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N [ %o | T — bn the Side Lines ' Witk the Sgores Baitor. ” BY DENMAN THOMPSON. HAT the Nationals are rated highly by their l followers, despite the fact their strength has yet to be put to test, is em- phatically shown as tickets for the opening game of the cham- pionship campaign go on sale today. Early contests of the training season don't mean much, any- how, especially against a club such as the Orioles, which has been working out for only a week, but the heavy demand for seats to witness the season’s inaugural is something else again in these hard times. If the Griffs were rated as favorites to land the title this year, or were booked to make their 1932 bow against either the Mackmen or Yankees, the interest being displayed by Capital fans would be easier to understand. Seats in Big Demand. NSTEAD, it is against the second-division Red Sox that the Nationals start operations just four weeks from today, yet local headquarters report it has had more bids for seats than for several years past. Not only that, but the re- quests for reservations for the choice days throughout the season—the week end and holiday games—is of near- record proportions, according to Secretary Ed Eynon. Washington fans must be figuring that the addition of Reynolds plus a pitching staff that promises finally to click may upset the dope about the race being between Philadel- phia and New York. And we are not so sure they're wrong. Where Brevity Helps. AKING the headlines is mainly a matter of per- formance, of course, but brevity of name is no handicap, newspaper copyreader can tell you. Ruth, with his color and abil- ity, plus only four letters to get into big type, forms an ideal a as did Cobb, who tified as Ty, but even su 'amous figures as Johnson and Mathewson frequently had to be presented as Walt and Matty to make the grade. £uch worthies as Jablonow- ski, Schulmerich, Bettencourt, Fothergill, Cuccinello and Bis- sonette, to name a few current big leaguers, find the road to wbuclty far more difficult than ‘est, Rice, Kerr and Berg, for instance. No Tongue-Twisters Here. " A S a matter of fact, the Na- tionals have few athletes with long tags and none with tongue-twisters. Friedrich is the lengthiest, followed by Griffith, Reynolds and Marber- ry, who becomes Firpo when occasion requires, while Rag- land, Fischer, (Crowder and Spencer don’t impose much difficulty. Fellows like Weaver, Bolton, Bluege, Cronin, Manush and Harris are easily handled, as is Kuhel, while the other one- syllable handles like Brown, Burke, Judge and Boyle are a mere romp. It would be just like Griff now to pull a deal for a Hig- ginbottom or a Frothingham. More Heat, Less Comedy. ATCHMAKER GOLDIE AHEARN just bounced in to assure us that two of the ti that detracted from the inifial show of the Bowser band of applers last week won't be in evidence tonight when the second card is un- folded at Bolling Field. One was lack of heat in the lofty hangar and the other an overabundance of clowning. According to Ahearn, the fans will see in Jack Sherry one of the best grapplers in the game and who confrives to be colorful through sheer ability, ;ngouz resorting to any funny u; De Ghne‘l;l’mmised. E GLANE, champion of the invaders, and Sonnen- berg., an ex-title holder, are scheduled for early ap- pearance here, as are Don George and Pojello, the latter to draw a testing opponent next time. As Ahearn ex- plains it: “We are trying to operate on a building-up basis, landing the most attractive matches #nflable until we get on our im and then demanding @em. All we want is a break.” Alright, Goldie, kow’s that! TERMINAL NINE TO DRILL Indoor Practice Is Scheduled at Union Station Y. M. C. A. Candidates for the Washington Ter- gninal base ball team will hold their first drill tonight in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium at Union Station, starting at 7:30 o'clock. They also will drill there Wednesday and Priday nights. With virtually all of last season’s team. which was runner-up to Con- structioneers in the Industrial League, again at hand, the Terminal boys have | hopes of winning not only the Indus- trial League flag this year, but also the ‘city title. ‘'oung, who again will manage team, is booking games. He may the ? reached by phone or mail at the erzainal ¥. M. C. A. at Union Station. FIVE TILTS SLATED | - FORNEXT SIX DAYS Orioles tq Be Encounteredj | Tomorrow in Play-off of ‘ Postponed Game. | i BY TOM DOERER. ILOXI, Miss., March 14—A| day of enforced rest and a morning’s drill put your | | Nationals on edge for lhei opening of the exhibition series| which starts tomorrow with Fritz | | Maisel's Baltimore Orioles and | | ends April 10 with Buffalo of the {ntemational League in Washing- | ton. Tomorrow’s tilt, deferred yes- terday because the Biloxi sunshine was tempered too strongly with Arctic blasts, is expected to stiffen the fighting attitude of the Griff- men, who for two weeks have been yearning to tear the lining out of one thing or another. | But Walter Johnson's action-seeking club may get quite a bit of that if the rookie pitcher the Orioles plan to start gets rolling in the same stride he | evinced against your boys last year at | this time. Griffs to Face Gumbert. He is Harry Gumbert, the young | man who faced Washington three times, Cleveland once and' the Athletics once, last Spring only to allow the entire outfit one run and seven hits in 14 innings of pelting onions at them. Cleveland scored the single tally. | But like the flowers that bloom in |the Spring, Harry never finished with such a record. A few weeks after the | season got under way he found himself | tossing for the York team of the New | York-Pennsylvania League, where he pulled up with nothing better than |9 and 5. Clff Melton will be next in order for the Orioles, while Wally Tauscher, | once here with the Griffs, will take up the third shot. For our side Frank Ragland, Johnny Friedrich and Lynn | Griffith will serve the soup. | While Baltimore will offer Buzz Art- lett, the pig Frisco fence buster, in the clean-up spot, Uncle Clark's nine will | offer Joe Cronin, flanked on one side by Carl Reynolds, the new hope. and | by Sammy West, the old reliable, on | the other. Bolton and Maple will catch. Jud_ge,‘ Kerr and Ralph Boyle will get in action during the game. 5 | Baltimore admitted its inability to get Catcher Howard Maple from Clark Griffith to help it out in the series. At the moment Old Line State's team has but one catcher in camp, Mc- Kenna, who must serve until another comes winding his way from Baltimore. Why Nationals and Orioles could not get together yesterday on Maple is something which still is not public prop- erty. Heavy Exhibition Slate. Another game with the Birds will iake place Wednesday at Gulfport, the | training camp of that team. Louisville of the American Association will be| here Friday and Saturday the Nationals will take a bus to Mobile, Ala., where the Louisville club will be played two games to end the first week of grape- fruit skirmishing. ‘Walter Johnson's pitching problems at this hectic moment are not the ones that make him pace the managerial suite pondering over material fit to go in and throw Southern onions at the enemy, but, rather, ones which force him | to keep veteran pitchers from climbing | to his neck at breakfast to beseech his favor in permitting them to work. | At this moment Walter is ducking| both Crowder and Marberry, as they| try to win him over to the suggestion | that they both be permitted to get going his week. Either can go in now at any tin: agrees Walter, but what chance will the kid pitchers get if he permits his regu- | lars to work? “This is the first time in a long while that regular pitchers have been so anxious to get into action,” said Johnson during practice today. “I know they are ready, but we just can't permit it, as' much as I would like to seefltho.se enthusiastic vets toss in their | stufr.” | Fischer Eager to Start. | Not only Crowder and Marbury are | pining to start, but Carl Fischer is anx- ious to show off his new pitch in actual | combat. 1t is a slow curve mastered for | | the first time by the anxious Carl, and | | its addition to his repertoire of slants |is what is making Johnson predict that | the southpaw not only may get those 20 games for which he is gunning, but| many more victories than that. | Johnson seems anxious to see his new batting punch, Car’ Reynolds, get mov- | |ing in the exhibition tussles. Johnson | | does not hice his admiration and his |hope in the former Chisox fielder. | Walter thinks he is just the boy to put | the club over this year. | “Brownie, for instance,” argues Wal- | | | ter, “may not lose so many of those one- run games with a fellow like Reynolds | in there to slap the ball at the right | moment | Sir Walter, despite the blustery | weather yesterday, was in one of those | very cheery moods about his ball players. “Look at Manush over there,” sald Johnson, pointing to the big, tanned | outfielder chinning with some play- | mates. “He is in_better shape than| |last year and, while he is no longer | |a kid, he is due for some good years| |in base ball. I look for him to pull| up more than 50 points over last sea-| | son’s batting mark of .307. That was { not hitting for Heine. ‘ Sees Players Just Right. | “Sammy West is in great shape, his| | arm is fine and he will hit again this| | year, I'm positive. Rice is ready to| go right now. He's a fine ball player, steady and reliable and can be counted | upon to step into a breach. , “Maybe our infield could stand more protection, but we have Johnny Kerr, |a very fast boy, and there is Dave Harris to shoot in if there is an emer- gency. Bluege is good this year, Cronin | |is in shape and I mean it when I tell | you that a first-base battle is on be- tween Kuhel and Judge and the place not sewed up by Kuhel. “There is nothing to any deal with Detroit for Catcher Hayworth. That's | out. Moe Berg may fool a lot of them and, besides, he has the poise neces- sary for us to push him in should anything happen to Spencer. Bolton is young and can help some. Maple is learning. Our catcling department | may need a little straightening out, but it is okay. | “Our young pitchers may show us| something worth while, while upon the | regulars we place the finest kind of | hopes. “In all,” concluded Walter, “we will have a better club than last year. We| | will have a real punch in Reynolds, a group of players in great training camp shape and a fine, heady pitcher in | Monte Weaver. Weaver will get us 10 or more games without a doubt. | one of the favorites to win this year, | dangerous. Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING: EDITION o Star, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1932. Marberry Excels As Contortionist ILOXI, Miss, March 14—Fred Marberry, big, but no longer bulky, is the most supple Griff- man. So the players say. Fred, for instance, can stand flat- footed ard place the plams of his hands on the floor without bending his_legs. Then, when the audience gets in- terested, Firpo will stand on a box, inches high, and do the same stunt. Easy? Try it. Then, to cap the show, Fred can take one of his legs and put it around his neck. “AN good pitchers,” says Walter Johnson, are supple, but powerful in the legs. Look at Bob Grove of the Atheltics and Wes Ferrel of Cleveland.” ‘Wes Ferrel, by the way, is a | pitchers’ pitcher. ~The boys say he has everything but a high hat on the pellet. TROUBLE DELAYED FOR NET FAVORITES Smooth Sailing Likely in Third | Round of U. S. Indoor Singles Today. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, March 14—The | national indoor tennis cham- | plonships moved into the third i round of singles play today, but trouble still appeared to be another round or two away for the three invad- ing French stars and the 10 seeded American players. The third round matches will reduce the field, originally 80 entries, to 16, all but three of whom were placed on the seeded lists. The theoretically lucky ones who would face unseeded op- ponents are Sidney Wood, jr.; Berkeley Bell and Frank Bowden, rated third, fourth and eighth among the Americans. The three French stars who have lifted the tournaments from just a fair event to an international battle, Jean Borotra, who is defending the title; Christian Boussus, who has been made and Young Antoine Gentien, drew some of the hardest of the oppesition on today’s list. Borotra was sent against Merritt Cutler, agood club player; Boussus faced Stanley Harte of New York Uni- versity and Gentien was paired with Sidney Seligson. SHAW AUT0 WINNER. LOS ANGELES, March 14 (#)—Wil- bur Shaw, diminutive automobile race driver from Indianapolis, won the hun- | dred-lap feature event at the Ascot Speedway yesterday in 47 minutes 53 2-5 seconds. Ernie Triplett was sec- ond and Arvel Brummier third. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. VERSITY OF VIRGINIA, with Eppa Rixey, southpaw, pitch-~ ing stellar ball, defeated Wash- ington in the Jatter’s first game of the season yesterday at the Char- lottesville training camp. Rixey al- lowed only three hits and not a run in the last six innings. Joe Turner, Washington wrestler, has accepted the defi of the giant Irishman, Jack McCarthy, for a match at the Gayety. Charlton, former Tech High and St. Paul player, has signed with the Portsmouth team of the Virginia State League. Ed Walsh, Chicago, is the top- notch pitcher in the American League as to shutout victories, with 49. "Other leaders and their 'totals are: Waddell, 47; Joss and White, each 44; Young and Plank, each 43; Mullin, 32; Donovan, 29; Coombs and Bender, each 27, and Smith and Walter Johnson, each 26. Claude R. Zappone is seeking the Middle States regatta for Potomac Boat Club, Business High blanked Alexandria High at basket ball, 44 to 0. Busi- ness’ players were Pedlow, Struble, Wilson, Harris and Bigham. Alex- andria used Howard, Wensell, Curtin, Johnsen and Pettit. Baltin was the referee, Brodie and Cockrell the timekeepers and Ehrmantraut and Finks, scorekeepers. CARL. RISCHER Your NAT(oNaLS ' FLASHY SOUTHPAW, IS SHOOTING AT A VISION DOWN HERE ~IF HE CAN MAKE IT TRUE , THEN — WELL- T wiLL BE Some YEAR FOR HimA AND THE GRIFFS... CARL 'S TOUGH SPOT A ‘31 WAs N TRYING TO DELIVER NUMBER 0~ o Duzzse, Bitoxs, M;s‘:’ ’Z“: Fischer Is on His Way Up- Griffe’ Southpaw, BY TOM DOERER. ILOXI, Miss, March 14—It might be sleepy time down Soidth, but it is get-up- Malindy - baby for Carl (Charles, for those who would be formal) Fischer, that very curly - haired moundsman from Medina, N. Y. Backed by no less than your uncle, Clark Griffith, and that fine heads-up manager of the Nationals, Walter John- son, Carl has picked for himself 20 victories as his goal in the Griffs’ fight for the American League gonfalon, and possible world serles bay sheafs and laurel decorations. Yet the tousle-haired left-hander of the Nationals tucked away only 13 packets of wins last year, agninst 9 losses. That makes him sighting on seven which wasn’t a bad one for a boy just recently from the International League. But there is another Mr. Fischer to deal with this semester. Oh, a very much more different lad. And if you don’t believe it, here’s the receiver and listen to Mr. Walter Johnsbn talk about him. With Altered Mental Achieve Stardom This Year. more victories than he got last year, | Attitude, May And if there is any one in base ball | who should know more about pitching than Sir Walter—then you name him. | But in the meanwhile hear Walter: ‘ “There is no one more pleased with | CarPs attitude this Spring and no ‘ one more enthused over his prospects than I am. I always have felt that he would be a good pitcher when he assumed @ certain frame of mind. This year he has it. And I am | pleased, “When you say that he may likely | touch 20 “ganes you tell the truth | When you say that, however, you are only touching upon part of it. Carl .‘ may go beyond that for th@reason that for the first time he has become a real, earnest pupil.” Down on the field the other morn- | ing there was our young Mr. Fischer taking cues from two or three coaches in the art of pitching that | very peculiar ball which has enabled | Jack Quinn to kid Methuselah—a | slow loafer down the alley. I remember Carl with Newark, when he thought a fast ball was a pitcher's heaven and it was the other thing for a batter. But he is learning. | _And today he is the most promising | prospect on the squad, a boy they | thought was “sot” in his ways, too set to ever chan Watch his smoke! SCHMELING TO TOUR Max to Start Boxing Exhibition Trip at Richmond April 11. NEW YORK, March 14 (#).—Max Schmeling will make an exhibition tour of 15 cities in preparation for his forth- coming heavyweight championship match with Jack Sharkey, Joe Jacobs, the champion’s manager, has announced that Schmeling will ar- rive here about March 31 and start his_exhibition tour at Richmond, Va., April 11, Other ‘dates of the tour follow: | April 18, Pittsburgh; 19. Akron, Ohio; | 20, Toledo; 21, Fort Wayne, Ind.; 22, Grand Rapids, Mich.; 25, Milwaukee; 26, Oshkosh, Wis.; 27, Peoria, IIL; 28, Vincennes, Ind.; 29 Evansville. Schmeling will start serious training l.em May 10 at a site not yet se- click. We never moved after that. I'm sure that it will not happen again, and with a running start we hope to wind up giving the Yanks a battle. After all, I ngure the New York club the most If Lefty Gomez gives them some - pitching they will have to be llcéui" 2 onversation with Griffith, the gray pllot, leads to the belief that he is de- pending upon the readjustment period which will follow the opening of the season as the time when he can snare himself & utility infielder and, possibly * B b talks ut he as if the acquisition of a dependable hurler is out o‘; the ques- ucfixlz;et me‘émo:-nent tatzlxd that all ef a'm: wi centered on the tutoring of YO provbly the exception probably the exce of one or two youngsters, this unit as it now stands may move on to Washington intact. When the infield problem was dis- cussed too closely, the Nationals' leader reminded that Moe Berg, the big cather, knew a few things about infield worlz, having broken in with the White BY WILLIAM WEEKES, Associated Press Sports Writer. HICAGO, March 14.—A serious, bespectacled young medical student from the University of Indiana, Henry Brocksmith, has romped right into the front rank of American Olympic prospects, and he hasn't done his best yet. Brocksmith, who comes from Free- landville, down in Knox County, Ind., has been running foot races at from a half mile to cross-country distances three years this month. Saturday night in the Big Ten championships he es- tablished himself as something the Midwest didn’t know it had this Olym- pic year—a really great middle-distance dunner. To prove it, he ran a some- what lonely 4:12 5-10 mile and followed it up with a 9:184-10 two-mile—and said he could have done better. ROCKSMITH and his coach, E. C. (Billy) Hayes, figured a 4:15 mile woul® win the. Big Ten indoor Hoosler greyhound set himself to do. However, instead of & 61-second first quarter, he did an even 60 seconds, and at the half-mile mark was just under 2:06 instead of 2:07 as planned. There was no one near him from there on to the finish, but he passed his three-quar: ters in 3:10 and finished in 4:12.5 wit| out_spending himself. 4:15,” he said, “because I knew I had to try to win the 2-mile a little la to give us a chance to beat Michig for the championship. Sox as an fielder. But he a “We lost our chance at St. Louis last year when the team as a unit fafled to + fast on the first quarter, but thought I had eased off in third quarter. Yes, think I could have cut off a second or championship race, and that is what the | be h- | “I didn't figure to do better than I knew I was | Brocksmith Acclaimed Olympic Find, Rival of Venzke After 4:12.5-Mile Run Under Wraps had enough breath to shout encourage- ment to the Indiana mile relay team for [ nearly three gnd a half minutes and run over and assist Ivan Fuqua, Hoosler nfi:rl:sl'xhcrman, from the track at the Anish. . E did no running before going to Indiana and has been at it only three years. But he has twite been Big Ten cross-country champion and this year has suffered only two defeats. He lost a 4:17.2 mile to Dean Woolsey of Tllinois early in the season and fin- ished behind a teammate, Chuck Horn- bostel, in a 1:55.6 half-mile -a week ago. In the same meet he won the mile by 70 yards in 4:17 before running in _the shorter race. Brocksmith is nearly 22 years old and his powerfully muscled frame packs 160 pounds. He is working toward the | Olympic trials and looks forward to a race with Gene Venzke, the Eastern fiyer, who has done a 4:10 mile. “‘A race with Venzke,” he said before | going to eat himself back to 160 pounds after the meet Saturday night, “would & sure way to find out how fast I can run.” | By the Associated Press. Cleveland (A), 5; New Orleans (8. A), 5 tie, nine innings. | Philadelphia (N.), 2; 8t. Louis (N.),0, New Yorx (N.), 7; Chicago, N.), 3. | Brooklyn (N.), 5; Cincinvati (N, 3. New York (A.), 11; Boston (N.), 4. Pittsburgh (N.), 3-1; Oakland, | (P. C. L)p1-5. San Prancisco {;eatures and Classified —By DOERER CARL MAKES THE LITTLE BUS EVERY MORN,OUT 7o BlLOXt FIELD, WAERE HE IS UNCORKKING A FEW THINGS THAT'S SURPRISING LET ME TELL YOU, Bla Boy, You CAN BE i N LCKED, A /SRl B\ WV | CARL WoN .13 LAST YEAR, THAT | ~1 MORE WINF HIS YEAR ! | MAKES HIM HAVE TO KAXK,DOWN : No-Hit Game a Tired, Legs Ached, Arm Pain to Burke Hurt When He Climbed | Mound, Griff Immortal Reveals. | ILOXI, Miss, March 14— | Back last August 8, Bobby Burke, the fork-fisted Na- tional, turned in a scoreless no-hit game to place his name among the greats of base ball. Last night he told just how a pitcher feels when in the throes of cne of those once-in-a-lifetime achievements. “Never felt worse in my life’ sald Bob. “I was so fatigued before the game that I was hoping it would rain—or the call would go to some one else. After I had tacked up & few innings of hitless pitching, I was getting worse. My legs ached. My arms hurt and it was an effort | to drag myself out of the dugout. | “Boston threatened and I tighten- | ed another notch. They went after me again, and where I got the power to hold ’em back Il never tell you. It was one of those days when I thought I had the tonsilitis, bach- :cuf:“ and fallen arches all at one e. “When the bell rang I was too groggy to know what it was all about.” Then Bobby went on to ex- plain that he frequently turns in his best every time I shot the ball over.” 8o, after all, these athletes who turn in those rare feats in sports are never at their peak when writ- ing it on the scroll. Burke’s case is usual, not unusual. PAGE C—1 Much Exhibition Toil Griffs’ Lot : Yanks’ Success Up to New Infield HEYSTONE ROOKIES HOLD KEY TO FATE Crosetti, Saltzgaver Must Click if Power, Hurling Are to Count Fully. (Note—This is seventh of serles of rst-hand stories on major league base all prospects.) BY ALAN GOULD, Assoclated Press Sports Editor. T. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 14—The New York Yankees must collect big dividends on a $150,000 investment in youthful infield talent this year if they are to realize their hope of ending the three-year reign of the Athletics in the American League. The club packs the most paralyzing batting punch in the league, or will just as soon as Babe Ruth shakes hands politely with Col. Ruppert and signs his 1932 contract. It figures to have better pitching, despite the tem- porary loss of Henry Johngon, but there is still a big question mark hov- ering over the infleld. The keystone kids in the latest and most expensive Yankee ensemble are 21-year-old Frank Crosettl, sensational shortstop bought two years ago from San Prancisco for 1932 delivery, and Otto (Jack) Saltzgaver, 25-year-old second baseman from St. Paul. Six years ago the late Miller Hug- gins conducted just such an experi- ment and started the Yankees off on their second pennant winning streak after installing two young men named Koenig _and ri to work around second base. Joe McCarthy is optimistic history will repeat itself, but Marse Joe by no means js burning his bridges behind him. He has in reserve three seasoned infielders in Tony Lazzeri, Joe Sewell and Eddie Farrell in case the present combination of Saltzgaver and Cros- ettl, flanked at third by Lyn Lary and at first by Larruping Lou Gehrig, fails to click within -the remaining month of training. Of the two youngsters Crosetti has made the stronger impression. Mc- Carthy praises him highly. Babe Ruth labels him “a great kid.” The camp followers unite in stamping the black- haired California boy as the best-look- ing young infielder to reach the majors in years. He is fast, he can throw and he banged out three hits in his first exhibition game y. Frank him- self just plays ball and listens. Crosetti and Saltzgaver both hit at a 340 clip in class “AA” company in 1931, but they have regular jobs if they do within 40 or 50 points of that against big-time hing. ; ‘There no question about the big wallop otherwise. The outfield of Chapman, Combs and Ruth can be counted on to average .335 or better, even though it is true Combs' arm is not among the best and that the Bam is figuratively “on a dime” in the outer patrol. Gehrig, Lary and Bill Dickey, the first-string backstop, all can be relied on to do their share of slugging. “Murderers’ Row” is still no resting spot for rival pitchers. McCarthy’s own pitching h are based primarily on three-ply effective- ness by George Pipgras, Charley Ruffing and Vernon Gomez, the artistic and brilliant Castillian southpaw. They cannot match the “big three” of the Athletigs, but they should win over 50 games, considering the power house behind them. The ace in the new deck appears to be John Allen, a strong right-hander who won 21 games in the International League last year. Walter Brown, a 220- pound hurlers, also brought up from Jersey City, may win a bull pen berth. The veteran portsiders, Herb Pennock and Ed Wells will be given “spot” as- signments. Henry Johnson, laid low by appendi- citis, likely will not pitch before June, but if Allen comes h to fill the gap Johnson will be “velvet” for the hurling staff in the drive down the pennant stretch. “We were playing the best ball in the league at ‘the close of last seascn,” muses McCarthy, “so why shouldn’t BALTIMORE NETMEN WIN Score Over Dumbarton for Indoor Tennis League Title. BALTIMORE, March 14.—Interparks racketers of Baltimore won the Winter indoor temnis league title yesterday when they conquered Dumbarton Club netmen of Washington, 5 to 4. Summaries: Singles. Edward Jacobs_(Interparks) defeated Dick Mason. 6—32, ; Elmer Rudy (Interparks) won by default ' from Pred Dovle; John Purinton (Dumbarton Club) won by default from Aaron Miller: Joseph Skrentny (Inter- ) defeated Joseph Rutley. 6—2. 6-—2: Joseph Hogan (Interparks) defeated Pat- rick Walker, 9—7. 6—3; W. H._ Walker (Dumbarton ' Club) defeated Walter E. Beuchelt, §—8. 6—3. Doubles. Edward Jacgbs and Elmer Rudy (Inter- parks) won default from Fred Doyle and Comdr. C. C. Gill: Dick Mason and Joseph Rutiey {Dumbarton Club) defeated Walker (Dumbarton Club) won by default from Walter E. Beuchelt and Aaron Miller. ISAM STRANG, FIRST PINCH HITTER, DIES Former Oriole, Giant, Cub and Dodger Passes On at Chatta- nooga at Age of 56. | | By the Assoclated Press. | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 14. —Strang Nicklin, whose batting ability | gave base ball the term “pinch hitter,” died last t. He was 56 and cmunmoocn Club Nicklin was with the New York Giants many years agc and M John McGraw noted the with which he hit in pinches. So he called him a “pinch hitter"—and the term stuck. MecGraw called him “Sammy Strang,” as he always was known as a big leaguer. Nicklin was born here in 1876 and entered professional base ball with St. Joseph, Mo., after he was graduated Irom the University of Tennessee. He later played with the Baltimore Orioles, New_ Yark Giants, Chi Cubs and In 1 Ruth’s Signature Due Today Babe and Colonel Get Wires Crossed and Neither Receives Expected Call. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. T. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 14—The chances are that Col. Jacob Ruppert will sign Babe Ruth, the biggest hold- out in base ball, some time this aft- ernoon. The colonel says that $70,000 for a one-year contract is top price. Ruth wants a'two-year contract. It would not be entirely surprising to see the Babe sign for one year at $75,000, although the colonel may stand firm. And a man should be able, in these days, to get along on that salary. Col. Ruppert arrived here yester- day morning and waited in his ho- tel for the Babe to telephone. The Babe walted in his hotel for the colonel to telephone. to have nobody ‘They appear had ir signs erossed, and nlzpt‘:ud. : % ‘The colonel went & walk and the Babe went out to z lf. The colonel attended the n ball game between the Yankees and the Eu‘\;ees, but the Babe was an ab- vhad the up to suffering ‘which has , and the stands, so far as temperature was concerned, greatly resembled an S ESdouts. appéas o be oldouts - a] to neral in this part of the c:elmtryA'e It even is-rumored that Eddie Bennett, the Yankee bat boy, is a holdout. He has not, at least, made his appear- ance with the team. (Copyright. 1932. by the North American | Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) PERCY WENDELL DIES. BOSTON, March 14 (#)—Percy L. Wendell, college foot ball coach and all-America star at Harvard in 1912, 18 | dcad of pneumonia. He Was 43, - ’