unofficial word from the| Washington base ball club’s board of strategy today was that batting practice would be as permanent on the daily menu as| grapefruit, beginning next Mon- day morning. | Those initiated in the movement | of training-camp procedure thm‘ morning suggested that the pitch- ers and catchers here are so ad- vanced that the outfit is about three or four days ahead of itseli. It was originally planned to have the pitchers and catchers sufficiently | loosened up to be able to feed balls over | the plate to the fielders when they | came trekking into camp on March 6. | But as it now stands the present squad will be tossing them over to one an- other on Monday morning. Officially word from the board en masse is lacking because this board can- ot be got together for an official meet- ing in the evenings, due largely to pino- chle, bridge and the lurid attractions of night life, two miles back in town. Night life at the moment consists of | exciting walks up one side of Howard | avenue, the dazzle street, and down the other, taking in all of the advertising pictures in the barber shop windows, | the movies and window displays in mil- | linery and gown shops. LARK GRIFFITH, sitting in with a | good or bad pinochle hand, is in- different to the wanderings of his athletes into town and temptation, be- cause he knows that temptation here | is so slight that it will have to come | out of a dark cerner somewhere and toss the boys for & loss when they are not looking. | There is nct even a bottle of soft stuft or a candy bar around the camp to make_these athletes forget their train- ing. It is the most businesslike, home- like camp since Griffith first demanded that his players wear collars into the dining rooms. But the boys occasionally will snitch & soda water at the drug store in town, much to the annoyance of Trainer Mike Martin, who can sense the effect of a chocolate spdy on his charges. Mike has these youngsters so cautious about breaking his training rules that they grab a bottle of pop as if they were afraid that, when they were about to down it, cut would hop Mike, Frankie Baxter and Griffith. ITH the veterans at camp it is dif- ferent. They know that to deviate a fraction from advice means a stback in their training, and thy and not Mike, pay for it. The reason for my being in the best of shape in years,” said Marberry, talk- Ing of Mike's caution, “is that I watched my diet all Winter.” Biz Fred drenk no milkk with his shrimp and ate no bananas with his pickles, back there in Texas, and looms as a handful of Government bonds at the moment. Figuring, of course, that Government bonds mean money, which they did when the troupe left Wash- ington. But there is ho telling what may have happened 10 years ago, when the early band first gathered here—that is, it feels like 10 years to the boys who are wondering if they are going to make the grade, and also to those who are waiting for the first pay day. | However, in the lobby last night sat Mr. and Mrs. Griffith and party playing bridge. Over in another corner were | Walter Johnson, Ed Gharrity, Lloyd Erown, Mike Martin, Fred Marberry and Al Crowder hissing at one another over a spirited game of pinochle. Al Schacht was handling the radio, the rcoks were promenading the beach 1ront, and that is what your athletes do on an average evening. O far as base ball news is concerned, your Aunt Hattie’s thimble would hold twice as much. Griffith does not seem to be permiiting 'anything to worry him now. That is what is annoying the press because with noth- ing for the club prexy to snort about means no words for the telegraph com- | panies. | Following a very brisk work-out yes- terday in which Johnson and Schacht | batted 'em up for the catchers, the entire outfit went into a snappy dis- | play of how to relax on the lawn of the | hotel and out on the pier adjoining the | very dignified and peaceful hostelry. | HERE is not a sore arm in camp1 and appetites have rcached such an alarming state that the Hotel | Biloxi chef peeks out of the kitchen occasionally to see if there is a con- vention in town. Al Schacht spoke before the Lions Club at noon, if you must know every- thing. Griffith introduced him and no- body suppressed the garrclous Al BARRY ON FIGHT CARD Will Clash With Godwin or Brown | in Alexandria Feature. Reds Barry, Washington heavyweight boxer, will face either Bch Godwin or Natie Brown in the feature bout at Portner's Arena, Alexandria, March 8 Brown and Barry fought to a draw several weeks aj Special Dispatch Southpaw Slabman, No Longer Hold-out, to Report at Nationals’ Camp in Day or-Two. ILOXI, Miss, February 26— With Clark Griffith's morn- ing cakes and sausage today arrived the information from Pitcher Robert Burke, the southpaw, that he was scurrying to training camp to forget everything and go to work. Which means, of course, that Sir Robert, the recent and rebellious recalcitrant, finally has agreed to Griffith’s terms, which no doubt had been changed slightly since first flered. O However, Bob will be here late tomorrow or early Sunday to com- plete the early squad. Then there will be 17 athletes in camp, includ- ing Eddie Ainsmith, who is doing plenty of work around here. Griffitn was pleased at the news remembered some of the very \ Burke Fin'allyiAccepts Terms LTHOUGH Maryland gen- erally is regarded as one of the three or four best basket ball teams among the 16 entered in the Southern Conference championship tour- nament, opening at Atlanta to- | day, the task of retaining the | title it won last year is expected 4o prove too tough for the Old | Liners. Victory for the Terrapins in 1931 proved quite a surprise to | the dopesters familiar with the | prowess of the contending | quints, and they assert the | College Parkmen can’t hope | again to be so favored with the breaks. | While Maryland’s champion- | ship last year was fairly earned, the team prevailed by slender margins in a majority of its engagements, and with the | “quick-death” plan of lay prevailing one loss means elim- ination. With all five of the regulars who put Maryland at the top of the heap again available, and with added strength, no- tably from Vincent, who filled in so capably at center when Norris was hurt, Maryland con- tinues an exceedingly formid- able machine, but it is due to encounter sturdier opposition than last year, for several of its foes are credited with vast im- provement. The deciding tilt of the tour- ney is scheduled for next Tues- day, and close followers of the sport concede Kentucky, 1931 | finalist, as good a chance as any of again reaching it. O'Reilly to Be Missed. Sports followers learn with regret of the illness of John D. O'Reilly, which will prevent him from bossing the Catholic Uni- versity meet at Brookland to- morrow night. O'Reilly, for years a veri- table landmark in athletics at Georgetown, where he turned out a host of crackerjack track- men, as well as coaching suc- cessfully in other lines, is one of the best beloved characters ever associated with sports in the Capital. Headed by J. Kip Edwards, prominent in the councils of the District A. A. U, of which O'Reilly was president before returning to his old home, in South Boston, a group of local friends had planned a dinner in his honor in conjunction with the C. U. games. The testimonial has been de- ferred until Spring, when it is hoped O'Reilly’s health will per- mit him to travel. . Jallos, Burns to Settle It. ‘Those of the ringworms who saw the recent battle at Port- ner’s between Lou Jallos and Bobby Burns welcome the | chance of again seeing them in action at Ritchie Coliseum Monday night. As originally planned, Jallos was to have taken on Buster Brown in one of the quartet of eight-rounders and it promised to be a good match, but the new one looms as better. A majority of fans at the first meeting seemed to think Jallos piled up a decisive mar- gin, although the verdict went the other way. Jallos, a clever workman, is at his best against a rushing type of scrappér such as Burns, but, being a counter-puncher, suffers in comparison on the score of aggressiveness. The Cleveland Greek, unlike the referee, figured he had a safe lead and coasted a bit at Alexandria, but it is unlikely he will do any loafing next time.* Burns, although he does little precision aiming, always is bor- ing in and packs a hefty wal- lop. It doesn’t pay a fancy stepper to get careless with nim. This return meeting is ex- pected to rival in interest the main event, in which Jallos’ stablemate, Antol Kocsis, fights Dick Welsh. Kocsis had no trouble evad- | ing Billy Landers’ flat-footed | brand of heavy artillery last week, but in Welsh he will be meeting a much faster lad— and one who has whipped Landers repeatedly, as well as holding a speedster such as Midget Wolgast to a draw. | =l | 1 sweet things Bob can do when he gets moving nicelv. For instance, he recalls that Bob is a _terror against Boston, St. Louis, Detroit and Chicago. even if he only finished 3 of the 13 games in which he started last season. TALK BASKET RULES | CHICAGO, February 26 (#)—Basket | ball rules, always open for a good argu- | | ment, will undergo another operation | or observation April 1 and 2. } The seventh annual meeting of the | | National Associaton of Basket Ball Coaches will be held during those dates, | with every State in the Union repre- sented. A. A. Schabinger of Creighton Unl-l versity, Omaha, is president of the or- attention to Arthur (“Bud”) Teachout, ‘Wilson, Street said Teachout would be retained to bolst strength if he shows promise of re- gaining his 1930 form. Brooklyn Dodgers picked up from their farm at Hartford have got Manager | Max Carey worried. handers, Earl Mattingly, Arthur Jones and John | received at least one vote as “best.” | 26 () —The beginning of Lew Fonseca’s great base ball experiment started to- day. Instead of starting his White Sox to work in regulation Spring training camp style, Manager Fonseca chased | his players over hill and dale and then | sent them to the salt baths for con- ditioning prize, was still among the missing today, and hopes that he would change his | mind and drop his insurance business York Giants’ training camp apparently should go to big Fred Fitzsimmons. The Shortstop Shortage. Calif By the Assoctated Press. EW ORLEANS, La., February 26 —Manager Roger Peckinpaugh of the Cleveland Indians is counting on six pitchers now in training here, to produce 80 victories for the Tribe this season. The six are Wesley Ferrell, Willi Hudlin, Clint Brown, Mel Harder, Sarge Connally and Pete Jablonowski. There are nearly.a dozen candidates for the other two jobs ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Feb 26 (#).—Babe Ruth's waistline bei great public importance at this time of year, there is news in the fact that the New York Yankee's home run star has decided to cut his daily golf from 36 holes to 18 George Herman has been lament.ng the fact that he now weighs only 220 pounds and that is none too much So lest he lose more weight than he can afford to part with he's cut his golfing activities in half. ICHARDSON _ SPRINGS, February 26 (#).—Manager Bucky Harris of the Detroit Tigers blames the lively ball for the dearth of capable shortstops which has plagued the Tigers, as well as other clubs of the American League. | Every player now wants to be a slug- | ger, he says, and since home run hit- ters are by tradition outfielders, am- bitious players gravitate to the outer | gardens. | He believes, however, that Bill Rogell will solve the Tiger shortstop problem this season. | | BRADENTON, Fla., February 26 (#). —Manager Gabby Street of the cham- pion Cardinals wants a “twin” for Southpaw Bill Hallahan. For that reason he is paying close a portsider received along with Hack when the Cardina's traded Burleigh Grimes to the Cubs. Hallahan is the only southpaw in the Cardinals' flock, and Manager ter the club’s left-handed CLEARWATER, Fla., February 26 (®).—Those five pitching recruits the To find out which of the five right- Van Mungo, Phila Gallivan, Krider, had the most “stuff,” Carey | asked the boys who have been batting | against them. When the ballots were | counted it was learned that each had AMPA, Fla, February 26 (P)—| Eight days of practice without | any sign of a sore arm or charley- | horse among his 16 batterymen. in di- | Tect contrast to last year's lengthy hos- pital list, brought more smiles today to the face of Dan Howley, Cincinnati Red pilot. against any in the league,” he said. “I'll stack my pitching staft MINERAL WELLS, Tex., February Carey Selph, the White Sox draft for base ball went glimmering. LOS ANGELES, February 26 (#).— The prize for best condition in the New big pitcher played 12 innings at third base with the Giants yesterday, although it was his first day in camp. He is one of the best fielding pitchers in base ball. | SPENDS KIS RECREATION HOURS DoWN HERE READING IN THE LOBBY OF HOTEL BILOXI . .. Tom DOSRER- - BILOXI,Miss Basket Ball. St. Joseph's (Philadelphia), 32; George | Washington, 31. Mount St. Mary's, 38; Albright, 17. Dugquesne, 29; West Virginia, 16. Westminister, 41; Allegheny, 32. Newberry, 36; South Carolina, 24. Chattanooga, 38; Mississippi College, 33 (overtime). Providence College, 51; Seton Hall, 21. Simmons, 55; Southwestern (George- town), 38. Middlebury, 35; Vermont, 22. Moravian, 32; Philadelphia Osteo- pathy, 30. Howard, 48; Millsaps, 43. Armour Tech, 26; Michigan State Normal, 23. Marquette, 43; Michigan State, 18. Ohio Northern, 44; Hiram, 30. Bluffton, 40; Findlay, 33. Phillips U, 26; Tulsa U., 24 (over- time). Central, 35; Missouri Valley, 21. Pittsburgh Teachers, 36; Washburn, 24. Toledo U., 26; Dayton U,, 21. Otterbein, 33: Capital, 26. Cincinnati, 33: Ohio U., 32. Ashland, 31; Heidelberg, 29. Hockey. Bruins Cubs, 2; New Haven Eagles, 1. Boston, 3; New York Rangers, (overtime) Detroit Falcons, 5; Toronto, 3. Buffalo, 5; Detroit Olympics, 0. St. Louis, 1; Duluth, 0. 2 = MOUNTS TO PLAY FINAL. MOUNT RAINIER, February 26.— Mount Rainier High School basketers will close their season here tonight against Woodward School tossers of Washington, starting at 8 o'clock. The Mounts must win in arder to achieve a .500 per cent average for the season. They have won 10 games and lost 9. Obstacle Proved an Asset In Case of West Last Year STAY SORE) BABY, AND WE'LL HIT ( AMILLION . \F sAm's ARM GETS WORSE THIS' YEAR WE OUGHT O RVT .400 Tt Domase, o oxi. ILOXI, Miss,, February 26— Swaggering Sammy West's enviable clouting mark of .333 for 132 conflicts last sca- son can be attributed to his in- jured left wing, according to Man- .ager Johnson. Walter asserts that the stocky out- fielder, due here shortly to talk over money and other trivial matters with Clark Griffith, last season had the best batting year since he came to Washington in 1927, becayse he nursed an ailing fin. “Sammy, always & slashing hitter, discovered during the past season that he had to favor his left arm,” explained Walter. “Therefore, he was unable to let the mightly willow cut out its full length. He, instead, poked it off his left shoulder with guarded care, resulting in the ball being hit just as a base ball should be socked, carefully and well timed.” Sammy, according to Johnson, was of the type of hitter of whom only » few, the e Buils, SAMMY West — can get away with random, wild punches at the leather, Sam was not able to connect as does Ruth and Al, with a result that his bat- ting marks fluctuated anywhere from .239, in 1927, his first year with Griff, to .328 in 1930, “You can attribute the rise in his batting points over last year to nothing but the injured fin, and, now that the arm is on the mend, I think that Sam will continue to time his hitting,” said the pilot. Johnson pointed out that 8 pitcher with plenty of stuff usually makes & quick-hitting, slashing bat- ter resemble Uncle Abner's wind- mill back on the old farm. “Nothing pleases a hurler with his stuff working any more than & killer-batter up there with blood in his eyes and the old totem pole fran- tically waving,” grinned Walter, in recollection of those days when he was the prince of the pack in mak- ing poles wave Wi Gutdlish 3 | | ~ AUD HE TAKES His AFTERNOON STRoOLL . HE STRUTS | LIKE A THEOLOGICAL STuDENT i HIS DECORUM WOULD GLADDEA THE HEART OF CONNIE MACK. Griff Likes His Box Staff THE ERUDITE RIGHT HANDER. Manager BY TOM DOERER. ILOXI, Miss., February 26.— Mr. Clark Griffith squinted from beneath his shaggy gray eyebrows and lazily watched ringlets of smoke from his fat perfecto waft out and on toward those sea gulls skimming the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Griffith looked serene, hap- py and well fed. He was as un- rufied as the giant date palm trees standing duty out here in front of the Biloxi Hotel. “I'm just a-thinking,” he grinned, “that maybe, figuring a lot of things, this ball club of ours is going to get places and see some things in the 1932 race for the flag.” There was mome in the rocking chair brigade who felt Mr. Grifith would say otherwise no matter how he felt about what his Washington ball club was going to do this semester. “You know,” continued Griff, “we had a right smart pitching staff last year. We kind of ran ourselves ragged chasing that elephant and =< did some things which we might have done bet- ter if the law allowed two guesses in- stead of one. But, figuring everything, didn’t we have the second best pitch- ing staff in our brigade? Even if we did not finish second as a club.” The cagey, defensive Mr. Griffith was getting down to the subject nearest his heart—pitching. And when he begins to get mellow over his hurlers, and their prospects, it is an indication that he is feeling mighty fair. “There’s big Fred Marberry,” he said, pointing to the ponderous boy, lolling in a chair. “He nicked 'em for 16 and 4 last year. That's better than his 1930 mark and I'm sort of feeling that it is not going to be any lower this year. Fred has plenty of stuff and most of it is still kicking around. And he's in the best camp shape in years. “Crowder may fool 'em and get going | at the bell this season. Lloyd Brown is | promising and Carl Fischer is in fine shape. I guess we'll be showing plenty when the staff starts to develop.” Griff then began getting around to what had started hfs outburst of op- timism.L It was, ajter all, what every nzu has expected, his squad of young- sters. “Now, there's Monte Weaver,” con- tinued Griff. “There's a young fellow who comes here knowing what it is all about. He is no worry up on the hill. You konw exactly what he is going to do when trouble arises, because he has had good training. He ought to fill in a gap which cost us ball games last year. That young man should help pull us h:m to the spot where I think we are golng. “Frank Ragland is another upon whom we can place some depend- ence. He was a smart relief pitcher in the Southern Association last yeer. He can throw the ball pretty ‘well for a few laninge-wand those Club Prexy Particularly Sweet on Monte Weaver, and So Is | WHO 15 HELPING THE BILOX!I Johnson. SUNSHINE TO MAKE GRIFF HAPPY..cooo and Run Till 11:30. RACK fans who attend the Catholic University indoor meet at Brookland tomor- row night will be sure to get ‘their money’s worth in more ways than one. hurdles at according to yard low program, schedule, is run off. However, the program has qual well as quantity, with A. A. U. keen competition. | years proach it. | itself | 7:30—50-yara and prep, trials. 7:40—50-yard low hurdles, open, scrateh, trials, 7:50—One-third-mile Boys’ relay. (under 100 pounds.) 7:55—50-yard dash, high prep, trials. 8:05—50-yard dash, open handi- cap, trials 8:15—440-yard open_handicap. 8:20—50-yard low hurdles, and prep, finals. low hurdles, scratch, finals, 8:30—Intercollegiate high jump. 8:30—A. A. U. three-mile run, scratch. 8:50—One-mile, scratch. 8:58—One-mile, intercollegiate. 9:05—One-mile intercollegiate re- lay: section A. 9:10—880-yard open handicap. 9:15—One-mile intercollegiate re- lay, section B. 9:20—440-yard dash, high and prep. 9:25—Two-thirds-mile club relay, 50 50-yard i I~ YAart open finals. 8 high and prep, handicap, ) 9:34—One-mile open handicap. 9:40—50-yard A. A. U. champion- 5:50-_30-yard z -ya dash, high and e 4 ] -yard A. A. U. - plonship. i e 10:00—880-yard run, high and prep. 10:05—Two-mile intercollegiate run. 10:18—50-yard dash, A. A. U, finals. 10:22—The Ryan 1,000, intercol- legiate invitation. HIP:SOES&L{‘BM dash, iate vitation for Abbe: lub Trophy, trials. * S 10:35—Two-thirds-mile relay. 10:40—45-yard high hurdles, in- ter&ulig(;hée, trlnlls. B ne-mile high d school relay. S 10:50—One-mile intercollegiate re- lay, section C. - R 11:00-—45-yard high hurdles, inter- colleglio!t_e,:l finals. 11:10—50~yard dash, intercollegiate invitation for Abbey Club Trnghy, finals. 11:20—Two-mile relay, section A. 11:30—Two-mile relay, section B. intercollegiate intercollegiate few innings may mean a ball game | for us. “Lynn Griffith didn’t do so well with Chattanooga last year, but he appears to be a good prospect, just the same.” But listening to Griff down here on | the veranda of the Biloxi Hotel you can | get the impression that the faith he is | putting into his youngsters is_centered around and about the former Baltimore | Oriole, Monte Weaver, the erudite col- lege man and professor. | Club—Stevens President. team, with Ed Beagle. ir.. manager, at a meeting last night. president, Frazier White second You would not bet a dollar against 10 that Griff will keep the youngster any ome will pick. But, somehow, you know that the small man with the twinkling eyes and canny look is very sweet upon Mr. Monte Weaver. So is Walter Johnson. This tall, scholarly young man of 26 years of age is shrewd. He proved his hurling cunning during those few days of last season when he came to the Griffs from Fritz Maisel's Baltimore Orioles. During the short period, he | worked in 10 innings to tally up one Tomorrow . victory and no defeats for three games, | ElldS thlS Prior to coming to the Washington club Monte rang up 21 wins against 11| SALE losses during 1931. It was his big year | with the Orioles. The previous one, his first season, ended disastrously when he went out of action with ap- pendicitis. And the years 1928 and 1929, when he served his right hand flips for Durham of the Piedmont League he displayed only fair form. But he attributes his sudden change of pitching success to the removal of his appendix. “I had been suffering with chronic appendictis for years,” he told me. “My pitching was good and bad and I never felt up to form. But after the removal of the annoyance I picked up speed and weight and I attribute my better hurling in 1931 to improved health. I | think I'll go good this year, too.” ‘This former teacher of mathematics at University of Virginia is a resident of | Lansing, N. C., a graduate of Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va. and gave up professoring to take on a few more pounds, give his legs a rest and to be in fighting form for the Summer base ball campaign. Harry Weisbrod treasurer. —and there won’t be one |like it for | many a moon! MAXOS HURT ON MAT Sent to Hospital With Head Injury Suffered in Wrestling Bout. PITTSBURGH, February 26 (#).— Tossed on his head in a bout, John Maxos, New York heavyweight wrestler, was in a hospital today with concussion of the brain. Physicians said he was badly hurt. Maxos was cairied unconscious from the ring last night after he had been burled to the mat by Ed (Strangler) lewis. The accident occurred after the feature bout had gone 27 minutes 25 seconds. STAGES STAG PARTY. The annual stag party of the Wash- |ington Terminal Railroad Department Y. M. C. A will be held Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in its gymnasjum st the | west end of Nnion Station. So, hALPH GILBERT TO LEAD Named Pilot of Congress Heights| Ralph Gilbert was named manager of the Congress Heights A. C. base ball business George Stevens was elected president of the club, with Val Wahler first vice president, Louls Gelbman secretary and reserved seats selling for $1.50. eral admission will be $1. ness the meet. G foe in St. John’s tonight. vice Starting with the trials in the 50« 7:30 o'clock the will | last four hours, and it probably wiil be | midnight by the time the final event title well matched relay races and a variety of other events that promise It is certain to be | the best meet held hereabout in many None since the old Georgetown games in Convention Hall could ap- Here is the program. It speaks for high Club and high 8:24—50-yard low hurdles, open intercolle- freshman Tickets for the C. 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