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WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1938,
Nats’ Weakness Against Major Foes Draws Fire From Griffith
Lose or
Male and Female Rasslers Draw Crowds in South.
It's Last Stronghold for Slipping Mat Trusts.
By FRANCIS E. STAN.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
TAMPA, Fla., March 28,—Until such time as one of those patented brass
hats of the rassling trust, wearing a nicely turned bull neck which
has been retired and looking out of a pair of bleary, infected eyes,
walks up to throw a lot of refuting figures in our faces let us say the
deep South is the last stronghold of the male and females who make their
livings by the leers on their brows.
What I mean to say is that rasslers still do pretty well here. The reces
sion has hit them in Batavia, Ohio, and Los Angeles, Clear Creek, Iowa, and
New York. But in Florida they are not starving. The natives may stay
away in droves from a Yankee-Cardinal ball game but the rasslers, pin ball
machines and dog tracks continue to draw’ the customers.
Miss Mildred Burke, for instance, has Tampa in a dither at the moment.
Miss Burke, who confesses she is the champion of women rasslers, emotes
here tonight with a Miss Dora Dean. The battlefield will be a tub of mud.
Later in the week Miss Burke will meet Miss Dean in Orlando, only then it
won’t be in the mud. There is no mud in Orlando. Only sand.
But Tampa. Orlando or Apalachiocola, they have the suckers down here in
this last stronghold. The natives even bet on rassling matches and none is
ever quite successful unless there is a riot.
\Hld Bill Nelson Was a Villain.
My faith in rassling was shaken some years back, when one Wild Bill
Nelson was popular in Washington. There was nobody, I thought, more
villainous than Mr. Wild Bill Nelson. I always pictured Mr. W. B. Nelson,
off the mat, as the kind of a gentleman who ate little children and kicked
the crutches from under cripples. At the time Mr. Rudy Dusek always seemed
to be a charming fellow. I mean, I never really thought that Rudy would do
anything more dastardly than steal from a blind man's tin cup.
For weeks the populace of Washington worked itself up for a meeting
between these two wolves in wolve’s clothing. Finally, patience was rewarded.
Mr. Joe Turner, the promoter, matched the pair.
I forgot who won but I recall it as quite a match. Women laughed
hysterically and strong men fainted. I fancied the winner celebrated by
drinking bathtub gin from a milk pail while the loser drowned his sorrow
by munching ground glass.
The illusion was not dashed until some weeks later. Mr. Jim Londos was
meet some bum in New York. There is a recollection of having visited
the central rassling office in Manhattan to pick up tickets. Anyway, who
should be sitting back in a swival chair, dictating business letters to various
promotoers, but Mr. Dusek! And who should be taking the dictation but Mr.
Wild Bill Nelson, who was looking very tame and wearing thick spectacles
end an obedient look!
It was enough to make a guy jump out of a window ... if the window
wasn't more than two feet above street level.
Masked Marvel Is a Girl!
I don't know whether Mr. Nelson still is one of the trust's secretaries or
not. Anyway, he has long since ceased to play villain. I think Mr. Dusek works
now and then, but probably not more than six or seven times a week.
Down here they never heard of Mr. Wild Bill Nelson or Mr. Rudy Dusek.
It probably is just as well for Messrs. Nelson and Dusek. The deep South goes
strong for the gals. The other night in Orlando they filled the city arena for
what developed to be a bloodless battle between the same Miss Dean, from
Georgia, and a Miss “X.”
If you thought you had seen all the masked marvels of the mat you were
mistaken. Miss "X,” it developed, was a very round girl dressed, from head
to foot, in flaming red woolen tights. Her head and face were covered with
something that resembled grandpa's old sock, size 13'2, and with appropriate
holes. Out of these Miss “X" regarded her opponent.
It was all very different. Miss Dean made many apparently ronseientious
efforts to dislodge the mask of Miss "X” and expose the gallery to the Amazon's
face as It really was, for better or for worse. Miss Dean never succeeded and
had to be content with winning two out of three falls. The referee raised her
hand in victory and announced that next week Miss Dean would meet Miss
Burke for the title.
Some of the more unkind customers mumbled that it would be the same
match all over again, only with Miss Burke throwing aside her Miss “X”
outfit, and winning. They said these brutal things while they were lining up
In front of the box office to buy seats for next week.
Texas Boy Wanted a Champion.
Women rasslers do not seem to be particularly intriguing but they at
least are interesting, like traffic problems and boll weevils. Why, for instance,
are women rasslers?
I recall talking to one a year or so ago and asking the same question.
“It’* only temporary,” she said. "You see, I have a boy friend down in Texas.
A* soon as I win the championship we are going to get married!” This, of
course, explained everything.
The other night Miss "X,” mumbling through her red woolen mask, said
she rassled because she didn't want her family to know. “They might not
like it,” she said.
"Really, I like to rassle with other girls,” she added, raising the pitch of
her voice until it sounded like a fog horn from a distance of two feet. "It’s just
like any other sport, only a little rougher, maybe. Some girls like to play
basket ball, for instance. I like to rassle. Anyway, it’s better than doing a lot
©f other things. Besides, we never get hurt. We're too clever.”
It Is hard to argue against these two items. Did you ever hear, for in*
etance, of any rassler getting hurt?
LINCOLN PARKERS
DRAW TOUGH FIVE
Face White Plains High in First
Round of Glens Falls Event
Next Thursday.
•twetal Dispatch to The Star.
GLENS PALLS. N. Y.. March 28 — |
Eastern High School. Washington, D.
C.. lnterhlgh champion, has drawn
one of the most formidable teams en
tered in the Eastern States tourney
here for its first, round opponent
Thursday, meeting White Plains (N.
Y.1 High.
White Plains, regarded as one of
the strongest schoolboy teams in the
East, holds the Westchester inter
arholasttc title and the Westchester
open crown. Last year White Plains
Ticket Deadline
For Nats’ Opener
Ticket reservations for the open
ing baseball game on April 18 will
not be held after next Saturday,
April ?, the Washington Baseball
Club announced today.
At that time, reservations un
claimed will be turned into the
general sale.
advanced to the final round before
bowing to Brown Prep of Philadelphia.
Other pairings for first night games
wtll find Brown meeting Lawrence
ville (N. J.) Prep. Vincentian Insti
tute of Albany, N. Y., stacking up
against St. Mary’s Academy of Olens
Falls and Atlantic City (N. J.) High
facing Lynn (Mass.) High.
STENGEL BELIEVES
BEES HAVE CHANCE
His Pennant Hope Is Only
Funny Thing About Once
Comic Casey.
By GALE TALBOT.
Associated Press 8ports Writer.
< BRADENTON. Fla„ March J8 —
It's a tragic announcement to have
to make, but Casey Stengel has joined
up with the conservative Boston set
and isn’t funny any more. The only
comic crack he made in a half-hour's
earnest conversation was that his Bees
might win the National League pen
nant.
The man who used to wow them
over in Brooklyn sits there now as
dignified as a kid wearing his first
stiff collar and insists upon discussing
such trivial items as batting and
fielding averages and pitching possi
bilities. He even made a point of
having names pronounced correctly.
Once he said, mistily:
‘‘I can't tell you how much I ap
preciate the way these folks have
treated me since I took over the club.
I haven’t got a lot ef background like
some managers.”
He referred, no doubt, to such old
line, rock-ribbed landed gentry as
Burleigh Grimes of the Missouri
Grimeses and to Frankie Frisch, the
Bronx boulevardier. In time, of
course, Casey will learn that Burleigh
and Frankie are just as democratic
as anybody.
Shuns Coaching Lines.
During the Bees’ exhibition gamps
Casey doesn't even get out on the
coaching lines, but sits back sedately
in the dugout and makes motions, just
like Connie Mack, except that he
doesn’t use a score card, yet. Only
once in the course of a game did he
go out and argue modestly with the
base umpire. He said he was feeling
all right, too.
Contributing to the new gravity un
doubtedly is the fact that Casey is
more or less on the spot in taking
over the Bees after the miracles they
performed under Bill McKechnie last
year. With an old-folks pitching staff
and not a .300-hitter in the line-up,
they finished fifth.
Now Casey has the same club, ex
cept that it's a year older, and he’s
bound to feel the strain. If the Bees
finish worse than fifth, Boston fans
won’t be pleased with Casey. And if
they do finish as high as fifth again,
this writer, for one, will be greatly
astonished.
West Promising Newcomer.
Owner Robert Quinn doesn’t appear
to have come up with any help to
speak of. Max West, a young out
fielder who hit .331 for the Missions
in the Coast League last year, Is the
only newcomer with a chance of
breaking into the regular line-up. He
might replace either Gene Moore or
Roy Johnson.
’ That looks to be our best chance
of getting a little more punch,” Sten
gel admitted. ”1 have hopes, though,
that some of the regulars will hit
better this year. With the kind of
pitching and defense we've got we
don’t need a lot of hitting to have a
good chance at the pennant.”
Which works around to the vital
question of whether those two magni
ficent minor leaguers, Lou Fette and
Jim Turner, possibly can have another
such season as last year, when each
won 20 games. Casey thinks they can
and will.
-• - ■ —
GIEBEL OF ST. JOHN’S
GIVEN BASKET HONOR
Named on All-Catholic H. S. Meet
Team at Chicago—St. Xavier
Gets Tourney Title.
Br the Associated Pres*.
CHICAGO, March 28—The 1938
national Catholic high school basket
ball championship belonged to St.
Xavier of Louisville, Ky., today.
The title, coming by virtue of its
31-to-22 triumph last night over
Loyola Academy, the host schbol, was
St. Xavier’s third in the 15-year-old
event and climaxed a season in which
it won 35 of 36 games, 30 of them in
a row.
Earlier, Reitz Memorial of Evans
ville, Ind., disposed of La Salle, Cum
berland, Md., 37 to 25, for third-place
honors.
An all-tournament team selected by
tournament officials included: For
wards—Bemie Crimmins. St. Xavier,
Louisville; James Giebel, St. John,
Washington, D. C.; Jim Hinkle, Reitz
Memorial, Evansville; centers—Bert
Robben, St. Xavier; Charley Butler,
Mount Carmel, Chicago; guards—
Charles O’Brien, Loyola, Chicago;
James Stakem. La Salle, Cumberland,
Md.; John Welsh, St. Mary, Ander
son, Ind.
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Get Top Place by Beating
Minors, but Giants Are
Real Spring Leaders.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March 28.—The spring
i that brings out the crocus and the
; robin also has brought out the Browns.
1 Perennial doormats of the American
League, the Brownies are riding high
in first place in the grapefruit circuit
with a spotless record of eight straight
victories.
The Yankees needn't be,alarmed.
The Browns have been beating Texas
League teams. They have yet to play
a major league ball club, but it's great,
not to say surprising, while it lasts.
Giants Are Runners-Up.
The Giants are in second place with
11 wins and three defeats, and are
up in the firing against American
I League teams.
I Thus far, the National holds a 27 to
I 20 edge in interleague combat. The
! Reds, who are fourth, lead in knock
ing over the American Leaguers. The
Reds have won six out of seven starts
against junior circuit clubs. The
Yanks have won six games from
National League opponents, but they
| have last five.
The Cubs rank third with seven vic
tories in 10 games, while the Pirates
are fifth. The Athletics have played
the most games, 17; have scored the
most runs, 131. and have been scored
on the most, 139 times. The A's have
won eight.
The Giants and the Tigers have the
best records against teams of their
respective leagues. The Giants have
won all three of their intraleague
games while the Tigers have taken
their two games against American
Leaguers.
The standings:
Inter- Tntra
League. l^acne. All
St, Louis (A.) _O O 0 0 S It
New York (N.)_S 3 3 0 3 1 3
Chicago IN.) _3 2 1 1 7 3
Cincinnati IN.)_ft 1 3 2 9 4
Pittsburgh (N.)_10 11 ft 4
Detroit (A.) 2 3 2 0 4 3
Washington (A.)_ 1 2 0 2 ft 4
Brooklyn (N.) 1 3 3 1 5 4
New York (A.) ._ft ft on 7 0
Philadelphia (A.)_3 ft 13 8 9
St. Louis IN.)_ ft ft 13 7 8
Boston (N.) 2 4 2 3 ft 7
Cleveland (A.)_ 2 4 3 1 ft 7
Boston (A.). 4 4 o o ft 7
Philadelphia (N.)_ 4 2 0 3 5 8
Chicago (A.)_ 2 4 0 0 3ft
Yankees Beginning to Resemble National Leaguers
Champs Cream Puffs at Bat—Celery Diet Loses 45 Pounds for McGowan—Vitt Touts Rookie.
By SID FEDER.
Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, March 28—Hey,
Joe McCarthy . . . Those Yankees
of yours are beginning to look like
National Leaguers . . . Good pitch
ing, good fielding, but they aren’t
hitting hard enough to bust a
bubble . . . Looks as though it's
almost time to give Joe Di Maggio
the "come home, all is forgiven”
sign . . . Tommy Farr and Eileen
Wenzel won’t have the knot tied
'till they get back to London . . .
National Hockey League governors
are getting tired of hearing the
Stanley Cup called “that old bat
tered mug” ... They tell you $1,000
has been paid out to keep it in
shiny shape.
Cardinals will have a band play
ing at week end and holiday games
this season . . . How about Pepper
Martin's Mudcats, Mr. Byeadon?
. . . Who said the Dodgers were
different this year? . . . Fifteen
•ran In eight grapefruit games ap
pears like the same old dafllness
boys from here.
TJmps Bill McGowan dropped 45
pounds with a new diet this spring
. . . based on celery, no less . . .
What’s this talk about Henry Arm
strong and Pedro Montanez fight
ing in Los Angeles this summer?
. . . Waite Hoyt tells you what’s
wrong with the National League in
a nickel mag, out tomorrow . . .
Dutch Ruether, who's been looking
for a base ball job for two years,
has hooked up as a scout for the
Cubs . . . Probably will look ’em
• over on the coast.
Whitey Budrunas, Marquette’s
classy basket bailer seven years
back, is coaching the U. of Kaunas
cagers in Lithuania . . . Postcards
he has his boys* on an European
tour right now . . . A1 Ulbrickson
has his Washington crew men
working overtime, with two turn
outs daily.
Prom the grapefruit belt: Whia
pers from the Tigers’ camp tell of
a “ghost pitch” Poof PofTenberger
is flinging . . . only their wonder
Is he doesn't know where it's going
when he heaves it . . . Oscar Vitt
says his walloping youngster, Ken
Keltner, Is the "most sensational
rookie” he’s ever seen, and definite
ly will start on third base lot the
Indians.
From the looks of that catching
department, it won't be long before
the Cardinals think of recalling
Brusie Ogrodowski from Rochester
. . . Evansville (Ind.) is going to
try out one of thoee left-handed
catchers this season . . . Bob Cole
man picked up the lad (Lou
Heneles) in the Bees Baseball
School at Bradenton ... As pre
dicted, Walter Higbe, the pitching
rookie who couldn’t find his way
to the Cube’ camp in three
separate trips, has been released to
Birmingham.
Has any one noticed that eld
Heinie Manush, who held out for a
lot more "potatoes” because he led
the Brooklyns In hitting last sea
son, has collected one measly single
so far this spring? . . . How’s this
for a spring “training” trip . . .
U. of California baseballers travel
from coast to coast, showing
against top-notchers in each sec
tion, including Nebraska, Min
nesota, Notre Dame, and the East's
ivy leaguers. .
-
Gene Desautels probably will get
the call as first-string catcher for
the Red Sox . . . Princeton’s first
year under Tad Wieman finds the
Tiger fqptballers playing their first
game with Rutgers at New Bruns
wick since ’88, and the first ever
with Army at Princeton . . . Nate
Lewis (who also manages Harry
Thomas) is shouting that Henry
Armstrong refuses to tangle with
Leo Rodak, Nate’s feather . . .
Cardinals and Browns are chipping
in (35,000 for the new scoreboard
at Sportsman’s Park.
Wes Ferrell Discards Specs
When Under Fire; Almada’s
Fine Play Fails to Save Nats
Fy a Staff Correspondent of Th* Star.
TAMPA, Fla., March 28.—The hour
of vengeance was to come today for
Joe Cascarella, one-time Washington
pitcher, who was fired last midsea
son for incompetence.
Cascarella, who owns the best tenor
voice in the major leagues, was to
face the Nats here today in the uni
form of the Cincinnati Reds. It was
to be the second game between the
two clubs this spring. In the first
tilt the Reds won. S to 3.
Manager Bucky Harris was to coun
ter with Monte Weaver and Elon
Hogsett. Weaver, the slim, veteran
right-hander, has been the Griffs’
most impressive hurler to date. He
still is the pitcher Wesley Ferrell must
MUELLER IS^FIND
PHILLIES BELIEVE
!
Second Base Rookie ‘Can’t
Miss,’ Says Wilson—Bees
Praise Errickson.
By the Associated Press.
BILOXI, Miss., March 28.—Jimmy
| Wilson is happy over the showing of
j his Phillies in their games with the
! Athletics, and Heinie Mueller, rookie
second baseman, is one reason. "Any
body who wants to play as much as
he does just can't miss," says Wilson.
TAMPA, Fla.—Lefty Lee Gissom,
who has been complaining of a sore
arm but getting little sympathy, final
ly has impressed Manager Bill Mc
Kerhnie of the Reds of its seriousness.
Grissom says his arm is in such bad
shape he has to shave right-handed.
I
Handshakes Halt Suhr.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Gus Suhr,
Pirate flrst-sacker, is recoving from
too much hero worship. Hundreds of
residents of his home town of Millbrae
shook hands with him yesterday morn
ing and Suhr stayed out of the Bucs’
game with Oakland. He scored one
of three Pirate runs in the afternoon
game with San Francisco, however.
LAKELAND, Fla.—Richard Merri
well Errickson, rookie hurler of the
Bees, may be a real "Dick Merriwell”
this season. Errickson has shown
excellent control thus far and that's
what has Manager Casey Stengel grin
ning.
BATON ROUGE, La.—One of the
players affected by Judge Landis’ re
cent ruling on some of the Cardinals’
minor league clubs is at the Giant’s
camp. He is Paul Fugit, a first base
man, who hit .374 for Fayetteville in
in the Arkansas-Missouri League last
year. He probably will be signed to
a Giant contract and farmed out.
Dodgers Like Butcher.
SARASOTA, Fla.—The Dodgers are
jubilant over Max Butcher’s recent
work on the mound. Butcher, dogged
by illness and injuries for two years,
is at last showing signs of fulfilling
the promise he first gave when the
Dodgers picked him up in the draft.
ONTARIO, Calif.—Clyde Shoun and
Albert Paul Epperly were to hurl to
day for the Cubs against Los Angeles
of the Coast League.
outhurl to get the opening game as
signment in Washington on April 18.
Joe Krakauskas. the left-hander1
has a sore arm. He came up with it I
after the Columbus game last Friday i
and tried vainly to pitch out the kink
yesterday in batting practice.
Chief Hogsett was another casualty
yesterday in the pre-game workout at
Bradenton. The big left-hander, rac
ing to shag a fly ball, stepped into
a hole and turned his ankle. It isn’t
serious, however.
Wes Ferrell brought out those much
publicized glasses of his and wore 'em
in batting practice. But in the game
against the Bees Wesley discarded the
specs. First time up he took a third
strike.
Giuliani, the new Nat catcher, took
his first infield workout before the
battle with the Bees. He calls Bo
nura "Dago.”
Zeke, incidentally, doesn't know
Jimmy Wasdell’s name. He calls his
understudy “Lefty.”
Melo Almada made the best out
field play of the spring so far when
he ran a country mile to snag Woody
English's drive with one paw in the
third inning. It was triple, at least,
and with a runner on first base at the
time.
Umpire Ziggy Sears was thinking
of something else in the Bees’ fourth.
With Roy Johnson on second base
with one out. Rookie Max West lifted
a fly to Myer. "Infield fly. Batter’s
out (exclamation point),” yelled Ziggy.
As if it could be.
Ferrell pulled out of a hole the
sensational way in the first inning,
after the first two Bees reached base.
He struck out Roy Johnson, Tony
Cuccinello and West in succession.
A1 Simmons did not show much arm
in the Bees fifth, when they broke the
scoreless deadlock and pushed across
what proved to be the winning run.
With the bases loaded and one down,
English lifted a short fly to left. Sim
mons caught the ball in deep short
and should have thrown out Elbie
Fletcher, who ran with the catch.
Al’s heave, however, had nothing on
it. When it hit the infield on first
bounce it seemed to have the back
spin of a chip shot.
Giuliani made his first appearance
behind the bat in the Bees’ sixth.
Vince Di Maggio promptly derided to
try his fellow countryman's arm.
Giuliani threw him out with ease.
Miflseason Stuff
Wash. AB. H. O. A. Boston. AB. H. O. A.
Almada.cf 4 2 11 W’stler.ss 10 4 1
Lewis.3b .4013 English.3b 4 2 0 1
Stone.rf 4 2 2 0 Johnson.lf 4 14 0
Bonura.lb 3 0 3 1 Cuc’ello,2b 2 0 0 7
Wasdell.lb 112 1 West.rf . 3 0 4 0
Sim’ons.lf 4 2 5 0 DiMag.cf 4 0 3 0
Travis.ss. 4 13 2 FTcher.lb 3 0 8 0
Myer.2b 4 0 3 0 Lopez.c 3 14 1
R.Ferrell.c 2 13 1 H'ch’son.p 10 0 0
Guiliani.c 1 0 0 0 Er'ckson.p 0 0 0 1
W.Fer’ll.p 10 0 1 tMoore... 110 0
Phebus.p 10 12 JKahle.. 0 0 0 0
•Wright .1 0 00 -
-Totals 26 6 2711
Totals 34 8 24 12
Washington _ 000 000 000—0
Boston <N. L.) _ 000 010 OOx—1
•Batted for Phebus In ninth,
t Batted for Moore In seventh.
JRan for Moore In seventh.
Run batted In—English. Two-base hits
—Stone. Travis. Stolen bases—English.
Kahle. Sacrifice—Hutchinson. Double
play—Cucclnello to Warstler to Fletcher.
Bases on balls—Off Hutchinson, 2: off Er
rlckson, 1: off W. Ferrell. 3; off Phebus. 3.
Struck out—By Hutchinson. 3; by W. Fer
rell. 3. Hits—Off Hutchinson, 8 in 7 in
nings: off Errickson. 1 in 2 innings; off W.
Ferrell, 3 In 5 Innings; off Phebus. 2 in 3
Innings. Passed ball—Guiliani. Winning
pitcher—Hutchinson. Losing pitcher—
Ferrell, Umpires—Messrs. Bears and
Quinn. Tima 3:03.
TIGERS’ SLAB STAR
Injury May Have Bridges
Idle for Weeks—Tribe
Strives for Power.
Es the Associated Press.
LAKELAND. Fla.. March 28—Tom
my Bridges is the Tigers’ latest con
cern. An X-ray revealed the star
righthander chipped a bone in the
elbow of his pitching arm last week.
One club official said he might not
be able to hurl before May 15.
NEW ORLEANS.—The Indians, held
to three hits in each of their last two
defeats, returned today to hold batting
practice and plenty of it. The Tribe
journeys to Biloxi. Miss., tomorrow for
two games with the Phillies.
GULFPORT, Miss.—The Athletics
were to meet the Memphis Chicks of
the Southern Association today with
out the services of Outfielder Bob
Johnson. Johnson is en route to
Philadelphia to undergo a tonsilec
tomy. The As expect him back in
the lineup before the regular season
opens.
Appling Breaks Leg.
HOLLYWOOD. Calif —The White
Sox, minus Shortstop Luke Appling
who broke his leg yesterday, were tc
meet Hollywood of the Pacific Coasl
League today, with Bill Dietrich. Jess
Dobernic and George Gick getting
mound duty.
HOUSTON. Tex—Manager Gabb;
Street can’t figure out this ‘‘last place'
talk about the Browns. He points out
his Browns have won all eight of theii
training games and that they are get
ting plenty of lusty hitting.
Yanks Eager for Rare.
HAINES CITY, Fla.—The Yankees
are trying to get the Cardinals to lei
Don Gutteridge run 100 yards against
Joe Vance. The champions are surf
Pitcher Vance can take Gutteridge
widely publicized as a speed boy.
AVON PARK. Fla—Eric McNair
Red Sox second stacker who ended his
holdout, recently, said today he Ls "in
great shape and ready to go.”
OLD FOX IS BITTER
AS LOSSES PILE UP
Even Bonura Irks Club’s
Boss by Dancing After
Defeat by Bees.
By FRANCIS E. STAN.
Bt»fT Correspondent of The Star.
TAMPA. Fla., March 28.—Thee*
days the Nationals tread carefully in
hotel lobbies and furtively make their
way to the dining rooms. Now and
then they duck quickly behind a potted
palm for cover. That would mean
that Owner Clark Griffith Is coming
into sight.
The old gentleman, who in the past
always has displayed commendable re
straint in the face of exhibition gam«
defeats. Is on the warpath again.
None of the Nats, not even big Zeke
Bonura, Is safe from his scathing
words. The 68-year-old bass man's
original burst of rage has been trans
formed into a steady stream of sar
casm, biting and deep.
Offhand, Washington's exhibition
game record would not seem to war
rant sucli a display by Griffith. The
Nats have won five games and lost
only four. But, looking into the mat
ter more deeply, the Nats have not
been able to beat major league clubs.
They won their opener from the Car
dinals, 15 to 13, but since then thev
have lost four In a row to big league
outfits.
Pops Off Before Players.
The Tigers whipped them. 13 to ft.
That hurt. In a return battle the
Nats held a 4-0 lead, but blew it.
Detroit tied the score at 4-4 and then
won in the 10th inning, 9 to 4. That
hurt, too. Salt was poured into the
wounds of our suffering Mr. G. when
i the Cincinnati Reds invaded Orlando
| last week and won by 6-3, beating Wes
Ferrell. Then, yesterday, came a 1
to-0 defeat by the Boston Bee* at
Bradenton. v
Griffith did not see that game yes
terday, but the news was relayed to
him. He met the club at Tampa last
night and had a few caustic comments
to make.
In the dining room Pitcher Joe
Cascarella, who was fired by Griff
last year, but who now Is pitching for •
the Reds, sat at an adjoining table for
dinner. Cascarella was to start today's *
game with the Reds here.
"If my ball club gets a foul off you
tomorrow, Joe." said Griffith loudly,
"you ought to be fired." Nearby sat
Rick Ferrell, Mel Almada, Cecil Travis
and others of the Washington club.
They pricked up their ears.
"I mean it,” said Griff, louder than
ever. "I've got a lousy, dead ball
club. We can beat American Asso
ciation teams and that's all."
Zeke Walk* Into Line of Fire.
With the appearance of Bonura 1n
the Nat line-up the club was expected
to click. For the first time Manager
Bucky Harris yesterday was able to
put his regular team on the field. The
Griffs outhlt the Bees. 9 to 6. but it
seems they still pay oft on run*. And
the Bostons scored the only run of
the game.
Bonura innocently walked Into the
i range of Griff's fire last night when
; he stalked across the dance floor in
the dining room and asked Miss
i Thelma Griffith, daughter of Mr. G.,
| to dance. As they left tha old gent .
! turned his guns on Zeke. "Is that
i the way you act when we lose a one
run ball game?” he queried. "Do
i you feel like dancing?” Zeke, who
doesn’t know the Griffith moods as
yet, grinned and called back, ‘It’s
okay, pop. I just gotta get loosened
up to improve mf footwork."
The Nats were no heroes In Braden
ton as they dropped that 1-0 deci
sion. Wes Ferrell and Ray Phebn*
turned In a neat five-hit performance.
. Against any other club it would have
been highly commendable. But the
weak-hltting Bess often ara hsld to
five hits and one run.
Bees Win on Stone's Error.
Only ones against Ira Hutrhlnson
and Rookie Dick Merrlwell Errlckson
did the Griffs get a man as far »*
i third base. That was In lh« sixth
j inning, w hen Al Simmons singled and
! went to third on a double by Cecil
Travis. The inning ended abruptly,
however, when Buddy Myer looked
at a third strike.
It was an error by Johnny Btont
that paved the way for the only run
I of the game. Leading off the Bees’
! fifth. Elbie Fletcher hit a line drtvs
| to Stone, who muffed the ball. Al
I Lopez followed with a scratch hit to
| Buddy Lewis and after Hutchinson sac.
1 rifleed and Rabbit Warstler walked,
I Gil English hit a short fly to Al
| Simmons.
I Al should have thrown out Fletcher
a* he tried to score, but the throw
wa* a weak lob and Elbie crossed
with what proved to be the winning
run. If It were not established that *
Al could throw better than that th#
Griff* would have another reason to
i be worried.
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