Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1935, Page 12

FORMER HOLDOUT NOW A POLLYANNA Happy to Toil for Harris, Southpaw Is Keenest Booster on Club. BY JOHN B. KELLER, Staft Correspondent of The Star. ILOXI, Miss, March 18.— When Walter Stewart, veteran | lefthanded Washington hurler | showed every inclination of | tearing himself loose from the ‘Wash- ington Base Ball Club, the powers that be figured that if he did cease his holdout tactics and become a member in good standing his worth would be impaired by his dissatisfac- tion. Clark Griffith, owner of the club, gaid, the day before Stewart reported here to sign his contract, that he would rather not have Stewart on the club than to have him present and dissatisfied. g Stewart reported, took his medicine | —which was delivered in the form of an edict making him train 30 days,‘ at his own expense—but instead o[‘ being dissatisfied—became one of the prime boosters of the 1935 Senators. | Stewart visions not only a splendid | geason for the Nationals, but also for himself. He doesn't subscribe to the | popular notion that the team this year | will finish among the second raters. | In fact he speaks, and goes through his practice jaunts, as if Washington were headed for a pennant. I satisfaction with things as they | are can be attributed largely | to his respect for Bucky Harris. “You | can say for me,” said the pitched to-| day. “that I've never been connected | with a team where working conditions were more satisfactory. I rate Harris | the best manager in the game, was just the type of man to work for. I've | ‘never played under his equal—any- | where.” And that takes in some | ground. too, for Walter has labored for Detroit, St. Louis, Washington | under the Cronin regime, and numer-“ ous minor league teams Stewart figures that 1935 will be a great year for Walter Stewart because | he is in better physical shape than | he has been since joining the Wash- ington club. Last year represented | a new high for ailments in Stewart. He suffered from a sore arm early in | the year and when that healed was | striken with an attack of neuralgia. | When that had passed along and he | seemed headed for a return to form, | he woke up one morning, looked in | a mirror and hardly recognized him- | self. His face was contorted gro- tesquely. One eye was nearly closed. His cheek was far off center and his head throbbed. Mike Martin proved that the trouble Harris Inspires Him. HE 35-year-old left - hander’s came from his teeth. He had a num- | administered a few days ago at ber of them pulled, but did not strike his true form before the season ended. His record of 7 victories against 14 defeats was his poorest season since | entering organized base ball. L TRIO OF RECRUITS A hurried visit to | w. Sports Program In Local Realm TODAY. Boxing. Pete DeGrasse, Brooklyn, Vs. Frankie Wolfram, Canada, feather- weights, 10 rounds, Washington Auditorium, 8:30 o’clock. TOMORROW. Water Polo. Baltimore Y. M. C. A. vs. Wash- ington Canoe Club at Ambassador pool, 8 o'clock. THURSDAY. ‘Werestling. | George Zaharias, Colorado, Vs. | Emil Dusek, Nebraska, heavy- weights, two falls out of three, Washington Auditorium, 8:30 o'clock. FRIDAY. Swimming. District A. A. U. indoor swim- ming championships, Shoreham Hotel pool, 8 o'clock. SATURDAY. District A. A. U. indoor swim- ming championships, Shoreham Hotel pool, 8 o’clock. CHEER THE CHISOX Whitehead, Vance and Stine Impress Manager Dykes and Catcher Sewell. By the Associated Press. ASADENA, Calif—John White- head, recruit right-hander | from Dallas, will be starting | games and winning them for the Chicago White Sox by July 4 unless Manager Jimmy Dykes has | been fooled by training season per- | formances. Whitehead, according to Dykes, has | everything except polish. Luke Sewell | agrees. Dykes and Sewell also think | highly of another pair of youngsters, | Joe Vance, from Dallas, and Lee Stine who spent last season at Mil- waukee. NEW ORLEANS.—Manager Walter | Johnson of the Cleveland Indians is considering using Ralph Winegarner, | young pitcher, as a utility infielder | this season. | With Bill Knickerbocker in a hos- | pital, the Indians are left with only | one extra inflelder, Willie Kamm. | Knickerbocker's place at shortstop will be taken by Roy Hughes. | FORT MYERS, Fla—The Phila- delphia Athletics celebrate “Connie | Mack day” in honor of their veteran | pilot today by entertaining the re- venge-seeking St. Louis Cardinals. | The world champions are intent on | vengeance for the beating the A'sK Bradenton. | During the week end the A's di- | | vided a pair of contests with the Bos- | ton Red Sox. i Will Be Handled Gently. HIS year he reported 10 pounds heavier than last year He has been cautioned to take things easy, so that he will not hurt his arm | 1n his efforts to catch up with the rest | Tigers Face Dodgers. LAKELAND, Fla.—The champion | Detroit Tigers, with two exhibition | game victories tucked away, will take on Casey Stengel's Dodgers at Or- lando tomorrow. Manager Mickey Cochrane has dis- | | headed for the North and what they e RUTH-DEAN DUEL STIRS DIXIE FANS Seats Selling Fast for Tilt.i English Bids for Regular | Berth With Cubs. By the Associated Press. T. PETERSBURG, Fla.—They're scurrying for tickets already to see the Babe go into action against “Dizzy” Dean. The meeting comes next Wednesday during the Braves-World Champion Cardinals game, and the advance sale of tickets promises another big crowd at the Tribesmen's Waterfront Park. Ruth makes no promises, but “Dizzy” has cautioned the Babe to get plenty of batting practice. FORT MYERS, Fla—The National Champion St. Louis Cardinals, beaten 10 to 2 yesterday by the New York Giants, hoped to give a better account of themselves in their exhibition game here today with the Athletics. Bill Walker, “Cotton” Pippen and Bud Tinning were the chosen hurlers. SACRAMENTO, Calif. —Woody Eng- lish, rated as the National League's best all-around utility infielder, is making a stiff bid for a regular job in the Chicago Cubs’ inner defense. Since the training siege started, English, heavier and stronger than last season., when illness kept him from standing the strain of regular employment, has fielded at top form, along with doing more hitting than most of the regulars. ORLANDO. Fla—For the first time in years the Dodgers seem to have no worries about first base. In the past three seasons George Kelly, Bud Clancy, Del Bissonette, Joe Judge and Sam Leslie have played first for Brooklyn and all suffered injuries at various times. Now Leslie has the regular job and Johnny McCarthy acts like a capable reserve man, hit- ting hard and fielding well in two exhibitions so far. Giants Head North. MIAMI BEACH, Fla—The New York Giants broke camp today and hope will be another National League pennant. By and large, Manager Bill Terry is well satisfied with the club at this early stage. The pitching has been good and the batting adequate, if not particularly potent. The Giants won six of the ten exhibition games they played here. SAN BERNARDINO, Calif—Lefty Birkover and Cy Blanton got the call | to the mound today as the Pirates got | ready for their exhibition game against Hollywood. | The Bucs made it two straight over the Los Angeles Angels by winning, | 7-3, yesterday, with Jack Salveson, Lefty Johnson and Mace Brown doing the hurling. | | TAMPA, Fla—The Cincinnati Reds, | smarting under a 9-to-6 defeat yes- terday at the hands of Detroit, today prepared to meet fhe Toronto Maple | Leafs in the first of five games to be | played during the next two weeks. Lee Grissom and Keith Frazer, | stripling pitchers, will share the mound, Manager Chuck Dressen an- nounced. | WINTER HAVEN, Fla—With an of the pitchers, who had a full week’s | covered that his freshmen may be‘ofl»day in their Spring_training ex- | start on him, due to his holding out. | good enough to supply the reserve | hibition schedule, the Phillies spent | No one has more confidence in|strength he lacked a year ago. Clyde | today ironing out rough spots in their | Stewart’s ability than Bucky Harris. | Hatter turned in a good pitching | line-up. Although Bucky is showing signs of | job against the Phillies and Chester | Manager Jimmy Wilson led his! leaning toward younger players, he | Morgan, from San Antonio, was the | charges back here after they suffered nevertheless is not discounting the | batting star of Sunday’s 9-to-6 win | week-end defeats at the hands of the worth of the veteran southpaw. “He | should win a lot of games for us this year,” the young pilot has said, “par- ticularly if we treat him gently and do not overwork him. Yes. I plan to use him as a starter and give him plenty of rest. I don’t think he should pitch more often than every five days.” Stewart’s willingness around the | practice grounds has made a great hit with Harris. The expected re- | sentment on the part of the pitcher has given way to enthusiastic accord, | and although his feelings toward | Clark Griffith are still a little bitter, his outlook for the success of the team could not be more optimistic. Stewart’s metamorphosis is one of | the most astonishing things that has | happened in Biloxi this Spring. Only a week ago he was writing furiously | to the other teams in the American | League, asking them if they'd like | to use him, and Clark Griffith was | doing the same. Today he is Wash- | ington’s most enthusiastic backer. Only Indians Interested. | HE result of all the letter writ- | ‘ng on the part of Stewart and | Griffith was one favorable reply. The Cleveland Indians, thor- oughly cowed last season by the vet- eran, showed unmistakable signs of being interested in him. Walter Johnson apparently believed that if he obtained the services of Stewart he not only would be adding an ac- complished left-hander to his top | heavy staff of right-handed hurlers, but also would be buying up a menace | to Cleveland's pennant hopes. But Stewart, not trade for him. Clark Griffith, who, in spite of his sale of Joe Cronin for $250,000 and Lyn Lary still insists that he never sold a ball player in his life, refused to sell Stewart. The deal fell through al- most simultaneous with the arrival| of the player in camp. Yesterday's scheduled exhibition game against Albany’s Senators was called off early in the morning by club officials. Grif- fith and Harris motored to nearby Gulfport, the proposed site of the contest, and reported that the grounds had been drenched by heavy rainfall | Saturday night. The game will be canceled. Tuesday’s game against | Albany, scheduled for Biloxi, will be played in Guifport, however. Al| Thomas and Ed Linke will do the| hurling for Washington, against Ray | Prim and Frank Peticolas for Albany. | Yesterday's cancellation altered pitching plans for the Cleveland | series, due here Thursday and Fri-| day. Leon Pettit. originally slated to pitch against Albany Tuesday, will be used against the Indians in the first game. Earl Whitehill, Bobby Burke, Jack Russell and Monte ‘Weaver, however, will bear the brunt of the hurling attack on Walter Johnson’s men. Cleveland wanted to buy| over the Reds at Tampa. | | SARASOTA, Fla.—The condition of the ball field at the Red Sox training camp is the subject of much “beefing.” | Manager Joe Cronin says the re- | surfaced infield is entirely too soft | and is mighty hard on the legs. | A morning “skull” meeting is on today’s bill. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—A keen battle is being waged in the Yankees’ camp for the third-string catching | berth, with Joe Glenn and Norman | Kies as the combatants. Neither | seems likely to displace Bill Dickey | or Arndt Jorgens, but, according to | Scout Paul Kritchell, Glenn has the | best throwing arm in base ball. He also is the harder hitter, but Kies handles the batters better and has been sent to the minors three times, 50 he can’t be farmed out again. | Detroit Tigers and Brooklyn Dodgers. Bl:;ll;eney, Butler | Win Pin Tourney | D BLAKENEY and Billie Butler, crack Washington combina- | tion, won the St. Patrick’s day mixed doubles tournament, held at Norfolk, with a score of 2,419 for 10 games. Astor Clarke of Clarendon and Katherine Vick of Norfolk teamed to capture second prize. Blakeney shot 640 and 616 and Mrs. Butler, 566 and 597. Twenty couples competed, of which seven hailed from Washington. ILOXI, Miss., March 18.—With memories of St. Patrick’s day so fresh in mind, aow is an auspiciotis time to acquaint the Washington ball club fans with | a tall, husky son of Old Erin who might some day, not far off, be sport- ing the colorful Nat uniform. Hugh Mulcahy, a 188-pounder, stretches skyward 6 feet 1 inch, and hails from Allston, Mass., where he at- tended Brighton High School, and later Dean Academy. His chief athletic activ- | ites were base ball, hockey and swim- | | ming, and in all three he was quite an | efficient performer. But twirling the stitched pellet claimed the warmest spot in his good Irish heart, and he | made his debut in organized ball playing during the season of 1934 with Manchester of the Northeastera | League. 2 His effectiveness on the mound led to his purchase by Algany and Boss Joe Cambria thought Griff ought to get a look at what the youthful curving artist had to sell. So he barged into the Winter training field of the Nationals 2nd has been belabor- ing the batters with sinkers, curves and fast balls that have plenty of whistle as they go by. Hugh is one of those rare and much-sought-after pitchers—one who isn’'t a guaranteed out when he steps up to the plate. He swatted the horsehide in the Northeastern League at a .308 clip and frequently went in as a pinch-hitter. This righthander is just 21 years old and appears & right promising Griff and Bucky Look at 21-Year-Old Mulcahy Take Second | prospect. Griffith and Harris have not yet decided to return him to the Albany club. They want a good look at him under fire before he definitely dons the uniform of the club which owns him, J.T. B. ASHINGTON, D. C, econ FPLETTIT THE MINOR LEAGUE "VETERAN, PURCHASED FROM CHATTANOOGA.. :.. HIS CHANCES OF | LANDING A BERTA HAVENT BEEN HURT BY WALTERS DELAY IN REACHING CAMP. ey MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1935. it 1 ILOXY -MiSS... . THE SPORTLIGHT Jones Girding to in Masters’ Tournament at Augusta. BY GRANTLAND RICE ' THE WRECKING MELODY. (You've Seen It Happen, too.) A mocking bird was singing from out a maple tre He sent his lyric winging across the Springtime lea; A song of golden beauty, the final heights attained, An artist at his duty, in rapture unrestrained. But wait—a burly fellow, in language harsh and terse, Let out an awjul bellow that ended with a curse— His purple neck was swelling, with full intent to slay. He doubled up his yelling and scared the bird away. Who was this mutt, I muttered, Who was this bloke who blundered—and then I heard him sob— Above the cursing riot, I heard the echoes ring— “Why can’t these crows keep quiet at the top part of my swing?” F YOU happened to be in the neighborhood of the Augusta na- tional golf course recently you would have seen a stocky citizen of 33 years—he was 33 Sunday— making his way from tec to green. You would have seen Bobby Jones, the grand slammer of 1930, getting ready for his second stand at com- petitive play in the last five years. In his first comeback over the same course a year ago, the Georgian's putting blade had lost its old keenness, and largely as a result of this short game collapse he finished in a triple tie for twelfth place with Walter Hagen and Denny Shute, nine strokes back of Horton Smith, the winner. This finish was something of a | shock to his loyal camp followers, but | rust was sure to come with the rest | of four years, and as one looks back on the scene, the result was in no sense startling. Eleven professional golfers, young and old, marched in front of Bobby Jones a year ago. How many will lead him to the final flag a trifle over two weeks away, when an even stronger array will make up the field? I old campaigns, Bobby Jones, with all his graciousness, was never what any one would call an easy loser No Easy Loser. T MIGHT be recalled that, in his Outwardly unmoved and undisturbed, | he was on fire inside with a burning desire to fight his way back. In 1927, he finished around eleventh at Oakmont, caught the next boat for Europe, and won the British open. In 1931, Horton Smith beat him in the Savannah open, and, a short while later, Jones ran away from Smith and the field at Augusta. You can take it for granted that Bobby Jones will enter this next mas- ter’s tournament with the undaunted determination to work his way far out of the rut that caught him a year ago. | When you consider the class of this | field, it will be no simple matter to run | 1-2-3—Sarazen, Armour, Dutra, Hor- ton and Mac Smith, McSpaden, Run- yan, Laffoon, Picard, Revolta, Ghezzi, Cooper, Macfarlane, Hagen, Dudley, Hines and some 50 others who reach the scene of contest seasoned and ready after a five months’ campaign. A Better Spot. HE smooth-swinging Georgian is in a much better spot this time than he was a year ago. At that time he was nominated the top man in advance—expected to win, He felt this heavy pressure through every round, and the four-year lay-off made things worse. ‘This time h:n'hl‘:“ mn‘: 8 1“’ at twelfth place, know! no longer is he picked to win from one of the Be His Old Self | that stilled a lyric throb? | strongest fields that ever struggled for first place. | | His long game is as good as it ever ' was. He is the Bob Jones of 1930, the grand slammer from tee to green. That smooth, flowing swing, with all of its hidden power, has all its former magic. ‘The one shadow under which he faces the first round will be his putter. | Calamity Jane was pure poison in that first start. Part of this was due | to mental and nerve staleness or weariness under the strain of opening up a new course, plus the handicap of a four-year lay-off. | ‘This time, Jones will put through a different training schedule, not at- | tempting to crowd so much play and practice into the week preceding the | first round on April 4. | For five days in a row last March, | Bobby was touring the course in from 66 to 69. Two days before the first round he had moved up to 75. He was beginning to waver in a scoring way even before the first round opened. | He has started getting ready much earlier to meet the stars as they come | swinging in from the North and South | open at Pinehurst. He won't attempt to crowd in as much golf in the week | | preceding the tournament. This | means that his concentration will be | much keener and that he will have a much better grip on his nervous system. A year ago, Bobby used up 294 strokes for the 72 holes. I have an | idea he will beat that mark this time | by eight or nine strokes and that, win | or lose, he will be out there with the | | stretch runners. But to pick any one | | man from this all-star entry list is | just about as easy as calling the next | number on a roulette wheel. | (Copyright. 1935. by North Amerit Newspaper Alltance. Ine.) " —_— | RINALDI QUINT TRAILS Loses to Gettysburg in Opener of Tri-State Flag Series. . Rinaldi Tailors, claimants to the | District semi-professional basket ball | championship, . were one down to the Gettysburg Fleetwings today in their | three-game play-off series for the Tri- ‘State League championship. | _The Fleetwings took the first game by a score of 44 to 18, after holding a 22-to-4 lead 2t the half. The Tai- lors never were able to get started. Kitzmiller and Heller topped the visiting attack with 12 points each, while the Rinaldi’s feeble offensive was led by Joe Sweeney and Ed Ronkin, who contributed 7 and 6 points, respectively. In & preliminary game, Sholl's Cafe routed the Jewish Community Center five, 44 to 2¢4. T BELIEVE I'm BEING FoLLOWED! THIS LEAGUE 1S JUST THE SPOT FOR ME !... HARRIS LIKES HIS CONFIDENCE... HE HAS BEEN ON FOUR FLAG"WINNERS IN EIGHT YEARS... BOYS WHO HAVE BATTED AGAINST HIM SAY HE'S A GOOFY PITCHER... THEY NEVER CAN FIGURE OUT HIS TOSSES..... COMMISSION TAKES CONTROL OF RACING Into Effect Today—More Tracks Planned. By the Associated Press. HARLESTON, W. Va., March 18.— Horse racing in West Virginia, legalized about two years ago, will be under the supervision and con- trol of a three-member Racing Com- mission under a bill passed by the recent Legislature and which becomes effective today. Under the new law, the State's 3 per cent tax on the pari-mutuel re- ceipts at race tracks is cut to 1 per cent and in addition the State will require a license of $500 daily for the operation of tracks of one mile or longer and $250 on smaller tracks The Charles Town Jockey Club operates the only race track in the State in Jefferson County, but pro- posals have been discussed for the establishment of at least two new plants, S STATE TRACK MEET URGED FOR VIRGINIA Dobson Would Have It Replace “Big Four” Affair, Seeing | Two New Factors. By the Associated Press ICHMOND, Va., March 18 —Frank Dobson, former athletic director at the University of Richmond and recognized by friend and foe alike as an outstanding track coach, sees a crying need in the Old Domin- ion for a “wide open” State college meet Dobson, who in 1924, reorganized the South Atlantic games, which gradually narrowed down to a State meet, said that with the rise of Wil- liam and Mary and Richmond in this major college sport, the annual “Big Four” track meet, bringing together the State’s Southern Conference schools, is not sufficiently comprehen- sive. The last of the old South Atlantic meet was held at the University of Richmond in 1923, with schools from Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia and North Carolina com- peting. Georgetown won in a walk. GERMANS BARELY AHEAD Defeat Comi Team of Baltimore in Soccer Battle, 3 to 2. Scoring all of their goals in the second half, German-American boot- ers scored a 3-to-2 victory over the Comi soccer team of Baltimore yester- day at Benning. WINS SOCCER PLAY-OFF A second Recreation Soccer League honor went to a Northeast Washing- ton team today following a 1-to-0 victory scored yesterday by Sherwood over Miller Furniture in the final of the consolation trophy competition. Previously Sun Radio, also hailing from northeast, had won the cham- pionship of the loop, which ended its eighth year of play with yesterday's game on the Monument Grounds. In an exhibition game following the league tilt British Uniteds took a 3-to-1 decision from the Benning C. C. C. booters. Next Sunday the British team will play in an inter- national series here. TYPOS nomcn. A dance will be given by the Gov- ernment Printing Office base ball team Friday from 10 pm. to 1 am. in Harding Hall of the G. P. O. Music will be furnished by the Nite Hawks. INDIAN HEAD BOOKING. Indian Head A. C. unlimited dia- monders already are booking games. Strong local teams are sought by Manager Roy Miller, who may be reached at Indian Head 7% / LAD OF 11 REPEATS IN SKEET TOURNEY New Law in West Virginia Goes Larry Williams, Jr., Wins Prize Donated by Himself for Club Championship. | ! ARRY WILLIAMS, Jr., 11-year- L old Chevy Chase skeet shooting star, added the Winter cham- pionship of the National Capital Skeet Club to his already large collection |of titles today—and reacquired a | strange trophy which he won a year ago and put up for first prize yes- | terday at the annual St. Patrick’s day shoot. | Last year Larry, jr.. won the shoot |and the perennial prize of a pig with |a green harness. The pig was al- lowed to raise a family of five instead of ending life with her back to a platter in the dining room. Three of the five offsprings were killed by the old sow. another was given awa and the fifth served as yesterday's prize. He won with a score of 49 bull's eves out of 50 shots. and against a 25-mile wind, too. Scores: *d ™ SE7T 7 S e b e it ot fuhotet ? 1 0 oLt e e e 532 Mrs. Prescott... Ladies’ Winter Mrs. William Coe 19 Mrs.L.E. Williams 16 Mrs. Prescott 1 MAKES 311-FOOT LEAP Reidar Andersen Sets World Ski Record in Yugoslavia. PLANICA, Yugoslavia, March 18 () —Reidar Andersen bettered all listed records in winning the inter- national ski jump here with a leap of 95 meters (311.60 feet). Available records credit Birger Ruud with the longest previous ski jump— 301.76 feet—made in Yugoslavia last year. Ga ' Reinhart Basket . Coach for G.W.U. | ILLIAM J. REINHART, former | University of Oregon athletic star and later coach at his alma mater, today was appointed basket ball coach and assistant foot ball mentor at George Wash- ington University, it was an- nounced by Jim Pixlee, athletic director of the local school. Reinhart, 37 years old, succeeds Roland Logan, who has accepted a position as trainer of the Boston Red Sox. He also will be an in- structor in physical education. As assistant grid coach, Reinhart will have charge of backfield candi- | dates. | Reinhart served under Clarence | W. Spears at Oregon when the | latter was head coach at the Pa- cific Coast school and earned Spears’ praise as “not only one of | the best basket ball and foot ball | coaches I have ever worked with, but one of the finest all-around men in the coaching profession.” GOLFERS— Membership available in a desirable local Golf and Country Club. Will sacri- fice initiation fees. Dues less than $7.00 per month Not a summer membership—but permanent full club affliation. | Address Box 27.8, Star Offi S0 CAN1,"HE SAYS Must Have More Punch at Tee to Get Anywhere, Rajah Figures. (This is the seventh of a series of stories gathered first hand at the Spring training camps on the 1935 prospects of major league base ball teams.) By the Associated Press. | EST PALM BEACH, Fla, March 18.—Rogers Horns- by himself, base ball's Rajah, provides the most interesting feature of his efforts to boost the St. Louis Browns this sea- | son from the middle extremities of | the American League’s second divi- sion. If it's to be done, the Rajah’s hitting, averaging .359 through his 20 years in the majors, will have to be one of the prime factors in the up- rising. “We've got to get hitting to get | anywhere,” says Hornsby, “and if I feel as good a month from now as I do this minute, I'll be in that infield somewhere doing my share. I don't | know where that will be, but I do know I haven't felt as well as this in the Spring for several years. “My legs baven't troubled me. I'm down to playing weight, I'm only 38 years old. If Babe Ruth c keep going, I don't see why I can' Rates Griffs Highly. | ORNSBY, putting fresh punch into the Browns' infield, lead- ing the attack in person, might make considerable difference in the American League race this season, though even the Rajah’s most opti- mistic hopes soar no higher than fourth place. He likes Cleveland'’s {chance to win, with the Ruthless Yankees, Tigers and Senators scratche ing and clawing it out for the leader- |ship and the remainder of the top | places. | Hornsby hasn't tried to inject him- self into Spring training contests as a regular as yet, and until he does his regular infield consists of Irving Burns, brilliant fielder, but only a 257 batter last season, at first; the veteran Oscar Melillo, still one of the best in the business. at second; the newcomer Johnny Burnett, a real hitter, at short, and Harland Clift, graduate of last year's rookie class, at third. With tough Rollie Hemsley to do the catching and Frank Grube to help him, Hornsby's pitchers have first class support. The staff is heavy with capable right handers—Buck Newsome, George Blaeholder, Dick Coffman, Jack Knott and Paul An- drews—and in Weiland the Rajah |boasts the first regular starting southpaw he's had since taking over “2;3 management of the Browns in 1 3 Fay Thomas About Due. N TOP of this, Fay Thomas, up and down for years and posses- sor of one of last year's most impressive minor league records—he won 28 and lost 4 with Los Angeles— has locked so well in Spring training that Hornsby believes he will make the grade this time. There's a fine opening in the Browns' outfield for one more first string gardener, but that seems to be one phase of the depression situation where the supply has never exceeded the demand. Sam West, ball hawk, and .326 batter, has center field all to himself, and Ray Pepper, the big fellow who drove in 101 of the slim 521 runs the Browns scored in 1934, has no rival out in left. Debs Garms, who hits close to .300, but is a trifle weak on fielding, has the call right now on the right field vacancy, with Roy “Beau” Bell. husky Galveston | rookie, his chief rival. Exhibition Games By the Associated Press. Yesterday's Results. New York (N.), 10; St. Louis (N.), 2, Boston (N.), 9; New York (A.), 4 Brooklyn (N.), 10; Philadelphia (N, 5. Pittsburgh (N.), 7; Los Angeles (P, C.L), 3. Chicago (A)), 9; Chicago (N.), 8. Boston (A.), 3; Philadelphia (A.), 0. Detroit (A.), 9: Cincinnati (N.), 6. St. Louis (A.), 7; Baltimore (I.L.), 6. Today's Schedule. At West Palm Beach, Fl ork (N.) vs. St. Louis (A.). At St. Petersburg: Boston (N.) vs. House of David. At San Bernardino: Pittsburgh | (N.) vs. Hollywood (P. C. L.). | At Tampa:@ Cincinnati (N.) | Totonto (I. L.). | At Fort Myers: | Philadelphia (A.). | At Sacramento: Chicago (N.) vs. Sacramento (P. C. L.). | At Orlando: Brooklyn (N.) vs. Bal- timore (I. L.). | New v vs. St. Louis (N.) vs. | HOLD DIAMOND SCHOOL. ‘The first meeting of a base ball | school conducted under the auspices of the Takoma Park Junior Volunteer Fire Department will be held tonight | at the fire house. The school is open | for boys under 17 and will be directed | by Loris Williams and Ralph Harries, | Talks, discussions and quizes will be conducted every Monday, Wednesday |and Friday, according to present plans. [F you have Eczema, Ringworm or Athlete’s foot CLAYTON will givs you immediate relief. CLAYTON is sold at all People’s and other good drug stores in Washing- ton, D. C. Distributed by CLAYTON- P. O. Box 1538, Washington. D. ©,