Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-23
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SPRING EXHIBITION GAMES

pitchers out of the bunch of youngsters
we will take south l miss my guess,
remarked Manager Griffith this morn
ing.
what I like about our youngsters
is that they all have size. and while
their progress may be slow and they
Won't show whole lot this year. 1 feel
confident that they will eventually de-
velop. EngeE Cashion, Allen, Guy
Johnson, Musser and Akers are all six
footers. and young fellows at that, and
they should develop. In these days
when pitching is strenuous work it is
an advantage as a rule to have pitch
ers of large physique. 1t gives them
usually have a lot of stuff shall take
personal charge of all the pitchers and
teach them system which is peculiarly
my own. There is more to pitching
than merely shooting the ball across
the plate, but the most essential thing
is control. 1t is this the pitchers will
have to have to work intelligently, for
unless they can put the ball where
they want to they cannot work with
Judgment
Unless there is an unforeseen fall-down
OH the part of several of his players
Griffith feels that his team may prove a
genuine surprise in the race the coming
season. He feels that he will have a
good hitting team and he refuses to
lieves, will show better form than they
have in the past, arguing that with more
hitting behind them all pitchers work
better, for they have more confidence in
their team.
Let Schaefer bat as we'll as he did last
year and our outfield will be a mighty
formidable one said he. There will be
three men out there who can hit and
run. and that means Much When We
go to the nfield we will find Knight and
hot of 7 holi N.
up hitters. and if it should be our luck to
have Cunningham come around. why, that
infield would be a hard one for any
pitcher to fool
Don't overlook Che fact that though
Mcbride batted seventh in the batting
order he drove in nearly-aS many runs
last year as any man on the team. Cess
Ter being the only one to beat him. and
he was in much more advantageous
position in the order than Mcbride Sur
round Mcbride with better hitters and
he will have more opportunities and show
whole lot more with the bat. l also
believe that Henry and Ainsmith will inn
prove in their hitting, and Williams L
know is a dangerous man.. l am not
making any claims but / feel that We
stand chance to improve our position.
If we have any luck with the weather
we will open the season in fit condition,
and one thing l can assure is that the
Nationals will be a hustling team, for
that is one thing that / always insist
upon
The first squad, which will consist of
all the pitchers but Johnson, and all the
catchers, will be taken to Charlottesville
by Manager Griffith. The second squad.
which will consist of the remainder of
the members of the team. will leave here
a week later, in charge of Capt. George
Mcbride Griff figures that by the time
the regulars report most of his young
pitchers will be ready to furnish pitching
of a caliber which will prove good bat
ting practice for the older players, and
batting is to be one of the principal di-
versions of the players during the train
ing period.