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• WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUABY 18, 1937. * PAGE C—1 '
Estalella Ace Gardener in Cuba : LaFond Aims to Smear Tutor
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Avers He’ll Be Ready for
Nats in Year—Havana
Park Is Huge.
BY FRANCIS STAN.
8t»ff Correspondent of The Sta*.
HAVANA. Cuba. February 18.—
The Havanas and the Almen
dares were playing in the final
game of the Cuban League
teason and there was something about
the left fielder of the Havanas that
was familiar. He was a little round
boy, brown as a coffee bean, and he
had bowed legs like Hans Wagner's.
When he yelled "Hokay, keed, hokay”
to the colored boy who was pitching
you knew, then and there, that you'd
recognize Bobby Estalella in any land.
You remember Roberto Estalella.
Near the end of the 1935 season Clark
Griffith brought him from Albany to
play third base for Washington.
He slammed' the ball far and wide
with a 25-eent bat. played like a shoe
maker on third base, and still con
trived to so capture the fancy of
Capital fans that people kept calling
Griffith Stadium and asking if Es
talella was going to play.
At the time Washington also had
a weak-fielding gent named Ossie
Bluege and a kid called Buddy Lewis,
who is only the best infield rookie in
the American League. But Roberto
had color and the Washington cus
tomers loved him.
"Whassa Matter, That Greef?”
MOW he Is an outfielder and when
“■ ' he came toward the Havana
bench at the end of an Inning you
etopped him, said hello, and asked him
how he liked playing the outfield.
Griff, you recall, gave up on him as
an infielder and commanded the Al
bany's to play Bobby in the outfield.
And Bobby was carrying out orders
here in Cuba, where he's been play
ing four times a week for four months
in a league that is a curious mixture
of Cubans. American Negroes and
class AA ball players from the States.
“Wassa matter, that Greef?” asked
Bobby. “He sen' me to Albany. Uno
year, he say, and than cum back to
Washington. ifow I get contract from
Chattanooga. 'Nother year, he say,
and cum back. I don’ sign Chatta
nooga contract, unnerstan?’ You tell
'em, Meester Greef. I don’ sign, see!”
Bobby went back into the outfield
and made a nice catch of a line drive
in the first inning. Maybe that’s his
■pot, you thought. Then he caught
a fly ball and again looked good.
Cubans “Can’t See” Bobby.
«No HIT dees year.” explained
^ Bobby when he came back.
“Bat .288. Fielding no good. too.
Park too beeg.” He pointed to the
left field fence, 498 feet from home
plate.
The Havana ball park, where the
Giants will start training at the end
or this month, is a tremendous affair.
Nobody is capable of hitting a ball
out of the park The dimensions would
have defied Ruth at his best. The
setting, with unbelievable structures
and purple flowers lending a beautiful
background, seems to atone for several
fault* that Bill Terry is likely to find
With the park.
It is to your agent’s regret to report
♦hat Estalella is no great shucks as
a ball player on this picturesque island.
The natives speak well of him, per
sonally. but as a ball player they fall
to see him, not only as a potential
major leaguer but as anything re
sembling a stand-out among the
Cubans.
Not to Play Giants.
«tpS-TA-YAY-YA?” queries the man
behind the cigar counter.
“Good heet on dumb peetchers, no
field. Peetchers who t'row ball high
get him out queeck.”
Seigio Varone, sports editor of El
Mundo, sits in the press box at the
park and shares a like opinion.
After the Giants open training, the
best two teams in Cuba will be picked
to play the National League cham
pions in a series of exhibition games.
When you asked if Bobby would play
Varone shook his head.
"They weel not choose heem. He
do not field. He only heet and only
When ball ees low.”
He Only Can Throw,
on you ran across some of
me American players who help to
form the four-team Cuban League.
One was Jimmy Adair, who used to
shortstop for the Cubs and Louisville
and who now plays for Toledo.
Another was Harry Davis, the for
mer Detroit first baseman, who comes
back with the Browns this year.
‘‘Bobby’s got no chance,” said Davis.
"All he can do well is throw . . . and
then he doesn’t know where it’s go
ing.” During the game between
Havana and Almendares, Esty missed
a long drive that went for a triple and
threw to the wrong base. The play
enabled Almendares to erase a 2-0
deficit and, eventually, win out by a
(-3 score, thereby making Havana
finish last in the league.
At bat Bobby failed tc get a ball
Wit of the infield, although he beat
out a hit to shortstop.
Washington He Wants.
YlfHEN it was over you heard that
1 Estalella’s throwing to the wrong
base on that triple caused a club-house
argument between him and Manager
Olivares of Havana. In the end Esta
lella quit the Havana club, which still
bas a few exhibition games to play.
Young Calvin Griffith may be inter
ested in hearing of the argument, in
asmuch as Olivares plays shortstop
for Chattanooga and Esty Is slated to
play right field this year.
If Estalella cannot understand why
“Greef” doesn't want «him at Wash
ington he can. with typical native en
thusiasm, be talked into Chattanooga.
"What do you theenk?” he asked.
“I go to Chattanooga, yes? ‘Nother
year?" And when you told him Chat
tanooga was a good spot, far better
tljan Albany used to be, Bobby got
excited.
“Hokay, keed, I go,” he said, “but
Washington I want. Oh, boy ... Wash
ington.”
You thought, a little sadly, that
Bobby Isn’t ever likely to play in
Washington again, in spite of what
Griff aays. He isn’t an outfielder any
more than he's a pitcher. - .
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PDHDTP First Base Is Only Spot
\rUnl \rnpc for Greenberg, Says
U Utui L Pilot Cochrane.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.
Mickey cochranes urge to
. gamble perhaps has been
quenched a bit by the Securi
ties and Exchange Commis
sion, for the Detroit pilot, after a
sober second thought, has announced
Hank Greenberg, whom he planned to
convert into an outfielder, again will
strut his elongated frame in the vicin
ity of first base.
Mickey, as he told the commission
yesterday, is ahead oh his gambling
thus far, and perhaps it is with a
thought of remaining that way which
prompts him to alter his previous plan
of shifting the somewhat awkward
Greenberg to the meadow.
Somehow it is difficult to visualise
Hank in the outfield. He never has
been the personification of grace
around first base, and it is significant
that his left wrist twice has been
fractured within a year. It isn’t al
ways the other guy’s fault.
Hank Not Streamlined.
VES. Hank might look at home if
■*' they’re putting cows back in the
pasture, but 210 pounds draped on a
6 foot 4 inch frame doesn’t exactly
blend with Mickey’s idea of an out
fielder. You wondered out loud if
Hank would be a bit timid as a result
of his two collisions.
“No," countered the guy who
never has moved an inch for
any base runner, “I don’t be
lieve Hank will be ‘runner
shy.’"
Mickey still is taking a distinct gam
ble, however, by allowing Uie twice
slapped wrist of Mr. Greenberg to
suffer the wear and tear of first-baa
ing. Then again, Mickey may reason
rather sensibly in figuring it’s less of
a risk that way than with Hank in
the outfield.
All of which seems to shove Rudy
York out of the Detroit picture at a
time when it seemed he finally would
make the grade as a major league.
York also is employed as a first base
man and has failed in trials with the
Tigers as a catcher and outfielder as
well as his present post. Last year,
however, he slammed out a rather
neat batting figure in the American
Association and this year he was to
be given a more lengthy opportunity
to display his diamond polish.
York to Stick—Maybe.
T>UDY, in Cochrane’s former plans,
was to inherit Greenberg’s poet
when Hank trotted to the outfield.
It's all changed now, but York will
be retained by the ‘Tigers and is rated
by Mickey as "mighty powerful at
the plate.”
Maybe Mickey meant a blue
plate, for it looks as though two
bit dinners again are looming
for Rudy.
Goose Goslin, hugging 37, and A1
Simmons, not exactly a spry young
fellow, will battle for the left field
job, with Pete Pox, Jo-Jo White, Ger
ald Walker and a young recruit, Chet
Laabs, scrambling for center and
right-field berths. Mickey would offer
no opinion as to when Goslin and
Simmons will split at the seams, but
he didn’t seem overenthused at their
possibilities of lasting through many
more campaigns.
Mickey hopes he will be able to catch
at least 100 games and he looks as if
he might do it. He says he is recov
ered fully from the illness that floored
him last season and Is back to his
normal weight of 185 pounds. He
readily admits that upon Greenberg
and the pitching rests Detroit's hopes
In the pennant light, which he figures
to be much more hotly contested than
last year.
RINGER HURLERS MEET
A meeting of the Maryland State
Horseshoe Pitchers’ Association, re
cently organized, will be held tonight
at 8 o'clock in the town hall at Brent
wood.
Pitchers from Laytonsville, Takoma
Park. Silver Spring. Hyattsville.
Rogers Heights. Mount Rainier and
surrounding communities are asked
to attend.
Varsity Quints
American XT.. 36: 8t. John *. S3.
Dartmouth. 40: Harvard. 29.
Yale. 66: Brown. 26.
Army. 38: Syracuse 37.
West Virginia. 36: Penn State. 31.
Manhattan. 30: St. John's (Brook
lyn). 24.
Amherst. 82; Massachusetts State.
31.
Albright. 37: TJralnus. 29.
Boston TJ.. 34: Clark TJ.. 21/
Fordham. 61; Wagner. 23.
Rutgers. 60: Lehigh. 23.
Villanova. 44: Lafayette. 31.
V. M. 1.. 32: Duke. 31.
Davidson. 61: Charleston. 34.
Wake Forest. 41: N. C. State. 33.
Georgia. 21: Auburn. 19.
South Carolina. 43: Furman. 28. •
Richmond. 40: William and Mary.
21.
Temple 36: N. Y TJ.. 33.
Tennessee. 34: Vanderbilt. 2R.
Loyola iSouth). 35: Louisiana Nor
mal. 33.
Oklahoma Agaias. 31; Washington
U. <6t. Louis). 29.
Ohio TJ. 46: Miami. 21.
Wittenberg. 44: Denison. 24.
Otterbein. 39; Kenyon. 26.
Westminster (Mo.). 31; William
Jewell 23.
Whitewater Teacher*. 47: Aurora.
19.
Superior Teachers. 81: Duluth
Teachers. 17.
Carle ton. 30: St. Olaf. 24.
Defiance 31: BluSton. 29.
Battle Greek. 41: Adrian, 19.
Wayne, 46; Northern (Mich.) Teach
er* 38.
St. Mary's. 44: Assumption. 42.
Gophers, Illinois
Crave Court Win
r^HICAOO, February 18 </P).—
^ Picking ’em off the backboards
around the Big Ten:
There's certain eto be quite a
celebration in Minneapolis or
Champaign if Minnesota or Illi
nois wins the Big Ten basket ball
championship—or a share of the
title . . . Minnesota won the title
in 1906. tied with Purdu.. for the
top spot in 1911, ‘ 'ed for the title
with Illinois in 1917 and then won
the championship in 1919 . . . that
was the last year the Gophers have
had a look In.
Illinois hasn't won an undisputed
cage title since 1915 , . , The mini
shared honors with Minnesota in
1917, with Wisconsin and Chicago
in 1924 and with Purdue and Wis
consin in 1935.
CONTESTS ON TAP
Terrapins Fight to Stay in
Title Race, Schmarr Out
for D. C. Record.
DRAMATIC incidents surround
both of the college basket ball
games to be played at the
University of Maryland and
Catholic University gyms tonight,
with the Washington and Lee and
La 6alle College quints providing the
opposition.
Elimination from the annual South
ern Conference tourney for the first
time in history will be Maryland’s
lot should it lose to W. and L., while
Hermie Schmarr’s first field goal, or
two foul tosses, will give C. U.'s great
shot a new all-time scoring record
for District college players.
Generate Have Crack Center,
'T'ROUNCED by the Generals, 51-27,
A at Lexington last month, Mary
land's prospects are not bright. Wash
ington and Lee invades with probably
the best center in the conference, Bob
Spessard, who tallied 25 points against
the Old Liners in the first meeting.
Boasting 197 points in 14 games, for
an average of slightly better than 14
points per game, Schmarr is within
1 point of his record performance of
last season, when he totaled 198 points
in 17 games.
Schmarr probably will set a still
higher mark to shoot at before the
season ends, C. U. having three more
games to play after tonight.
GONZAGAIS EAGER
FOR TITLE TUSSLE
Victor Over Eastern High
Second Time, Prep Quint
Wants City Crown.
WICE conqueror of Eastern’s
inter-high championship
bound basketers and needing
only another victory against
St. John's tomorrow night to clinch
the prep school title, Gonzaga's court
men were willing to talk turkey today
concerning a third game with Eastern
for the official scholastic champion
ship of the city, provided both come
through, as expected, in their waning
series.
Proving its first victory over the
Lincoln Parkers was no fluke, the
Purple again defeated the Light Blue
and White yesterday. 25-22, getting
off to an early lead and staving off a
counter rally which threatened to
reverse the result of the first game.
Thirteenth for Gonzaga.
TT WAS the thirteenth victory in 14
starts for Gonzaga this season and
a tribute to Coach Orrel Mitchell, who
has so educated his boys in the zone
defense that they are able to use it
effectively after scrapping their own
man-for-man defense, traditional with
Purple teams. Only Tech has topped
the Mitchell quint this season.
Eastern staged a game come-back In
the I street gym to overcome a 15-7
lead of Gonzaga at half-time, but after
going ahead at 18-15, succumbed to a
subsequent streak of the opposition.
The latter came despite the loss of Jim
Boyle on personal fouls, for Jerry Con
nally, Boyle’s substitute, scored three
points in the last quarter. Eastern,
however, had Us own losses to take,
both Lee Lusby and Russ Lombardy
being ejected because of four fouls.
Gonzaga G.P.Pts. Eastern. G.P.Pta.
Collins.t __ a O 6 Lombardy.f _ 1 O 2
Connolly.f_1 1 3 Oroves.f O 1 1
Hanley, f_4 1 » Colton.f - 1 O 2
Walsh.c __ 0 1 1 Quantrllle.e, 3 3 »
Boyle g _10 2 Hancock,g .000
S'Brlen.g ... 2 O 4 Lusbv.g ...2 1 6
ice.g _ 0 0 0 Palmer,*_113
Totals Tl~"325 Totals_ 8 6 22
Referee—Mr. Keppel.
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BRUINS SIGN DAVIS
CHICAGO, February 18 (VP).—The
signed contract of Curt Davis, right
handed pitcher, has been received by
the Chicago Cubs.
His signing reduced the Cub hold
out list to six players—Frank Demaree,
Augie Galan, Tuck Stainback. Joe
Marty, Bill Jurges and Tex Carleton.
Virginia’s New Grid Coach Is Crack Poker Player
’Bama’s Boxers Sleep Without Pillows—Dempsey Raises Pay of All His Restaurant Hands.
BY SCOTTY HESTON,
Associated Pres* Sports Writer.
NEW YORK. February 18.—
Eleanor Gehrig (Mrs. Lou)
has written another song,
entitled "We Wrote Our
Love Song Together” ,.. Her first,
“I Can’t Get to First Base With
You,”, would make a good theme
song for Lou’s comic skit with Col.
Ruppert. .. The dope over here Is
that Gehrig will take $36,000 this
year or stay home . . . Bill Reid,
Colgate director of athletics, will
run for Mayor of Hamilton, N. Y.,
again soon . . . Virginia not only
got one of the country’s finest
foot ball roaches in Frank Murray,
but m fine a poker player ai Mm
h
game ever knew . . . “Holy cowl"
Is his favorite and most violent
expression . . . Alabama’: boxers
take salt baths and sleep without
pillows, and as Lynn C. Doyle of
the Philadelphia Bulleti.. remarks,
sleeping without pillows is great
preparation for a ring career.
Jimmy Dykes, White Sox man
ager, is hanging out at Santa Anita
these days ... “A lot of my pals
in Chicago wanted me to see what
was holding back their horses,”
says Jimmy . . . "Beans Reardon
gave me a couple of tips, but I
didn't bet. Umpires are never
right" . . . Jt lust teems to be a
h»Ut with Bailaad'a Phil ■HU
. >
.... Sven his tea room collapsed the
other day.
Ed Brandt took one look at his
Pittsburgh contract and in 10 sec
onds had it signed and ready for
delivery . . . That’s how glad he
was to get away from the Dodgers
. . . Russ Blinco, center for the
Montreal Hockey Maroons, has
been fitted for special shatterless
glasses.
-r
Jack Dempsey celebrated the
second anniversary of his entry
into the restaurant business yes
terday by declaring a general raise
for his employes . . . Wealthy
young Alfred O. Vanderbilt, Jr., is
going to the races witoGlnger
lawyer* are there In this country?"
asks Joe Gould, Jimmy Braddock's
manager . . . "And why do you
suppose they’re all having this
fuss over the Supreme Court?" . . .
“Well, I’ll tell you—it’s because
people break contracts. And that’*
what I’m gonna do to that Schmel
Ing-Braddock thing—break It.”
Bob Zuppke’s still howling at the
foot ball Rules Committee ... He
doesn’t like their recent tinkering,
claiming, "There’s now danger
that no interference will be called
unless in extreme cases’’ . . . this
falls far below another of his re
torts: “If they don’t stop fooling
with the rules we’ll soon have a
1
TEH’S’ RING COACH
Singular Rivalry to Mark
Dual Meet Saturday at
Ritchie Coliseum.
BY BURTON HAWKINS.
THAT chubby little ruffian in the
back of the room is going to
chuck an ink ball at the
teacher’s head Saturday night
when Catholic ■ University’s boxing
team invades Maryland's bailiwick.
Maybe that ink ball will smear the
smiling face of Heinie Miller, Mary
land coach, and maybe the boy on the
flipping end will be spanked.
The little rascal who figures on
splattering Maryland's spotless ring
record is Eddie LaFond, Catholic Uni
versity mentor, who has absorbed
much of his fistic knowledge through
his rival and stanch fnen<j, Miller.
If Eddie connects, he will have
achieved perhaps t_ie most notable vic
tory in Cardin 1 clouting history—at
the expense of a man who has played
an important part in carvipg LaFond *
career as a referee and coach.
Tarns in Perfect Job.
IT WAS Miller who insisted that
LaFond, then a comparative novice
at officiating, be appointed as a referee
by the District Boxing Commission
when boxing was legalised here. He
knew Eddie had the makings of a
first-class referee, but most Important,
he had implicit fsith in the fact that
LaFond never could be ’‘reached’’ by
gamblers.
Eddie has vindicated that display
of faith. In Washington’s only world
championship fight, the Petey Sarron
Freddy Miller featherweight brawl
1 at May, which match, incidentally,
was made by Miller. Eddie handled the
scrap so flawlessly that Edward Foster,
then chairman of the National Boxing
Association, commended him for what
he termed a perfect Job of refereeing.
Before Miller was appointed coach
at Maryland, Eddie occasionally
dropped over to his home to ask
Heinie's advice and in general sop up
some of the vast referee, matchmaker,
promoter, sports editor, second, mana
ger and fan.
Thinks Cards Hare Even Chance.
J-IEINIE has been as closely meshed
with the ring game as the bucket
and canvas. By LaPond’s admission,
Miller is the most informed person in
this sector on boxing and Eddie nat
urally did not hesitate to turn to him
in quest of additional boxing knowl
edge. Perhaps Heinie divulged too
many secret*, but if he did he’ll chalk
it up to the furtherance of fighting
and Miller, more than any one in
Washington, is responsible for what
ever place on the pugilistic map this
city is spotted.
LaPond by no means is unfamiliar
with collegiate boxing, having been
affiliated with the sport since 1924,
when he was captain of the first
Catholic University team. He has been
coaching boxing since 1930, but has
tutored Cardinal freshman foot ball
teams since 1927, the year he was
graduated from the ranks as a guard,
Eddie has compiled a rather neat
record thus far in his coaching career,
but the climax thus far would be a
victory over Maryland and his teacher.
He believes the Cards have an even
chance of turning the trick for him.
Miller, as a coach, is almost unique.
His pre-bout forecasts are glowing
with confidence, which automatically
expels him from membership in the
Union of Pessimistic Coaches. The
unusual bit of it, however, is that
the Maryland team thus far has ful
filled his predictions. He believes they
will come through against C. U.
NEW’N-STAR’ MARK
NOW INGRAM’S GOAL
Out to Break Borries’ Record of
Five, Injured Bill Is Apt to
Face Army Quint
Special Dispatch to The Star.
A NNAPOLIS, Md.. February 18 —
Further injury to his loot, re
ceived in practice yesterday, malcas It
probable that Bill Ing-im will not
have much part in the Army-Navy
basket ball game to be played here
Saturday.
Ingram, a regu’ar guard, returned
from the hospital Monday after an
absence of more than two weeks.
Bob Laney, a so .homore. who has
been doing good work, particularly on
the offensive, since Ingram was inca
pacitated, is almost sure to start Sat
urday, with Frank Shamer at the
other guard.
Every effort will be made, however,
to get Ingram In a part of the game,
even though briefly, particularly if
Navy appears to be winning and
“N-stars”- depend upon players taking
part in the contest.
Ingram has already won two of
these highly prised Insignia for foot
ball and base ball, and should he win
another Saturday would strengthen
his chance of passing the mark of live
set by Buzz Borries, now a Naval
Academy record.
REGALS WHIP BOYS’ CLUB.
With five former Eastern High
stars in the line-up, the Regal Cloth
iers defeated the Northeast Boys’ Club
seniors, 43-31. Bucholtz, Hollidge,
Shaner, Edelen and Dean were the
erstwhile Lincoln Parkers playing for
the Clothiers, who also had Don Fones,
former Alexandria star, at forward.
Varied Sports
C«!lc*e
The Citadel. 4; Columbus. 4.
Cohere gwlmmlar.
Tale. 44: Army. 31.
Cohere Traek.
Michiran State. 03: Mlehiran Nor
mal. 32.
Cohere Hockey.
McGill U.. 16: Dartmouth. 1.
American Aaaoeiation Hockey.
MinneoDolis. 3; Wichita. 1.
Eastern Amateur Hockey.
Herahey. 4: Atlantic City. Z.
International-American Hockey.
, ^goniaeee. t. Syracuse, a coeer
“POPPING
OPPStarL
An Envied Manager Is Joe McCarthy.
(This is the first of a series speculating on American League clubs
as they prepare to head Southward for Spring training.)
WATCHING the Yankees massacre the Giants 4ast October from a
seat in the press box, Frankie Frisch was heard to remark: “Gosh.
I'd pay money to manage this New York club."
Frankie didn’t mean it literally, of course. Primarily It waa
an exaggerated tribute to a great ball club. But, too, it gave an inkling
of how a manager feels about the job held by Joe McCarthy. Marse Joe,
highest, paid pilot in base ball, a a much envied gent and not only because
his salary is $35,000 per year.
Down in restful St. Petersburg, Fla.,<8
the Yankee manager well may look
forward to a restful period of Spring
training.
His club was the best of the world
last season. It won the American
League pennant by 19 Vi games. In
its mad dash to the top it left 30
broken or tied records in its wake. '
There is little, if anything, to be
done to the Yankee club. Barring'
holdout trouble the Ruppert rifles will
parade to the post next April as they
raced off the field last October with
the deciding victory over the Giants.
McCarthy’s club is set in the outfield,
infield and battery departments.
Oalv Few Changes Likely.
/"\NLY two or three changes in the
personnel of the squad are likely
to take place and all of these will be
minor ones. Ernie Koy, a graduate
of the Newark farm, is likely to be
retained as a substitute outfielder, re
placing Bob Seeds, who was shipped
to the International League in ex
change.
Bill Baker, a catcher from the
same farm, may stick as tljird-string
receiver, provided he beats out either
Joe Glenn or Amdt Jorgens.
Of the pitching newcomers,
Steve Sandra, former Indian,
seems most likely to win a Job.
McCarthy should have no worries
with his regular team. Tony Lazzeri's
feat of playing 150 of the Yanks’ 154
games last year, all the while batting
across 109 runs and holding up his
end afield, probably did more to wipe
away what worries the Yanks had
than any other single item. If he
can approach this performance this
year the New Yorkers ought to repeat,
although perhaps not by a 19*?-gaise
margin.
U>u Gehrig, of course, will play
first base and Frankie Crosetti and
Red Rolfe are sure of rounding out
the Infield with Lazzeri.
Even the infield reserves.
Jack Saltxgaver and Don Heff
ner, seem to have lodes on their
old jobs.
DiMag Faces “Second-Year” Test.
J0E DIMAGGIO faces the tradi
tional “second-year'’ test, but he
appears to be too good a ball player
to be affected. In fact. DiMag ought
to better his sensational rookie sea
son. George Selkirk, who drove across
more than 100 of the 995 runs driven
in by the Yanks, and Jake Powell will
round out the regular outfield, leav
ing Roy Johnson and Koy in reserve.
Billy Dickey, naturally, will do the
catching.
Even with Lefty Gomez failing to
function as of yore, the Yanks had
the best pitching staff in the Amer
ican League last year and It is not
so susceptible to senility that Mc
Carthy can expect much of a slump.
Red Ruffing and Monte Pearson
ought to be good for between 15 and
20 victories each, while Gomez, late
In 1936, showed signs of returning to
form.
Bump Hadley could not win for
Washington, but he registered 14 vic
tories as against four defeats in 1938
and can be expected to score between
12 and 15 wins. Pat Malone prob
ably pitched "over his head" to fin
ish with 12-4. but he is a valuable re
lief man and between this pair,
Johnny Murphy. Johnny Broaca and
Walter Brown of the Veterans. Mc
Carthy Is well fixed for pitchers.
Vito Tamulis and Kemp
Wicker, both rookie southpaws,
and Frank Makofskv, are out
siders in the battle for slab
berths.
In all, the Yanks are likely to move
into the mo6t thoroughly regulated,
cut and dried training camp season of
any club In the major leagues. Joe
McCarthy is, Indeed, a most envied
manager.
GORSUCH CHURCH WINS.
Gorsuch Church courtmen nosed
out the Epiphany five, 21-18, last night.
Walters, the wlnr.ers’ center, was the
game's leading scorer with 10 points.
Sports Program for D. C. Fans
TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Washington-Lee vs. Maryland,
Ritchie Coliseum. College Park, Md.,
8:15.
La Salle vs. Catholic University,
Brookland gym, 8:15.
Duquesne vs. Wilson Teachers,
Wilson gym. 8:15.
Georgetown Frosh vs. Maryland
Frosh, Ritchie Coliseum, College
Park, Md., 4.
Episcopal vs. Eastern, Eastern
High gym, 8:30.
Montgomery of Rockville vs.
Montgomery-Blair, Silver Spring,
Md., 3:30.
Hyattaville vs. Washington-Lee
High, Balls ton. Va.. 8.
Wrestling.
Steve (Crusher) Casey vs. Stan
ley Pinto, feature match. Turner's
Arena, 8 30.
TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.
Carnegie Tech vs. Georgetown,
Tech High gym. 8:30.
George Washington vs. West Vir
ginia. Morgantown, W. Va.
Randolph-Macon vs. Southeast
ern, Y. M. C. A. gym. 8:15.
Bridgewater vs. American Uni
versity, American U. gym, 8:15..
Wilson Teachers vs. Newark
Teachers, Newark, N. J.
Central vs. Tech, Tech High gym
(public high title series), 3:30.
Roosevelt vs. Wilson, Tech High
gym (public high title series), 4.30.
Western vs. Augusta Military’
Academy, Fort Defiance. Va.
Gonzaga vs. St. John's, Catholic
University gym, 8:30.
Bethesda-Chevv Chase vs. Hy
attsville, Hyattsville High gym,
3:45.
Charlotte Hall vs. Georgetown
Prep, Garrett Park, Md., 3:30.
Fredericksburg High vs. Wash
ington-Lee High, Ballston, Va., 8.
Landon vs. Friends, Friends gym,
3:30.
Howard University vs. Union
University, Richmond. Va.
SATURDAY.
Basket Ball.
Georgetown vs. Maryland. Ritchie
Coliseum. College Park, Md., 8.
Randolph-Macon vs. American
University. American U. gym. 8:15.
Maryland Frosh vs. Episcopal,
Alexandria, Va., 3.
Western vs. Randolph-Macon
Military Academy. Front Royal, Va.
George Washington Frosh vs.
Drexel, Philadelphia, Pa.
Howard University vs. Virginia
State. Petersburg. Va.
Boxing.
Catholic University vs. Maryland,
Ritchie Coliseum, College Park,
Md., 9:15.
Track.
Maryland and Georgetown In
New York Athletic Club game*, New
York.
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