Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1937, Page 12

Che Zoening Stad Sporls WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1 937. Nats Sp HIT TOTAL HEAVY INROUT OF PHLS Record of 31 Safetiesin Two Games Makes Harris Great Prophet. rrespondent ot RLANDO, Fla., March 22.—In light of their two successive “Grapefruit League” victories, it begins to look as if the Nationals are going to do some of those | big things Bucky Harris has been predicting For one item hard a hitting American League, Bucky predicted as club as any in the For one afternoon last week the Giants, with their pitchers the advanced stages, shoved prophecy down Harris' throat ting the Washingtons out. 6-0 Now in the by s t seems that Skipper Harris knew what he was talking about Over at Daytona on Saturday the | Griffs pounded Paul Dean and three | other Ca 1al hurlers for ts and | won an 4 decision, Yesterday, with a attack, they shelled three Pt pitchers and won by a | lopsided 15-t0-7 score. Twenty-three runs and 31 hits in two games. Even with the Red Sox ready and eager to. whip him today, ¢ might well take a pre-season Teugh Traveling Ahead. I WOULD say now,” commented | Harris modestly, “that we're ready | for almost anybody. That defeat by the Giants, as I said before, did us a lot of good in this way: It gave us a look at some good pitching. We were | ready for the Card pitchers after that and the box score showed how we laid on the Philli The Nats had better be ready if they mean to go where in the “Grape- fruit League.” Following their clash today with the Red Sox, they will travel to Lakeland tomorrow to play Detroit and thence to Daytona Beach for a return engagement with Cardinals. After that they'll invade | Winter Garden to meet Baltimore and | )l he week by piay host to 1d Cards at Or the means pressed for batting practice and competitive pitch- ing. That was the reason that Harris used only Buck Newsom and Jack | Salveson yesterday saving Monte ‘Weaver, Pete Appleton and pumhh-‘[ Ken Chase for today. It marked the | first time that any pitcher had worked | five innings, which was what Newsom i | | Gid yesterday in his exhibition game debut | Stage Two Big Innings. J\]AKE l:.” m?smkr the Phillies are not high-class competition. In- deed, the consensus among the Nats was that Jimmy Wilson has one of the worst-looking major league outfits they've ever seer And they don't intend to rub anything in Bobby Burke, who worked for the Washington firm for years, started for the Phillies and lasted two innings. | When he departed the score was 4-0, ‘Washington getting all its runs in the first inning Claude Passeau. the ace of the staff, | was t. He did alright until the | sixth inning, when the Griffs batted around, scored nine runs and iced the affair. In this hectic inr Jack Salveson. who relieved Newsom, belted a terrific home run with the bases loaded and made good his reputation as a hitter of note. A few minutes later Buddy Lewis also cocked a homer Inside the park Buddy Myer Looks Good. JEWSOM had his ups and downs, but he was in little trouble. Dur- fng his five-inning term he gave up five hits and two r Salveson, too, had the situation well in hand until he belted his home run. Jack gave all he had, running the circuit, and was & tired young man at the finish of the run. The distance seemed a furlong too much. He probably needs racing It was this weariness which prob- 8bly enabled the Phillies to rise and &core four runs in the eighth. It was in the bag by that time, of course, and mattered little Far from discouraging was the debut of Buddy Myer at second base. Buddy opened at second base, handled four chances perfectly and singled and walked in two times at bat. Shanty Hogan also broke the ice at batting when he pumped out two hits in two times at bat and retired in favor of Millies. PLAN FOR .SOFT BALL Session of Leagues to Be Held To- | morrow Night. An organization of the District of Columbia Soft Ball Association for the 1937 season will be effected to- morrow night at the Knights of Cn-‘ lumbus Hall. Commissioner Winfree Johnson will call the meeting to order at 8 o'clock. Representatives of all leagues are urged to attend, as important business will be discussed. | r ing Predicted Punch A PARK-PICKER’S PARADISE GOSH, Mc CARTHY LEFT SOME SWEET —By JIM BERRYMAN PUFFS IN THIS ONE - AN' 1T SEEMS LIKE I'M PICKIN' UP SOME MORE BEAUTIES WITH ONLY TH' TIPS SMO'KED & | Brandt,” | pennant CLUB 15 HIS BEST. TRAYNOR CLAS Good Hurling to Be Backed by Strong Hitting, Camp Signs Indicate. (This is another of a series of major league pennant prospects.) BY ROBERT MYERS. Associated Press Sports Writer AN BERNARDINO, Calif., March 22.—The Pittsburgh Pirates, with a seasoned outfit that was a headache for every club ex- cept the New York Giants last year, stand a fair chance of scuttling the hopes of other National League contenders. Manager Harold J. Traynor, the “Pie” of erstwhile third-base great- ness, looked over his camp in train- ing here today, and proclaimed it the best he has hade since he took over the Buccaneer ship. “The boys look good to me,” he said What about the Giants, ished eight games ahead burgh last year? “We've got a left-hander now, Ed answered Traynor “We lost out last year because our right- handers couldn't stop the Giants We dropped 9 out of 11 to them in the Polo Grounds. That cost us the championship. I believe Brandt will help us a lot.” Southpaw Brandt who fin- of Pitts- won 11 and lost | 13 with Brooklyn last year. Disdains Cubs, Cards. ND what about the Chicazo Cubs and St. Louis. which tied for second place, three games in front of Pittsburgh? Traynor “reckoned” the Cubs would miss Lon Warneke tremendously and that the Cardinals—Dizzy Dean and ‘Warneke notwithstanding — would be | weaker this year FOR CITY HONORS Sleuths and W. P. A. Tangle in A. A. U. Final Tonight. 145-Pounders Meet. ITH both teams consisting of undoubtedly the best in- dependent courtmen in the city. Bureau of Investiga- tion and District W. P. A. tonight meet at the Tech High gym for the District A. A. U. unlimited champion- ship. The grand finale will go on imme- diately after Heurich's Senate Beer five and the Department of Agricul- ture team have settled their argument for the 145-pound title. The first game is scheduled to start at 8 o'clock. Dominating the line-ups of the sleuths and public workers are stellar players, who have made enviable repu- tations in local high school ranks. Many of them have carried on with brilliant careers in college. Opposing Stars Listed. IN\'ESTIGATION will bank upon Jimmy and Herbie Thompson, formerly of Western High and Duke University, Forrest Burgess of Central and George Washington, Nelson Colley of Central and Duke, Roger Leverton | | Special Dispatch to The Star RLANDO. Fla., March 22.—Three sets of veteran base ball writers now | have viewed and pronounced the conceivably POPPING OFF" &tan Junk-Pile Johnny. 1937 Nationals a ball The only qualification of the writing boys attached to the Giants Cardina expected and Phillies sounded like this: “——If the pitchers do better than During the course of conversation this pronouncement was brought up and one of the Nats’' veterans, an outfielder, debunked the idea of weak pitching in such a fashion that it might be worth passing along. “Listen,” he started, “we batters have to hit against our own pitchers every day in batting practice and you guys just sit up in the press box and guess what so-and-so throwing. .ated. There aren’t any ‘names’ | the staff, but let me say we've got some | tough fellows to hit “I'll say one thing about Clark ffith, as long as I've gone this far,” he added. “There’s a xuy who can pick up more good stuff in a so-called ‘junk pile’ than anybody I ever heard of in base ball. “Furthermore, he doesn't pick up fellows who have ability but who will remain ‘junk.’ He gets the fellows of Richmond, Berne Jones of Roose- | velt High and Tommy Mount St. Mary's. Players who gave Eastern such a run on inter-high championships will dom- inate W. P. A’s line-up—Lavelle (Dopey) Dean, Chick Hollidge, Reds Scheible, Bernie Lieb and Bill Noonan. Lynch of | In addition, Coach Dave Keppel can | | call upon Bobby Lucas, former Roose- | velt High flash; Ollie Tipton of Cen- tral and Wilson Teachers’ College and Ollie Mayfield. TRAYNOR STARTS WELL. SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—Man- ager Pie Traynor played third base yesterday in the first practice game of the season for the Pittsburgh Pirates, batted out three hits and scored three runs. A team piloted by Honus Wagner defeated Jewel Ens’ outfit, 11 to 4. who didn't deserve to be discarded | and who can win if they get half a chance.” The angle invited investigation. | A “junk picker,” huh? Well, let’s see what Griff did salvage. Cascarella Was One. FOR a $7,500 outlay that now seems paltry, he got Pete Appleton from Montreal via the draft | wanted Pietro, been kicked downstairs by the In- dians, Red Sox, Yankees and Cincin- nati Reds. In desperation Griff reached out, took him and last year ! Pete wound up with 14 victories, 9 Well, on Nobody | who previously had | o ot matter, Buck Newsom was | defeats, the best earned-run average | on the Washington club and the fifth best earned-run average in the entire American League. “And this year.” supplied our informant, “Pete’s due to be a starter from the start. He'll come close to winning 20 games, watch and see.” Joe Cascarella is another. There is a suspicion in camp now—and Joe helped to verify it against the Cards —that he will wind up as one of the best, pitchers on the club. And Joe was shipped to the bushes by the Ath- letics, unused by the Red Sox, and finally traded to Washington for Jack Russell, a washed-up relief hurler. Boston sent $7,500, along with Joe, for Russell. Now Jack has been re- leased and everybody in camp is will- 15 games. De Shong Aided Griff’s Rep. IMMY DE SHONG won 18 games for Washington last year to lead the club’s pitchers in victories. bears all the earmarks of a first-class | hurler and yet Jimmy was sent to the bench by the Yankees. | in sooth, a bargin. He was, | no highly touted hurler at the start. The Cubs and the Dodgers gave up on him. Even when Rogers Hornsby sold (See POPPING OFF, Page A-13.) Ritzy Gals Make Eyes at Feller but It's No Dice Diz Fans Solters 20 Straight Times—Giants Set Big League Sartorial Pace. BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Associated Press Sports Writer ULFPORT, Miss.. March 22 —Sambo Leslie, who hails from nearby Pas- cagoula, always gets a big hand when the Giants play anywhere in Mississippi . . . Last Year, when the team played here, a group of Sam’'s admirers pre- sented him with an engraved watch—with his name spelled wrong . .. It came out “Leaslie” . . . Sam’ face was red; so was the Mayor's. If you have hesitated to hop the Henry Armstrong bandwagon, climb aboard . . . Any guy who can ®0 out of his class and lick Aldo Spoldi has plenty on the ball . . . Frank Kohlbecker, old South- ’ ern Association catcher, now is traveling secretary of the Cleve- land Indians and doing a swell Job. Giants continue to set the pace as the best-dressed ball club . . . Frank Spencer, sports editor of the Winston-Salem (N. C.) Journal, has a junior An operation performed two years ago may pre- vent Cy Pfirman from umpiring in the National League this sea- son . .. This is a lot of apple- sauce about Hank Greenberg's wrist not being O. K. All the gals around the ritzy Edgewater Gulf Hotel were mak- ing eyes at young Bob Feller . . . No dice . . . Dizzy Dean once fanned Julius Solters, Cleveland ' outfielder, 20 consecutive times . . . Ninety-five trunks and golf bags were unloaded by the Giant party when it pitched camp the other day. New York writers with the Giants were caught off their guard when the Indians came to town and Manager Steve O'Neill went around shaking hands with every- body ... “We ain’t used to shaking hands with the manager,” ex- plained the scribes . . . The whole Gulf Coast is talking about the sensational riding of young Charles Corbett at New Orleans . . . The kid recently scored & triple with ‘White Castle, The Shooter and Grey Count. Frank Kitchens, old minor league catcher, who will manage Pensa- « cola in the Southeastern League this year, operates the “home plate nurseries” at Tyler, Tex, during the off season. On the way to Gulfport the other day, the Giants had a three-hour layover in Pensacola, where they trained last season . . . Clydell Castleman got up early, went to the San Carlos Hotel, inserted a quarter in the slot machine (just where he left off last Spring) and hit the jack pot first time out. Frank Gabler, Giant pitcher, twirls with his right arm, but auto- graphs for his public with his left . .. Down this way the folks are steaming up the Giant-Indian game at New Orleans April 4, when Bob Feller is scheduled to face Carl Hubbell. / - | club that | could finish one-two in the American League race. | I'll tell you, our pitchers are under- | The queer part of it all, too, was that | ing to bet Cascarella wins upward of | He | | the minors by the A's and plunked on | DRBBLER PROVES SEASATN §Dowe|l, Out During Regular Season, Leads Denver to National Triumph. BY the Associated Press ENVE March 22.—A team, which flashed as its star a man idle with broken E bones and whose oft- defeated plavers had been relegated by critics to basket ba “‘graveyard,” sat on top of the court world today. The Denver Safeways. faced with the task of beating the highly-touted Bartlesville, Okla., Oilers, a quintet which was their master in previous meetings, won 43-38, Saturday night in the National A. A. U. basket ball finals. long Will to Win Is Strong. | “MY KIDS had the physical en- | “'% durance for a grind like the tournament, but more than that they had undying determination, the will to win," said Everett F. Shelton, Den- | ver coach Bob Dowell, burly guard, who was so handicapped by injuries during the | regular season that he did not even | score a point, topped all scorers in | the championship game by making 11. “I was almost as surprised as any one else by Dowell's comeback,” Shel- | ton said. “They buried him as & | basket ball player after last vear's| tournament. In fact, they buried | most of my players.” Valley League Cleans Up. JDOWELL and Jack McCracken, | both tormer Maryville, Mo, | Teachers’ stars, were original mem- | bers of the Safeway team that tum- bled into defeat in the quarter finals | of four consecutive national tourna- | | ments before finally winning amateur | basket ball's highest award. i President William Miller of Tulsa said: “The tournament certainly | showed what the Missouri Valley League teams can do—they finished | one, two, three.” The Kansas Trails won third place by beating the Holly- wood Stars, 47-42, in & curtain raiser for the final game. McPherson, Kans, a Missouri Val- ley team, won last vear, but did not have a quintet this season. D. C. BOWLERS TRAIL Lucile Young's Fourth Place Best for Them in Maryland Meet. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., March 22.—Only one Washington bowler, Lucile Young, finished in the money of the annual Maryland women’s sweepstakes here yesterday. Shooting a 10-game total of 1,095, Mrs. Young annexed fourth place—48 sticks behind the winner, Naomi Zimmerman, Baltimore's rank- | ing star. Miss Zimmerman's 1,143 outdistanced two other Baltimoreans, Joan Gardner and Helen White, who | finished second and third, respectively. Ida Weinberg and Virginia Cal- | vagno were the only other Washing- tonians to compete, but both were | well down the list. Miss Weinberg | had 1,030 and Miss Celcagno 979. ' ’ The Pirates, he continued. will stack their prayers on a seven-man pitching Traynor believes that Fred Lucas, I Swift and Jim Weaver w orm as dependably as last year, they turned in 45 victories together that Mace Brown will do better than the 10 victories he pitched last year and that Cy Blanton will regain the prowess he displayed in 1935 And veteran Wait Hoyt is still a capable relief The Pirate infield, with the excep- tion of second base, seems set, with Gus Suhr at first, Pep Young and Lee Handley battling it out ond, Arky Vaughan at short hefty Bill Brubaker at tr ey is the 22-year-old “free the Pirates plucked from the wing of Cincinnati for a price of $20.- 000, and rry fight for the keystone sack. and Sees Comeback for Vaughan. THE Purate boss looks for Arky Vaughan to return to his 1935 championship batting stride, and pre- [ - = s Pirates Primed to Fluster Rivals ports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. Washington vs. Boston (A. L), Orlando, Fla. Boxing. Werther Arcelli vs. Teddy Loder, | eight rounds, feature bout, Turner's Arena, 8:30 TOMORROW. Base Ball. Washington vs. Detroit, land, Fla Lake- WEDNESDAY. Base Ball. Washington vs. St. Louts (N. L), Daytona Beach, Fla | Roosevelt vs. South River High of New Jersey, Roosevelt Stadium, 3:30. Boxing. District A. A. U. senior cham- | Dionships, Turner's Arena, 8 ; Golf. Georgetown vs. Emory University, Emory, Ga dicts he will hit 335 last season The outfield shapes up as one of the best in the c t, with last year combination of Paw and Lloyd Waner and Wood Jensen. Traynor was not worried about Paul Waner's holdout difficulties, and looks for his T gardener, who led the league in bat- ting with 373 last season, to continue his stickwork He intends to shift Jim Browne who hit .353 with Minneapolis 1936, from the infield to outer patrol work, and he has John Dickshot, who belted the ball at a .397 clip for Buf- | falo last season, groomed for duty i | right field | The catching 350, as against the 1 be in the hands of last year's regulars, Al Todd and Tommy Padden, and Aubrey Epps from Scranton will be given a chance to fill in. Todd and Padden are good receivers, but none too strong at plate, hitting and .249 Epps hit 313 wit nton s No Conte H Was! for sec- | CLEASFALS BT FORWESTERNFNE {Brilliant Victors in Star Tourney Eyeing Eastern Title Confidently. BY BILL DISMER, JR. IRMLY intrenched the Cap- ital's greatest schoolboy basket [ ball team as a result of its de- | cisive victory in The Star tournament, ov John's, sole re- maining conte for t Western High's courtmen pared confidently t | 1935 trick of the te Upper New York 1 c court classic becomes the Red Raide final objective Easte ast year Prove They're the Coach C! Best. P bea was defeated Cade ) realize t or ed 29-26. avenue clan of a scoring season, but the day are ni All of Raiders (CAPT. Gerald B 4 Witt clear mford Angles For Nats in "38 Special I ntoT SANFORD. Fla ce buckle of ot oux xew FLORSHEIM SHOES aze 1 When winter turns to spring, smart men turn to Florsheims...and just as naturally, too, forthey know that in these famous shoes they’ll get all the style the Faster season demands, plus the quality and longer wear that will make their shoe bills less when Labor Day comes 'round. WZ{W,{/O Men’s Shops—14th & G HAHN 7th & K 3212 14th s o i e £ G A