Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1933, Page 33

New Griffian Batting Order Ap i HYER NOW SLATED 70 LEAD OFF AGAIN Cronin Convinced Shake-up Needed to Rouse Power Latent in Club. P batting order will take place, it is velieved, during the current base ball series in Bhibe Park. Whether the shake- up was to come today as the three-game set with the Athletics was opened was not definitely known this morning, but it is on its way. Convinced that something had to be done quickly to rouse the offensive power latent in his club’s line-up, Manager Joe Cronin came up here from Washington last night with plans for a revision of the Nationals’ hitting list. The boy field boss couldn’t see his out- fit getting anywhere with a .243 attack that it put on in its half- dozen games at home. Not a jot of his plans would Cronin reveal this morning. In fact, he wouldn't admit he even contemplated any batting order shifts. Confirmation of that, however, dribbled from an au- thoritative source. From the same source, too, came word that Buddy Myer would be restored to the lead-off position in the hitting list, but disposi- tion of the other batters could not be ascertained. WASHINGTON batting order for the start of the championship cam- paign was arranged only after Man- ager Cronin had done much experi- menting with his flock of swingers dur- ing the training period. Four combi- nations were tested and discarded be- fore one thought likely to prove satis- factory was settled on. In all the experimenting Cronin con- centrated on the choice of the first two batters. Two were tried in the lead-off berth and three in the second notch befare the boy field boss decided he had hit upon an order most likely to get the | best results. | Through four experiments Myer was | sssigned to the topmost position, and his work there was generally satisfac- tory. Cronin always contended that Buddy was an ideal lead-off man. He pointed out that Myer was a canny bat- ter, a good waiter, because of his | lack of height difficult to pitch to, and 8 hitter with power. AT & cided to place Joe Kuhel, who had | steadily risen in the list during the | various experiments, at the top and| drop Myer to second place. Kuhel had | all the batting qualities Myer possessed, it was figured, cxcepting one. Buddy | hit to all fields, while Kuhel hit mostly | to right. Wouldn't it be better to have | the more versatile hitting Myer batting | behind Kuhel? Cronin thought so, and | into the championship season these two | ‘were sent in that order. So far as getting on base is con- cerned, there been little to choose between the two. In 27 trips to the late Kuhel has reached first base 10 imes. In 26 times at the batting post— not all legal times at bat—Myer has found the intial sack 8 times. Not so startling, but better results than the Athletics and the Red Sox got from their first pairs of batters in the series in Griffith Stadium. HETHER a batting order shake-up will bring about a sturdier offen- | sive is something to be learned, | but it is worth a trial. Some means of making the Nationals a busting bunch BY JOHN B. KELLER. HILADELPHIA, April 20—A shake-up in the Nationals’ the Mst, though, the manager de- | must be discovered and quickly, too, if | - they are not to slip so in the early gl;lnz that getting back in the race will a matter of weeks instead of days. ‘While not flawless, the Nationals’ de- fense has been fairly substantial. That llowk'meudny tussle in Washington may be discounted. The best of teams have those days. Despite the two or three poor innings they have had, the {Itchm have done well. They have eld the opposition to a .231 batting suit. Good. But that Washington hitting to date. Phoole! Griffs’ Records Batting. 2b 3b.Hr. 00 .3 o Six Major Clubs In Home Openers By the Associated Press. YORK, April 20.—Although the major league base ball sea- son is more than a week old, it ‘was opening day all over again in & number of vjw league cities today. The New York Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Phila- delphia Athletics and Cleveland In- dians were scheduled to hold their home openings, with appropriate ceremonies. The Brooklyn Dodgers, who played one home game last Sunday, set to- day as their “official” home opening, and planned to stage the usual flag- raising. The Boston Red Sox aren’t sched- uled to play their first home game until tomorrow. MARATHONVICTOR'S J0B COMES FIRST Pawson Takes No Time Out to Revel in Glory of Boston Triumph. BY BILL KING, Associated Press Sports Writer. OSTON, April 20.—The monoto- nous clanging of & loom in a Pawtucket, R. I, textile plant today threatened to drown out the half-million cheers that encouraged the smooth-running Leslie Pawson yesterday =as he out-raced the best of 221 rivals by almost a full mile to win the famous Boston mara- thor and set a world record against a biting head wind that almost took his breath away on every stride. Pawson, like most of the other Boston marathon victors in the race's 37 years’ histor;, must cherish his new-found glory as he tolls over his commonplace daily tasks. F.ushed with victory, he accompanied his parents and his fiancee, Betty Brooks, one of his co-workers, to his Rhode Island home last night, firmly resolved to report for work as usual this morning. IS victory was not unexpected. This marathoner who runs with all the polished ease of a college two- miler, has been running distance races for the past seven years and has im- proved with every start. He has won numerous races up to 20 miles and two years ago he ran his first Boston mara- thon, finiching nineteenth in a star- studded field. Last year he placed eizhth. Pawson started off with the group bunched in third gra~u~llv | place, | worked up into the lead and held it without a challenge during the last eight miles. His amazing time of 2| hours 31 minutes 13 seconds clipped 2 minutes 7'5 saconds off the mark established by Johnny Miles, the great Canadian, in 1929, and was 3435 sec- | onds faster than the Olympic marathon record set by Juan Zabala of Argentina | under ideal conditions at Los Angeles last Summer. West. Bt. Louis. . Tite. Detroit .. immons, Chi Prederick. Brooklyn Fullis, Philadelphia Traynor. Pittsburgh Hartnett. Chicago . Lindstrom, Pittsburg! JLeader year aso—Lindstrom, COLONIAL NINE TRAVELS Has Four Games Carded, All of Them on Foreign Fields. game with the e or Sunday has been booked py the Oolo- nial A. C. nine. Other engagements carded for the Colonials include those with the Franconia Club for April 30, Fort Hunt Rangers, May 7, and Middle- burg A. C., May 14. E The Colonials will play all the games on their rivals’ diamond. . VETERAN PITCHER QUITS Caldwell, 45-Year-Old Baron, Re- tires After 23 Years in Game. New York, | avizinieis 101 ORISR T B LT e 25552000mmRARBAR DA 5525535008 IooNS) 05555350 HoHSm DI ©o533505mmeson0s00R o253505220020500558 ©5525225uRoRnoRenT = L H sy Q 00 | kees, BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 20 (#)— Ray Caldwell, 45-year-old pitcher for the Birmingham Barons, has been re- tired at his own request after 23 years’ service in organized base ball. Caldwell had served with the Yan- Buffalo, Boston and Cleveland before coming to Birmingham in 1929. S0X OPTION CATCHER. KANSAS CITY, April 20 () —E. Lee L. Keyser, president of the Kansas City ball club, announced that Edward Con- nolly, 24, a catcher, has been obtained - qn_a.q, avswana® § L] rosowund aa:oo.——g l Field Here Tricky, Schulte to Wear Specs New Griff Middle Gardener Finds Grandstand Shade, Sun Serious Handicaps. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | pfln.mmrm\. April 20—Fred | hitting. Any man belting the ball for 400 must have great Jot in Washington, the big middle gar- dener has discovered he requires ocular “Those high ones' come out of the grandstand shade pretty fast in Grif- %em they're hard fo follow,” the Na- tionals’ new center flelder admits. “I in Washington and I certainly must have looked bad on two or three fly "!'mun get myself & pair of dark specs. That's what. Maybe I won't fourth or fitth inning at home. But by that ‘the sun is tricky, Frod "t epet. Fu Schulte needs glasses. Not for ‘eyes. But for flelding on the Nationals’ ald. fith Stadium and when the sun hits had plety of trouble with them down balls. have to use ’em until along about the bave to use " says|.5 on option from the Boston Red Sox of the American League. Schulte will borrow dark glasses from some pal on the club for use in the Yankee series, the next on the Wash- ington lot. He wouldn’t think of buy- ing & pair here or in the Capital. No big leage ball player would. There is a little optical mg in Boston where all the major iders get their dark spectacles. They've been patronizing it for years. . ‘When the Nationals visit Beantown next week, Schulte will be one of the little shop’s customers. 'N that battle of playing managers The bening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star, ‘"WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1933. CHISOX DISPLAYING POWERFUL PUNCH Lyons Latest Mound Star. * Dodgers Smart in Nipping Braves in Tenth. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR., Assoctated Press Sports Writer. HE Chicago White Sox, a club which did not “figure” to go anywhere at all in the American League this year, has responded to Owner Lou Comiskey's lavish outlay of cash for new playing talent by as- suming a distinctly threatening atti- tude toward the leaders. It still is too early to say how far the Sox will go, but the fact remains that so far they have outhit every other major league club by a wide margin, and have climbed to the dizzy heights of second place. It was more or less expected that their stick work would improve with the acquisition of Al Simmons, Mule Haas and Jimmy Dykes from the Athletics, but no one counted on the Sox getting enough pitching to make the clouting useful. N six games the Pale Hose have con- founded the critics who held that attitude not only by pounding out 63 hits for 35 runs but by producing several hurlers who could hold their |own and win games, even when the | opposition wasn't overpowered. In_the opener, Eddle Durham and tto Face A’s : Yank Bo SPORTS SUCCOTASH. n | Joe Heving collaborated in a four-hit game; a couple of days later Paul Gregory and Vic Frasier allowed De- | troit only six hits, but lost the game; Tuesday Sad Samuel Jones granted | seven blows and scattered them well enough to produce a shutout, and yes- terday another veteran, Ted Lyons, turned in a three-hit masterpiece. Only one game so far has been lost through the failure of the mound de- partment. Lyons, making his second start in a comeback campaign after two bad sea- safeties off Dick Browns. 3 to 0. Only six Brownies reached first, two on walks and one on an error, and none passed second. Meanwhile the Sox picked up three runs, bunching their blows, of which five were dcubles, at the effective mo- ments and receiving the aid of two St. Louis errors. | | JN the only other game played yester- sons, pitched almost perfect ball, lnd‘; while the Sox could get only seven| Coffman and Sam | Gray, they turned back the St. Louls| fl@ut (S BEXPECT | day, the Brooklyn Dodgers displayed | some more of the smart base ball | with which they have been amazing the National League, to take a_ 10-in- ning decision from the Boston Braves, 2 to 1. The winning run came in on a squeeze play, when Al Lopez laid down a neat bunt and brought Tony Cuccinello in from third. Ed Brandt gave the Braves their sec- ond five-hit hurling job in as many starts, but the squeeze, following a walk, a sacrifice and Del Bissonette's single, and a fifth-inning double by Walter Beck, Brooklyn’s big recruit! moundsman, which was followed by Joe | Stripp’s single. turned it into the sec- | ond Boston defeat. Beck, ‘checking up | his second victory, gave eight hits and fanned five. The morning game of the Brooklyn- | Boston double-header and the other National League contest, New York vs. Philadelphia, were rained out. Three American League games also were eradicated by bad weather. RUSSELL VIRGINIA ACE Pitching and Hitting in Style for Cavalier” Yearlings. UNIVERSITY, Va., April 20.—Everett Russell, graduate of Tech High of | Washington, pitching ace of the Vir- ginia first-year base ball team, probably will hurl when Augusta Military Acad- | emy .is played tomorrow. Only three | runs have been scored off Russell in the 20 innings he has pitched this Spring. Russell also has been one of the best hitters on the team of Cavalier young- sters. e i ALEXANDRIA NINE MEETS. ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 —Friend- ship Men's Bible Class base ballers of the church at 7:30 o'clock. Minor Leagues Southern Association. Memphis, 6-6; Chattanooga, 3-3. Birmingham, 3; Atlanta, 2. Little Rock, 5; Nashville, 2. Knoxville-New Orleans, wet grounds. Pacific Coast. Sacramento, 9; Los Angeles, 4. Portland, 11; Hollywood, 2. Trinity M. E. Church meet tonight at | three-timi A RECORD MHOUSE - MLLocH wiLL B “THE RooF UNTIL START... MUD HITS TRAINING. OF DERBY HORSES Red Whisk About Out of Race—Col. Bradley May Pass Up Prospect Purse. By the Associated Press. OUISVILLE, Ky., April 20.—Sun- shine, and a lot of it, is the principal hope of trainers con- ditioning nominees for the $50,- 000 added Kentucky Derby to be raced at Churchill Downs May 6. Muddy tracks have been the rule at both Louisville and Lexington for more than & week. Col. E. R. Bradley, whose entry of Boilermaker and Broker's T may produce another surprise victory for the -time Derby winner, will not start in the prospect purse at Lexington Saturday unless the track is good. Bradley's hopes, as yet unraced this Spring, are working out at his Idle Hour Farm near Lexington. C. C. Van Meter says he has about decided to drop the Derby from the stake engagements of his Red Whisk. This nominee has shown a dislike for mud, and the continued bad track at Lexington has prevented his condition- ing for the mile and a quarter journey. Leading Western eligibles in train- ing at Churchill Downs have been turning in excellent workouts over the heavy going, but a fast track and re- sultant opportunities for them to show Oskland, 1% San Francisco, 7. Missions, 4; Seattle, 3. (10 innings). Texas. Beaumont, 3; Houston, 0. Fort Worth, 2; Oklahoma City, 1. Galveston, 14; San Antonio, ‘6. Dallas-Tulsa, rain. International. All games postponed, rain. * American Association. Louisville, 5; St. Paul, 4. Minneapolis, 10; Indianapolis, 0. Other games postponed, rain. help a teammate to the counting block. Joe batted exactly .100. Each flelded for a 1.000. Marty handled 15 chances at third base and Joe 16 in the shortfield. engagement, with Walter paw, getting the opening assignment. Al Crowder might be kept out of this Cronin this veteran what they can really do would be highly appreciated by their handlers. LINE on the respective merits of Adolphe Pons’ Swivel and the Shandon Farm's At Top, leading aspirants for the Derby, was available today. Both runnning over muddy tracks, Swivel worked a mile and an eighth at Havre De Grace in 2:01 3-5, and At Top worked the same distance at the Downs in 2:02 2-5. Swivel, which won $71,755 as a juve- nile, has not started this year. At Top won the Jefferson Derby at New Orleans this Winter. Both are likely prospects to duplicate the 1915 feat of only filly to win the Derby. THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1933. AMERICAN YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. 8t. Louls, 0. a-New York. wet grounds. Regret, | Monday for the East. THE OMMY PALL-PETE SARRON ED 1 ATTRACT PROMOTER- E KEPT ON THE SCRAPS w JoB sAvYS HR (§ OVE ... Varied Sports Golf. Lafayette, 7; Haverford, 2. Richmond, 18; Boston College, 0. Lacrosse. Harvard, 5; Boston L. C, 3. Tennis. Brooklyn College, 5; Upsala, 0. Columbia, 9; St. John's of Brook- m, 0. Indiana, 11; Indiana Teachers, 1. Purdue, 5; Wabash, 0. Rugby. Yale, 14; Harvard, 0. Harvard J. V,, 19; Yale J. V, 5. | 'TO'SWIM IN PENTATHLON | Group of Clever Performers in “Y” Event Tomorrow Night. With & group of high-class perform- ers entered, the penthathlon swim at the Central Y. M. C. A. tomorrow night promises to prove interesting. Nach contestant in the competition, which starts at 8 o'clock, will be ‘required to take part in all the events. They are the 50-yard free style, 100-yard back stroke, fancy diving, 100-yard breast stroke and | 160-yard medley. entrants include Mullady, Boggs, Marmion, Johnson, Moncure, Becker, House, Birdsong, Wel Orm¢ and McCormick. e D. C. GIRLS IN SWIM MEET Three Will Compete for National Junijor Titles Tomorrow. Rita Augusterfer, Annabelle Whaler and Caroline Cox of the Shoreham Swimming Club will compete in the Junior National A. A. U. champlonship meet tomorrow night in New York. All three are entered in the 220-yard free style event. They will be accom- &n:_‘lfi‘d by Coach Florence Skadding orris. CHISOX SIGN TRAINER. SEATTLE April 20 (®). — Adolph Schacht, veteran trainer with the Seat- tle Indians of the Coast League, has re- ceived word that he has been signed by the Chicago White Sox and he will leave His salary is re- repoted to be $5.000 & vear. NATIONAL YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Brooklyn-Boston, raln (a.m.). Brookyn, 2; Boston, 1 (10 (nnines, p.;m.). Ne 2 otk Fniiadeionia, hat ds. Rer cluba ot sehedtiear” © o m'—lfl: veland, rain. FFALEEAE 9|§§|ggl.g§§ FELEELE T3/ 0| 37 B[ 00 TXI0X_MON N_York. ;.1 0l..1 1] 1.1 31..1 41 21 .667 20 Bklyn. .| 0l Pittsb’ LI 1] 61_167 1Bl Phila. Washington at Phila. New York at Boston. w AURORA RETRIEVED BY TURF LEADERS Cattarinich and Eddy Head Enterprise to Compete With Sportsman’s. BY CHARLES DUNKLEY, Associated Press Sports Writer. HICAGO, April 20.—Aurora Ex- | position Park, about an hour’s drive from Chicago, is coming back to the races. Under the new leadership of two prominent turf figures, Joe Cattarinich of Montreal and Robert S. Eddy, jr., of New Orleans, the mile track that was foreed to fold up a year ago went ahead with plans today for Spring and Fall meetings in competition with Chicago’s new half-mile strip at Sportsman’s Park. A turf war was inevitable, although officials at Exposition Park refused to regard it as such because of its affilia- tion with the Illinois Turf Association, which has no connection with Sports- man’s Park. Cattarinich, who owns a controlling interest in eight tracks in the Urited States and Canada, joined with Eddy yesterday in taking over control of Ex- position Park. They announced plans for an 18-day Spring meeting, starting May 1, and a Fall program covering the last 14 racing deys in October. The Spi meeting calls for seven races daily with eight on Saturdays, a daily double, minimum purses of $500 and & purse of $1,000 for the daily feature event. Ed Carruthers, general manager o expect nothing but a successful season,” Cattarinich said today. —By TOM DOERER By the Associated Press. Ted Lyons, Browns walks. Walter Beck, Dodgers—Held Braves to eight hits, fanned five and scored one run in 2-1 victory after clouting | double. White Sox—Shut out with three singles and two C—1 Discounts Flying Start TOUGH ROAD AHEAD SEEN BY MUARTHY Sure Griffs, Tigers, Indians and Macks Will Provide Plenty of Trouble. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, April 20.—Joseph V. McCarthy may have cause for rejoicing in the flying start his world cham- pion Yankees have taken in the American League race, but you never would gain this impres- sion in a talk with him. The New York team’s boss leans so far backward in appraising his club’s chances that you probably would figure the Yanks are headed straight for the cellar. It's always an uphill fight, so far as Marse Joe is concerned, and he ac- cords each one of his seven rivals a chance to rise to the top. “We've been playing good ball,” Man- ager McCarthy conceded, “but we've been getting some breaks, too. You may cite the old saying that a good team makes the breaks. Be that as it may, we've been getting a fair share of them. 6! 'HO do I think will give us the most trouble in the race for the pennant? Well, I don't think any of the teams can be taken lightly. The Senators, the Tigers, the Indians and the Athletics will be the hardest to beat, but theyll all give us plenty of trouble, “Every one of those teams has a grand shot at the first division. And 50, too, have the White Sox, for they have improved their outfit considerably this year. Right now, it's hard to tell just how strong the various teams are. Trading has been heavy, and there are 50 many new faces in the line-ups that until we have met a club, not only on our own grounds, but on theirs, we can't size them up properly. “Take the Athletics, for example,” he went on, “I don't think any one will deny that they're going to miss Al Simmons’ punch, but at the same time they've got some mighty good looking material in there. Higgins, Cramer, Johnson and Finney all are hustlers, who will help that club go places and do things. “And in a certain sense the same is true of Washington. The Senators have better pitching at this time than they had this early a year ago. Cleve- land ought to be an improved club with Hildebrand in there. And Rowe may be just the spark that will make Detriot dangerous.” ECALLING that Schoolboy Rowe, the towering tosser from the ‘Texas League, shut out the White Sox, 3 to 0, and that Whitehill and Stewart, new Senator hurlers, are look- ing “especially well these days, we agreed that Marse Joe was not shout- ing through his chapeau. Not unduly talkative, one always can depend upon him to say something worthwhile when- ever he expresses himself. “The Babe” chuckled McCarthy heartily,will be able to hit em as long as he's able to get to the plate, even if they have to roll him up there in a wheel chair. Why, only the other day Ruth was telling me how fine he’s feeling and what great shape his legs are in this year. Any one who saw | him " steal second off Rube Walberg will agree that he's no slower than he was two years ago, and he's every bit as good a player. 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