Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1933, Page 10

A-—-10 S PORTS EACH STATE SEEN AS HOUSING CHANP Yanks, Macks Prime in Dixie, Cubs, Bucs, Giants Prepare on Pacific Soil. BY GRANTLAND RICE. OS ANGELES, Calif., March 8.—The battle between Cali- fornia and Florida as train- ing camp centers will reach one of its tallest peaks this season. California concedes the American League debate to Florida with the Yankees and Athletics training under the blue Spring skies that hover above Ponce de Leon’s fabled Fountain of Eternal Youth. But California already is claiming the National League pen- nant with Cubs, Pirates and Giants now hard at work getting ready to exude pink from every open pore. California is right in this respect— the Cubs and Pirates will undoubtedly be there when the late September showdown arrives—and the Giants at Jeast are a possibility. is the way the situation looks Cubs—a good, all-around ub with a flock of high-grade in_the persons of Pat Ma- 3 sh, Lon Warneke, Bur- leigh Grimes and Charley Root— one of the best pitching staffs in either league. One young star such as Warneke happens to be is & big jump in the pennant direction—as he is pretty sure to cash in on 25 games—brovided there is any cash loose. Bush, Malone and Root are consistent workmen and Bur- leigh Grimes looks to be in much better shape than he was a year ago. ‘This Cub pitching staff gives Chicago & great chance to pick up another pen- nant. There is nothing as helpful to the morale of a ball club as steady pitching day by day—and the Cubs can bank on steady pitching from April to | October. Pirates and Giants. THE Pirates, working farther north | along the California terrain, are| just about an even shot with the Cubs. | They have the league’s best outfield | in the two Waners and Preddy Lind-| strom, a fast, hard-hitting, run-get- ting trio who will break up many a| close contest before the 1933 season | closes out. | They have a good infield and good pitching to count on—some young| pitchers who are now just about ready to cash in on more experience. | “That big slump we had last sea- son was a funny one” Paul Waner sa@id. “We seemed to have the pennant | packed away. We had a good lead and were just breezing. Then about three | |Griff Smiles as He Watches Guilty and Freed On Same Evidence EMPHIS, Tenn., March 8 (#)— ‘The mysteries of the law are an _insoluble puzzle to Jim Moore, Negro base ball player. Last September Moore resorted to violence in settling an argument with another Negro player. He was indicted for assault to murder with a pistol and for pistol carrying. Both cases came up yesterday, that for assault first. The jury heard the evidence and retired. To try the pistol-carrying charge a second jury was brought into the same court room and heard the same witness testify to the same facts. It re- tired. ‘Then the first jury came back— with a conviction and a sentence of not more than five years’ imprison- ment. On the heels of the first. the second jury returned. It acquitted Moore, reporting it found no evi- dence that he carried the pistol. GOSLIN'S PRESENCE SOURCE OF DELIGHT Goose Toil—Entire Squad Figures in Drills. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. ILOXI, Miss., March 8—For the first time of the Spring train- ing season, Manager Joe Cronin of the Nationals had his full team out on the field yesterday. It seemed like old times with Goose Goslin back in*a Washington uniform with his old number on his back. And how the Goose could step up to the plate and sock them up against the boards in right field. So far no one has been able to hit the old apple out of the park which Biloxi has provided for the training camp, but the Goose socked several which would have been good for some runs in any league. They hit the fence here on the first bounce, a good 500 feet. Uncle Clark Griffith, who has seen ball players and champion teams come and go, sat on the bench in the hot | sun, having just recovered from an | attack of lumbago, and smiled. “It looks natural to see Goose out | again in a Washington uniform,” Griff commented. “He never looked natural in another.” | ANAGER JOE put his boys through; the regular batting practice. It | was the first time, rain having | | By the Associated Press. of us quit hitting and some of our| spoiled the workout yesterday, that he | best pitchers began to wobble. It all|had the opportunity to work with a full happened without any warning. And |team. No pitcher struck at a ball. It | before we knew it we had not only|is Joe's theory that a pitcher is a| blow a big lead, but were five or six | pitcher and a batter is a batter and [ games back. T don't think that will | that they should stay in their respective | happen_again.” | categories. 5 1 It will take a considerable amount| He used six hurlers yesterday and | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1933, THE CREAM OF THE CROP. PossESSING REMARKABLE SPEED QUICK STARTING POWER , AND,BEING AGOOD HITTER | UNCLE MAY MAKE AN QUTFIELOER s QUT OF AiM~-You . CANT TELL... /// CRONIN AND KERR HAVE CECIL RACING Eg#rs ALL OVER THE Aom Doerer Bicox, miss... FIVE TRIBE ROOKS GIVE PECK THRILL Boss Shines Afield, Trosky, Batting Sensation, Three Pitchers Impress. EW ORLEANS, March 8.—Five promising rookies today tracted more than ordinary at- tention from Manager Roger Peckinpaugh of the Cleveland Indians. | Harley Boss, first baseman acquired | from Chattanoogs, fielded so impres- | sively in his first practice session most | veterans expressed doubt Eddie Morgan | ould hold his initial sack job. Big| Harold Trosky, with Quincy, Tll, and | Burlington, Iowa, last year, was the bat- Three of his drives Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA —Harry _ Dublinsky, Chicago, outpointed Young Firpo, Penns Grove, N. J. (8). WEST PALM BEACH. Fla.—Pete Nebo, Key West, Fla, outpointed Lou Terry, St. Louis (10). ST. PAUL.—Charlie Retzlaff, Duluth, outpointed Tom Heeney, New Zealand (10); Art Lasky, Minneapolis, stopped Faul Pantaleo, Chicago (5). ALEXANDRIA, Va—Petey Sarrow, Birmingham, stopped Bennie Schwartz, Baltimore (7); Bill Landos, Norfolk, Va., stopped Sam Romano, Washington, D. C. (5). YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.—Jaquette El- verillo, Chicago, outpointed Freddie Fitzgerald, Youngstown (10); Lee Shep- perd, Cleveland, owlmed Tony Cata- lino, Charleston, Va. (10). YANK NETMEN SWEEP SERIES WITH BRITONS Apnex Four Singles, Two Doubles He's ANOTHER QUIET ROOK .. CECIL SPORTS. —By TOM DOERER 5 Lons JOHNNY ANDJ THE TBACHERS SHOW TRAVIS T SKIFT ag, Aow ANO CRoONIN HAVE THE YOUNGSTER. THROWING M\S WEIGHT ON AIS RIGHT FooT AT THE TOSS - CORRECTING A MUSTAKE WHICH HAD MARRED ALIS N7 ¢ " THE Most NATORAL AITTER N CAM MAN WHO WILL GET A BASE BALL EDUCATION DOWAl HERE WHILE TRYING FOR A THIRD BASE JOB.... 37 FIELDING ..., (=3 ' AND THE YouAs Dame Fortune Outstanding Griff Rook Gets All Attention With Bosses Priming Him to Supp Patting Travis lant Bluege at Third. HOYA FIVE TUNES UP California, Florida Vie as Training Sites : Bush Does Jigsaw Puzzle With Reds BLUEGE'S BROTHER 1S ONE OF PIECES Signing of Bottomtey and Lucas Helps—Donle Is Rated Smart Pifot. BY FRANK GRAHAM. AMPA, Fla, March Y— Donie Bush, who returns to major league managerial ranks this year after lead- ing the Minneapolis Millers to a pennant in the American Asso- clation, is busily engaged here in the task of reconstructing the tail-end Cincinnati Reds. . Donie must solve a flock of problems, but of Red Lucas, star pitcher, and Sunny Jim Bottomley, vet- eran first baseman, has cleared the at- mosphere and Bush is turning his at- tention to the probable make-up of his infleld and outfield. Bottomley, obtained from the St. Louis Cardinals, for whom he played brilliantly many years, will have no competition at first base, and Leo Du- rocher, former Yankee, is a fixture at shortstop. Bush has two candidates for second base—George Grantham, griz- zled veteran, and Foots Blair, who covered that position for the Cubs while fiagm Hornsby was out of commission 1930. R third base the Reds’ aggressive leader has three men—Andy High, now 36 years old; Joe Morrissey, who came to Cincinnati from St. Paul last Spring, and a colt named Otto Bluege, 23-year-old brother of the Wi infielder. < Of course, Bush will play Chick Ha- fey, former Cardlinal, and the National League’s champion batsman of 1931, in left field. He is about to experiment with Harry Rice, purchased from Min- peapolis, in right field, together with two kids, Cicero and Plummer. _Center field will be assigned to Taylor Douthit, Johnny Moore or Wally Roettger. Like Bottomley, Hafey and High, Douthit and Roettger once wore the uniforms of the Cardinals. Moore was the Cubs’ center fielder last year. Bush lately bought Dutch Henry, left- hander pitcher, from _Minneapolis. Henry has been a server for numerous big league teams, the last being the Cubs, who sent him on his way a year ago after an unsuccessful trial. Henry and the 42-year-old Rixey are the Reds® southpaws. ~ The right-handers are Larry Benton, John Ogden, Ray Kolp, Si Johnson, Benny Frey, Walter Hilcher | from Peoria | 2nd last, but not lcast, the hard-work- ing Lucas. Two recruit boxmen, Fonger and Frazier from Bartells- ;\llle, Calif,, are in camp, T PRESENT Bush has four catch- ers, all comparatively young men. | They are Big Ho 5 | with the Dodgers: who broke in with was traded to the Cubs sent to the R FOR CARNEGIE CLASH Defeats Baltimore U. 45 to 15. t of the Babe ting sensation. cleared the right field fence. Winegarner, Bean and Twogood, pitchers brought from Toledo of the American _Assoclation, so impressed Peckinpaugh he gives them more than an even chance %o stay in the big Show | gy e Associated Press. €8 C28m EW YORK, March 8.—The first in- S.x'% PETER-%B({‘R% F'La-v M;;Ch 8 . ternational tennis test of the year | that of the Pirates, Dodgers and Braves, | _ Boken, a pleasant, easy-going young- | —The New York Yankees have come | has resulted in an overwhelming They can bank itzsi I Way at the bat that is pleas- | through the first 10 days of training in | ‘ Hubbell—and herg"m};“f;xnfi':;s u’z“fs‘fxfi?' hfisé ’su‘,‘,i A e hen. he’ con. | such excellent shape that Doc Paynter, | Victory for the United — down here on Biloxi base ball park’s| ter with his fielding. Maybe we can out. The rest is a guess. | nects the ball goes sailing far and wide. | the trainer, is getting genuinely wor- | Frank Shields, Sidney B. Wood, spacious diamond, permitting him to | correct it.” It ‘Travis Jackson's underpinning | Good for a hit in any league. And in |ried. ; Gregory Mangin and Manuel Alonzo | get a tutoring in infielding which would | _ “If we cannot get him in the form doesn't ®ave in and both legs hang on | that strange ability of connecting at| *Say, if some one doesn't get hurt or jmade a clean sweep of four singles and | make the average rook feel as if he| he must be in to fill a role with for the duration of the campaign, Bill | the critical moments lies Boke's suc- |something pretty soon,” he said, “the | two doubles matches with England's were treading on the clouds. | us next Summer, then he will go Terry will have a much batter chance to | cess. He hit light, but drove in runs |club will start thinking they don't need | touring racket wielders on the indoor| * But Cecil appreciates this oppor- | back to Chattanooga for a season to keep somewhere in the middle of the | With the leaders in the league. | & trainer, and then where will I be?” | courts of the Heights Casino yesterday, | tunity. And he is getting it only practice some of the things we have show. | " The first real casualty of the train- ;‘helrehhnsn'lmhef}:; 8 sare am ot drg%x;gg‘ Dge]:'tt“Eo sitsAxa):;e ;firzi;?;é: | zefi.:nflmihm Joe “cgmm: -r‘;d Owrer | tol!: ll:g:. e o | 1 3 “charleyhorse” e cam] . R. ., 1l we he is a roek o 3 Jackson is a great ball player on two | ing season occurred yesterday when | “charleyl p 6—1. candidate far above the average for | 24-hour option on him if he is forced to return to the farm and bring him Vi . 8—6, and teamed with Alonso to legs—and no man is a great ball player | Paul Lines, the submarine hurler from | thletes began work. | defeat. Avory and R K. Tinkler, 26, & el i ones. | back the minute he looks good enough | FAige : Cecil is getting minute teaching in | to don our colors.” Connors. ‘¢ BY TOM DOERER. ILOXI, Miss, March 8— B Dame Fortune is patting { the back of young Mr. Cecil louting. Travis, the elongated infield | it il SR rookie from Cha}tanooga's 1932 | :‘_\g:flasye:n cr’%r;m.lh\;ho mfl:‘: ";qr:l‘;x&‘}; “; “ Southern Association team. | youngster. “And he never has had any | The Dame is uxmg‘ young Cecil by | teaching. Give him a few weeks down the hand and leading him around here and I cam tell what was the mat- {from Southern sandlots in 1931. He hit jor .429 in 18 games. Last year, playing regularly, he hit for .362, and made 203 safeties. His nemni has been just so-so, to his Morris Is Named Coach of Colonial Nine. of base ball to dislodge both Cubs and | will use the same number today in | Pirates—California’s two main selec- | putting the old apple across the plate tions. | for the hopefuls to swing at. | What about the Giants? They will| Manager Joe also had the oppor- be a much better ball club than they | tunity for the first time to look at Bob were a year ago. They will be quite | Boken, the Lithuanian lad from Kansas a ball club if they can get good pitch- | City. Bob was purchased by Griff in ing—but this is the big gamble. face of several fancy bids from other The Giant staff at this early date| American League clubs. Detroit espe- doesn’t rate with the Cubs—or match | cially wanted him. Herman deal last Fal! | an experienced baclst | a recruit from Codar Bush is a smart basc learned the rones shortstop for tho De! managed the S: and. as leader of he distinguished h: on Indoor Courts, Dropping e :r::dr“cx;d,' Only Two Sets. h> played Ti He oie reason tes in 1927, producing & b; to be hu EORGETOWN'S basket ball team tuned up last night by defeating Baltimore U., 45 to 15, for its final game of the season here Saturday with Carnegie Tech. Last night's tilt, one in nguisk which the Hoyas had no trouble, was Peinant w staged at Tech High, which also will be | When his team los the scene of the combat with the Plaid. | 10 the Yankeos in t s After the first few minutes the game | Fall. Bush resigred ater and became a rout, Georgetown leading, 25 | assumed ccmmand Chicago to 4. at intermission. | White Sox, a wreck. He threw up the | In ‘s preliminary that offered a real | sponge in the Fall of 1931 ¢nd accopted scrap Wilson Normal School nosed out | the leadership of the Minneapolis the Hilltop freshman tossers, 35 to 34. team. Baltimore 61{;1, Kelley, f.... 0 1 McKenzie, f. <5 that 13 0 0 Varied Sports working on only one. | Idano, stepped into the path of a hot | ! | T)ASADENA, Calif., March 8 UP)—|7—5 6—4. Wood defeated Tinkler in | These three “clubs are now getting | one from the bat of Clif Bolton. As a | Now that Al Simmons, the most | singles, 63, 64, and_paired with great weather to work in. It has been | result Lines is eating nothing but soup | sunny and balmy—but not too hot— | somewhere in the neighborhood of 78 or 80. | Waner and Motion Pictures. 'EW may know it just at this mo- | ment, but Paul Waner, the crack | Pirate outfielder, has gone into the | motion picture business on a large scale. | Waner has shot nearly 10,000 feet of | deep sea fishing and bird life around the Florida Keys. He has herons and cranes in abun- dance—the idis, and, better than all, the flamingo, in large groups. He has two striking features in the capture of an 1.800-pound sawfish and a devil fish or ray about the size of a, big room. | Max Carey, the Dodger mandann“ helped in bagging the 1,800-pound saw- | fish, which has a jagged snout about 8 | feet long made out of bone. This is | the prize schnozzle on eitiher land | or sea. | The ray was harpooned and one of | Waner's young assistants was_thrown overboard as the harpoon landed. In place of swimming back to the boat he caught the heavy line and climbed on the broad back of the ray for a two-mile trip out to sea. Waner himself is one of the best | fishermen in the country. He would just as soon hook a big fish as hit a home run and spends | most of the late Fall and Winter months in a small boat, hooking any- thing from an amberjack to a saw- fish “or sailfish. The two Waners— Paul and Lloyd—are among the lead- ers in the brother act, as both are stars. In this respect no one has yet matched the Delehantys, who had five brothers in various leagues. They were headed by the famous Ed Delehanty, one of the hardest hitters of all time. Jim Delehanty was above the average. There were Lave and Monte Cross, Lee and Jess Tannegil and a flock of others one might mention. But the Waner{ boys will still do. (Copyright. 1927, by North American News- Alliance, Inc.) | I INJURIES STOP QUINT Three Players Hurt, War College Calls Off All Games. ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 8—Be cause of having had three players in- Jured last week in a game with the Fort Monroe quint, the Army War College | team has to call off its scheduled game ‘with the Columbias of this city as well as the remainder of its contests this season, Carroll Rush, Columbia mana- ger, has been advised. | the proposed title bout were not re- | had been signed. and is nursing several teeth and a badly swollen ja CORBETT-M’LARNIN BOUT UP TO FIELDS Jimmy Gets Shot at Welter Title, Provided Ex-Champ Passes Up Return Scrap. By the Assoclated Press. OS ANGELES, March 8.—Young Corbett, 3d, world welterweight boxing champion, will make his first defense of the title against Jimmy McLarnin in an outdoor bout here at Wrigley Field in May, provided Jackie Fields, from whom Corbett won the title, does not insist on a return bout. Jack Doyle, promoter of the Olympic Auditorium, made the announcement after two days of conference with Larry White, manager for Corbett. Terms for vealed, but White previously announced he would take nothing less than $50,000 to risk the Fresno southpaw's newly won title. Corbett won the championship from Fields in San Francisco last month. Before the fight, White said, an agree- ment to meet Fields in a return bout BASKET FA\;GRITES WIN Only One Given a Battle in Second Round of A. A. U. Play. KANSAS CITY, March 8 (#).—Paced by the Wichita, Kans., Henrys, seeking their fourth straight title, favorites mowed down second-round opposition at the A. A. U. National Basket Ball Tournament here. Only one was hard pressed. The Weatherford, Okla., Teachers once appeared about to add the strong Denver Pig five-4o the slim list of upset victims. The Colorado team had to rally to win, 20 to 15. he Henrys easily beat the Ascension Club of Minneapolis, 47 to 21. ‘The Southern Kansas Stage lines, one of the sugprises of the tournament last year, gave another demonstration of power in shunting aside the Rath’s Blackhawks of Waterloo, Iowa, 34 to 10. In the other game Rockhurst College of Kansas City easily defeated Bethany College, Linsborg, Kans., 41 to 15, ‘Base Ball Battles to Boost Red Sox Sale Seen Gain—Chisox Spend $1,000,000 to Get Out of Ruck. BY ALAN GOULD, ITH the transfer of the \ J‘) Boston Red Sox to a new the prolonged battle to hoist base ball's chronic tail-enders ‘, | portant irench. | As you may have heard before, it Red Sox were in the first division. | It may still require a derrick and Associated Press Sports Editur. and wealthier ownership, out of the ruck gains another im- | has been 14 full seasons since the two or three more seasons to ~ them out of it, but the Yawkey- Collins ownership has _ambitious plans, including & possible attempt 1o buy Babe Ruth from the Yankees at the end of this year. The Phillies ended a 14-year stretch_in the depths of the Na- tional League last season by yank- ing themseives into fourth place by the margin of a few percentage points over the Boston Braves. Burt Shotton has done a remarkable job, with little or no capital af his dis- ‘”"é‘ :dfi;&y figure quif A promi- nently year’s t Tace. Meanwhile the gfiln;:g White 4Sox have put forth herculean efforts discussed and most written about member of the Chicago White Sox squad, is present and working, Manager Lew Fonseca’s starting line-up, as he now figures it, is complete. Simmons will be in left, with Mule Haas in center and either Evar Swan- son, Elias Funk or Red Kress in right. Fonseca will play first base, Minter | Hayes second, Luke Appling shortstop | and Jimmy Dykes, the third former member the Athletics, will be at third base. - SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 8 (#).— The arrival of five more Tigers today was to fill the training camp line-up and enable Manager Bucky Harris to get under way with the serious busi- ness of whipping his squad into shape for a heavy season. Pete Fox, Earl Webb, Frank Doljack, Bill Rhiel and Harry Davis were ex- pected today, completing the roster. STAGE TRIPLE-HEADER City Senior Leaguers Perform at Alexandria Armory Tonight. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 —Three basket ball games are scheduled tonight in the City Senior League on the armory floor. Boys' Club and Vir- ginians face at 7:15 o'clock, Central and St. Rita’s at 8:15 and Sigmas and Mount Ida at 9:15. Old Dominion Boat Club quint and the Columbias clash Friday night in the armory. Alexandria’s water polo team has listed a match with the Shoreham com- bination of Washington for Friday nislln at 8 o'clock in the Shoreham pool. SEEKS TENNIS CLASSIC. CHICAGO, March 8 (#).—The Chi- cago Tennis Association today made a bid for the 1933 national clay court championships which will be awarded by the United States Lawn Tennis As- mflgn at its meeting in New York Mat Maiches By the Assoclated Press. ALBANY, N. Y.—Jim Londgs, 200, St. Leuts, tg;z& Ernie Dusek, ‘210, Ne- NEW YORK.—Ed (Strangler) Lewis, 240, Los Angeles, threw Sam Stein, 206, Newark, 46:32. Low Clubs to end their long inhabitation of the world series. They also have spent close to $1,000,000 trying to find an- other winning ccmbination. All the other big-league clubs have been “up” at some time since the war although it is |CONLEY OFF | coach at Notre Dame University, paid |and La Salle College last night. Mangin to trounce H. G. N. Cooper and K. C. Gandar-Dower in doubles, | 6—4, 6—4. In the other two singles matches, Mangin defeated Cooper. 6—2, 9—7, while Alonso conquered Gandar- Dower in the hardest-fought match of the day, 7—S5, 6—8, 6—0. TO NEW JOB PHILADELPHIA, March 8 (A).— Tom Conley, new assistant foot ball | his farewell respects to Philadelphia ‘The former La Salle grid coach was guest of honor at a testimonial ban- quet at the college. He leaves today by automobile for Notre Dame. Shadows of the Past BY L C. BRENNER. * MONG the top notch first base- men of all time, Stuffy McInnis takes a high rating. Base ball followers will remember him as a member of the great Athletic ma- chine, the club with which Connie Mack ruled the American League until the debacle of 1914, when his club was beaten in four straight games by the Boston Braves. When Connie saw his famous $100,000 in- field collapse with the rest of the outfit, he began the breaking up of STUFFY McINNIS. the club and sold McInnis to Boston. L?“gnu up that way, still playing Mclnnis was a fine hitter, and flelding bunts, hitting correctly, playing the third bag and in getting the proper stance to heave for double plays. While he is a smart and a good playing youngster, all of this teaching is en- tirely new to him. And he is getting it in detail and constantly because Cronin feels that he is the young man who will fill an im- portant role this Summer in Griffith Stadium in Washington. If he doesn't, it will be purely because he really is a year away from the big top and too young to assimilate the fine points of playing the infield as taught him by Cronin and Johnny Kerr, the latter the Girffs’ regular infield utility man. Travis was born in Riverdale, Ga., and will be 20 years of age mext August. Chattanooga picked him up Going North this Spring in the ex-| hibition games Travis will be worked | plenty to give Cronin and Griffith a| | chance to see how he performs, and also to give the young man the much- needed drilling. If Cecil makes the grade in the barnstorming, it is better than an even bet that he will get a chance of opening up at Washington on the big day, and Ossie Bluege, the peer of all defensive third sackers, will have a chance to rest his pedals for a_while. Ossie, who can play short as well as | third, could make & peerless utility man. No wonder Uncle Clark Griffith in- sists that his reserves will win the flag for him. Cubs Likely to Leave Taylor, Hack, Three Hurlers on Coast By the Assoclated Press. VALON, Calif, March 8—With the departure from Santa Cat- alina Island set for tomorrow, Manager Charlie Grimm of the Chicago Cubs is thinking seriously about who will be trimmed from his squad. Harry Taylor, young first baseman, and Stanley Hack, infielder, appear to be due to start the season with Los Angeles and as many as three pitchers may join them. Of the three left- handers, Roy Henshaw, just out of the University of Chicago, is holding his own with the more experienced lefties, Carroll Yerkes and Beryl Richmond. TAMPA, Fla.,, March 8 (#)—If train- ing camp work means anything, the Cincinnati Reds should go places in the National League pennant race. Manager Donie Bush, intent on put- ting his charges in prime condition, has banned benches from the fleld dur- ing p , 30 the players will keep on their feet and hustle. In excellent health after the attack of influenza which laid him up last year, Chick Hafey was on the grounds today. MIAMI, Fla, March 8 (#).—Ray Benge expects to celebrate his escape from the Phillies’ bandbox park by win- ning 20 ball games for the Brooklyn Dodgers this season. The big right-hander gave a huge sigh of relief when he was traded to the Dodgers during the Winter, for it meant he would have to cope with the short right field wall in Philadelphia, famous target for left-handed hitters, oo , instead of through “At Ebbets Field,” Benge ought to win between 15 and 20 PASO ROBLES, Calif, March 8 (M.—B?epllmm lnxnd Ray xrm will be the pitching hopes today of Pil Pirate “Yannigans” as they attempt to take the last of three prac- tice games from the . The y, 3 to0 2, won_yes! when Steve Swetonic got in , the Browns and the Braves have been mostly “down.” The Braves have been‘in the first division once in the last 16 have béen on the et e = also an outstanding fielder. In 1921 he went through the entire season— 1521 games — with only one_error. That stands as the American League (Gopyzight, 1933.) J. :’fflu.'x' i to a hole in | G the last inning. They also won the first Toul W | ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 8 (P)—Having advised Hubert Pruett, who had hopes of mixing his pitching with his medical practice, to spend the coming season tending his St. Louis patients, Manager Bill McKecknie of the Boston Braves, today appeared in the mood to tell Bill Urbanski to re- ::.in in his Perth Amboy, N. J., barber op. Although Rabbitt Maranville, Fred Leach and Red Worthington have yet to appear in camp, McKecknie is wor= by Urbanski’s unexplained absence. Nothing has been heard from him since his contract, said to con- tain a substantial increase, was mailed him in December. LOS ANGELES, March 8 (#).—The New York Giants will have the best in- field in the National League during the coming campaign, in JManager Bill Terry's opinion. The regular quartet of Terry, Critz, Jackson and Vergez, with Leslie, Ryan and James in reserve, gives the Giants more infleld strength than they've had in nine years, Terry believes. — 5 —— A. Z. A. BASKETERS AHEAD Defeat Colored G. P. O. Team, 25-14.—Ricks Beat Cardozo A. C. A. Z. A. courtmen downed the colored Government Printing Office basketers, 25-14, last night in the Garnet-Patter- son Junior High School gym. In a preliminary the Ricks five squeezed out an 18-17 victory over Car- dozo A. C. s les: G.P. O 114.)’.:"‘ gg al umcoou?- 3 | coommocond) ol corwroomn; *l oommooor Oreartson! 81 weannacs | oy o & or: Hargaden. & rless. §. .. Crowley, abaugh Brose, Totals Totals .. g 3 and O. Mitchell Referees—Mr. Eberts (AUB). Frosh (34). GFPts. | 5 111 | o os Corcoran, & .. Rinaldi. &. O'Connor, & .. 157535 Totals ...15 434 DWARD K. MORRIS, who used to play base ball for Williams College and who now is prominent in busi- | ness circles here, will coach the George Washington diamond aggregation this year. He coached and played in Massa- chusetts after graduating from college. He came to Washington in 1931, and | now is head of the Federal Storage Co. | George Washington is reviving base | ball to play night games at Griffith | Stadium for the benefit of the National Capital Civic Fund. A three-game series has been arranged with the Quantico Marines and Duke. Washington and Lee and Western Maryland also have been listed. LEAGUE TO MAKE PLANS Departmental Franchise Bids to Be Received Friday Night. A meeting of the Departmental Base Ball League has been called for Friday night at 8 o'clock in the green room at the Government Printing Office. Teams aut;l.‘ franchises should be repre- sen Federal Employe Unionist base ballers will gather tonight in the home of Ger- trude M. McNally, secretary-treasurer of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes, in Berwyn, Md. All candidates | for the team, new and old, are asked to | be on hand. One for the —It happened on the diamond ONLY one club in the major leagues has won 100 or more games in three consecutive seasons. The Philadelphia Athletics did it, with 104 in 1929, 102 in 1930 and 107 in 1931. The record for most innings played in two con- secutive games is 45—Boston vs. May 22 (14), and New York vs. Cleveland, May 24 (19), 1918, Four two-baggers have been made by 11 different players, ‘The last player to record was Paul Waner, Pittsburgh, May 20, 1932. Home runs, with bases filled, by e eocoorooH; 5. Guy, §.een el eonocnss | worocaum? ot 5 Bl oowmuiou al Hoeoown BASKET BALL. Local Teams. %e;«l)rgetov_}"n. 45; Baltimore U, 15. son Teachers, 35; Freshmen, 34. Seawtows East. Pittsburgh, 52; Washington and Jef- ferson, 23. Yale, 31; Manhattan, 25. Carnegle Tech, 37; Geneva, 35. Midwest. Notre Dame, 36; Marquette U., 34. Loyola, 39; Wlsconsln,th Far West. Intermountain Union, 39; Carroll, 87. National A. A. U. Southern Kansas Stage Lines, 34; Rath’s Blackhawks, Waterloo (Iowa), 10, Wichita, (Kans.) Henrys, 47; Ascen- sion Club (Minneapolis), 21. Hutchinson (Kans.) Reno, 61; Amer- ican Bakery (Little Rock), 21. Denver, 20; Southwestern Oklahoma Teachers, 15. PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY. American Association. Wichita, 9; Tulsa, 3. National League. New York Americans, 2; Montreal Canadiens, 1. (Overtime.) Montreal Maroons, 7; Toronto, 2. Boston Bruins, 4; Detroit Wings, 1. Chicago Black Hawks, ators, 1. Canadian-American League. Providence, 7; New Haven, 2. Red ; Ottawa Sen- Authorized Distributors Delco Batteries CREEL BROTHERS 1811 14th St. N.W. Decatur 4220 chicken, six salad, cran- ing and Whole roast rolls, potato berry sauce. eravy, $1.25. Dpeo Delivere, here in .D.(.tm 2. Open dally 1108 9th St. N.W. cl Na. 9 AM. to 11 PM. 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