Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1940, Page 12

he Enening Star Sporis 140-Game Schedule for Majors Expected After Costly Setback This Spring Win, Lose or Draw By FRANCIS E. STAN, Star Staft Correspondent. The Boy Club Owner Talks Baseball BOSTON, April 23.—The great green and red-brick outline of Fen- way Park looked vague and lonely. Here fiickle Aprii had turned winter again. Sheets of sleet had been falling for 24 hours and a nor'easter whipped the streets. Outside the home of the Red Sox not a creature was stirring, not even a fan, There is a little green door with No. 24 painted on the glass and, un- der it, “Boston American League Base Ball Club.” Through the door and up two flights of wooden steps sits a girl by a telephone switchboard. Past the young lady, first door to the left, is the office of the man who may be the American League host at the next world series. Thomas Austin Yawkey isn’t ready to make arrangements yet. Young Mr. Yawkey, the boy club owner, who is one of the best things that's hap- pened to baseball since Abner Doubleday, still is aware of the Yankee menace. But he admits his ball club has a chance. The Yankees Never Have Been Pressed “And a good chance.” he was saying as he sat at his desk, gazed out of the window at the whirling sleet, and made more curious little doodlings on a paper pad.“I like my club because it's beginning to look as if it's going to get some pitching. If we can just stick close, either a little ahead, or even, or just behind. .. .” “And?” “Those Yankees might not be so tough. They haven't been pressed yet, don’t forget. People overlook that in judging this race. The Yankees have won'four years running and haven't had any real pressure on them. This year, I think we’ll see what they do in a close race. Maybe,” he | grinned, “they’ll do all right.” “And if they do?” we asked. “Well,” sighed the young millionaire who eight years ago bought the “Phillies” of the American League and, pouring money and initiative into a business about which he knew nothing, built the Red Sox into a | magnificent empire, “we’ll keep trying.” In the Beginning He Tried Buying Players When Tom Yawkey bought the Red Sox he was only 27 years old and began to compete with the Clark Griffiths and Ed Barrows and other men who had spent their lifetimes in the game he had no way of knowing how long it would take to make a pennant contender out of the Boston Americans. All he knew was that he had acquired a franchise, & ball park that needed improvement and one of the most inept collec- tions of supposedly major league ball players in history. “And I still don't know how long it will take to win a pennant,” he | said. “Maybe this year, maybe not for 10 years. I feel we're knocking | at the door, but whether we're quite good enough and whether we'll be lucky enough is something I can’t answer now. But I'll never quit trying.” Boston apd baseball were lucky when Yawkey went into the business, | end Tom was dead game, because, in the beginning, he was a green pea and he knew it. His first act was to try to buy a pennant. For sums of | money which staggered the imagination, he bought freely from Connie Mack and Griffith. | are at the top of their circuit with | | lenge the Cards were supposed to | and eighth innings. | errors, both of which figured in Cin- | cinnati’s Reds Give Proof Of Their Right To Throne . Flawless in Beating Cards; Tribe Ties Bosox for Lead By JUDSON BAILEY, Associated Press Sports Writer. ‘The Cincinnati Reds are making | all the so-called experts who backed them to repeat for the National League pennant look good. At the end of the first water- logged week of the schedule they three games won and none lost, but | that isn’t the whole story. They never have been behind in any of the games. Their three prize pitchers have gone the full nine- inning route in every case. No more than 1 run has been scored against them in any contest. The team hasn’t committed a single error. The 6-1 depth bomb they set off under the St. Louis Cardinals yester- day was the most emphatic indica- tion the champions could have given that they are traveling the same trail they took a year ago. They made a mockery of the chal- be readying this season. They pad- dled three pitchers for nine hits and bunched 3 runs in both the third But more than this they presented a smooth, ma- chine-like ball club behind the ef- fective seven-hit hurling of Bucky Walters, who kept the Cards shut- out on five hits until the ninth in- | ning. Cards Hurt by Errors. St. Louis made two embarrassing scoring. Another time three players all ran after a fly and left second base uncovered, giving Harry Craft a two-base hit. In five games since the season opened, the Cards have lost four and used 15 pitchers, including Clyde Shoun for fractions of four A Scouting Staff and a Farm System Added Some of the stars he bought were not stars when they got away from second-division teams like the Athletics. But some of them were. Stars like Grove and Foxx and Cronin and Cramer. | But pennants can’t be bought and Tom Yawkey discovered this and | augmented his buying power with a scouting staff and a farm system? and, year by year, his Red Sox began to grow in power. The scouts and | the farms produced Ted Williams and Bobby Doerr and Dominic Di| Maggio. And now he has a ball club—had last year, indeed—that was a |, pennant winner—only it couldn't win a pennant. | It won't bother Yawkey if the mighty Yankee empire totters and crashes after four consecutive pennants and four world championships. He has his own theory about New York, which most people insist demands & winner. Tom Would Like to Accommodate New Yorkers “That's bunk,” Blunt Mr. Yawkey snorted, “pure bunk. New Yorkers haven't been turning out to see the Yankees play and the real reason is | that they don't want to see them win. Those people want to see them lose. Honest! “Let me cite an instance. Let's go back to last year. Rain and | what not piled up five consecutive games with the Yankees on us and we | went into New York to play a single game and two straight double- headers. “We won the first game. When we won the second the fans began | to get excited and kept piling into the park. We won the third game and | the interest mounted. The Yankegs, of course, were leading the race. “Well, we won the fourth game and those folk in New York threw straw hats, cushions, program and everything they could lay their hands | on. We thought we were home in Boston. Then, when we made it five in a row, all hades broke loose.” Mr. Yawkey doodled up a sheet of »scratch paper, tore it off and started on a fresh page. “That’s what they want,” he concluded. “They want to see the mighty Yankees, the big team, beaten. And, he grinned, “I'd sure like to accomodate those folks.” Star-Studded Fields at Penn, Drake, Colorado Are to Give Qutdoor Track Flying Start By HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr., NEW YORK, April 23—If you like foot racing so much that you're willing to sit all day to watch scantily clad young men running around a cinder track, handing batons from one to another, you'll have three big chances this week end. Giving the outdoor track season its traditional flying start, the Penn and Drake relay carnivals will be run off next Friday and Saturday at Philadelphia and Des Moines, and the Colorado relays Saturday, at Boulder. Each one features four- man performances and each draws some 2500 to 3,000 athletes from high schools and colleges in addi- tion to a few picked stars for special events. There's a keen rivalry between the Penn ard Drake meets and the directors like nothing better than to come up with a few stars from the other’s territory. Colorado can't compete with them, although it did lure the Kansas State team and its great weight man, Elmer Hack- ney, last year. The high schoolers and Rocky Mountain collegians do most of the running there and this year a junior college division has been added. Sparkling Field at Drake. At Drake, Director Franklin (Pitch) Johnson, soon to become Stanford coach, has rounded up what he considers the best field yet for his farewell meet. In addition to the stars of the Big Six territory and the Southwest, who already have had preliminary tests in the Texas relays and last Saturday’s Kansas relays, the field includes representatives of every Big Ten college and such individual aces as Earle Meadows, Fred Wolcott, Roy Cochran and Hackney. He figures meet records may be broken in 7 of the 10 special events. ‘The high spot is the pole vault, in which Meadows, recently dethroned by Cornelius Warmerdam, the first 15-foott pole valuter, will aim at a new mark of 15-2. Then there’s the | 2-mile, with Forrest Efaw, Ralph | Schwartzkopf and lonesome John Munski; a 100-yard dash, with Barney Ewell of Penn State (snatched right out of Penn’s ter- ritory), Billy Brown of Louisiana State and Myron Piker of North- western. Nick Vukmanic, Penn State jave- lin tosser, and J, D. Devall, L. S. U. Jjumper, also are listed among the stars, Stars Pack Penn Relays, H. Jamison Swarts, who runs the Penn meet, counters with a special mile, in which Chuck Fenske, Gene Venzke and Walter Mehl will try to break Glenn Cunningham’s meet record of 4:18.8; Al Blozis, the Georgetown weight-throwing star, and Welby Williams, ace sprinter from North Texas Teachers. Penn’s mile relay" championship race has an especially notable field, including Pitt, which set the rec- ord of 3:14.8 last year; North Texas, New York University and Ohio State. games and three days in a row. One week doesn't make a season, but a champion has to win approxi- | mately 95 games and a victory now | ounts just as much as one in August or September. | Right now the club the Reds’ probably are watching closest is Brooklyn, undefeated, untied and unscored upon in two games. But the Reds are sure to stay at the top a day or two longer because the floodwaters of the Ohio Rover have engulfed Crosley Field at Cincin- nati and apparently will keep them idle until the schedule moves the | club to Chicago Thursday. Rain and snow prevented any Eastern games in either league yes- | terday. Buc Bag Wild Game. In the other Western game of the National League, the Pittsburgh Pi- rates continued undefeated with a 9-5 verdict over the Chicago Cubs. It was a wild home opener for the Buchaneers, with 19 hits, 12 bases on balls and six errors making everything uncertain. Nevertheless the Pirates took the lead in the first inning and never relinquished it. Willis Hudlin added another good pitching performance to the Cleve- land Indians’ totem with a seven- hit job that stopped the St. Louis Browns 5-2 and lifted the Tribe into a tie with the idle Boston Red Sox for first place in the American League. All of Cleveland’s runs were crowded into the first inning, ‘when Howard Mills couldn’t get even one batter out. The Detroit Tigers put across two runs in the ninth on Earl Averill’s pinch single to beat the Chicago ‘White Sox 6-5 and give Rookie Dick Conger credit for his first major league victory on one inning’s effort. The Sox relied on another fresh- man, Vallie Eaves, who did an amaz- ing job of holding the enemy to three runs in 72 innings, during which he gave seven hits, 12 bases on balls and made two wild pitches. Yet Clint Brown was charged with the loss. Lynn Nelson of Detroit was struck on the head by a line drive and Luke Appling of Chicago was spiked on the knee during the game, but neither was hurt seriously. Travelers Seek Games ‘Washington Travelers are anxious to book games with fast out-of-town teams. Manager N. M. Outcalt can be reached at 1836 Sixteenth street N.W. or at Hobart 4900 Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday after 6 o'clock. Star Ten on Road Star Club softballers will seek their fifth victory of the season to- morrow night when they engage the Richmond All-Stars at Byrd Park, Richmond. The game will be played under lights. Toledo's 1939 Cellar Dwellers Joyfully - SetA. A. Pace By the Associated Press. Maybe Toledo’s early season suc- cess can't last, but at least the Mud- hens are enjoying their trip into the rarified atmosphere of first place after so much time in the nether regions of the American Association. Last year’s cellar crew, bolstered by several former major leaguers, are at present riding along at the head of the parade with three vic- tories in four games, a half game ahead of Kansas City, Indianapolis and Louisville. Long Harry Kimberlin notched the Hens’ third triumph yesterday when he set Milwaukee down with four hits for a 4-2 decision. Indianapolis moved into the sec- ond place deadlock by virtue of frail Bob Logan's 3-hitter against Minneapolis. YEP! I GOTTA GET THIS ONE... MY HEAD GETS 5O COLD WITHOUTA CROWN ON IT! LEO HAS THE MISERIES WHEN HE HASN'T A TITLE..... AND (S TIRELESS IN HIS PRACTICE WORK....HE CAN “DISCOVER WASTED STROKES INA 67 (é‘ DEFENDER AND ATTACKER ad THERE'S AO W7 LAW AGAINST A 5i7v DEFENDIN' CHAMP st REPEATIN' ! EAST POTOMAC PARK PRO,AND PRESENT MIDDLE ATLANTIC P.G.A. P\ TITLE HOLDER. , WHOSE CROWN IS THREATENED. GEE BOSS! I'M ALL IN--1 GOTTA WOT! AFTER }: ONLY 54 i leo.. ¢ \ WALPER.... BETHESDA DRIVING RANGE PRO,FORMER WINNER OF THAT TITLE IN “37 AND '38, WHO 1S CONSIDERED THE FAVORITE IN THIS WEEK'S TOURNEY DOWA IN THE TIDEWATER SECTION Rivals Eye Central Nine as It Visits Wilson Today Test for Highly Touted Team Heads Program Of 3 Series Tilts Interhigh baseball series players, | after being rained or snowed out of | six games during the past week or so, were to bounce back this after- noon with three games. Yesterday's Eastern-Anacostia game was post- K poned because of wet grounds. Heading today’s card is the Cen- tral-Woodrow Wilson game at Wil- son. Central, defending champion, will be. playing its first interhigh game of the season and with a team thought to be one of the best in the school’s history as six other schools | will have an eye peeled to find out just how strong it is. The Vikings have had one game, beating Briarley Military Academy, 24 to 0, in five innings. Two other teams with champion- ship hopes are scheduled to play to- day. Roosevelt, which finished third last year, was to invade Western for the first interhigh game for both. Western, among the trailers last year, appears to have a slightly im- proved squad. Eastern, runnerup to central a year ago, also is hopeful of at least as good a year, possessing more speed and a slightly stronger punch. The Lincoln Parkers will entertain Tech, current leader by virtue of a 2-to-0 “triumph over Wilson last week. Four other schoolboy games were on the card. Anacostia, which has not played so far, was to entertain ‘Washington-Lee, now sporting a 2 and 2 record; Gonzaga, with its first varsity team in eight years, was to entertain Falmouth at the South Ellipse diamond; Bethesda-Chevy Chase was to meet Briarley at Be- thesda and Montgomery-Blair and National Training School were to meet at Silver Spring. Major League : ' '4NATIONAL Results Yesterday. Cincinnati. 6; St. Louis. 1. AMERICAN Results Yesterday. Washington at Boston. snow and wet «rounds Cleveiand. 5: St. Louis. 2. Chicago. 5 t New York., wet grounds. STANDING OF THE CLUBS — Dl Rt = puvieAsd wydEPRIIUd uoisuIUsTM. [r—— Statistics Pittsburgh. 9:_Chicago, 5. New York at Philadelphia. col Boston at Brookivn, wet groinds | cold. STANDING OF THE CLUBS d d " ygangsnL, YA apeIIYC neuupud | ukpi00Id NIOK MaN ~uom 3501 U | 0111 01 0] 2 11 0/ 1111 01 313 0111 01 01 1/ 21 11.667!_ 11101 Ol 11_01- 01 11 NY| 0 Detl 0/ Phil_1] GAMES TODAY. Wash. at Boston. 3. Phila. at New York. Detroit at Chicago. Cleve. at St. Louis. GAMES TOMORROW. Boston. 3. New York. Detroit at Chicas Cleve. at St. Louis. GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Boston at Brooklyn. Boston at Brooklyn. New York at Phila. h. Chicago at Pittsb'gh. St. Louis at Cinel. St. Louis at Cincl. Major Leaders BY the Assoclated Press. AMERICAN LEAGUE. enatting _McCosky, Detrolt. -500; ibert, adeiphia. .467. mnuns—McCosxpy, Detroit, 7: Clift, 8t. uis, 5. Runs batted in—Greenberg, Detroit; CIift, St. Louis. and Heath. Cleveland, 6! its—McCosky, Detroit, and Rad- cliff. St. Louis, 8. Doubles—Thirteen tied with 2. yriples—York. Detroit.” 2; six tied wl ; Home runs—Kuhel. Chicago, John- son, Philadelphia. and Foxx. Boston. 2. Stolen bases—Eight tied with 1. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Batting—M. McCormick, Cincinnati, .417; Marion, St. Louls, .412. yn. 4. Marion, 8t. Louis. 7, Doubles—Todd, Chicago, and Marion, st, Louis, 3. Triples—Four tied with 1. Home runs—Five tied with 1. Stolen bases—Six tied with 1. 00KI alan, Chicago, and Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press. Earl Averill. Tigers—Hit pinch sin- gle in ninth to drive in two runs and bring 6-5 victory over White Sox. Elble Fletcher, Pirates—Hit double and single and siole buse to lead Bucs’ attack in beating . 9-5. Willis Hudlin, ‘Indians — Limited Browns to seven hits to win, 5-2. Bucky Walters, Reds—Pitched seven- hit ball against Cardinals and drove in three runs to held win one game, 6-1. Nats Find Tufts Field House Is Great for Workout Will Return There if Hub Game Again Frozen Out; Leonard, Grove Still Slated to Clash By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BOSTON, April 23—With the sleet and snow storm which has ravaged New England due to let up, the Nationals had hopes to- day of playing the Red Sox after three straight days of competi- tive inactivity, but if they again were frozen out it’s all fixed for another workout at Tufts Col- lege . . . Manager Bucky Harris made an important contact at Tufts yesterday as the Griffs en- joyed a workout in the school’s new indoor infield. Harris tried Harvard first, when the opener with the Red I Sox was called off ... When it was explained that Harvard’s indoor diamond was being used the Nats were resigned to an- other afternoon of- complete idleness, but a Boston newspa- perman, Bill Grimes, suggested Tufts, made arrangements, and the club was packed in a bus. . . . The bus driger became lost en route to Medford, however, and by the time the Nats arrived they only had time for infield drill, pepper practice and a pitch- ing workout . . . Boston Univer- sity, Norwich and Tufts nines were waiting to use the plant so Bucky had no batfing drill , . . Next time, however, Harris is A going to get an early start and stick work. These indoor plants in this sec- tor are something to behold . . . It’s possible to hold a real bat- ting practice in the Tufts new palace because, in lieu of an out- field, there are huge nets to stop the balls after they scream over and past the infield . .. The Red Sox are non grata at Harvard, however, because a couple of years ago Foxx & Co. held a stick drill and their screaming drives tore through the nets and smashed the windows . . . This danger, however, shouldn’t exist with the Nats at the plate. If today’s game was played it ° A would have brought Dutch Leonard and Bob Grove together again in a pitching duel . I no game, the same pair is scheduled for tomorrow . . . Gil- berto Torres, the Cuban shadow, was the hot shot of yesterday’s workout . . . The college boys who flocked to see the Washing- tons work out were impressed chiefly with Gilberto’s knu 3 which is patterned after Leon- ard’s, but which really was taught to Torres four years ago by Tot Presnell of the Dodgers. . . . Both were wearing Ameri- can Association uniforms at the time. Cubs Will Make Dean Hurl to Determine His True Worth BY the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, April 23—The brain trust of the Chicago Cubs hasn’t made up its mind yet on the future of Dizzy Dean. So the talkative right-hander will get an- other starting assignment Thursday when the Cubs open a home series with the Cincinnati Reds. The St. Louis Cards knocked Dean out of the box Sunday at Chicago in the fifth inning, combing him for seven hits and five runs. But Manager Gabby Hartnett says the once-great moundsman will have ample opportunity to prove his worth. “I didn’t think Diz had as much against the Cards as he had against the Browns in an-exhibition game. (Dean held the Browns to two hits and no runs in five innings several weeks ago.) But he'll get every chance to prove himself. I'll give him his regular turn until we reach some definite result.” PIEDMONT LEAGUE. ggck{ Mount, 4: Asheville, 2. ariotte, 14; Portsmouth, 9. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. No sames scheduled. TEXAS LEAGUE. RACES TODAY HAVRE de GRACE ‘Special Penna. train lesves Union Sta- tion 12:30 p.m., direct to 80 Al R ¢ 3 FIRST RACE AT 2:30 P.M. NEW YORKER Indt 1_Twe-Te: 'llu"-u me Uph: . Trade on Tour Cor PAUL BROS. 522, ori Wo. 31013 —By JIM BERRYMAN ¢ THERE'S AT LEAST { GENT IN THE COMING TILT WHO DOESA'T CONSDER WALPER . THE FAVORITE.... % \ PORTRAIT OF A POPULAR. NIGHTMARE OF THE AEXT FEW NIGHTS..! THE CHAMBERLAIN COURSE AT OLD POINT COMFORT HAS 9 WATER HOLES ) ;Rugged Fordham Nine| ‘Takes Fine Record 'Info Hoya Game East’s Best Last Year, Rams Have Mopped Up In Current Season Ed Alex, top-ranking * Fordham | sophomore, drew the starting pitch- | ing assignment as the Rams in- vaded the Hilltop this afternoon to meet Georgetown in one of the sea- | son’s collegiate baseball classics. The game was scheduled for 2:30. Vinnie Powers, Georcetown's speedball ace, was Joe Judge’s nomi- nee to make it five in a row for we undefeated Hoyas, but Powers had | his task cut out for him. Fordham | reputedly has ene of the East's strongest teams and will be an even choice at least if not a slight favorite. | Fordham Record Gleams. | Thus far the Rams have beaten | Princeton, 13-1; St. Peters, 14-1;| Columbia, 4-1, and tied Seton Hall, | 2-all, in a torrid 1l-inning battle. | This is picking up the threads of | last year’s victorious campaign when Coach Jack Coffey’'s men won 18 games against three defeats and | generally were recognized as Eastern | | champions. | This current team, however, is| | because of the weather. Start (Way i Finding Favor With Owners Griffith Is Willing To Call Off Nats’ Boston Series By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BOSTON, April 23.—There 18 more than an outside chance this 1940 baseball campaign will mark the last of the 154-game schedules for the major leagues. If the weather won't give into the ball clubs, the brass hats who control them may have to surrender to the elements. Out in Detroit, President Walter O. Briggs of the Tigers has gone on record as favoring a shorter schedule to start May 1 and ending late in September. Here in this northernmost sector of the majors comes a second-the-motion from Owner Yawkey of the Red Sox. “It's almost sure to be brought up the next time the majors meet,” ‘Yawkey announced today. “I'm still open-minded about it, but if ball clubs are going to run into current | conditions, say four times in every five years, I see no reason why the season shouldn’t be moved back to around May 1, and the schedule re- duced to 140 games.” Bad Weather Takes Toll Again this spring the big league clubs have been plagued by ele- ments. A nor'easter has been raging in New England, causing thousands ot dollars’ damage along the coast. All along the East bad weather has kept the ball club$ in their hotels. In Cincinnati a flood threatens the Reds’ park for an undetermined length of time. Rain, cold, sleet and even snow have postponed ball games. Club owners who have spent thousands apiece training their teams in the semi-tropics are fearful of pneu- monia epidemics and of torn lig: ments and cartilages on slippery, soggy diamonds. Club owners and high officials with whom this observer has talked | seem to be ready to take legislative | action. They have lost untoid thou- sands of dollars at the box offices In addition, their ball clubs, which were so finely tramned in Florida, Texas and Cali- fornia, rapidly are getting out of shape. - “Why Not Postpone Series?” “For what we spent in Florida,” laments Casey Stengel of the Bos- ton Bees, who have been idling in Brooklyn, “we could have bought a good pitcher and an infielder or outfielder. Now we have to start getting in shape all over again” So far the Bees have played only one of their seven scheduled games. Clark Griffith, president of the Nationals, telephoned his manager, Bucky Harris, last night in Boston and asked about the weather. “Not much hope,” Harris said. “Well,” barked Griffith, “why can't the club come home and call off the whole series?” This isn't as radical as it might sound. The Nats may play today, but conditions won't be favorable. If the temperature is around 45 it will be a surprise. There still is snow on the ground in Boston. Wage Scales Possibly Affected. For years the club owners have argued that by playing less than 154 games they cannot make money. | rated only mediocre, offensively, de- | The reasons, put down in black and i i i lier | White, never were made public. It e T g s im,*PrueT | follows this is an old-fashioned posedfy les in its defensive Bhimy‘theory. without muci> basis, if they | for it has all but two regulars back.mk‘]iv d’“le ttl"“‘lk"é‘g of shortening the from last year’s nine. The infield | Schedule to (itis will Manny Gomez, second; Jackie| Hearn, shortstop, and Jim Blumen- | stock, third. It is rated one of the smoothest infields in college ranks. | It handled 20 chances against | Princeton without an error. | Dom Principe, a grid star, is the leading light in the outfield and one of the team’s best hitters.| Other gridmen are Blumenstock | and Capt. Bill Krywicki, a catcher. | Rams Visit Navy Tomorrow. The Rams go to Annapolis tomor- row for a game with Navy, which Gene Bowe, veteran of the staff, will pitch. Dick Dieckelman will be back in | right field for Georgetown this aft- ernoon as Judge feels he still has enough power at the plate to war- rant using him in the garden when he isn’t on the mound. American University had another off day yesterday, due to weather conditions, canceling a basebsR game with Wilson because of the cold, a track meet with William and a tennis match with Catawba because of damp courts. and Mary because of a soggy track | | have Pat Petrino at first:| Such a8 move might disturb the wage scale. We wouldn't know about this. But it might mean that by starting May 1 fewer double-headers would be created and it would mean later spring training dates. Whereas ball clubs now go into training as early as February 15, as do the Nationals, they would wait until March 7 or 10. “It seems to me,” Yawkey added, “that a month of training is plenty of time to get a club in shape. The main reason, anyway, is to get a line on the new players. Managers like to get plenty of chances to see what new men they want to keep and spring training is about the only chance. “But it can be over- E YOUR WAY / I CHEVROLET| 6321-33 GEORGIA AVE. N.W. “BEST USED CAR DEAL IN TowN" |l A