Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1937, Page 55

WASHINGTON, D. C WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening Stap ., THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1937. Classified Ads PAGE D—1 Harris Girds Subs for Sington : Speed of Feller, Mungo Debated Giving More Attention to Hill 1 “ and Wright, Once “For- BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staff Correspondent o The Star. big Freddie Sington has been a drawback, exactly, but Manager | take out some right-field “insurance” | for the Washington bc’™ club. rill Hill, the old Southern California whippet, finally will drop the role of month. So, too, Will rookie Taft | ‘Wright for the Nationals have amounted to a source of gratification, but Harris former Alabama grid star’s prowess as & major leaguer. Ever since camp | the regiflar right fielder and Hill and | Wright have been given no look-in. 10 days and the American League season due to open in less than three get Hill and even Wright in shape so that, if necessary, they can step into FRED £5 BIGTIMER, gotten Men.” ANFORD, Fla., April 1.—Not that | S Bucky Harris decided today to All of which means that Jesse Ter- “forgotten man” after more than a | Sington's recent florts at the plate | finds it difficult to be certain of the opened, Sington has b-en tagged as Now with camp due to break up in | weeks, Harris has decided at least to the line-up and be re.dy for the gun. | Jesse and Freddie Are Opposites. | SINGTON. in some respects, appeals to Harris. The big boy looks to be & powerhouse at the plate. His minor league record is punctuated with fanci- ful feats of driving across runs. He is & right-handed hitter, and Washing- | ton needs a big, on, gent of this| type in the line-up, especially in the | fourth-place batting hole | Yet Fred appears to have his definite | drawbacks. For one item, e does not | add to the general speed o the rl\lb." Sington is no high-class fielder or| thrower and probably never will be | particularly adept at doing either job well. Half a dozen drives that could | have been caught hav dropped in | right fleld for safe hits sc far this| Spring. In short, o atone for his flelding deficiencies, Sington must hit, and hit hard Hill, too, captures the fancy of Harris is some ways and falls short in others. Jesse is the direct opposite of Sington. He is as fast as ball players | come and is a capable fielder. But | Jesse is not the powerful type of man | that is Sington. Whereas Fred prom- ises to hit long drives, Hill is the “punch” style of batter. The only| things Jesse and Freddie have in| common are right-handed stances and medioore throwing arms. Faced With Line-Up Shift. goal Harris has sought ever| stnce camp oper~d was to place | this finger on what.he honestly believed ‘was the best line-un and to stick to it. “I wanted to have the club working s a unit by the time the season| opened,” Bucky explained, “and to let the reserves get along as best they might. But now I'm beginning to believe we should give Hill and Wright plenty of chances under firc in ex- hibition games so that if any shift is necessary they’ll be ready.’ Wright, of courre, has a couple of strikes on him. For one item he is in- | experienced. Secondly, he is a left- | handed hitter and the Nats’ batting | order already has all the southpaw | swingers it can stand. Hill, it seems, is the one man who seriously threatens to beat out Sington. Jesse has looked better each day in practice, but a distinct drawback to playing Hill is that Harris’ batting order and line-up must be changed. If Hill is to play he must be placed in left fleld This would necessitate moving Johnny Stone back to right. Also the batting order would have to be shifted. Hill is no clean-up hitter, by any means. “I'd have to r1ove Stone to fourth place,” speculated Bucky. “The line-up, if Hill plays, would have to read in this order: Chapman, Lewis, Kuhel, Stone, Travis, Myer, Hill, Hogan and the pitcher.” ‘Wright, Hill to Get Chances. HILL'S opportunities thus far have been limited extremely. Due to {llness on the part of Stone, the former Trojan quarterback played left fleld in the opening “grapefruit league"” game against the Giants and hasn't started since. As a matter of fact, he got chances to play in the field only twice since March 17. He had only two chances to pinch hit, making good once, and in six games he did not appear at all. Now Harris is determined to keep shifting his outfield until he is certain of the strongest set-up. Hill will get chances to play left fleld and Wright will relieve Sington in righ: now and then. Within the next week or 10 days one of the three will be selected, in all probability, to team up with Btone and Ben Chapman. | By way of atoning for their inac- tivity on Tuesday, the Nats held one of their longest work-outs of the Spring yesterday at Tinker Field and this morning headed for Sanford to play Chattanooga today. Buck Newsom and Eddie Linke were slated to divide khe pitching. < & “They’re Off” at Bowie Today as Racing Returns for Its Annual Spring Sojourn And here you have a scene typical of the plant in nearby Prince Georges County. The daily double may be waning in appeal in some sections of the ¢ popularity hereabouts. u, but it has lost none of its ~—A. P. and Star Staff Photos. our Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. ‘Washington vs. Chattanooga of Southern Association, Sanford, Fia. Wrestling. Laverne Baxter vs. George Ko- verly, feature match, Turner's Arena, 8:30 TOMORROW. Base Ball. Washington vs. Philadelphia (N. L), Winter Haven, Fla. Dartmouth vs. Mgryland, College Park, Md., 4. Penn State vs. George Washing- ton, East Ellipse, 2:30. ‘Tennis. Tufts College vs. American Uni- versity, Nebraska and Massa- chusetts avenues, 3:30. SATURDAY. Base Ball. ‘Washington VS, Tampa, Fla. Maryland vs. Virginia, lottesville, Va. Track. Dartmouth vs. Maryland, College Park, Md., 2:30. —_ - s LEAGUE AFTER NINES Five Berths Are Open in Sports Center Government Loop. Five vacancies remain in the Sports Center Government Base Ball League and President Mike Sklar is anxious to fill them. He especially would like to hear from the managers of Post Office, Bu- reau of Standards, Interior and A. G. ©O. He may be reached at District 2900, branch 767. Cincinnati, Char- TENPINS STAND UP TORING CHANPION Braddock Gets Puny Scores onA. B. C. Drives—Stars Are Failures, Too. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, April 1.—Every one at the American Bowling Con- gress from Promoter Al Lattin down to the pinboys still was recovering today from the biggest night since the tournament got under way March 10. Some 3,500 fans jammed into the flag-bedecked 212th Coast Artillery Armory last night to see bowling greats like Mort Lindsey, Andy Varipapa, Jim Murgie and Billy Knox go into action—but also to see Jim Braddock bowl over a few tenpins. Since he hasn't bowled over any heavyweight title contenders since 1935, they were satisfled with the closest thing to it. Refuse to Topple. ERSEY JIM found the pins even harder to topple than he expects to find Joe Louis—or is it Max Schmeling? His closest approach to a strike came in the sixth frame of his last game. It was the first and only time he put the ball in the pocket, yet even then the 4 pin stubbornly re- fused to fall. hard time putting together a three- game total of 298. Delegations from New Haven were All told, James had a| Henrich Case Up To Landis Today By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, April 1.—Ken- esaw M. Landis, base ball's high commissioner, chose April1 to learn whether there was any fool- ing when young Tommy Henrich, hard-hitting outfielder, was sold to Milwaukee by the New Orleans club of the Southern Association. Henrich, who has expressed be- llef his sale to the Brewers with Pitcher Ralph Winegarner for $7,500 was a ‘‘cover-up” deal en- gineered by Cleveland, wants to be declared a free agent if his suspicions are substantiated. But if the judge finds the sale was proper, Tommy says it will be all right with him. on hand to cheer Lindsey, but both he and New York's Varipapa proved dis- appointments of the evening. Lindsey, anchor man on Jack Dempsey'’s team— from which the ex-champion was missing—rolled up a three-game total of 618, which helped the team move temporarily into tenth place with 2,901, until Knox and his team from Upper Darby, Pa., sporting white flannels, dark blue shirts and yellow ties hit 2,909. Varipapa—trick shot Andy—failed to lift the Al and Howard team from Detroit into the money as he bowled 148, 170, 221 for a mediocre 529. DIAMOND DRILL SET. Candidates for the Star Radio base ball team are requested to report for practice Saturday at Fairlawn Field at 2 o'clock. Montanez 7-to-5 Pick to Beat Champion Ambers Five First-Sackers Are Hitting in Clean-Up Position on American League Teams. BY EDDIE BRIETZ. Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, April 1—Get | ready for the big foot race .. . Clark Griffith has bet Tom Yawkey $50 Shanty Hogan will beat Rick Ferrell in & 80-yard dash when the Nationals pay their second visit to Beantown in June . .. The “Old Fox,” who doesn’t make many base ball mis- takes, is completely sold on Hogan's comeback. Pedro Montanez is & 7-5 favorite to whip Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers in the Garden Monday night . . . Burgess Whitehead of the Giants swears he never saw the ball when Bob Feller fanned him on three high hard ones at Vicksburg. Same old Dodgers: Van Mungo swung so hard at a pitch the other day he knocked the mask and cap right off Catcher Babe Phelps . . . Tom Yawkey must have the patience of a Job . . . Says now a berth anywhere in the first division will satisfy him this year., . Bill Brandt, National League publicity director, says Elbert Fletcher, Bees first sacker, was the hottest rookie he saw on his swing around the Florida camps . . . Max Schmeling has been trans- Atlantic telephoning Joe Jacobs again . . . Job Charlie Dressen dreads most of all is cutting his big Cincinnati squad to 23 men. Fred Perry says he's going back A to England this Summer, sit in & front row box in Wimbledon Sta- , black cigar and ‘Now, play, damn you, play” . . . Five of the eight American League first sackers will bat in the clean-up spot this season. . One of the detectives who helped solve a big murder mystery in Buffalo recently was Edwin (Algy) McGuire, national rowing champion in 1923 . . . Eddie Mader, the West Side heavy, has been booked with Nathan Mann at New Haven Monday night . . . The Coast is booming Lou Novs, former na- tional A. A. U, champ, as & heavy weight hope. Two lions in Clyde Beatty's wild animal act at the Hippodrome went on a sit-down strike at the second matinee yesterday . . “They're tired of having to do three shows a day this week,” said Beatty . . . Some California localities are finding it hard to swallow stories from Berkeley that Stub Allison, Golden Bear coach, has shelved defense for offense in his Spring foot baell practice. Bob Harlow, who quit bally- hooing the P. G. A. after a feud with some of the officials, is dally- ing with the idea of a golf league in Florida next Winter with eight cities, each represented by & two- body Apefl fool you. CHANP WILL KEEP DATE WITH FOLEY Something Tangible Is Seen at Last in Plans for Chicago Bout. BY the Associated Press. CHICAGO. April 1.—No fooling! and his manager are going to keep their aate to talk plans with Promoter Joe Foley for the title holder’s proposed 15-round battle with Joe Louis at Comiskey Park June 22. At least Foley didn't think there was any fooling going on this time. Jacobs announced last night in New York that he and Braddock would leave for Chicago today to “see what the sit- uation is.” Foley had a nice, airy hotel suite—the same one reserved last week, but untenanted, as Brad- dock failed to show up, day after day— ready for the pair. Foley was prepared to inform Jacobs that Chicago wants the fight, a point the champion’s pilot was reluctant to go for last week. The Illinois House of Representatives smothered the “$10 top” bill, removing Gould's biggest ob- jection to Chicago, and Mayor Edward J. Kelly formally has stated that he and his Charter Centennial Jubilee Committee are eager to have Brad- dock and Louis slug each other here. Louis’ Co-Pilot Arrives. FURTHER indication that some- thing tangible was brewing was provided by the arrival last night of Julian Black, one of the Brown Bomber’s co-managers. Black de- tached himself from Louis’ barn- storming party to look over training sites, five of which have been sug- Louis is expected to stop off briefly in Chicago next week before going to Northern Minnesota or Wisconsin for a conditioning siege. Foley said Gould’s plans to keep the long-overdue appointment “defl- nitely put the Chicago proposition on its feet,” but admitted he did not plan to let enthusiasm get the better of him pending action in Madison Square Garden’s campaign to force Braddock to fulfill his contract to. fight Max Schmeling in New York June 3. WARD GOES TO NEW JOB. DURHAM, N. C, April 1 (®.— Thurman (Jule) Ward, member of Duke’s coaching staff, has left here to become athletic director and head foot ball conch at Morris-Marvey Col- A At long last Heavyweight | Champion James J. Braddock | S jused their powers of persuasion in Away winging from the stall gate with every entrant in the large field carrying somebody’s hopes in the form of a more or less modest investment. If Start er Jimmy Milton can get them off in as good style in every race of the nine-day meeting be- ginning today the fans will have little reason for complaint. After All, It’s April Fool’s Day: Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. wondering if the whole business Fool's day. ANFORD, Fla, April 1.—The Clif Bolton-St. Louis Browns situation was no closer to clarification today and Clark Griffith probably is | wasn't something intended for April The Browns, you know, called Griff the other day and ex- pressed an interest in Washington”s bolting Mr. Bolton. Griff withstood the shock fairly well and recommended that St. Louis call ‘Clif at his High Point | home to find out what his future base ball plans might be Whether the Browns contacted Bolton was a mystery in the Washington | training camp today. Base ball correspondents with the Nats tried to 'phone | Bolton and received no satisfaction. ‘There was no contacting Clif and the message he left for any 'phone- callers was, in effect: “The club knows why I'm home and how to get me. This, if nothing else, is typical of Bolton. He never had much to say and the Browns, when and if they do contact him, undoubtedly will learn as much. The chances are that St. Louis’ interest in him will wane. The attitude of Griffith and Man- | ager Bucky Harris appears to be that they don't give a hoot whether Bolton wears a Browns' uniform or not. Browns’ Interest is Pumling. W‘n'HAL it is very puzzling. Press plauds the spirit of Rollie Hemsley and the improvement of Rollie's young understudy. Angelo Giuliani. Rogers Hornsby is quoted as saying that | Hemsley will be the greatest catcher | in the American League this year. | Why, then, do they want Bolton? | Why should they figure that CIif might care to play for St. Louis, the purgatory of the American League, | instead of playing for Washington? These, indeed, are questions calcu- lated to puzzle. At no time since Bolton first came to the Nationals did he make it plain that he was dis- pleased with the club or the treatment he received. ‘True, he did hold out in 1934, citing his wondrous average as & pinch- hitter the season previous, but that matter was cleared up and Bolton reported. His appearance was belated, but when he climbed into a uniform | he was given Luke Sewell's job and, | later, Luke even was sold down the | river. | This could only be construed as a | vote of confidence in Bolton. Certainly by no rational person could the Wasn- ington club’s action be taken as any-'| thing but a boost for the boy. Hornsby Noted “Reformer.” Bolton disappeared last Au- gust, eventuslly to wind up at High Point, he gave ill health as his excuse. He let it go at that. No one ever heard a different reason. The same s true of Clf's last dis- appearance. When he reported to Orlando for Spring training, he os- tensibly was in good spirits. Griff had & minimum of difficulty signing Bolton to & contract. His leaving camp to g0 home was marked by no expression of malice. All Clif said was that he felt badly. Maybe the Browns think they could do something with him. Rogers Hornsby has a way with some ball players, at that. Lyn Lary went to him with the rep- utation of being a night-club addict | and a base ball ne'er-do-well. In g few months Hornsby had him playing the best shortstop in the league. But for all of that, Bolton promises to be different. For one thing, Lary always was recognized as having the ability to become a star. Bolton, de- spite several years of service with ‘Washington, has yet to prove any marked ability or promise of such. It Cliff goes to St. Louis, which s doubtful, you can bet on one thing—the Browns will give nothing in the way of talent for him. It will be & waiver transaction and Griff and Harris are convinced that if they get the standard waiver price of $7,500 for him they’ll never have cause to rue it. Oriando Versus Biloxi. RIM-FACED and argumentative, a select body of Biloxi’s leading | citizens swooped down on Clark Grif- | fith the other day in Orlando and | hopes of inducing the Washington ball club to return to ‘the Mississippi shrimp center next year. Grift listened attentively, made a little speech, and wound up by prom- ising to let Biloxi’s august Mayor and leading citizens “know later.” The Misissippians went away in high hopes, | reacts naturally Meanwhile the Orlando Chamber of Commerce is re- ported to have stirred. Orlando shortly will approach Griff with an invitation to return in 1938. Griff, it can be safely said, is play- ing the old army game. It is to be doubted if he has any intention of returning to Biloxi. Nobody con- nected with the Nats compares Biloxi weather. But that doesn't say that conditions in Orlando couldn't be im- | proved. Before the next 10 days are up it will be announced, probably, that Washington will return to Orlando next year. I don't know what the Biloxi contingent will get out of it, if anything, but if the Orlando crowd Griff will owe the Mississippi delegation a vote of thanks, for a more cordial invitation from Orlando. . MEET FOR BIRD DOGS. ANNAPOLIS.—Anne Arundel County Field Trial Association will hold its 8pring tests for hunting dogs on April 5. | SELL FOR CASH— \Thursday, Friday ades in tably 2 i It Is Treason in Brooklyn Camp to Rate Rookie With Van Lingle. BY JOHN LARDNER. LEARWATER, Fla, April 1— Some of the boys who have been taking Bob Feller with- out a chaser down Louisiana way will tell you that Bobby's fast ball is the fastest thing that has come along since Old 97 left the rails, but around the Brookly camp that sort of stuff i son, not to speak of heresy. How can a beardless stripling from the sugar bush be faster than Van Lingle Mungo? I expect that the Mungo-Feller con- troversy is going to rage all Summer, The two foggers will operate in dife ferent leagues, so that there will be no way of getting a line of comparison between their rival velocie The American Leaguers who whiff on Feiler’s stuff will say, in self- defense, that Robert is the fastest pitcher since Walter Johnson. The National Leaguers who miss Mungo's hard one by a foot will say, as they have said for three y that big Lingle serves the swiftest poison on six continents. Giants Lean to Feller. { (JF COURSE. some of the b the National League—: of traitorious, m ready have seced favor of Feller egades were blown off Feller's fast one in an game with Cleveland, and a of them, such as B 'ss Whitehead now are swearing on a deck of Korans as high as your hat that little Bobby | is the faster man “I've never looked at such speed,” says the perjured Whitehead But it gives me pleasure to add that other Giants, like Dick Bartell, mind- ful of their fealty to their own league continue to hold out for Mungo. | “Feller is fast, but Mungo is faster,” says Rowdy Richard. “Feller is fun to hit against, but Mungo's fast one burns the beard off -our chin.” In the Brooklyn tra 12 camp they agree with Bartell, curious on the face of it, because there is no love lost for Richard in Brookly 1 any booster of Mungo's an | audience among the Dodge he Dodgers are very proud of big Lingle, the Pageland prairie fire Not Enough Evidence. FOR myself, I've seen Mungo many times, and I've only seen Fell work one inning. That was an unl.. ppy inning, against the Yankees, toward the close of last season. It was the only inning Feller worked that day, and I admit that there wasn't enough evidence there to base an opinion on. But, justly or not, I must tag al with the Mungoites until the infar from Towa has been up a little wh le agent “copy,” fresh out of the | with Orlando, taking all things into | longer and has shown more stuff. Browns’ camp at San Antonio, ap- | consideration and most of all, the | Around the two leagues, they tell | you that the following pitchers are the fastest in the business, as a gen- | eral thing: Dizzy Dean, Roy Parnm™lee Johnny Al h Schoolboy Rowe, Charlie Ruffing. Lon Warneke and, to be sure, Mungo and Feller. Fellows like Lefty Grove and Bill Hallahan, who still are in the game, | had speed to burn a few seasons ago, | but today they rely more on experience | and cunning than on sheer oomph. 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