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s ] @he Foend WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, n Shar MARCH 8, 1935. Classified Ads D—1 Job Stewart Spurns Beckons Pelttit : Campbell May Not Stand on New Mark ROOKIE SOUTHPAW FYEFUL T0 BUCKY Flags Follow Him.Through Minors—liiness Delayed Step to Big Time. BY JOHN B. KELLER, Btaff Correspondent of The Star. ILOXI, Miss., March 8.—Poison to one pitcher may prove good medicine to another at the Nationals’ training camp. Leon Pettit, left-hander lifted from the Chattanooga farm, stands a great chance to gain a regular berth with the Washington curving corps, now that Walter Stewart, veteran port- sider, can’t see with the strongest lens the salary offered by Prexy Griffith. Regarded as little more than merely | another minor leaguer coming to camp when he first checked in here, Pettit has assumed prominence in the eyes of Bucky Harris since the stubborn | Stewart stalled, and the pilot believes the former Lookout might make the grade. In his drills here Pettit has re- vealed pitching action that delights the eyes of the master minds of the game. Harris waxes enthusiastic when camp gossip swings to Pettit. Bucky says Stewart's defection af- fords Pettit a grand opportunity to get into the regular fold. Griffith in- sists that Pettit would have had a splendid chance to land a job even | with Stewart around. Rookie Has Confidence. | A BOVE all, Pettit in a quietly con- fident way believes he will be able to prove his worth at this training camp. He works with a fine spirit here and appears to have more in a pitching way than a good, strong slingshot of an arm. Those in charge of the Nationals declare the Washing- Sports Program In Local Realm TODAY. Basket Ball. Newark State Normal at Wilson ‘Teachers, 8. Swimming. George Washington in intercol- legiates at U. of Pittsburgh. TOMORROW. Wrestling. York (Pa.) Y. M. C. A. at Cen- tral Y. M. C. A, 8. Riffe. Codst Guard Academy at George Washington. ; %nrylnnd vs. Navy, at Annapolis, Western vs, Navy Plebes, at An- napolis, 1:30. George Washington giris vs. Drexel and Northwestern. Tele- graphic match, A Swimming. George Washington in intercol- legiates at U. of Pittsburgh. Basket Ball. Poolesville (Md.) Junior High School tourney, at Poolesville, 7:30. T T, TILDEN’S RACKET HOT Big Bill Bats Out Victory Over Lott—Vines Is Winner. MINNEAPOLIS, March 8 (#).—Ap- Tilden again assert his superiority over George Lott as the touring profes- sional tennis troupe took over the | court in the Minnesota field. Tilden's game was working to perfection and he won 10—S8, 4—6, 6—1. Ellsworth Vines had little trouble in defeating Hans Nusslein, 6—2, Vines and Tilden teamed to defeat Lott and Nusslein, 6—4, 10—8. | proximatly 4,000 fans saw Big Bill | < MARYLAND RACE TRACKS WARNED Given Until March 23 to| Apply for Dates for Spring Meets. FORMER CHATTANOCOGA By the Associated Press. ALTIMORE, March 8—Mary- land's recalcitrant race track operators, seeking tax relief, were warned today they must file Spring dates with the Racing Commission by March 15. A letter from the commission, ad- vising the tracks to apply for dates within a week was the first official step taken toward clearing up the unsettled racing situation in the State. The operators who usually hold Spring meets have delayed applying for dates until the Legislature acts on a bill which would give them some relief from present taxes. In his letter to Bowie, Pimlico and Havre de Grace officials Jarvis Spen- cer, jr., chairman of the commission, said applications should have been in by March 1, but that the commission | would extend the time until March 15. His letter contained a proviso be- | lieved designed to protect the tracks’ | interests shoulc they make good their | threat of “failing to open” if the tax is not reduced. Spencer pointed out the tracks would not be bound by their appli- | cations “if conditions do not jus- | tify 1t PLATE WITH CLIF BOLTON He added, however, that “the pres- | ent uncertainty about the dates of Spring racing in this State is en- dangering State revenue from this source.” ton farm product couples with the sturdy arm pitching intelligence. Pettit has been around the paid game long enough to acquire a keen knowledge of the mound art. In eight of the last nine seasons he toiled in the minors. He remained out of organized ranks one year be- cause of a salary dispute with the Milwaukee club. It was in 1926 that Pettit left his home in Burnt House, W. Va, hamlet near Parkersburg on the Ohio River, to join the Springfield, Il club in the Three-Eye League. In the same outfit was Joe Kuhel, the first sacker still four years away from the Nationals. Springfield was a | pennant winner that year and good | pitching by Pettit did much to get it a flag. Milwaukee bought him, but he did not care for the pay they offered for | the 1927 campaign. So out he re- | mained that entire season and most | of the next. He finished in 1928 down in Texas, however, playing both | at Waco and Paris. Pennants Follow Him, | LDORADO of the Cotton States | League was Pettit’s club in | 1929. At that time Schoolboy | Rowe, now the star right-hander of | the Tigers, was Eldorado’s bat boy. | This was a big year for Pettit. He | won 22 and lost 5 end Eldorado | ‘won the pennant. In 1930 Leon moved on to Mem- phis and lasted long enough to hurl to a record of three wins and two defeats in Southern Association bat- tles. The Chicks shipped him to Selma of ghe Southeastern League, now a Washington farm. He won 11 and dropped 3 at Selma which cop- ped the circuit championship. Pettit went through the 1931 cam- paign with the Quincy, Il aggrega- tion in the Three-Eye League. He | won 17 and lost 6 and again was for- tunate enough to be with a pennant winner. Flags seemed to be following the West Virginia boy. And the next season, 1932, found im with a flag club for the fourth year in succession. Chattanooga had | bought him from Quincy and this vear | the Lookouts got the Southern Asso- | ciation pennant after a bitter battle | with Memphis. Pettit won 18 and | dropped 8 during the pennant chase. Held Back by Illness. ETTIT opened the 1933 season with | Chattanooga in impressive style. | He reeled off 10 victories while | suffering 4 defeats, and Clark Griffith ‘was ready to bring him up to the big show. Then fate in the form of an appendicitis attack dealt the left- hander a stunnirg blow. He was through for the year and up to the | Nationals came Alex McColl instead. Last year Pettit toiled to a record of | 14 wins and 8 defeats at Chattanooga. | He struck out 87 batters and passed 57 in 205 innings. His finest pitching feat of the campaign was in a game against Nashville. In it he allowed three infleld hits £nd only 28 batters faced him. If there is any more of that kina of | pitching in his left arm, Pettit has a | splendid show for a big league berth. He is a trimly-buil® ball player, stand- ing 5 feet 10}, &nd weighing 172. | The club house crowd did not believe | him that heavy until he proved it on | the scales with Trainer Mike Martin | doing the balancing. And at 28 years of age he should have much more base ball with him. Pettit is seven years younger than Stewart. If he is able to make the grade this time, the Nationals will be the gainers by the veteran’s refusal to accept terms. Griff Adds Two Farms to System ILOXI, Miss, March 8—Clark Griffith, president, is expected to extend the Washington base ball club's tarm system to include Harrisburg of the New York-Penn- sylvania League and Lancaster of the Penn State League. This would give the club five farms, the Griffs already being hooked up with Chattanooga of the Southern Association?® Albany of the International and Panama City of the Florida State. Griffith would have included the , Belma club if the Southeastern League had reorganized. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ILOXI, Miss, March 8.—With B infielders and outfielders streaming into the Washing- ton ball club's training camp days ahead of the scheduled reporting time, the pitchers are beginning to squawk. A week of intensive batting 2 | practice had been scheduled for the flingers, but the presence of so many other players is cutting into their drills seriously. As many as six infielders, a brace of outfielders and three catchers were | to be among those swinging at Biloxi Field today, which meant that some | of the better chuckers who had been | chopping away at rookie offerings must do some throwing to batters themselves. The squad of players at camp was raised to 30 yesterday by the arrival of Lyn Lary, shortstop obtained from the Red Sox in the big Cronin deal last Fall; Fred Sington, the hefty outfielder bought from Albany, and Cecil Travis, Ossie Bluege and Buddy Myer, veterans of the infleld. Now only Red Kress, utility infielder, | and Heinie Manush, Fred Schulte and Jack Stone of the outfield group are yet to report. According to the origi- nal plan for the assembling of the entire squad of Nationals, they have until next Monday to put in an ap- pearance here. Griff Hurlers Squawk as Players Arriving Ahead of Time Cheat Them of Stick Drill Lary was the last to reach camp|fairly dry area in the spacious out- yesterday. He drove in with his wife | field. The fireworks were touched off and youngster around 9 o'clock, tired | by Al Powell and Sington, the pair by the tour over roads bogged by tor- | purchased from Albany. Each swung rential downpours. The shortstop, who | with vigor and timed well. Sington had for some weeks argued over salary | appeared to have handled a bat just with the Washington club, waited until | before coming to camp, but said he today to sign a contract after artiving had done nothing more than general | at an agreement in a lengthy conter- 'conditioning work in an Atlanta gym- | ence with Clark Griffith, the Nation- | nasium. als’ prexy. ‘The huge ex-Alabama foot ball star, Sington and Travis came in from | who carries 220 pounds onto the dia- Atlanta early in the day. Sington mond when in best playing trim. has | lives there, and Travis near the Geor- | not much weight to shed. He scaled gia capital. They worked in the long- | at 230 before setting out for his est practice yet at camp, & practice |first drill of the scason here. | not started until well after noon be-| Travis reported that his legs, which cause of a heavy downpour during the | had bothered him considerably last morning. !unson. are sound and strong now. | Bluege and his wife reached Biloxi |He did a deal of hunting in the off in midafternoon after a trying wmotor | season and also followed exercises trip through the flooded regions of | planned to make his underpinning | Alabama and Miscissippi. Myer and | more stalwart, a course prescribed by | the missus drove down from their up- | Trainer Mike Martin. Cecil seems a state home at Ellisville. High waters | trifie heavier than he was last sea- also made their journey hazardous. |son. perhaps 10 pounds above his One of the heaviest rains Biloxi has | 1934 weight. This should prove bene- experienced in years kept the Nation- | ficial to the player, though, Trainer als to their hotel yesterday morning A Martin insists. He says Cecil was too and for some time it looked as if no finely drawn much of last season. | practice could be held. Shortly after | Myer brought along with him a noon, however, the wind shifted to the 'husky youngster named Harry Craft. north, the rain stopped and Manager A Mississippi College product, Craft Harris marshaled his forces at the |has starred at both foot ball and base ball yard for a workout that lasted 'ball and is here to flash his outfield- nearly three hours. ing wares. If he reveals any worth Much of the time was devoted to Griffith will endeavor to find a spot batting practice, conducted on a|for him with some minor club. i ‘Harris Takes Shine to Cohen, ' Chunky Pitcher Who Can Swat BY JIM BERRYMAN. ILOXI, Miss, March 8—A rookie at the Nationals’ train- ing camp, but hardly a rookie in the ranks of professional ball players, a chunky Texan i mak- ing a bid, and a good one, to become one of Griff’s regular moundsmen. Sydney Cohen, to you just plain Syd, who hails from El Paso, daily is exer- cising his rubber-shirted 180 pounds before the penetrating lamps of Washington'’s new manager. And Boss Bucky seems to like what he has shown thus far. Syd is more experienced than moet of the babes in the wood under the palms here, for he earned himseif a couple of varsity A’s as a twirler at 'Bama, then broke into semi-pro ball in Arizona during the of '29. PFrom there he went northward to toe the slab for Minneapolis, and last year was farmed out to Chattanooga, from whence Griff began to hear stories about him. CARDS T0 START ROOKIE N CENTER | Moore Labeled Sure Thing to Make Good—Grove’s Arm Strong Again. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. T. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 8.—Touching the training camp | base: | The world champion Cardi- inals will start the campaign with & new centerfielder, but it won't he John Leonard (Pepper) Martin, who don.s;; his uniform today for the first time. | The newcomer is Terry Moore, a ballhawk from the Columbus “farm” | and labeled a sure thing to make good | in the big show. Miguel Gonzales, the taciturn Cuban who serves Frank Frisch as first lieutenant, rates Moore one of the fastest and best flycatchers he has ever coached. Terry is a printer by trade. Martin, with the kinks extracted from the trick left elbow that gave him so much trouble the last two years and contributed to his fielding lapses in the 1934 world series, is & fixture at third base for the Cards. Base ball sharps expect both Dean brothers to win 20 or more games this year, but many of them now are insisting that Paul eventually will prove a more consistent winner than the more colorful Dizzy. Sees Trouble for Babe. RISCH says Ruth always will be | F dangerous at the plate but that | the strain of playing left fleld] in six out of eight Nationa)l League parks to avold the sun will be tough on the Babe's shaky legs. George Selkirk is slated definitely to take Ruth’s old place in right fleld for the Yankees, but that doesn’t en- tirely solve Joe McCarthy’s outfield problem. Ben Chapman is the only other fixture. The experts are yet to be convinced Robert Moses Grove can stage a real comeback, but the former king of American League pitchers hasn't yet had a trace of soreness in his left arm this Spring and on one occasion, at least, he has cut loose with enough stuff to raise Red Sox hopes that he will return to old-time form. ‘Then, when the injury epidemic of the Nationals was at its height, a rush order was put through to the lookouts and Cohen made a non-stop flight to the Georgia avenue base ball emporium. He admits he was well stocked with lucky pieces to ward off the seasonal curse of torn tendons and busted bones. But his services with the local club showed possibilities. He not only acquitted himself creditably from the pitching angle, but vindicated the Tennessee outfit’s placing him on the pinch-hitting list. In one of Syd’s few major league appearances, with the bags loaded, he smacked one of Mr. Winegarner’s choice tosses for a base hit against the Cleveland club on its home lot last year. ‘The ex-'Bama star swings from either side of the plate, but dous his twirling from the left shoulder. He depends mainly on a fast ball, but mixes it with a slow one ana a quick- POWER BEHIND THE PLATE. RECEIVER,..BOUGHT BY GRIFF To SHARE DUTIES BEHIND THE —By JIM BERRYMAN . Do IT AGAIN _ @/\SON"! LIKE iy, 2 ) SAM REALLY MEANS ] BUSINESS WHEN HE PICKS UP A BAT.., HIT.289 AND 12 HOMERS FoR THE LookouTs LAST"/EAR... BiLOXl =M 19S5 es YANK DOLLAR MEN RISING IN WORTH Allen, Walker, Combs, Dickey Are Showing Signs of Full Recovery. By the Associated Press. T. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The New York Yankees' famous dol- lar-a-year men are getting ready to tear up their provi- sional contracts and ask for some real ones. Johnny Allen, Fred Walker, Earle Combs and Bill Dickey, victims of lameness and injuries last season, have shown signs of complete re- covery. LAKELAND, Fla—Their training camp roster near full strength, the Detroit Tigers prepared to- day for a final week of workouts before their first exhibition with the Phillies here March 16. Millard (Dixie) Howell, Alabama base ball and foot ball star, will don the uniform of a Bengal today. ARASOTA, Fla—Manager Joe Cronin of the Red Sox expresses his optimism early in the season. “If that young fellow Solters in center field comes through as he showld this season, I consider the Red Sox have every bit as good a chance for the American League pen- nant as any,” said Cronin. EST PALM BEACH, Fla.— Manager Rogers Hornsby of the St. Louis Browns has in- augurated & personally conducted bat- ting class. He expects it to play an important part in helping the Brownies to im- prove their hitting. Yesterday he spent an hour at the batting cage demonstrating the finer points of bat handling to Heath, Bell, Bettencourt, Pepper and the young catcher, Payton. \ORT MYERS, Fla—The Phila- delphia Athletics today journeyed to Miami Beach to meet the Giants in the first inter-club game of the season. The teams play this af- ternoon, tomorrow and Sunday. The A’s will use their regular line-up. ~Chisox f’itchers To Get Full Test By the Associated Press. ASADENA, Calif.—Any of the Chicago White Sox pitchers who fail to make the grade this season will not do so for lack of opportunity. § Manager Jimmy Dykes plans to keep at least 11 of his 15 candi- dates until May 15. After that nine will remain. ‘Those regarded as certainties to stick are George Earnshaw, Sam Jones, Les Tietje, Ted Lyons, Whit- low Wyatt, Lee Stine, Vernon Ken- nedy and John Whitehead. BALCRANK Lubrication Equipment SALES AND SERVICE breaking curve. Harris accuses him of having a little something about the ears, mm as '.hl: boss observes, really a terrible handicap, even for & pitches. Joe Cronin says the American League race is “wide open” this year, with five or six clubs as pennant con- tenders . . . He thinks the Athletics will be one of the toughest of them all. Ruth Gets Title Of Commander By the Associated Press. T. PETERSBURG, Fla.—It's | Comdr. George Herman Ruth | if you please— The Babe was invested with the title of honorary commander by the Florida Military Academy, while his teammates engaged in the Braves' first practice game. He wears his military honors witk: dignity, the boys report. BRUINS EXPECTING ROOT'S COMEBACK In Fine Trim, Going Strong.. Giants’ Lead-off Men | Show Power. { VALON, Calif.—In nominating | comeback candidates, the | Chicago Cubs offer Charley | | Root. ! Root, one of the Cubs’ most de- pendable hurlers over a six-year | | stretch starting with 1929, went al- most into obscurity last season when | { he won four games and lost seven. This year he reported in exceptional | condition and has done so well that Manager Charlie Grimm has hopes | the husky right-hander will stage a | comeback. i IAMI BEACH, Fla—This new | lead-off combination of the New York Giants may develop some headaches for National League pitchers during the Summer. Held scoreless for two frames by Max Carey's base ball school yesterday, | the Giants started on their way to a | 16-0 shut-out when Critz, Bartell and Moore, the new lead-off combination, filled the bases on hits and Manager Bill Terry cleaned them with a triple. AN BERNARDINO, Calif.—The Pirates let neither wind nor rain interfere with their preparations. Terriffic downpour drove them off the field yesterday but the Bucs went straighway to an indoor stadium and while the pitchers smoked them down the sidelines, the fieldrs got in bunting | and running. No " On the New Super Power GOODRICH NO_ MORE BATTERY :'u:k er, longer life. No Delay—No Red Tape Use Our Easv Pav Plan Goodrich Silvertown NW Stores it oo ! HE'S STRONG ENOUGH To TAKE THAT DAY-AFTER- PLENTY OF STUFF IN HIS RIGHT WRIST/ Ago IN THE STAR 'HE Nationals, training at Char- lottesville, again yesterda, were forced to practice indoors be- cause of the adverse weather. Ed- die Foster, third baseman, is work- ing hard to shed excess weight. Walter Johnson, ace pitcher, has not yet reported, giving Manager Clark Griffith a bit of concern. Outfielder Lamar from Rockville has reported at Charlottesville. He's very green but said to have much natural ability. Business and Western basket ball teams are to meet soon to decide the Scholastic League champion- ship. : Lynch and Connelly, Catholic University outfielders, are being counted on heavily. Rasmussen is expected to do most of Gallaudet's pitching. Melvin Sheppard has signed to coach the Melrose A. C. runners, There seems no doubt that Char- ley Brickley, great Harvard gridder, will coach the Johns Hopkins squad next Fall. OFFICIALS ASKED 10 STAND READY Britisher Near Disaster Lifting Record to 276 Miles an Hour. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. AYTONA BEACH, Fla,, March 8.—Sir Malcolm Campbell had a new world automobile speed record to tack to the cockpit of Bluebird today—276.816 miles an hour—but whether that would satisfy him for this year, or for any other year, not even he knew. In other years, the moment he frac- {tured the straightaway, running start ! standards that he alone has been able to challenge since the death of Maj. Seagrave, he has packed up imme- diately, put the monster Bluebird in a crate and started straight back for England. This time he's hesitating. He went out on Daytona's sands yes- terday and lifted his mark from 272.108 to 276.816. It was a fractional im- provement, as he soared southward through the measured mile in 3.29 seconds at an average of 272.727 miles an hour and came back through the same stretch in 12.81 seconds at a 281.030 mile an hour clip. When he set his 272.108-mile record two years ago he averaged 13.23 seconds for the measured mile. Changes Mind Quickly. AMPBELL'S word as to the future meant as much as it has regard- ing the past. He said last night, before he retired, that he had made no decision as to whether he would stay here and continue to shoot for the 300 miles an hour he feels is in Bluebird | if the beach ever reaches the perfec- | tion he desires. Yet, at the same time, he had asked the city officials to stand by, and be prepared to clock him in future attempts. | He said yesterday, as late as 1 p.m., that the Beach was impossible, rough and lumpy, and could not possibly | sustain the speed he sought, yet three hours later he had Bluebird on the . sands, breaking his old record. | With the beach seemingly as level as a billiard table, Campbell set out (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) N . Trosky of Tribe . T . | Aided by Umpire EW ORLEANS.—Hal Trosky, first baseman for the Cleve- | land Indians, thanks Umpire | George Hildebrand for some of the new grace he has acquired. 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