Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1932, Page 33

—_— WEAVER, DELANEY ONHILL TODAY, T00 .. Friedrich, Ragland and Cronin | Shine in Griffs’ 5-to-4 Win in Opener. } BY TOM DOERER. ULFPORT, Miss., March 16. —With the first clash of the grapefruit season suc- cessfully pocketed, Walter Johnson’s band of Nationals ar- rived here early this afternoon to engage in the second of the seven listed encounters with the Balti- more Orioles, this time right smack up on the latter's own front lawn. Today both clubs were scheduled to throw in smarter pitching, tighten up their line-ups a notch or two and point both barrels at the target. Following & pow-wow between Clark Griffith and Walter Johnson last night, the chieftains agreed that the best was none too good to pop up cannon crack- ers to the Monumental City nine, so| Carl Fisher, your rejuvenated fork- | fisted pea shooter, was nominated to fling at the Orioles, by way of a three- | start. Back of the enthusiastic Carl will come Mike Delaney, the boy from Chi- cago, who has been right-handing him- | self into fine shape back there in 3 Biloxd. Weaver to Finish Up. I If Baltimore thinks that spells trou- | ble, the worst will come in the final three innings of the afternoon, when Monte Weaver, the reformed college professor, serves to his former team- mates the brand of shooting which nearly won for them an International League gonfalon last semester. Carl Reynolds, whose mighty right- | hand smacking was not mighty down at Biloxi yesterday, and Heine Manush, | who got himself a hit in the same | combat, will await the arrival of the team back home. Joe Judge, too, who | for some reason or another failed to|show houses. Movies of Altrock and into action yesterday, will snooze it out this afternoon, according to the best and latest advices from the front. Spencer, also, will sit among the & Wl le the rookie catchers, Howard Maple and work. Hi From the other side of the lines | thinnest pitcher in captivity. comes the information that Fritz Maizel, Oriole leader, will counter with the best he has in'stock. The little 1 Baltimorean will toss none other than Beryl Richmond, his prize kage, at the Nationals in the first hird of the tussle, and come back with Holloway and one of his many prom- | ising rooks. All hands were pleased With yeste: day's showing against Beltimore, in- | the rookie hux;hr. li‘mg‘g gnt- lw qnecl to} the Orfige second baseman. It | went rocketing for & fc around the bags. Griff and Johnson Pleased. Both Griff and Johnson were pleased with the reaction of the game. They the rookie pitchers’ after-game :&wde and %h were pleased with CLff Bolton, do the | the in style of fieeing around the bags, his head thrill. Biloxi Bunts LOXI, Miss, March 16.—Mayor Kennedy threw an overhand right pitch to start the parade yesterday. Several hundred na- tives watched the fracas from the stands, while all the waiters in Biloxi and Gulfport had a special section. Griff may be able to buy a cigar on the proceeds. The Boys' Band, led by Al Schacht, furnished the music during the game. It helped as much as a hot Summer sun to liven up the afternoon. Bob Friedrich, the pitcher, did not get a hit, but he takes a nice cut at the apple. He is a confident youngster both at bat and on the hill. Buddy Myer got the first hit for Washington in the third, when he pelted cut a double into deep center. Gumbert, the Oriole rookie who held Washington, Cleveland and the Athletics down to 7 hits in 14 innings last Spring, was going good until then. ~But Manush, West and Cronin slapped sin- gles to end his three innings with two runs and four hits. Sam Rice brought the customers on their heels in the ninth when he raced for Rogers' long rap, catching it off his third shoe lace. Sam is one of those hestis-up runners and it is not an easy matter for him to break and duck for low ones. Bolton’s liner in_the fourth nearly sizzled through Melton, the 6-foot 4- inch Oriole rookie hurler. Myer burned one at Heine Sand in the sixth, but the vet held onto it. There were several sharp raps in this ball game which would have brought midseason fans off their chairs. Johnnie Kerr was one of those pep- per boxes at third. He rattled inces- santly, encouraging the pitchers and spicing up the action. Vangraflin, too, speeded up play, and as a result, the tussle ended in about 1 hour and 50 minutes. “The shortest first exhibition game I've ever handled,” said Van. After this session today the Nats will go back to batting practice for two days. When the team leaves for Mo- bile, Kerr, Harris and Reynolds will be left at home to help the rest of the squad tackle the Biloxi Bakers on Biloxi field Sunday afternoon. A theater party was tendered the Nationals last night at one of the local Schacht were shown. ‘Tauscher, the long, lean ex-National hurler, held the Griffs to four scat- ter red hits in three innings. He was effective of the Oriole e a) to be the most moundsmen. Sam Rice banged a sweet two-bagger the seventh off Tauscher. Sam's up, gave the customers a RICHBOURG GROOMED AS BRUINS’ GLEAN-UP —_— ur-ply Visit | gy Brave Fills Bill in Game With Giants—McGraw Is Keen on Lindstrom as Fielder. youngsters, Griffith, | By the Associated Press. Friedrich and Ragland. Johnson had a lot of praise for Ralph Boyle, the | Took outfielder who nipped one off his | shoes in the ninth. “Ragland is a steady youngster with a Iot of poise for a kid; Grifiith was a | little befuddled and Priedrich has a world of stuff. The latter is a wonder- fui prospect, and he showed, under fire, the things I thought he would,” said Walter. Lynn Griffith, the big lefthander Tex- an, drew 1 beating in his portion of the nine-inning scuffie, which finally went to Washington, 5-4. Lynn was pelted for 3 runs and 5 of the 10 hits made by Baltimore in the fifth, his second inning in the combat. Griffith took the first hurdle like a champion, but went into the fifth in- ning to get rapped for two singles be- fore he could hitch his trousers. With two on, Heffner, Balttmore’s slight but punchy second sacker, hoisted the onion | far into centerfield for a run around the sacks and 3 tallles. Two more hits were snared off Griffith, but he tightened the rest of the way, and came out of the sixth with only another hit tacked upon him. That was the most disastrous inning to the Nationals. Baltimore had scored one run off Friedrich in the second, giving the Orioles a 4-2 lead over the American Leaguers at that point. | Griffs Stage Big Inning. | But a big inning in the seventh brought the Nationals up to a tie, when Cronin, who achieved & triple, a double | and a single to his credit for five times up, belted his three-bagger to score Sam Rice. A whack by Boyle followed, and Joe came tearing in with the tying ru In the ninth, with the score still des locked, Joe sent West home with the winning run on his double. It was Mr. Cronin's day as well as the rookie pitchers’. But Mr. Cronin has been in the habit of doing things like this so long that it is not as newsy as the achievements of the kids. Priedrich’s tenure on the mound was an interesting one. He 15 a spectacular hurler of the Lefty Grove type, burning them over, with the addition of a lot of funny-breaking shoots. His bag of tricks seems unlimited. Buzz Arleit, the former Philadelphia National, play- | ing-left field for the visitors, barged into & two-base clout in the second stansa. Heine Sand’s smack, a little later, sent the Buzzard tearing home. But the resourceful Bob sm over fast ones to McKenna, the catches and Gumbert, the pitcher, to fan them and end his ticklish innin, In his third and final inning Fried- rich showed more staple stuf t g the top of the batting order three fashion. Bob is by far spectacular pitching prospect to cc camp in recent years, according to th: who have been following the Nationals. ‘While he has had the lea | ff of the three youngsters on duty yester- |B: day, he has color, flash and determina- tion. Johnson is more than keen over him. Ragland Makes Good. But Rags Ragland, the Mississippi 3 boy who made good in his home State, was the more cool and deliberate of the flock of kids. The Ragman bore down at times, but never lost control of the situation, and as a result, not an enemy crossed home plate, while but two hits were scored against him He used a fast, short-breaking curve to a great extent, mixing it with a fast gne that was low or high, as he wanted A timely peg from the outfield saved the peninsula boy from difficulty in the ninth, when Jordan pelted the onion for two bases with a runner perched on first. A spectacular catch by Ralph Boyle, the outfielder, again saved | um -:fi\n(tthe side and ending the | S0 far as e Orioles were concerned. Everybody but Grifft and Walter johnson seemed to be in the game, OS ANGELES, March 16.—Lance Richbourg, who was obtained this Winter from the Boston Braves, | may land the clean-up job in the Cub batting order this year. ‘The ex-Brave was shuffled into that | important role yesterday for the sev- enth exhibition game against the New York Giants and greatly pleased Man- ager Rogers Hornsby. two hits and hurried up the attack with his dashes. In two other shake-ups in the Cub batting line, Billle Herman batted sec- ond, while “Woody” English was in sixth position. CLEARWATER, Fla, March 16 (®). —The boys are ringing the classics in on Prof. Max Carey's Brooklyn Dodg- ers, but they win just the same. On Sunday they played against Ci- cero of the Reds, and yesterday it was Virgil Davis and Homer Dudley of the Phillies. OS ANGELES, March 16 (#).—John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, has discovered a new rea- why he doesn't want Hugh Critz, second baseman, to have any more trouble with the arm that kept him out of action so much last season. Mc- Graw doesn'c want to move Freddy Lindstrom back to the infleld. Lindy, who shifted to the outfield last season, has developed into an un- usually good defensive gardener in the center field job. TAMPA, Fla, March 16 (#).—Er- nest Lombardi and Wally Gilbert, ex- Dodgers, make their first appearances in uniforms of the Cincinnati Reds today in an exhibition contest with the Phillies at Winter Haven. Whether “Babe” Herman, acknowl- edged kingpin of the trade that sent Joey Stripp and Tony Cuccinello to the Brooklyn club, will recede from his holdout demands is uncertain, but the Reds’ management exuded confi- dence. Starting Right 0 o orouosoom® T 1 Ml SOttt Smmorond oooormHomon o tateiy P o =} e 8l oncowae: Totals ...35 1024 12 ¢ winning run scored. for Grimth in sixth inoing. 1003000 0—4 0200030 15 Manush, Rice, West. Cronin. Sand. ‘Kenna. Errors—Hefl- Runs batted in—Sand, Manush. Heffner (3)." Boyle ubel to Myer. ore. 9. Washington, e on balls—Off Friedrich. 1: off G off Grifith. 1. off Ragland. Tauscher, 1. Hits—Off Friedrich. 3 1 nings: off Gumbert. 4 in 3 inn! fith. 6 in 3 innings: off Melton, 4 nings: off Ragland. 2 in 3 1 Tauscher, 5 of in 3% 1 k. while on the Baltimore side only the mayor sesmed to be out of the line-up. Boyle, Dave Harris, Johnnile Kerr and Sam Rice got in after the original outfit was under way. Howard Maple, the catcher Baltimore could not borrow, and Cliff Boiton al- ternated behind the bat, both getting a hit and both making splendid tries at weird fouls, & ~ @he WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foeni o Star, Classified Ads WASHINGTON, Carl Fischer Gets Chance at Orioles : Fonseca Hopes to Prove Miracle Man | JOLLEY SURPRISES - ASTYRO BACKSTOP Fonseca’s Critics Switch to| | Praise—Tribe Rejoices [ Over Lefthander. By the Assoclated Press, AN ANTONIO, Tex., March 16— All the experts who laughed right out Joud in front of Lew Fonseca wken the White Sox manager an- nounced plans to convert big Smead Jolley from an outfielder to a catcher | were penning praises for the experi- ment today. Smead is making good as a backstop much faster and better than even Fon- seca expected. In four intracamp games, Jolley hasn't committed an er- ror or allowed a ball to pass through him, whilé his big stick has been de- livering timely hits. NEW ORLEANS, La., March 16— These was rejoicing in the Cleveland | Indians camp today over the belief that for the first time in several years the | Tribe will have a dependable left- | handed pitcher. Thornton (Lefty) Lee held the To- leda Mud Hens hitless and scoreless |and only issued one pass in the three innings he worked yesterday. The Tribe won the nine-inning exhibition, 6 to 2. AKLAND, Calif., March 16.—Man- ager Bucky Harris was elated to- | day over the showing his Detroit | Tigers made in trouncing Oakland, 9 to 12, in yesterday’s exkibition game. | The aroused Tigers bagged a homer, |two triples and two doubles. Pitcher | Art Herring contributed the home run, while Jonathan Stone accumulated a | triple and a double. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 16. — Henry Johnson, one of the New York Yankees' best right handers, has| returned to the training camp after several weeks’ absence. | Henry recently underwent an opera- | tion for appendicitis. T PALM BEACH, Fla, March | 16.—Defeated by the Yannigans, 5 to 4, in their first clash yester- day, the Regulars of the St. Louis Browns today were to meet the second- stringers again. “Goose” Goslin, Benny Bengough and Westcott Kingdom made a home run each in yesterday’s abbreviated “game.” Jimmy McLaughlin's fielding for the Yannigans marked him for a possible transfer to the Regulars’ side. He also made a two-base hit. SAVANNAH, Ga., March 16.—Oyver Slaalien, the rookie pitcher here with the Red Sox to show whether or nct he should be recommended to some minor league team, has plenty of speed and_pretty good forked ball. _Added to that nothing scares him. He has the physique of a pitcher and lots of ambition, and Shono Collins says, “You can mark it down—Sy’s going to be a big league pitcher before many Seasons are gone.” AR A D. C. POLICEMEN TRAIL Occupy Last Place in National Pistol League Competition. Metropolitan Police pistol team now is on the bottom of the heap in the race for honors in the National Police 130 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932. Bup! M\/El:/- BOBS VERSION ..-:+ BE A LogBy oM DOBRER, BLokl,miss, BOBBY BURKE GOES ARTY. TRENE MANUSH ~A; 808 4665 HIM BOBY GETTING TO FQURE -1OT SrTTER, Training Tilts By the Assoclated Press. Pistol League, following defeat in its | last match at the hands of New York’s | “finest.” The Gotham Bluecoats scored 1,410 points to 1,377 for Washington. He banged out sy | Boston. Mass . Delawere & | New York City Los Angeles. Ca Massachusetts St Washington | Sunday School Diamond League to Meet Tomorrow Night. HYATTSVILLE, March 16.—A meet- |ing to further organization of a Sun- day School Base Ball League will be held tomorrow night in the parish hall of Pinkney Memorial Church hete at 7:30 o'clock | Colesville is urged to have a repre- ‘senm!l\'c present or advise Vernon Clarke, telephone Hyattsville 1672-J. Walter Johnson, sitting in on bees. B him,” said the man upon whom Clarl it comes to handling his players. Johnson’s argument is that the numerous cases in base ball where a At Biloxi, Miss.—Washington (A.), 5; Baltimore (I. L), 4. At San Francisco—Pittsburgh (N.), 8; Missions (P. C. L., 2. At New Orleans—Cleveland (A.), 6; Toledo (A. A.), 2. At Los Angeles—New York (N.), 8; Chicago (N.), 7. At Oakland, Calif—Detrolt (A), 9; Oakland (P. C. L.), 2. At St. Petersburg, Fla—New York (A.), 3; Boston (N.), 2. At Clearwater, Fla—Brooklyn (N.), 9; Philadelphia (N.), 8. At Sarasota, Fla.—sSt. Louls (N.), 6; | TENNIS CONFAB DELAYED The annual meeting of the District Public Parks Tennis Association, sche- | duled last night, has been postponed until next Tuesday night at the Ken- nedy-Warren. Several changes n the constitution are to be considered, officers elected, | and a date set for the annual associa- tion championships. Mistakes Provid(; Real Test Of a Player, Says Johnson ILOXI, Miss, March 16.—“Mistakes never break a ball player,” says one of those now numerous fanning “If & player can come back, then a mistake will never check k Griffith puts full confidence when real test of a great ball player is the player's ability to come back after being downed. He points to player has been severely beaten by a mistake, lost his grip by another, and of other incidents where a mediocre player could have come crashing back on his mistake to go over with a bang—enly to feel that his mistake was final. “Mistakes have made man: eat players,” contends Johnson, “when they would have been but oram'.rff athletes had not a mistake, or a series of them, given them a fighting spirit. Johnson points to Babe Ruth’s case some years back, when the Babe | was all but out for the count as the result of man Bam came back it showed that he had the real stuff. mistakes. “When the He would have been | but an ordinary player had he believed his mistake was final, and the act | over.” | Besi . argues Walter, only the players who try to do something the laggards 1 not attempt make mistakes. The dime-a-dozen ball player makes few mistakes because he attempts little. e greatest base ball sin, according to Johnson, for a pitcher to toss down of the box in feather, glove in disgust when he is being whipped. temper, he contends, is the greatest . Walking out display of the white > EASY SAILING ENDS FOR NET INVADERS Borotra, Boussus, Gentien to Face Strong Rivals in U. S. Quarter-Finals. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, March 16.—Storm signals were hoisted for all three members of the French contingent in the national in- door tennis championships today. Jean Borotra, defending champion, Tan up against Berkeley Bell of New York; Christian Boussus was matched with Gregory S. Mangin of Newark, and Antoine Gentien tackled Jullus Selig- son of New York. Borotra and Bell, & step ahead of the fleld, gained the quarter finals yes- terday with straight set victories. The French veteran turned back young Ed- die Jacobs of Baltimore, 7T—5, 6—3, while Bell was disposing of Ernest Kos- lan of Hamilton, N. Y., 6—2, 6—1. Bell carried Borotra to five sets in the finals of this tournament a year ago and was given an even chance of t\xx'rerllg)ptng the great Frenchman this Mangin, another American who has been playing superlative tennis, was a slight favorite over the left-handed | Boussus. Gentien definitely was the | underdog against Seligson, former in- tercollegiate champion. Such favorites as George Lott of Chi- gfioldnsnd‘ iidney B. Wood and Frank elds of New York expected to the quarter finals, ~ * feach Fistic Battles By the Associated Press. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Eddie Lord, Cleveland, outpointed Jimmy De An, Erle, Pa. (10); Harry Robertson, Port Huron, Mich, outpointed Mickey Gen- | aro, Montgomery, Ala. (10); Eddie Fel- ton, Detroit, outpointed Glenn Camp, Chicago (10); Eddie Kopple, Detroit, | outpointed Eddy Black, Milwaukee (10) (first round matches of National Box- ing Association’s lightweight champion- ship tournament). INDIANAPOLIS,—Tracy Cox, Indian- apolis, knocked out Tony Leto, Cleve- land (2). LANSING, Mich. — Pettit Ferrarer, Lansing, stopped Chuck Wiggins, In- dianapolis (6); Ace Martin, knocked out Charley Fibinger, Detroit JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Frankie - gren, Cheyenne, Wyo, outpointed Sid | Terrls, Chapel Hill, N. C. (10). WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Willie Oster, Boston, outpointed Ray Tramblie, Rockford, 11l (10) ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex. — Eddie Mack, Denver, knocked out Frankie | Fink, Dallas, Tex. (3). PORTLAND, Oreg.—Ah Wing Lee, Portland, and Benny Pelz, Portland, drew (6); Roy Ockley, Cloudburst, Mont., outpointed Wildcat Carter, Seat- tle, Wash. (6). —By DOERER THE LOBBY-SITTING CHAMPIONSHIP' GOES 10 SOMEONE BLSE—~ BOBSs OccuPED ELSEWHERE, AND Hi5 PALS ALL MISS HIM cirieaaanaree e ONE OF BILLY SMITH 0R MIKE MARTIN, <AL DURKE GB<S OUY NIy PENCILS AND PAPERS AT AIGHT ~ DOWAl HERE N BILOXI....co AND, UNLIKKE- MOST ECCENTRIC LEFT-HAND PITCHERS , DOES NITEATANIMAL CRACKERS Meet Michael Angelo Burke! Sir Robert Seeks to Crash Into Esthetic Realms in a Left-handed Manner. BY TOM DOERER. ILOXI, Miss, March 16— There was a time in base preference for art over other of hobbies until ball when they said that left-hand pitchers ate ani- mal crackers and peanuts in bed. “And shoved the peanut hulls out with their feet,” adds Joe Judge, sitting nearby, with his feet on the radiator. However, that was in the good old days when Rube Waddell was the clown prince of them all; when searching | Bronxite with the hot-shot haberdashery | parties used to find him out fishing in the next county as the time came for him to reluctantly get up on the hillock. And it was i a time when there was much less money being paid dall players than the magnates now dish out. A player cannot get foolish now, with all this important money at stake. But here's something you never be- | fore knew. Bobby Burke, the no-hit- no-run pitching luminary of last year with the Griffs, is a sports cartoonist in the evenings when he has doffed his uniform and put aside his pitching worries. And there is nothing left-handed about hs pet hobby, either. We car- toonists must hold one another up. (I heard you the first time.) Robert, once the lobby-sitting cham- plon of the training camps of other days, now is Bob the Cartoonist, who would rather sit up in his room in the evenings and take pen pokes at Walter Johnson, Clark Griffith and his play- | mates than spend the evening fanning with them or talking about next Win- uir'gastyles in fishing rods and golf clubs. g For years Bob has been interested in cartoons and pen-and-pencil por- traits of sports celebraties. But his pitching duties have made it im- possible for him to devote too much time to his art work. Yet the lack of time mever dampened his spirit or cured his liking for art work. TNiustrating this epic of verbs and name-your-own are several of the sketches which your correspondent. has been able to garner from the stack made by Sir Robert during his idle mo- | ments. They are fair samples of Bob's work and indicate that the long, lean south- of ink and a pen. Y called on your peerless pitcher the other evening, down the hall, and propped up in bed, with card- board and paper, was none other than Sir Robert, in his yellow-striped pajamas, scurrying out some sketches of the boys at camp. “How long has this candle-burning art work been going on?” I asked him. “It is a new wrinkle,” grinned Bob. “I am sort of getting interested in this sketching stuff and, like all artists, I am getting temperamental and slightly erratic in my working hours.” Bob’s been interested in drawing since a youngster back there in Joliet, Ill. A brother is in the pro- fession in Chicago, and. Bob does a lot of picture-gazing at the latter's studio during the Winter months. “I would like to be able to write and draw when my pitching days are over,” said Bob. “I know of no other work which I would like better. It may be that I can further my talent for art work some day and then have it mean something. I know it is crude now, but, ANGELES —Dynamite Jackson, LOS Santa Monica, Callf, w“ “Dutch” Elliott, Auumbrm‘ @®). nevertheless, I get a great kick out of it. It is more fun than cross-word puz- Few arofind camp knew of Bob's | There will have to be another lobby- sitting champion. The art germ has bitten Bobby, and when that animal gets ‘em they stay bit. 1t appears as if the next title holder will be—well, of all people who do you think it may be? None other than that former man-about-town, that restless and habiliment—Al Schacht. Imagine that ome! —_— D. C. GUNNERS HAVE TASK | Must Defeat Orioles Saturday or| | | Lose Series for Year. ‘Washington Gun Club trapshots are preparing to make a stern bid for vic- tory against Oriole Gun Club of Balti- | as another loss will mean victory in this year’s series for the Marylanders, who already have won three matches in the string of seven. Washington will be counting upon its leading shots, including C. C. Faw- sett, District champion; Julius Marcey, R. D. Morgan, Parker Cook, Lieut. Comdr. F. P, Williams, H. H. Shelton, Dr. Wynkoop, Dr. Monroe, Dr. Stine and Dr. Parsons. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. DDIE FOSTER looms as a regu- lar on the Washington base ball team. George Sutton defeated Willie Hoppe, 500 to 374, to win the 18.1 balkline world billiard title. Immaculate swept thrée games against Fat Men in the National Capital Duckpin League. Cullen, Post, Fenton, Lovering and Fridley rolled for Immaculates and James, Ball, Stohlman, Poston and Miller for the losers. | | more Saturday on the Benning range | PAGE C—1 HURLERS STRESSED * BY CHISOX LEADER Three Ex-Griffs Figure in Am- bitious Plans—Club Lacks Sluggers. (Note—This is the ninth frst-hand Associated. Bress Stovies’ o mafor league base dall prospects.) S hopes to prove magician enough to develop the sec- ond-division White Sox follies of 1930-31 into a 1932 first-division pennant drama. His foundation of hope is the Sox pitching corps. He maintains it will compare with the league’s best. Talk pitchers to Fonseca and he points to Ted Lyons, Urban Faber, Al- phonse Thomas, Pat Caraway, Victor Frasier, Irving Hadley, Ralph Erickson, Jones and Milton Gaston and explains he has hurlers to spare. Jones and Hadley are acquisitions from Wash- ington. Mention heavy hitters to the Sox skipper and he blushes. He is still searching for the wallop that was absent in the punchless seventh place ?;:;( of 1930 and the last placers of BY BILL PARKER. AN ANTONIO, Tex., March 16. —Manager Lewis Fonseca NSECA expects some excellent pitching from Frasier who won 13 and lost 15 last season. He thinks with the normal amount of improve- ment and confidence that Prasler will win 20 games. “Ted Lyons,” explained Fonseca, “had a sore arm last year. Thomas was only fair. I expect improved pitching from these two. Caraway worked in 51 o8 last year. It was too much. I plan to pitch him his regular turn and believe he will win around 18 games. Red Faber will be used in spots and may win at least 10 games.” ‘The outstanding rookie pitcher is Ralph Erickson, a big southpaw, who won 15 and lost 10 at Shreveport last year. The infield shapes up with Lou Blue at first, Minter Hayes at second, Chal- mer Cissell at shor at third. Blue and Oissell are Tegr holdovers. Hayes was obtained frem Washington. Selph was drafted from he o0, Belon, wae o vemsis Hardoy e four, was s hitter. He batted .322, 5 o OSEPH SULLIVAN and Luke App- ling, holdovers, apd Gregory Mul- leavy from Toledo are other!infield candidates with a chance to stick. The outfield is a puzzle. Harold Anderson from St. Paul. Melbourne | Stmons . from Toledo and Bruce Camp- bell from Little Rock are among the most promising recruits. John Wat- wood¥and Bob Fol 1 afe experi- enced major leaguers. Watwood is sure | is trying to develop into a catcher, 2o Tazry Tate Segular’ maskm g’ and Henry % m: en year, will again share the burden. A promise of dependable pitching and | & fairly good defensive infield seems to | be all the Sox have to show in Spring training. The best Fonseca can do is hope that an unknown batting punch will be developsd before the American | League gong sounds. 'MONTGOMERY QUINT REACHES SEMI-FINAL | Takoma-Silver Spring Vanquishes Ellicott City in Western Shore Competition. BALTIMORE, March 16—Takoma- Silver Spring High School baskef ball team, Montgomery County champion, today is in the semi-final round of Western Shore play in the State schol- astic champlonship series, the result of its 32-15 victory over Ellicott City High, Howard County title holder, here yes- terday. Ellicott City managed to hold the Montgomery boys to a 6-4 lead for the first half, but early in the second the Takoma combination, led by its ace, Bozievich, began clicking and soon had a commanding lead, which it held. Bozievich’s 14 points easily gave him game scoring honors. Summary: | Takoma-s. | Ellicott City Tillsworth, f. Donovan, f... Gerhardt, Bozieni, Maulan, Ederely. Schaaf, Townsend, Totals Gl amonomor? Totals * Referee—Mr. Ashely. | ST. JOHN'S GRIDMEN TOIL. ‘ s"“";f training for the St. John's foot ball squad was to start this after- noon on the Monument Grounds to continue three weeks. | BY ALAN GOULD, | Associated Press Sports Editor. T. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 16.—That celebrated dramatic sketch labeled the “Signing of Babe Ruth,” with sound ef- fects, was cue for the big climax today, with Babe wielding a foun- tain pen in the act of helping Col. Jacob Ruppert save the old Yafkee homestead. | Barring some villainous hitch in | the old-fashioned script, the Babe | and the colonel were expected to reach a final agreement. | The delay so far in bringing the i Babe's hold-out act to a close has | bored most of the war correspond- ents, but they all prepared to re- mbl the lobb{d today, sup- If any of the boys fail to get a “shot” at this year's ceremony luwmnotbedugwrn.:avmum 'Bambino Ready to Sling Ink paw knows his way around with a bottle | Expects to Split Difference With Colonel and Play Against Braves Today. e by the Yankee management, which is obtaining the ballyhoo in large chunks. Meanwhile the consensus is that Ruth will win a compromise from his employer to the extent of getting a presidential salary of $75,000 for 1932 only. Up to a late hour neither the Babe nor the colonel had in so many words indicated any recession from cuss any figures, sald he ::rcted to sign and get in his first exhibition game this afternoon against the Boston Braves here. Ruppert's good-natured attitude, lus his suggestion they were “not far apart” prompted the experts to conclude that the colonel would go half way on a one-year contract. He is steadfast in his refusal to consider the Babe again for more a on o s Hagls oo l‘%‘flrlm--flnw