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s PORTS G STAR, WASHINGT SPORTS Crowder Looks Forward to Big Year : Defeats May' Augur Success for Braves ' AL'S WINTER TOI “ HAS HIM FIT NOW Beneral, Profits From Advice of Trainer Martin. BY JOHN B. KELLER. IRMINGHAM, Ala., March 27. —Alvin Crowder, veteran slab star, who reeled oft 26 victories for the Nationals to set a pitching record last year, again will be his club’'s mound mainstay if early form is a true Jdndication of what may be ex-|—Se pected of him in the champion- ship chase. The “General” now has been on the hurling hill three times in training tilts and has given a fine account of him- self. He looks by far the most advanced of the pitchers banked on to make this | wh; 8 brilliant season for the Washingto! ball club. Thus far Crowder has hurled a dozen innings. In them he has yielded a dozen hits and four for six Tuns. Nothing more, despite the fact he has yet really to let himself out to any great extent in his work. ‘Two of the six runs made off Crowder were of the unearned variety. So his average earned-run yield per nine in- nings for the training tryouts is 3.00. | That's a better average than the “Gen- eral” finished with last season. Last year for the first time since coming back to the Nationals from the Browns in 1930 Crowder got away to & fi:d start. It was his high-class pitch- as much as anything else that ke, his club well up in the race in the ear! going. “General” had his troubles around the middle of the season, but he braced to finish with 15 successive tri- umphs. 'ROWDER declares his remarkable success last season was the result of & marked change in his condi- tioning methods. A change suggested by Mike Martin, the Nationals’ able trainer. Up to and even through the 1931 con- ditioning period, the “General” admits he did little more than work to ease the muscles in his pitching arm. This was 80 particularly in his 1931 training. It was different with the “General” after the '31 campaign, however. For the 1932 season ICrowder actually began training & month before he was to report to camp in Biloxi. He started to strengthen his underpinning, hiking through the country around his North Carolina farm. Two weeks of that, | then Al began paying attention to his arm. A little throwing dally was done by the “General,” and in the meantime he continued his walks. As & conse- quence, he reported at Biloxi already in splendid trim physically and needing little more work to be ready to pitch at top speed. O+ TP until the 1931 season I hadn't realized I was a particularly slow trainer,” Crowder admitted today. “For years I had gone through nothing more than the usual conditioning course, and every year I found it pretty | tough going in the early games. Even | in 1928 when I had such a big season | with the Browns (Crowder won 21 games and lost 5 that year) I was bumped off the hill plenty in the first two months. I was lucky in having my relief pitchers get away with wins. “That poor start with Washington two years ago awakened me, though. I had gone about my training in custom- ary manner and figured I would be right. But the season wasn't very old before I found my legs weakening and my arm tiring. Couldn’t understand | it at first. I had done all required of me at camp. ““There I was, however, in poor shape just when I should have been picking up every day. There was nothing I could do other than actually resume training in games. I took my pitching turns, but for more than a month I was throwing to strengthen my arm as much as I was to fool the batters. I} came back to finish well. But what a season I might have had, had I been in shape at the start . L ARTIN and I talked it over and | when he learned I did no earn- est exercising at all between my hunting in the Fall and the opening of training camp in February, he jumped all over me. # i ““That's what's wrong with you, Mike told me. ‘You finish the season in great form, keep up a few ‘weeks longer with your hunting trips, then suddenly let down and allow yourself to get week and flabby. If you persist in that, you'll never be able to condi- tion yourself properly in the time you have at training camp. You're simply a slow trainer. Take a short Test, then get going again in January. It help. “Well, I tried out Martin's plan be- fore reporting at camp last year and, believe me, it worked wonders,” Crowder declared. “Did (h!dssmz’thing aguflel: he past Winter and was in even fin :nmm:rhen I got to Biloxi this time than I was at reporting time last year. 1 feel better and stronger today than | ever before at & similar stage of the training season. ‘T cguld do a lot of hard pitching right now. I will as soon as the season starts.” e MARLBORO IS RUNNER-UP Ousts Columbia Heights Blacks in Soccer League Wind-Up. Marlboro booters won second place in the Capital City Soccer League yester- day with a handy 7-0 win over the Columbia Heights Blacks. Bailey scored three goals and Wells and Simms each two. It was 5-0 at the half. The Blacks had been in the runner-up post by a point. a Slow Starter, s PROPER PITCHING ) | coomorbroomorsp | nororusonmass » %l scocumouraumund | s00smom Touchstone, p. White. +willet | Walkup,’ Totals ....... *Batted for Crowde tBatted for White Washington Birmingham @ - PNOIHORTHNAIS: -1 | (RO | cosesssscccoori vl socorussscoap eldEa s arcimetoiinl mosbrmioige nloosocssoonsssol ol coosos00000sM 4 5 a5 — Pirst base on ball - ; 'off _Touchstone, 1; offt White. 1. Struck out—By_Crowder, 1: by Touchstone, 1; by White, 1: by Walkup, 1. Hits—Off | Touchstone, 1 in & innings: off Crowder, hits and 1 5 innings: off White. hits and 3 3 innings; off Wild pitch—Whit rt. ing pitcher—. . Vangrafian and 1 hour and Winning pI nning e © B 30 min- mpires—Messi rown. Time of game—. | utes. CARDS HAVE SEVEN CLICKING PITCHERS Pilot Street’s Penpant Out- look Is Enhanced by Form of Hurlers. RADENTON, Fla, March 8V (). —The 1933 base ball season may find Gabby Street, man- ager of the St. Louis Cardinals, in a position something like that of the old woman who lived in s shoe—with |so many good pitchers on hand he won’t know what to do. Dean, Carleton, Derringer, Hallahan, | Haines, Walker and Mooney all showed big league style in exhibition games last week, and the list of hurlers wasn't | quite exhausted. Branch Rickey, vice president of the club, still is casting | about in the hope of bartering a pitcher or two for an infielder, WINTER HAVEN, Fla., March 27 (®). —Triumphant over the Cincinnati Reds, the Phillies meet the Boston Braves today determined to increase their list {of training camp victories to eight. In 11 games played this season, they | have lost only four, | "Pinky Whitney and Chick Fullis hit homers yesterday which enabled the Phils to down the Reds, 6 to 4, after & | start that was not very promising. HICAGO, March 27 (P).—After bat- tling a severe siege of lumbago, Manager Charlie Grimm of the National League Champion Cubs, ready for action again. Grimm played through the first game with Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League yesterday, and while he didn’t safely, displayed all his old dexterity around first base. TAMPA, Fla., March 27 (#).—The Cincinnati Reds at St. Petersburg to- day for an exhibition e with the Yankees were minus services of Pitcher Red Lucas. ‘While practicing before the game the Reds lost to the Phillies, 4 to 6, yester- day, Lucas strained s muscle in his side. He will be out of the box for & couple of days. Home runs by Pinkie Whitney and Chick Fullis helped the Phillies, who got 16 hits to the Redlegs’ 13. L PASO, Tex., March 27 (#).—Take it from the New York Giants, base ball is booming in the South- west. In two games at Phoenix and El played before a total of 12,000 specta- ters, just about as many as came to see them in all their previous exhibitions on the West Coast. What made the week end attendance doubly remarkable was the fact that the big leaguers were playing against only semi-professional opposition. MIAMI, Fla, March 327 (#).—The Brooklyn Dodgers are inclined to blame their hitting slump this Spring on the lack of a green background in center field here rather than any feats by the opposing features. As Lefty O'Douk put it: “It’s always tough to hit no matter where you are. But when you put & ballplayer in one one of these parks where he sees the ball coming up to the plate out of a background made up of striped canvas or an orange grove, or a peanut stand, it becomes more difficult. If we had a good background, something _green, those other fellows wouldn't be holding us to four hits.” — PHONEMEN SEEK ACTION Want Ball Games With Out-of- Town as Well as D. C. Teams. ‘Washington and out-of-town opposi- tion are sought by the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. base ball team. Phone Manager Hayes at Lincoln 1818 or write him at 414 Seward square southeast. Federal Employe Unionists are listing Sunday games with nines in and around Washington. Earle Moser is handling It was the last scheduled league match. challenges at Metropolitan 0357 or by mail at 10 B street southwest. Herb Pennock Held Greatest of Southpaw BY SAM MURPRY (The Old Bcout). ORE than two decades ago Herb Pennock, veteran M southpaw of the Yankees, was pitching for the Wee- nonah Military Academy. From the time he went to the mound, & strip- ling, the fans of Philadelphia and South Jersey have been following his base ball work. As ball players g0, Pennock may not have the color that some of the famous southpaws had, but the Yankee veteran has a host of friends both on and off the ball fleld. Every year admirers gather around the dinner plate at Chester, Pa., and have the southpaw as their guest. This year the party will be held on December 6 and the session will be one of the big fan feasts of the Winter in that section of the At- lantic seaboard. S8eldom has Pennock come home from the bese ball wars with no Mound Stylists boys the Midwinter shindigs. This year the fans will take up his two fine pitching performances in the clashes with the Cubs, which Manager Mc- Carthy called the best pitching feats of the world series. Despite his years of service with the Yankees, Pennock has not slip- ped. He may not be able to stand the wear and tear as he used to years ago, but he can make that ball be- have better than ahy pit¢her who ever stepped on .the mound. ry goes back to dell's’ days like to think of him the greatest of all. Even Connie Mack, who managed at one time or another most of great southpaw as No. 1, far as to say that pitcher who could make form as Pennock did. ‘Waddell had his does Grove. bty hiers o0k, ot the southpaw etylist, x Sir: | the ex-Griffman, and Hoegsett against - | the Houston Buffs in yesterday's exhi- # [three hits chalked up against him. i) Paso Saturday and Sunday, the Giants | TFSCAER 15 GING HORSETT A BATILE Ex-Griffman Showing Good Form in Southpaw Con- test With Tigers. By the Associated Press. OUSTON, Tex., March 27.—The contest between Carl Fisch and Elon Hogsett, both south- paws, for first place on the Detroit Tiger pitching staff was con- sidered a draw by their teammates today. Manager Bucky Harrls sent Fischer, bition game, which the Tigers won, 8 to 1, and each pitcher emerged with Detroit’s runs were scored by Walker, Fox, White, Fischer, Gehringer and Rogell. Fox and Walker each got two runs. SAN FRANCISCO, March 27 (P).— Two young . pitchers, Fabian Kowalik and Carl Boone, will eat no more meals at the expense of the Chicago White Sox this season. ‘The first stroke of Manager Lew Fon- seca’s ax caught the pair. Kowalik goes back to the San_Antonio club of the Texas League. Boone, who was picked up as a free agent and attempted a comeback after a two-year layoff due to injuries, was given his unconditional release. EW ORLEANS, March 27 (#).— Those three weeks Willls Hudlin stayed away from the Indians’ training camp while he dickered for better contract terms apparently have done the Oleveland pitcher no harm. He took the mound in interclub competition for the first time yesterday and in five innings gave New Orleans neither a hit nor a run. The Pelicans, however, pounded his successor, “Lefty” Bill Perrin, a rookie, for eight hits and eight runs in the seventh and won the | game, 9 to 7. | _WEST PALM BEACH. Fla, March | 27 (®).—Rick Ferrell, who signed up | with the St. Louis Browns only a few | days ago, appears headed for another |8ood batting record for 1933. | _The catcher, pace-setter among | Brownie sluggers last year, connected |for a two-bagger on his sole trip to the plate yesterday, in his team's exhi- | bition game against the Buffalo Bisons, | to help give the Browns a 9-to-6 vic- [tory. Levey, Ruel and West also made a two-bagger each, and West added a | three-base hit, indicating the Browns {may do well in offensive work this| & | 'ORT MYERS, Fla., March 27 (®).— | | With the end of thelr training sea- | | son only three days off, the Phila- | delphia Athletics resumed hostilities | with the St. Louls Cardinals today in | | thelr home camp, having completed | | their tour of'the grapefruit circuit. | They made it two straight against| the Newark Bears of the International League yesterday, blanking the Bears, The Trojans Start Again. | OS ANGELES, Calif., March 27.! —If you happen to hear dny| Tumble, or feel tremor of the| landscape, don't worry about the | approach of another earthquake. It will merely be Howard Jones assembling | his Southern California Trojans for the | start of the new Spring training sea- | son and the campaign of 1933. | Just this time, a year ago, the Trojan outlook was supposed to be bluer than |indigo. Jones had lost an entire back- | fleld, consisting of Pinckert, Shaver, | Mallory and Musick. He also had lost |one or two other veterans, and yet, with all that deficit to face, he came back last Fall with another unbeaten season and one of his greatest teams. | With his men starting work there | are only three gaps from his 1932 lineup | —Sparling at end, and Brown and Smith at tackle. The rest of his line, | with his entire backfleld, is intact and | ready for new wars yet to come. What- | ever happens, the Trojan coach won't | have to bother about man power. “How,” T asked him, “are you going to replace two such great tackles as| Smith and Brown? “I will admit”” Howard said, “that these are two of the best I ever coached. But I don't have to start worrying about my tackle positions yet. In the first place, if I happen to need him, I can put Bob Erskine from the back- field into one of the tackle jobs. Erskine ‘weighs around 212 pounds and he will be one of the fastest tackles in the game. He was fast enough at right halfback to handle every assignment in high class shape. Then for the other tackle assignment I have George Lady and Hueston Harper.” “Just how big are they? I asked. “Lady weighs around 225 pounds,” Jones said, “and Harper around 218 pounds, and both are fast and active for big men. In addition to these three, I have two good sophomores coming up from the freshman team. One is King Hall, who is over six feet and weighs 215 pounds. The other is Art Dittberner. He weighs over 200 pounds, and is show- ing promise.” T this point you can do some of your own figuring. All that Howard has around to replace Smith and Brown at tackles are five active young men who range from 210 to 225 pounds, with at least a fair share of experience. You can understand from this why he does not have to bother about filling the two tackle jobs, even though two stars have passed out of the picture. He still has Rosenberg and Stevens at guard and Youel and Jorgensen will be back again for center. In regard to his ends, Howard was discussing the great work that Ford Palmer, his 1933 captain, had turned in last Fall, especially in the way of making miracle catches and forward passes. When I met Palmer I could under- stand at least part of the miracle work. I cannot recall two better hands of any athlete. The wonder is that a pass ever would get by either of these powerful paws. Young Palmer, who is over ‘6 feet and weighs 195 pounds, was oné of the best ends in foot ball last season. He should be an outstanding star this next Fall. He has a keen and alert person- ality and should make a first-class leader. ‘There are four or five good candi- dates for the other end position, includ- ing Bescos, who has just been named on the coast all-Western basket ball The Trojan Backfield. “What about your backfleld?” T asked oward. “In the first place,” he said, “there isn’t any one missing from 1932. You may recall last Summer I told you that it would take us about s month to get the backfield reorganized in the right His “Hospreal APPEARS AS A POWER. PLANT 0 THE STRANGER .. A CHIROPRACTOR AS WELL AS AN ARM AND LEG EXPERT... Ao DOERER- First of Series By & 8taff Correspondent of The Star. IRMINGHAM, Als, March 27— When the Nationals beat the Barons, 3 to 1, yesterday at Rickwood Pleld in the opener of a four-game series, the jinx that had dogged them so long here took to the coal-filled hills bordering this Southern industrial center. It was the first victory in years for & Washington club in the inaugural of THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RI way, with s0 many veterans missing. Now we can start with our same back- field and tackle the main job, which will be building up the new reserves. “For example, take the case of Homer Griffith. He can play either fullback or quarter. When Griffith is in the game, he puts out everything he has. He is one of the high-pressure type and goes at top speed, and for this reason needs a certain amount of rest. He is really a fine foot ball player in every way, one of those who can do- almost everything and do it well. By that I mean he is a fine ball carrier, a good blocker, a good passer and pass re- ceiver. “I think also you will be hearing a little more ut Young Warburton this Fall. He al 7 the experience he picked up last sea- son, he will be even more valuable to this next Fall. ‘Our, freshmen team also has sup- plied us with some good backs, includ- ing Jimmie Saunders, a brother of Russ. | Saunders is 6 feet and weighs 185 pounds and is quite fast.” As Jack McEwan once remarked while coach at Oregon: “Out on the coast | you don't have to beat one good team in & game, but three good teams.” From the material that Howard Jones has to start with this Spring, you can count on at least three good teams, with all the reserve power any one needs. His first-string line from end to end should average well over 200 pounds, and what is more important, it has both speed and experience. In addition to this he can count on a reserve almost 28 big and almost as good. It is doubtful if any squad in the country can match the man power How- ard Jones is assembling on the Trojan field. He counts on something like 100 candidates, but this list will soon fall away to 70 or 75. Foot ball out here comes close to being an all-year sport, with the Sum- mers off. The schedules start late in September and many.of them run until New Year. Add to this five or six weeks | g0, of Spring practice and perfect foot ball weather, cool and clear, and you can see the lure foot ball has all along the Pa- cific Coast. ‘The Trojan schedule next Fall will be extremely heavy. It includes Stan- ford, California, St. Mary's, Washing- ton, Washington State, Oregon, Notre Dame and Georgia. As foot ball in the Northwest will be even stronger than usual, there will be no resting spots even for Southern Cali- fornia, but it takes no star prophet to est even now that only unusual foot ball will beat this Trojan outfit by the time Howard Jones has it geared up in the Howard Jones way. Here is a coach who is not only a great teacher of fundamentals, but a builder of effective winning methods that include both attack and defense. He can be rated as one of the most thorough teachers of foot ball ever known. Any combination that includes How- ard Jones and th® Trojan material is about as easy to handle as & lo and earthquake combined. (Copyright. 1033, by North American Ne ‘paper ce, Inc.) Linke and Thomas OnHill Tomorrow Special Dispatch to The Star. JHAM, Ala., March 27— Manager Joe Cronin is pacing his prize rook pitchers again for service here. Ed Linke and Bud ‘who already have shared mound duty in three exhibition games, are to be pitted the Barons tomorrow in the game of the Nationals® Rickwood Fleld series. Earl Whitehill, ex-Tiger twirler, ‘who has been southpawing smoothly, and Monte Weaver, the rookie sen- sation of 1931, were to fling for Cronin's crew this Griffs Shake Jinx in Winning GALL fAYERS TIRED LGS IN THR at Birmingham\ & set in the Birmingham ball plant. Picking the first plum had come to be the Barons' specialty. This series starter was no swatfest. | The Barons got just five hits, but the | Nationals socked only six. However, the Birmingham club folded up after scoring & run from three hits in the | opening frame while the Washington | crowd with a pass, a hit and an error got two tallies in the sixth and made | another in the seventh when a wild | pitch followed a hit and a steal. Those three rounds made the ball game. of flinging for the Nationals. After that threc-hit first frame, the Gen- eral downed the Barons in order for three rounds. The first homuhyer up in the fifth session doubled, but died immediately, picked off second by Luke Sewell. Then the General romped to the finish of the inning. A single with one out in the eighth and a pass at the start of the ninth were granted | by Stewart. The left-hander simply breezed through the workout. ‘The Barons showed the Washington batters two left-handers, Clayland ‘Touchstone and Jimmy Walkup, with a right-hander, Abe White, sandwiched between. In five frames, Touchstone yielded only one hit and a pass. All the Nationals' runs came off White in the first two of his three rounds. Walk- up had an easy time in the ninth. It wasn’t the Nationals' day against southpaws. It was a pass to Bluege at the outset of the sixth that started the Nationals on their scoring way. Sewell followed with a triple to put over the run. Kerr, pinch-batting, out, but another | tally was registered when the first base- man cuffed Myer's grounder. The Nationals were out to run around the bases in the seventh and got only one run_when they might have had three. Goslin opened the round with a single to center. He tried to make fielder was ready to thypw when the Goose turned first base, an easy out re- sulted. Then Schulte drove the ball to the far reaches of left fleld, a sparkling triple. Fred thought he was faster than the Baron flelders’ arms and tried to stretch the blow into & homer. He was caught at the plate standing up. Al Bl to whack a single, then steal second. White uncorked the wildest kind of wild pitch and Ossle scored from the midway station. ‘There was only one flelding feature, a one-hand catch by Myer. In the fourth, Buddy raced over to the foul line well down right field to get a hoist rost’s bat. Goslin and Kuhel wn: flanking Myer as the catch was made. - Clyde Milan, former National now managing the Birmingham club, had s great time with his old pals. He visited them st the Washington club’s hotel bright and early ly morping and was back again after the game for a Jong chat with Clark Griffith. Zeb :hlm‘thzmin: any Washingtan cast-offs, ough. More than 1,000 Birmingham base ball devotees paid to see the Sunday set- to. That'’s good for an exhibition game down this way these days. They like their Sunday base ball here. Birming- ham has had it only since the middle of last season. 20 YEARS AGO IOULD MENEFEE, former George- champion, at wrestling here tomorrow. Gates Rapp, King Lemeric gd other amateurs will the League against the Oxon HIll (Md.) nine tomorrow at Union League Park. D-m,'hophyedthudhnlor-t:i Hayes, Catholic {mlvwl}ty are sought by the Ere club.of the Interstate League. - ‘Tom Crooke, who was captain of Bridgeport ball team of the League, has been sold of the New York State prced e Al Faaner rible 1 new the to Albany Scroggins A. C. sur- -All Hassen, the Ter- mb’mmfim« the Lyceum. Crowder and Stewart did s neat job | the blow a double, but as the middle | fl Connecticut | at Fort e THE TRAINING SPECIALIST % "’g%fi/ . HE BROUGHT ‘> ARouND 2LOYD, Row) OF /CHATTANOOGA IN WHOSE ARM AND LEG TREATMENTS BALL PLAYERS PLACE A LOT OF CONFIDENCE THE JOE ENGEL SIDE SHOWS... Griffs to See Muscle Master HE IS PART OF Lee Jensen, Versatile Trainer, Another of Joe Engel's | : Happy ; BY TOM DOERER. | OWN in Chattanooga, where the Nationals soon will play D s grape frult serles with Joe | Engel's Lookouts, is one of the | most peculiar, yet effective, muscle ‘fo\mdr‘ieu in base ball. | | 1t 15 Lee Jensen's “hospital” at the | | ball park, and is conducted along the | same colorful and spectacular lines as | are most of the Engel endeavors. It |1s getting to be just as popular as are | most of the former Washingtonian’s | | enterprises. | { But of all of the strange happenings | |and events which have taken place at | Engel Stadlum in recent years this is the most constructive of all of the Mussolini of mirth's snappy ideas. | Jensen is a former Georgia Tech | trainer. He went to Chattanooga after | building up a splendid reputation at | ‘Tech for revamping collegiate chassis’, | bringing back fading arms, and gen- | erally reshaping athletes who had been| lll’;lfly warped from action on the eld. EE'S workshop is a conglomeration of light, wires, doodads. It has all of the circus atmosphere that a Joe Engel can give it without inter- fering with the efficiency that the pro- fessor insists must not be tampered with. | "It is_the tall Swede trainer's idea that what managers want is players to at camp with arms ready for appreciatively reduced. With this in mind he orders his patients to report about February 1. After giving them the “lights,” his own method -of calesthenics, a chiropractic treatment, he puts them out on the woodpile of work in the field where batting eyes are primed, ~muscles loosened, and generally puts the player into shape to Teport at his camp with an edge on the other fellow. Exhibition Games Yesterday's Results. Wllhlnctll-\1 (A), 3 Birmingham . A), 1. (s&nt)an (N.), 4; New York (A), 3. 5; Newark (I. L.) ings, tie). Morning game. . L), 7; Chicago (A), , afternoon gams New York (N.), 7; El Paso (I.N.D)) 2. Hol A (P. C. L), 7; Pittsburgh N, PG ‘Orleans (8. A), 9; Cleveland 8t. Louls (A), 9; Buffalo (I L), 6. L)Ch‘!u?n (N.), 5-3; Sacramento (P. C. “Philad (N), 6 Cincinnati Fhiladelphis Detroit (A.) 8; Houston (T. L), 1. Montreal (I L.), 3-9; Baltimore (1. L), 2-8. (A. A), 6; Little Rock Milwaukee (8. A), 5. Toledo (A.’A.), 5; Knoxville (8.A.), 4. Memphis (8. A), 5, Indianapolis (A. A), 1. (A. 'A), 5; Bt. Peul Louisville (A. A), 2. Today’s Schedule. Detroit (A) vs. New York (N.) at San here. | (N, 4. shortstop, | Antonio. 8t. Lolus (A) va. Brooklyn (N.) at West Palm Philadelphis (A) vs. St. Louis (N) c"sf York (A) vs. Cincinnati (N.) o 3 Wi (A) Birmingham va. the drill, squeaks out of legs and girths | ;- B niindeipia (V3 vi Boston (M) at . ) v . ‘Winter Haven, Ideas. | | {YLARK GRIFFITH, of the Nationals | 1s one of the most staunch boosters of the tall boy. He sends his ailing athletes there for a going-over, and when he gets to Chattanooga this week there is going to be a meeting between Lee and Griff, and the boss man’'s lumbago will be the topic. Jensen began his training career under the famous Mike Chambers at Jowa State, where the big trainer was head physical tutor, and Lee was & student. Lee took two years of pre-med work, meanwhile helping Mike to keep the varsity athletes in shape. He went to Ohio State with Mike, taking three more years of medicine while helping the trainer. When Mike again moved on, to Georgla Tech, Lee Went with him, until he heard the call from Engel Stadium where he landed in 1931 with his lamps, doodads and linaments. EE'S system of teking care of ball players is the most advanced in the business. He uses a baking system where heat rays are focused upon any internal spot in the body. He -ga_. Swedish hy and cl ] legs of George pson, the “fastest human” at Ohio Sim , State, whipped Lloyd Brown's arm back | into shape, is working on the ailing fin of Bobby Burke and brought Ad Liska around after the submarine shooter had been given up as lost to pitching. Lee’s particular job in the Summer is taking care of the Lookout players. Clif Bolton, the Griff’s young catcher, tells me that the splendid condition of throwing arm is due to Jensen's care and treatment. And Cliff has an arm like steel. PICK WRONG TIME USUALLY T0 WiLT McKechnie, in Final Year of Pilot’s Contract, Still Seeks Bat Punch. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. HERE was a time when the Boston Braves could count upon burning up the “Grapefruit League” sand come North full of confidence and enthusiasm, only to crack up along about May or June and take a quick dive in the general direc- tion of the National League cellar. If there is anything in the theory of opposites or the law of reverses, the Braves should follow up thelr mediocre exhibition so far in Florida by going on the warpath as soon as the pennant hunt begins. Up to date they have been the “hit- less wonders” of St. Petersburg, allow- ing even for the contrast and handicap of being tossed into cction almost daily against the powerhouse of the world champion Yankees. Defensively, Man- ager Bill McKechnie could ask for no more than his men have shown. It would not seem he needs to worry much about his pitching staff, if at ali, Judging from the sensational develop- ment of one or two newcomers, in- cluding Ed Fallenstein, who wasn't con- sidered important enough to be put on the club roster at first. UT “Wilkinsburg Will,” now facing the last year under his four-year contract to rebuild the club, is still looking for the batting punch the Braves must acquire to pull themselves out of the second division. If it doesn't materialize, McKechnie cannot blame the Braves’ popular president, Judge Emil E. Fuchs, who engineered a num- ber of off-season deals at his man- ager's suggestion and gambled to the tune of $60.000 on the ability of a pair of rookie infielders, Dick Gysel- man and Albert Wright, from San Francisco. The judge, with some misgivings, | bought burly Frank Hogan from the Giants to reinforce the catching ard | slugging departments. He has retained the temperamental Art Shires, largely | on the belief that Art can step in with | a timely wallop if Baxter Jordan doesn’t | fulfill expectations as a first base reg- ular. To afford a wider assortment of outfield talent with a punch, Puchs ob- tained two good hitters from the Pacific Coast League, Art Hunt and Bob Hol- | land, but neither has troubled the Flor- | 1da fences so far. 'YSELMAN, & rangy youngster, seems a real “find” He is a harder hitter than Wright, his 20-year-old team-mate with the Mis- sions, and looks to be the choice for | third base over the veteran, Fritz Knothe. Since the club needs Maran- | ville's pepper, the “Rabbit” twice Wright's age, probably will start the season again at second base, mean- | while teaching his youthful understudy | all the tricks of the trade. Barber Bill Urbanski will play short- cn Wally Berger, a ballhc n center, and Bob Worthington in .2ft, should furnish most of the answers to the Braves' hitting problems. Both are good for .310 or better. Randy Moore, odd-job man, may get the third out- field post, unless Wes Schulmerich sud- denly solves the mysteries of curve-ball | pitching or one of the recruits comes | through to grab the job. cKECHNIE, with the aid of Hank Gowdy, developed “Huck” Betts and young Bobby Brown as the | club’s most consistent pitching winners |1ast year. Bright hopes are held out for Brown, who won 14 and lost only 7 with a fifth-place team. Fallenstein, the latest development, once had 8 trial with the Phillies, but was out of base ball all last year with a broken hand and signed with the Braves as a free agent. He held the Yankees to two hits last Saturday in checking Bos- | ton's exhibition losing streak. | Ed Brandt, one of the best south- | paws in the league, and Ben Cantwell. | experienced right-hander, can be relied jupon to handle starting assignments. ‘Tom Zachary, veteran southpaw, will | do for “spot” jobs. For mopping-up, | McKechnie will have Pred Frankhouse, Harry Seibold and probably Leo Man- gum. up from the International League. | Behind the bat the 250-pound Hogan will have the assistance of Al Spohrer | and Bill Hargrav | s D. C. BOWLERS REPULSED Occidentals Lose All Events to Recreations in Baltimore. | BALTIMORE, Md, March 27—Al- though they made it a close fight all along the line, Occidental bowlers of | Washington were defeated in singles, | doubles and team competition here last | night by the Recreation Center quint. | The home team won the team en- | counter, 1,78¢-1.972. In the singles | Clabaugh defeated Astor Clark, 588- 1579, and in the doubles Meyer Jacobson |and Dawson Snyder conquered Charlie | Walson and Joe Harrison, 1,162-1,156. 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