The Washington times., 1912-03-24
.GUY JOHNSON TO
. GET FURTHER TRIAL
! WITH NATIONALS
Youngster Has Chance to
Stay in the Big ,
League.
GRIFF WILL NOT SEND
: PITCHERS AWAY YET
George Moriarty Is Not Wanted
i. Now by Manager of Wash
ington Team.
BY SENATOR"

Guy johnson, the promising young
pitching recruit from Vandalia, ILL.,, has
not been offered to the Syracuse club,
! of the New York State League, ac-
cording to Manager Griffth but will be
kept for further trial. The youngster
has chance to stay with the team
and Griffith has not determined to cut
loose any of his pitchers as yet He
feels that they have had little oppor-
tunity of showing their skill here and
will need the exhibition series in WASH
ington to prove whether or not they
will be available to the Nationals this
season.
Il have not offered young Johnson to,
the Syracuse club, that's all there is to
that" said Griffith today. such infor-
nation is news to me and l ought to
KNOW"
II George Moriarty the Detroit Tigers
veteran third baseman is to be sold, it
will not be to the Washington club.
Manager Griffith said today that, while
he made a cash offer for Moriarty last
winter. he now has no negotiations un-
der way and does not want Moriarty
Eddie Focter has pretty nearly cinched
his hold on the red light corner of the
Nationals infield, and will start the
season there
Knight to Alternate.
Though Jack Knight may be tried at
thlrd base when he joins the team next
Thursday, his main work will be devoted
TO second and first bases. with accent
ON the latter Bill Cunningham is doing
so we'll this spring that it Is not ex-
pected that Knight will force him from
MS place. The former Yankee will re-
ceive most of his practice at the
initial corner. fighting it out with Jack
Flynn and Chester Spencer for the
honors.
Manager Griffith has made all his ar
rangements for returning to Washing
ton Tuesday. special car will be
ready here, and if the 7:10 train is late
the special will be hooked on to the 1887
train for the Capital, due TO arrive at
7:S. 1t is the desire of the manager to
have his players arrive in time to get a
good nights sleep before the morning
practice and afternoon game Of Wednes-
day.
Today the players arranged to stay at
hotels in Washington when they arrive
Most of them will be at the Dewey,
where the majority lived last season,
but few will be at the Ebbtt.
1t rained hard here all night but
stopped this morning. John Henry and
Jerry Akers had planned a walking tour
TO Monticello, the home Of Thomas JEFF
ferson, but the muddy roads made that
out of the question. They had drummed
up the project so well that about fif-
teen of the athletes were going to make
their obeisance at the former habitat
OF the founder of American Democracy.
To Decide for Himself.
Manager Griffith has done nothing
further toward gaining the consent of
Eppa Rixey, Virginia's pitcher, to join
the Nationals. He will leave it wholly
to the young student to decide for him
self and will not discuss the question
with him. Rixey wants to pitch for
Virginia another season before consid-
ering a professional offer and Griffith
will let him decide his own future.
However. RiXey's friends are inclined to
believe that he has made some kind of
a promise to the Nationals leader as
to his future actions
Though Griffith wants to return here
another season, he has done little so
far toward achieving that end. Man
ager Moore will lay the matter of using
FayerWeather gymnasium and Lambeth
field by the Nationals before the Uni
versity faculty athletic committee this
week, and that obtained, Griffith may
enter into negotiations for leasing Grif-
nth Hall which has proved 30 COM
Portable for his players during their
stay here.
The final practice game will be played
tomorrow on Lambeth field. There viii
be practice Tuesday afternoon even
though the team may leave on the 7:lo
train. The boys will be given the uf-
ternoon, in that case, to clean up odds
and ends before leaving for the Capital