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SPORTS. Picking Pitchers Is Johnson’s Problem : Cards Not Looming as Flag Repeaters RFF SLAB CORPS 1S OUT OF KELTER Colds, Sore Arms Affecting Murlers—Rally in Ninth. Beats Colonels. BY TOM DOERER. OBILE, Ala., March 19— General Alvin Crowder may turn loose all of that pitching punch he has been threatening to show this afternoon against the Louisville Colonels, when your Nationals and the team they whipped yes- terday collide here in 'Bama this afternoon. The General has been r'aring to get up in the saddle since the ?rst day this outfit gathered as a Spanish moss to keep Salem farmer from catching Bwares, On the Side Lines With the Sports Editor. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. EMEMBER Harry Harris? One of the best all- round athletes ever pro- duced in District scho- lastic circles now is a stald in- surance saleman seldom seem where the sportively inclined gather. Nearly two decades ago Har- ris, along with Perry Dowrick, %usr, about comprised all the eams representing Business High School on the gridiron, basket ball court and diamond. Following his graduation Harris launched into profes- sional base ball and was active for a while in the minor leagues, but subsequently de- voted all his energies to a career as merchant, now shelved in favor of endow- ments, straight life and other policies for protection against death, disability and old age. Meeting up with Harry after many years, we ventured his interest in sports now is con- fined largely to the role of spectator, “Yes, and very little of that,” he replied. “I occasionally go to see the topnotchers, fellows like Ruth, den or Jones, but the games themselves, as games, don't interest me.” not to move too far away. AGLAND, Friedrich and Griffith pitched yesterday. Weaver's right flipper is not exactly as he wants it. There still is a twing or two left from that battle over at Gulfport the other afternoon. owing him to get up on the hill and throw at Baltimore in the initial game. ‘Today he sits upon the Biloxi Hotel sofa as forlorn as though he had lost his final friend. WH!’N the bus reached Mobile at noon today it carried Myer, Ma- nush, West, Cronin, Rice, Griffith, Kuhel, Crowder, Bolton, Maple, Delaney, Judge, , Kerr, Ragland, Rey- nolds, Ralph Boyle and the sick and brutsed are back at the Biloxi camp. ‘Tomorrow the Biloxi stay-at-homes scheduled to play the Biloxi Bakers. t of the casual TRICKY little ninth-inning rally broke up a tie yesterday afternoon at Biloxi with the Nationals scor- 8 to 7 over the Colonels for their . Judge walked, singled and Reynclds tore down .to ird. A smack by Maple started Reynolds home and he beat the play at the plate niftily. Carl can slide, . make no mistake about that. As encouraging as Ragland's hurl- Ing, was Judge's fielding. The veteran accepted 10 chances at his position, playing the entire game. One of the -chances was a fly in the eighth, which saved the Ragman from serious trouble, At bat Joe was charged with two official visits. He did not hit, but he Bot & run, two free tickets and was hit on the arm by McKain. It was a nice afternoon for the fellow who is trying popped up to Brown, the Colonels’ first baseman. . Rags allowed two hits and one run -runs in three innings, while Bob Fried- rich, who took the mound first, gave up three runs and six hits. Cronin's bat again gave the kid itchers some help, Joe nailing three ts out of five times up. He, Bluege and Rice have been a big help to the young hurlers. D. C. BOXERS AID MARINES B e Pyne and Braunstein Win as Fort Monroe Is Beaten, 5-1. QUANTICO, March 10.—Aided by Danny Pyne, stellar light-heavyweight of the Catholic University boxing team, And A Real Old-Timer. ARKING back still farther, to our short-pants era, is Lefty Shields, once a well known sandlot hurler here- about, visiting in Washington after a long absence. Shields, who flourished back in the days of the Potomacs, Eastern Buds and Norris-Peters teams, recalled stirring dia- mond battles at Seventeenth and D streets southeast, with and against such luminaries as the Handiboe boys, Shorty Hnfihes, Duke Gates, Tom Cant- well, Curley Brown, Dutch Ster- zer and Red Hooks, and wht Bill Betts was the boss umpire. Shields was trainer for the ‘Washington ' ball club for one year, in 1904, when Patsy Dono- van was manager and directed such famous figures as Tom Hughes, Roaring Bill Clarke, Lew Drill, Malachai Kittredge, Joe Cassidy, Case Patten and Jack Townsend, and now fills a similar berth with the Youngs- town club, Washington’s Middle Atlantic League farm Shields, who claims he launched Doc White on his great mound career, says Presi- dyem-Mnnagelr‘ %oe Cambria of oungstown guring on get- ting Mike Delaney and John Boyle, now training with the Griffmen in Biloxi; believes Tommy Clarke could go far if he would hustle and thinks Gordon Phelps’ hefty swatting will some day earn him a big league berth. Col. Erickson Contributes, THE current ping pong epi- demic reminds Col. Erick- son, librarian at the War College, of an experience. The colonel’s biography, by the way, would rival that of a Norseman of old for adventure and romance. In this instance he was re- turning from an Arctic expedi- tion. In the Spring of 1902, the % 1ty of which he was a member, reached Dawson, Alaska. v The miners,” says the colonel, ‘'were playing a game there 1 had never seen before. I thought it was some sort of Chinese affair. It was ping pong. And those hardy souls of the gold rush country were playing it with almost as grim a spirit as they went after g&d ‘il:ll thbey might. Some- es ey bet as mu $5,000 on a game.” R Biloxi Bunts OBILE, Ala, March 19.—Big Moe Berg took 8 pinch-hitting role in the game with the Colonels at Biloxi yesterday and popped | the Cuban shortstop tDOffvarce, and Sammy Braunstein, also of Wash- ington, Quantico Marines defeated Army battlers from Fort Monroe, five bouts to one, in a ring card here last night. Army downed the Leathernecks earlier this season. Pyne defeated Jack Cleer of Fort Monroe in four rounds and Braunstein scored a technical knockout over Ted Smith in the third round of a sched- uled four-rounder. BUSY WITH BATS ‘Wash' Loutsville E. Punk.cf... aguire.2b. ynelf Nach'nd.ri.. Brown 1b.." Olivares.ss.. 3b.. A Funk. Adair,3b eac.... .. icKson.c. . atter.n. .. &iB,5... > ] ©OOUOH - Drpataaitt o onorrossconc” > o ] 3| concommmmicnsmmsed PRISUISPISIN <O Kerr.3b...... Bolton.c Maple,c. Priedrich *Berg SR e Oh 2| conoormnoorurmori 2| cowsooonnssnceson” 36112413 *Batted for Priedrich in third inning. fBatted for Grifith in sixth inning. Louisville .. 1200030107 Washington 00400030 18 Runs_Myer. Manush. West. Boyle. Cronin. Reynolds, Judge, Berg. E. Funk (3), Brown, A~ Fun ea, ) rrors—Brown, Olivares,'A. Purk (2), 5 zich. Runs batted 1 ] OO PR Tokals. o Myer. Cronin. Pried Maguire (3), A. Punk . | BY the Associated Press. ™ to Cronin to out~!§ riMith, 1. by McKain, 2; 4 1 t “base on balls—Off offt Grifith, & off Hatter, 1: 1o 3 naings: ot Hatter 79 s atier 7 n : off Orlflllié! 3 inn . ] ball—B :K.lla, lJudl:n. :|5; San Francisco Seals (P. C. ‘10 L), 6; New York (N.), 1. 7] New Orleans (8. A), 3. Buddy Myer, still in the rubber shirt, |gave the Nationals & big start in the | second inning when he poled a sweet- | ringing single. It roused Manush, West, Cronin and Reynolds to siamming, 1f | the boys hit in that fashion when the curtain goes up Uncle Clark Griffith | certatnly will be pleased. Four runs came from the crashing of leather in | the inning. | Plenty of errors, but the field w little rough and the bounces were l::k.-. |ing pecullar slants. However, our side engineered three smart double plays. Errors by Cronin and Myer in the sixth inning rattled the harassed Griffith. Louisville in vesterday's encounter looked a smarter club than Baltimore. An error started the Nationals' run- getting streak in the third inning and another gave them a break which re- | sulted three more runs in the | seventh. While the game was not much, the | sunshine was perfect, and it gave the boys new hope. A few more days of sunshine and they'll be full of that pep- per they displayed the first three W!QEJ down here. Training Tilts At San Francisco—Pittsburgh (N.), L), 3 ). a1 At ind, Calif.—Detrolt (A), 16; Oakland (P. C. L.), 4. At San Diego, Calif.—Hollywood (P. At New Orleans—Cleveland (A.), 5; already | — THE EVENING MANGIN IS PLAYING SHIELDS FOR THTLE National Tennis Laurels in Indoor Meet. By the Associated Press EW YORK, March 19.—Gregory S. Mangin of Newark was given his first chaace at a national tennis title and a possible berth on the United States Davis Cup team today. The New Jersey star, playing the best tennis of his career, stacked up against Frank Shields of New York in the final round of thé national indoor cham- pionships. Shields is ranked No. 3 nationally and Mangin at No. 11, but the Newark boy has shown a fine disregard for the United States Lawn Tennis Associa- tion’s official list in this tournament. His first important victim was Chris- tian Boussus of Prance, who succumbed to Mangin's spectacular play on Wed- nesday. Then Sidney B. Wood, ranked at No. 7, found the Newark star’s all- around game too much to cope with. Yesterday he entered the finals by whipping George Lott of Chicago, No, 2 in the nati)nal rankings. And what is more Mangin put out these three opponents without the loss of a set. Lott gave him a fight in only one set yesterday, the second, which went 16 games before Mangin won it. He took the first set, 6—1 and the third, 6—0. Shields, whose service has been brok';n momyfln onl:e dln his five matches up e als, disposed of Berkeley Bell, 6—4, 6—4, 6—4. Bell, who had d;:elud Jean Borotra, defendin champion, on Wednesday played excel- lent tennis, but he eoaldn't break Bhields' service while Shields broke :gmshoneeinuchmwnhfilt vantage. Whatever the result of the finals it was considered likely Mangin and Shields would be called upon to play singles in the international matches against France next week. Mangin flso may earn a berth on the Davis gup sq;;{ad. perhaps uman alternate, if e makes a owing Shields and in the team mnbche:‘.z‘m The doubles final brought together the veteran combination of Lott and John Van Ryn and the newer team of Bell and Mangin. \ BY. J. P. ALLEN, EW YORK, March 19.—Persistency is bound to achieve its reward in sports as in other things of life. That is to say that Gregory S. Mangin stands in the final round of the na- tional indoor tennis championship singles today. All through his career the former Georgetown captain has had an uphill battle to gain recognition. Now that he has defeated George Martin Lott, ir., acknowledged leader of Davis Cup forces, in straight sets, it will be diffi- cult to deny his rightful heritage. As the climax of the tournament, Mangin faces Francis X. Shields for the champlonship laurels, formerly held by Jean Borotra. That should furnish glittering fireworks in the way of stroking. Mangin is the lone player of the seeded group who has held his game to 100 per cent efficiency. It may not be amiss to reveal that he has prepared most industriously for this coming sea- son on the courts. Daily he has fought through hard sets on the courts of the heights casino. It was there he learned to change his grip, which previously accounted for his amazing number of nets as he volleyed. Look at his record in this tourna- ment. In turn he has defeated Edward G. Tarangioli, Ramey Donovan, Chris- tian Boussus, Sidney B. Wood, jr., and lastly, Lott, the No. 1 seeded contender, All have bowed in straight sets. Mangin has learned to volley with almost magical changes of pace. He is one of the fastest men on the ball now treading the courts. Shields is an entirely different type of player. The tall Hercules of the courts depends upon power. Shields now occupies the position Tilden held several years ago —fl;dLhz hardest hitter known to the world. Much of Shield's play against Berk- eley Bell, the Texan, held its great effectiveness in the force of its bom- bardment. At the net he was never as secure as Mangin. At all events, Mangin will have the opportunity to demonstrate his ability to overcome power and speed. Shires Takes Big Chew, Ends Slump T. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 19 (#).—Arthur (The Great) Shires has won the tobacco chewing champlonship of the Boston Braves. Art had been a total loss at bat for a while, and things didn’t look too good for him to come to life against Lefty Grove in yesterday's game with the A's. But Shires, munching & massive cud of tobacco, whanged a long three-bagger to right field, which scored two run- ners and played a big part in the Tribe’s 5-3 win. ILOXI, Miss,, March 19.—Mr. Al Schacht, your Nationals' third base coach and part- time comedian, tramps inces- santly the corridors of Hotel Biloxi floor in the quiet of the evening. "I want to go back to America,” At Bradenton, Fla—St. Louls (N.), 4; Philadelphia (N.), 3. At _Sarasota, Fla—Indianapolis (A. A), 6; New York (A), 5. At Bt. i .)flg.—m N, .—Washington (A.), 88y Mr. Schacht, when questioned o the meaning of his nocturnal sessions. A fine hotel, good food and fair weather—swell playmates do not AL He's b - o show the boy Gets His First Chance at| STAR, JoE CRONIN STiLL. CAN STICK OUT THE WAR CLUB AND MACE A TRIPLE RIDE OFP TS NOSE..... WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY THE SAME BOYS YOU KNOW. assie BLUEGE 3 sTiee 5 A' BALL PLAVER'S PLAYER® DOING His WORK WELL, WITHOUT ANY FUSS FLANNELS UNTIL THE GAME STARTS - THE WORLD'S MOST ELEG\BLE BATCHELORY SAY THE PLANERS ... '| Strangers Scarce in Camp 3Y TOM DOERER. OBILE, Ala, March 19.— M It's the same old gang you knew back there in Washington that is cavort- ing here in Dixieland. Locale has not changed them one bit and a | Winter has only streaked a hair |or two. There’s Buddy Myer, for in- sfance, still poking a left-hand |jab at the onion and ringing it | down the line sharply. . . . Buddy and the missus like to play cards, and the young pair from Ellis- ville, Miss., are good players. Manush, a little peeved when a paper | says he is “fat”...Heine is 200, but in wonderful shape, better condition than he was in when you last baw him up there around Florida avenue...Clark Griffith says Heine is in great shape... He still can get his blows...Look out | next Summer. . . Heine likes to sit around |and read during the off hours...He | reminds one of a fighter, short nose, Ithick jaw and what a build! Little Sammy West and the missus get around in the family car quite a | Dbit...Sammy’s arm is fine and he is beginning to sprint across that outfield in drill games like a me- teor...He tore of three hits in the first grapefruit game, a pair of sin- gles and a double...Who said he wasn't fast? Joe Cronin, what a pair of shoulders | this California kid packs!...He Is the same old smiling Joe...He played in & | benefit game on_the Coast “just for fun” during the Winter...Leaps out of | his chair when the Coast papers arrive and digs into them until the last para- graph has been absorbed. Carl Reynolds, the same big fellow you saw in a Chisox uniform last year...But the “W” on his sleeve fits in the first exhibition tilt...But look out...Carl and Moe Berg, the former Chisox catcher, are pals...They flannel around in the evenings, short walks along the beach and then finish out the evening by talking about “Don't you remember - when——" Al Schacht homesick and ready to come romping into Was! -Al always was that sort of chap... Anxious to keep moving, Joe Kuhel and the missus, newlyweds and always arm in arm...A nice kid and a pretty good first baseman... Johnson thinks he has the earmarks. .. Baltimoreans say he cost them a flag Schacht Soon May Be Driven To Cutting Out Paper Dolls him better...Did not start off so well | | | Griffmen Now Training in Southland a Familiar Flock te Fans in the Capital. when he went to the Griffs...Joe got eight homers last year, one in every park but one. ..that is, he corralled two at Chicago and none in Cleveland... Still quick on the bag, sticking out that right foot like a million on a catch. Ossie Bluege, now a 10-year man...Quiet and always con- tented never has much to say, but when he talks it means some- thing...Reads and thinks and only talks shop. Roy Spencer with a sport model car, a peach and the prize package here... The missus and Roy spin around it...He still is a fighting catcher. Bobby Burke, the southpaw, just as quiet as ever, sitting much and saying little, still flips them over down here as he did last Summer, & long and lazy motion...He draws cartoons in the evenings—and dreams. Lioyd Brown and the missus, with Toy. the Pckinese pup, tour around in the family chariot. . .Lloyd always 1s talking fishing...Carl Fischer throws a new curve, that’s something you have not seen...Big Fred Mar- berry, smiling and happy, with the ‘missus spins around in his car to see this and that...Still throws a pon- aerous, tricky ball General Crowder moves along peace- tully but always anxious to get in and hurl down here...He is the same Al but ready to make a quicker start this year...Smiling Sammy Rice, still hav- ing a little trouble in fielding those grounders but able to run like a deer ...Then Ed Gharrity, always with a pipe in his mouth and full of figures and loyalty to the Griffs...A good catching coach. And Joe Judge, silent but hope- ful...Hoping that if he must sit on a bench next Summer there will be cushions on it. . . Johnnie Kerr, a pep- per bor, and always chattering out there in the infield...He is new... But he looks at home in that Na- tional uniform. Yep, 1t Js the same old flock, a little | tanned, and anxious to get going, but ‘lhe same boys whom you watched last season. YANKS, GRIFFS PRESS MACKS, CONNIE SAYS Expects A’s to Win Again if Two Main Foes “Behave”—Browns Mustering Strength. By the Associated Press. T. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 10.— Connie Mack told the St. Petersburg Rotary Club he looks for a “great race” in the American League this year, with his Athletics hard pressed to defend their championship against at least two clubs, New York and Washington. “We would like very much to make it four straight,” said Connie. “We mnyhdo it if (!be Yankees behave, and Washington, too. g dogst mind telling you I am afraid of these Yankees. They were going very strong at the wind-up of last They are a very powerful season. club.” WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, March 19.—With Walter Stewart, the St. Louis Browns' stellar southpaw, in camp with his contract signed, and Rick Ferrell, first-string catcher, expected today, the club’s strength is gradually increasing. However, Ferrell has given no as- surance he will sign a new contract. TAMPA, Fla., March 19.—A new in- field may take the field for the Cin- cinnati Reds this year, and the king pin may be Joe Morrissey, the brilliant recruit from St. Paul. Last year's inner garden crew chiefly was composed of Hendrick at first, Cuc- cinello at second, Durocher at short and Stripp at third. Cuccinello and Stripp are gone. Dan Howley believes he might start Mickey Heath at first, George Grantham at second, Gilbert at third and Morrissey at short. WESTERN SHOTS REPEAT High School Takes Second Match of National Rifle Series. Western High rifle shots won first place in the second match of a series school rifle MARCH 19, 1932. BUDDY MYER'S ARM STiLL ANIPS 'EM OFF FIRST ON A DOUBLE PLAY.... JOE KUHEL SPORTS. —By TOM DOERER (>4 SAM RICE STILL GOES AROUAD THOSE SACKS, WITH HiS HEAD OP LIKE AN ENGLISH BUTLER. TRYING 70 \MPRESS THE VIS\MNG NEIGHBORS. ... ST CAN LEAN FAR OFF FIRST YO (£ Aom Jozrer ~ Bieoxi, Due to Play BY JOHN B. FOSTER. ILOXI, Miss, March 19.—Clark Grifith played base ball when some of the other owners of major league clubs were dolled out in knickerbockers, watching ball games from the bleachers. He has sailed in all varieties of weather in the national game and he says that a small, stawnch yawl is better than these fancy barges rigged with crimson sails bound for nowhere and getting there rapidly. That is just another way that Grif- fith has of telling his friends that he has & ball team in Washington that will start out this year with & pur- pose and land with a pennant. “ see they are predicting that I finish . “Some of those fellows who are feeling so darned sorry for me are so kind that they almost bring tears to my eyes. But they are dry tears. ington, has, in my opimion, Tt hast n my on. 't a lot of kids that I don't know about and haven't any idea of keeping through the season, or who might worry the life out of me to find jobs for ct'!:.un. We sent our you - 'mugh e Ohatinn m’uwy s eno or nooga certainly o Every man 0. the Wasbington “Every man on team knows that he is going to be part of the team all of the year unless he de- liberately quits on me. Some of these other teams aren't put together yet and won't be. Mine is there. I've got an infield that can step as fast as any, an outfield that is better than the one I had last season, catchers who suit me— and I'll bet I get as much work out of ington club,” he said today. Fistic Battles By the Associated Press. CHICAGO.—George Nichols, Buffalo, N. Y., outpointed Davie Maier, Milwau- kee (10), for National Boxing Associa tion ition as light-Neavyweight champlon; Frankie Battaglia, Winnipeg, Manitoba, knocked out Ben'Jeby, New York (10); Baxter Calmes, Okiahoma City, outpointed James J. Braddock, New York (10); Harry Ebbets, Brook- g, New- Iyn, outpointed Roscoe ark, N. J. (10). s NEW YORK.—Sammy Puller, Boston, stopped Billy Wallace, H P i e M , Detroit, Fran Nekolny, Czechoslovakia, drew (10); Al Rossi, Newark, stopped Harold Hender- Z:Illéhi‘?m (6); Tong!hlco.wfliul- N—Charlie Retzlaff, Duluth, Minn., knocked out Ji McCarthy, Boston (4). s DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Joe t, Ciro, Ga. outpointed Maxie ;R?)::- ‘Western scored 490 in the second division with this Wash- | 880. TAKE A CATCH.... [ AL SCHACHT STILL MAKES ALL THB ANNOUNCEMENTS =’ TELLING THE CUSTOMERS EVERYTMING BUT WHAT Yo 0o FOR AN BARACHE ... ~ o A Nationals Close-Knit Club b Businesslike Game, Griffith’s Contention ing 8 or 10 around, because they clutter up the wheels.” “You have the smallest squad in training, haven't you?” the correspond- ent ventured. “I guess so, and the smartest. Don’t get the idea that I am old-fashioned because I take about 25 men to a train- lAnx' camp. I'm setting a new fashion. major league owners are going to take 25 men by another year or two, or fewer. 1 tell you it is impossible to monkey around with 40 players and get ts. “I've got as businesslike an infleld as any manager in base ball. Judge and Kuhel, first; Myer and Kerr, second, and Myer is better than a year ago; Cronin at short, and if I wanted to go into the auction business I could get any price for him, and Bluege at third. Those men play like one man. “I have a better outfield than a year I know it. If there were eight outfielders on hand and I was working all eight of them to help me win a championship in 1932, they wouldn't know where they were going, and neither would I. “Get your ball team together and play it in practice regularly. When the first game is played in April you know that you have a team or that you don't have a team. Cut down the squad. Try something different. I'll give Washing- ton a ball club and not a guess at one. “What would I do if I had 40 men? Pick out 23. That's our limit this year. Send the others where they could get some work that might mean something.” FILIPINOS BACK IDOL Wagering Hoarded Dimes on Pan- cho Against Midget Wolgast. 'HONOLULU, March 19 (#).—Midget ‘Wolgast, recognized in several Ameri- can States as fiyweight champion, and Little Pancho of Manila, are reported in excellent condition for their 10- round fight tonight. Wolgast's title claims will not be in- volved, for they will weight about 115 pounds, 3 above the flyweight limit. Never in the history of Hawail has greater interest been shown in a fight. ‘The large Filipino population, who re- gard Pancho as an idol, have bought the best seats with dimes saved in weeks of work and have bet heavily |on him to win. — SMITH GOES TO NORFOLK 2 ALEXANDRIA, March 19.—Kermit Smith, former Alexandria High School athlete, who has had previous minor league experience, has signed to play with the Norfolk team of the Eastern Bu:’e] 1Bt-ll League and will report April 1. After attending Alexandria High Smith went to Bluefield, W. Va, Col- lege, where he was active in athletics, and later pitched for the Chambers- burg and New Haven team. Hoag Hits, Errs In Free Manner By the Associated Press. ARASOTA, Fla, March 19— Myril Hoag, young New York ‘Yankee outfielder, still is ing to figure out whether he was hero or “goat” in yesterday’s game WORLD CHAMPIONS ARE UNIMPRESSIVE St. Louis Is Not Clicking in Form Expected, but Club Has Strength. ofpustonand stories on major leasue Assoctated Press DM Editor. BRADEN‘I\)N, ., March 19. dinals hope and believe they are getting rid of a lot of now, while the results do not coint in the standing of the On the basis of their manifes- tations in Spring training, the Red pressive or picked to make it three nLt.eralght pennants in the National Such is their unquestioned wealth of talent, however, plus the fortitude seasoned stars, that it is impossible to count the Cardinals out prematurely. The situation simply is that a com- bination of factors has made the St. that always shines on a world series winner. Martin, Dizzy Dean affected by so much early gbudty and pressure. Veterans have slow to report and Note—This is the twelfth of a series BY ALAN GOULD, —The world champion Car- bad base ball and poor breaks clubs. Birds cannot be considered im- ague. of Gabby Street and the ability of his Club Has Many Troubles. Louis club look bad in the spotlight end other youngsters have been ill or slower to round into condi- ortstop Charley the National League batting king. It difficult see how the Cardinals can have a chance to win the pennant without these stalwarts. Despite the ballyhoo for Eddie Del- ker, he has shown little to make the experts forget that Gelbert is one of the finest shortstops in either league. The same goes for left field, where Ernie Orsatti and. lately, Jim Collins, sub first baseman, have been trying to fill Chick’s size 11 shoes. Gelbert May Sign Soon. President Sam Breadon has consist- ently refused to meet the demands of his_holdouts, but the big half of this problem appears on the way to solu- tion with Gelbert due in camp over the week end for conference. Breadon is more likely to go half way with Gel- bert that Hafey, who annoyed the Cardinal executives by staying outside the fold until late last Spring and was forced to train at his own expense. The infleld will be set as soon as Gel- bert returns to duty. Sparkey Adams at third, Capt. Frank Frisch on second and Jim Bottomley at first remain fix- tures. The race for reserve jobs in- volves the vetran Horace Ford and the youthful Lee Cunningham. Delker and Collins will be retained. Martin has looked both good and Wid this Spring. The eritics can't make up their minds whether the world series hero will"do a tail spin this year or continue to develop as a star at bat and on the bases. The probability is he will settle down as soon as the fans discontinue expecting him to break up every ball game. The Pepper has the courage as well as the ability. Opposite Martin in right, un. obtrusive, but hard-hitting Georg: Watkins will be a fixture this year. Carleton Looks Good. So far, the answer to what the Cards will do about replacing the 17 games won by Burleigh Grimes last year seems to be James (Tex.) Carleton. Carleton | came up as just a teammate of Dizzy Dean’s from Houston, but he appears much the best equipped of the new pitching crop. Street, however, is con- fident Dean will produce and so is Dizzy. Stalwarts in the pitcl front line include Bill Hallahan, Paul Derringer, Sylvester Johnson, Jesse Haines and Flint Rhem. If both Dean and Carle- ton are retained, and Jim Lindsey sticks for relief work, Street will gu:k one other hurler from Allyn Stout, y Kaufmann, Bud Teachout and Ray Starr. Jimmy Wilson, considered the Na- tional League's best receiver, will be assisted by Gus Mancuso and Miguel (MLk‘el Gonzales, the grizzled Cuban warrior. HANCOCK CHANGES JOBS. LYNCHBURG, Va, March 19.— Roland Hancock, golf professional for three years at Oakwood Country Club here, has resigned. He will play in the | annual North and South tourney at Pinehurst before going to Boston to begin work as professional at the Uni- corn Club. Mat Matches By the Associated Press. DETROIT.—Jim Londos, 201, Greece, threw Gino Garibaldi, 215, Italy, 38:33; Kola Kwariani, 215, Russia, threw Floyd Marshall, 208, Phoenix, Ariz, 14:43; Hans Bauer, 208, Milwaukee, and Lou Plummer, 220, Baltimore, drew, 30:00; Frank Brunowitz, 213, and Joe Kurner, 205, drew, 20:00. PHILADELPHIA.—George Zaharias, Colorado, threw Sandor Szabo, Hun- gary, 28:14; Sammy Stein, Newark, threw George Kotsonaros, Los Angeles, 21:37; Herman Hickman, Nashville, Tenn,, outpointed Herbie Freeman, New York, 30:00; Milo Steinborn, Germany, threw Oki Shikina, Japan, 13:39; Fritz Kley, Germany, threw Paul vre, France, 7:27; Leo Pinetzki, Poland, threw Frank Speers, Atlanta, 18:09. HAMILTON, Ohio.—Barney Ostopa, 227, Oklahoma, defeated Bob Mont- Ty, 203, Salt Lake City, straight falls, 14:30 and 3:30. SALEM, Mass—Charlie Strack, 214, Oklahoma, and Al Morelli, 206, Revere, Mass,, drew, 90:00. SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—Joe Savoldl, 197, Three Oaks, Mich., threw Al Baf- fert, 195« Providence, R.'I, 44:00; Nick Bozinis, 194, Elmira, N. Y., threw Hardy Kruskamp, 180, New York, 30:13. ALBANY, N. Y—Dick Shikat, 218, Philadelphia, threw Anton Peterson, 220, Sweden, 7:00; George Manich, 210, Jugoslavia, threw Don de Laun, 14:15; Renato Gardini, 200, Italy, threw Benny Ginsberg, 210, Chicago, 25:00; Vanka Zelesniak, 215, Russia, and Jack Hurley, 210, Ireland, drew, 30:00; John Maxos, 207, Greece, threw Fred Caroni, 200, Italy, 21:07. TROY, N. Y.—Gus Sclmflnbea Bos- ton, threw George Zarynofl, 15:35; Marvin Westen! , 220, Ta gun. ‘Wash., threw Nick Skatas, 201,