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A—12_WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1937. ----
Nats Spring Predicted Punch : Pirates Primed to Fluster Rivals
HIJ TOTAL HEAVY
Record of 31 Safeties in Two
Games Makes Harris
Great Prophet.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,
Statt Correspondent or The Star.
ORLANDO. 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. Bucky predicted as \
hard a hitting club as any in the
American League. For one afternoon
last week the Giants, with their
pitchers in the advanced stages,
shoved the prophecy down Harris’
throat by shutting the Washingtons
out. 6-0.
Now it seems that Skipper Harris !
knew what he was talking about.
Over at Daytona on Saturday the
Griffs pounded Paul Dean and three
other Cardinal hurlers for 12 hits and
won an 8-to-4 decision. Yesterday,
with a 19-hit attack, they shelled
three Philly pitchers and won by a
lopsided 15-to-7 score.
Twenty-three runs and 31 hits in
two games. Even with the Red Sox
ready and eager to. whip him today,
Bucky might well take a pre-season
bow.
Tough Traveling Ahead.
*‘J 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 Phillies.”
The Nats had better be ready if they
mean to go anywhere 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 the
Cardinals. After that they’ll invade
Winter Garden to meet Baltimore and
wmd up the week by playing host to
the Tigers and Cards at Orlando.
Carrying only 10 pitchers means
that the Nats will be hard 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 possibly
Ken Chase for today. It marked the
first time that any pitcher had worked
five innings, which was what Newsom
did yesterday in his exhibition game
debut.
Sta-g-e Two Big Innings.
jyjAKE no mistake, 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 seen. 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 next. He did alright until the
sixth inning, when the Griffs batted
around, scored nine ruas and iced the
affair. In this hectic inning 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.
—
Ruddy Myer Looks Good.
^^EWSOM had his ups and downs, ;
but he was in little trouble. Dur
ing his five-inning term he gave up
five hits and two runs. Salveson, too,
had the situation well in hand until
he belted his home run. Jack gave all
he had, running the circuit, and was
a 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
ably enabled the Phillies to rise and
score 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 Co
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.
Ritzy Gals Make Eyes at Feller but It’s No Dice
Diz bans Solters 20 Straight Times—Giants Set Big League Sartorial Pace.
BY EDDIE BRIETZ,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
GULFPORT, 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,
rlimb aboard . . . Any guy w'ho can
go 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 a 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 Springl 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
A PARK-PICKER S PARADISE
— ■ • ■ .— ■ — — — -—— #;
—By JIM BERRYMAN
3 MAJOR
ms
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Sleuths and W. P. A. Tangle
in A. A. U. Final Tonight.
145-Pounders Meet.
WITH 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.
J INVESTIGATION 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
of Richmond, Berne Jones of Roose
velt High and Tommy Lynch of
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
i Dopey! Dean, Chick Hollidge, Reds
Scheible. Bemie Lieb and Bill Noonan.
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.
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TRAYNOR STARTS WELL.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—Man
ager Pie Traynor played third base
i 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
1 defeated Jewel Ens’ outfit, 11 to 4.
"POPPING
OFF*1
Junk-Pile Johnny.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ORLANDO. Fla., March 22.—Three sets of veteran base ball writers now
have viewed and pronounced the 1937 Nationals a ball club that
conceivably could finish one-two in the American League race.
The only qualification of the writing boys attached to the Giants.
Cardinals and Phillies sounded like this: "-If the pitchers do better than
expected.”
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 ow-n pitchers
every day in batting practice and you guys just sit up in the press box and
guess what so-and-so throwing. Well, I'll tell you, our pitchers are under- j
*»i.ed. There aren t any names on.;
the staff, but let me say we've got some
tough fellows to hit.
“I’ll say one thing about Clark
Griffith, as long as I’ve gone
this far.” he added. "There's a
guy who ran pirk up more good
stuff in a so-ralled '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
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.
Casrarella Was One.
pOR a $7,500 outlay that now seems
paltry, he got Pete Appleton from
Montreal via the draft. Nobody
wanted Pietro, who previously had
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
•
defeats, the best earned-run average
on the Washington club and the fifth i
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 Casearella 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.
The queer part of it all. too, was that
Boston sent $7,500, along with Joe,
for Russell. Now Jack has been re
leased and everybody in camp is will
ing to bet Casearella wins upward of
15 games.
De Shong .Aided Griff’s Rep.
JIMMY DE SHONG won 18 games
J for Washington last year to lead
the club’s pitchers in victories. He
bears all the earmarks of a first-class
hurler and yet Jimmy was sent to
the minors by the A's and plunked on
the bench by the Yankees. He was,
in sooth, a bargin.
For that matter. Buck Newsom 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.)
I
1
Dowell, Out During Regular
Season. Leads Denver to
National Triumph.
By the Associated Press.
DENVER, March 22.—A team,
which flashed as its star a
man long idle with broken
arm bones and whose oft
defeated players had been relegated by
critics to basket ball's "graveyard.”
sat on top of the court world today.
The Denver Safeways, fared 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.
Will to Win Is Strong.
‘‘\/JY KIDS had the physical en
1 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 comehack.” Shel
ton said. "They buried him as a
basket ball player after last year's
tournament. In fact, they buried
most of my players.”
Valley League Cleans L’p.
J^OWELL and Jack McCracken,
both former 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.
President William Miller of Tulsa
said: “The tournament certainly
showed what the Missouri Valley
League teams ran do—they finished
one, two. three." The Kansas Trails
won third place by beating the Holly
wood Stars. 47-42, in a curtain raiser
for the final game.
McPherson, Kans., a Missouri Val
ley team, won last year, 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 Oalcagno 979.
CLUB IS HIS BEST.
MR CLAIMS
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.
SAN 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
pennant hopes of other National
League contenders.
Manager Harold J. Traynor, the
“Pie" of erstwhile third-base great
ness. looked over his ramp 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, who fin
ished eight games ahead of Pitts
burgh last year?
"We’ve got a left-hander now, Ed
Brandt.," answered Traynor. "We
last 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 won 11 and lost
13 with Brooklyn last year.
Disdains Cubs, Cards.
AND what about the Chicago 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.
The Pirates, he continued, will stack
their prayers on a seven-man pitching
staff.
Traynor believes that Fred Lucas.
Bill Swift and Jim Weaver will per
form as dependablv as last year, when
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 hurler.
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 for sec
ond, Arky Vaughan at short and
hefty Bill Brubaker at third.
Handley is the 22-year-old "free
agent” the Pirates plucked from the
wir.g of Cincinnati for a price of $20.
000. and bids fair to give Young a
merry fight for the keystone sack.
Sees Comeback for Vaughan.
'J'HE Pirate boss looks for Arky
Vaughan to return to his 1935
championship batting stride, and pre
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Sports Program
For Local Fans
TODAY.
Rase Rail.
Washington vs. Boston fA. L.),
Orlando, Fla.
Boxing.
Werther Arrelli vs. Teddy Loder,
eight, rounds, feature bout, Turner's
Arena, 8:30.
TOMORROW.
Base Ball.
Washington vs. Detroit, Lake
land, Fla. _
WEDNESDAY.
Base Ball.
Washington vs. St. Louis (N. L.), |
Daytona Beach. Fla
Roosevelt vs. South River High of
New Jersey, Roosevelt Stadium,
3:30,
Boxing.
District A. A. U. senior cham
pionships, Turner’s Arena, 8. i
Golf.
Georgetown vs. Emory University,
Emory, Ga.
i diets he will hit .350, as against the
335 last season
The outfield shapes up as one of
| the best in the circuit, with last year's
! combination of Paul and Lloyd Waner
and Wood Jensen. Traynor was not
worried about Paul War.er's holdout
| difficulties, and looks for his star
| gardener, who led the league in bat- ,
1 ting with .373 last season, to continue
his stickwork.
He intends to shift Jim Browne
, who hit .353 with Minneapolis in
1936, from the infield to outer patrol
work, and he has John Dickshot. who
i belted the ball at a .397 clip for Buf
j falo last season, groomed for duty in
I right field.
The catching will be in the hands
of last year's regulars, A1 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 the
plate, hitting ,273 and .249, while
Epps hit .313 with Scranton.
No Contest
Phillies AB H O A Wash AB H O A
Young.2b ft 044 Chap n cf 3 1 1 0
Martin.cf 4 12 0 Hill.cf .5 2 o •»
Klein rf 4 2 2 0 Lewis ::b ft 3 1 l
Tauby rf 1 1 n n Kuhel lb 4 1 0 ::
Moore If 2 2 10 Si net on rf 4 2 o <»
Arnov h If 2 110 S-onr If 3 1 2 o
Whit’y ;b 4 1 3 <• FferrelUf 1 <» 0 n
At wood,c 3 O 2 ! Travis.ss ft 3 4 ft
Wilson.c linn \jVer 2b 1 I 1 •’
Scha'n ss 3 1 o 3 Mih lic 2b 1 n 4 ft
Corb't.lb 4 2’ P 1 Hogan c 2 2 4 o
Burke.p o o n n Millies.c 3 2 n 0
•Grace 1 1 O o Newsom n 2 o o 1
Passeau.p 1 O n 3 Salves n p 3 1 1 n
Mule hy p 2000
Totals 37 13 24 12 Totals 4<> 10 2? 1?
•Batted for Burke In third inning
Philadelphia o O 1 1 o 1 o 4 rt— ?
Washington 4 o o 0 2 !* o o x 1ft
Runs batted in—Stone. Travis (2* Myrr.
i Hogan Mihalic Millies. Sington. SaUeson
‘4 b Lewis 12». Martin. Atwood. Whitney
Arnovich. Corbett 2 * Home runs—Sal
veson Lewis. Double plays Myer to
Travis To Kuhel Travis to Mihalic to
Kuhel (2; Corbett 'unassisted' Young to
Corbett Left on bases- Philadelphia. »'>:
Washtogton First base on balls—Off
B irKe. 2: off Pa'-'-eau ft off Newapm. 1;
ofl Salveson 2’ Struck out--By Newsom.
3 Hits—Off Burke ft in 2* innings, off
Newsom, ft in 5 innings: off Passeau P in
3*3 innings, off Salveson s in 4 in
ning* Hr by pitched ball—By Mulcahy
'Kuhel'. Wild pitches—Newsom. Passeau.
Salveson. Winning pitcher—Newsom Los
ing pitener—Burke Umpires—Messrs.
Kolls and Balianfante Time—2:2u
GLENS FALLS NEXI
Brilliant Victors in Star
Tourney Eyeing Eastern
Title Confidently.
BY BILL DISMER. JR.
FIRMLY intrenched as the Cap
ital's greatest schoolboy basket
ball team as a result of Its de
cisive victory in The Star
tournament over St. John's, sole re
maining contender for that honor,
Western High's courtmen today pre
pared confidently to duplicate the
1935 trick of the team which it suc
ceeds as the interhigh champion.
The Glens Falls tournament in
Upper New York State, annual scho
lastic court classic of the East, now
becomes the final objective of the
Red Raiders. Eastern, which won
that tournament two years ago, lost
in the semi-finals last year.
Prove They’re the Best.
IF Coach ClifT Moore's youngsters
were seeking any final verdict
that would establish them as this
town's best scholastic five, they got it
in the wind-up of The Star tourney.
Seldom, if ever in local history, has
an apparent "threat'’ been beaten so
soundly as St. John's was defeated
by Western on Saturday. Cadet sup
porters still were trying to realize to
day that their favorites scored onlv
two field goals against Western and
that the 26-9 score is not some kind
of a nightmare.
By the demonstration. Western
established a double claim to great
ness. No team scored 30 points on
St. John's all year, but Western twice
came close to doing it. trimming the
Johnnies in an earlier game. 29-26.
Further, the Vermont avenue clan
had piled up some kind of a scoring
record throughout the season, but the
9 points they scored Saturday are note
worthy only for the illustration of
Western's defensive strength.
All of Raiders Efficient.
^’’APT. Gerald Burns and George de
Witt clearly showed why they
were unanimous all-high selections,
(See WESTERN Page A-13.)
Sanford Angles
For Nats in *38
Special Dispatch to The Star
SANFORD. Fla . March 22 —
Florida's celery renter and not
Orlando, buckle of the grapefruit
belt, aim? to get the Nationais as
guests during the base ball training
season next year.
Sanford, now the camp of Chat
tanooga. mam farm of the Wash
ington club, has made rapid strides
in a base ball way the past few
months and is endeavoring to im
press upon Clark Griffith, the Na
tionals’ president, its advantages
over Orlando as a training site.
Thus far. Sanford overtures have
elicited no response from Griffith.
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