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ifs Recruits Are So Good They Are Wanted by Other Major Clubs

the players limbs. Griff has announced
that this is to be the hardest week of the
training trip if the weather allows, and
1t has started out as if it was intended
to get the players ready for the cham
pionship season within few days.
There will be no let up on Cashion and
Engel. The two young pitchers who last
season were handicapped by their lack of
control are to get plenty of work this
spring. Both of them are to pitch four
of five innings every day, and before the
season opens both will be sent the entire
! route in some exhibition games. Griffith
hopes that this pair will be fit and ready
when the season opens, so that they can
do the bulk of the work while the older
members o. the team are rounding into
form.
Gandi is expected to rejoin the team
Wednesday or Thursday. DIR. Larkin.
the club physician. has notified Griff that
Gandifs trouble is not of a serious nature
and that it will be only a day or SO be-
fore he will be ready to play again. Gandil
himself is discouraged because he has had
to stop training, he was just rounding
INTO form when his back began to bother
him.
"A year has made a big difference in
Kay Morgan as a second baseman. He
Is much more familiar with the position
now than at any time last season. when
the place was virtually new to him. for
during his experience in the minor
leagues he made specially Of short field
In the game yesterday Morgan played
a fine game of ball in the field and did
MS snare Of the hitting. Incidentally, he
won himself a good laugh by working the
. olo nidden ball trick on Rip Williams.
then throwing him out at first, from
which base he had taken a comfortable
lead. " - '"''e
c1 Ban PLAYERS were as thick as flies about
charlottesville yesterday. BESIDES the
rorty odd In the Nationals party and q
slmilar number on the Virginia squad
tne montreal team with thirty-five strong
ana the Catholic University team were
also mere. Montreal will have to arrange
It's training hours SO as not to interfere
with either the Nationals or. the Virginia
team, and this probably means that it
WIN nave to do its work after the Ma
tlonals leave the field in the afternoon
and before the collegians come out to
work.
Yesterdays game looked more like a
MAYOR league contest than any that has
Deen played here. For the first time the
Regulars worked with signals and tried
some inside tricks and this naturally kept
the players on the alert and made the
game more enjoyable from q spectators
standpoint. From this out real ball games
are to be played, for Griffith insists that
there must be no foolishness in these ex-
nlD1tlOn games.
Eddie Fosters batting practice is quite
different from that of other players,
which probably accounts for the fact that
he makes more fouls than the rest of the
squad put together. Foster practices bat
ting like he bats-that is, he does not
merely swing at the ball and is satisfied
when he hits 1t hard, but he tries to
place it in one field and then the other.
1t is by reason of this practice that Fos-
hin10nIf he honor of hn-
ing called the most scientific batter in the
American League A place hitter of the
Foster type is of more value to a ball
team than some slugger, for he is con-
Of his team and helps the base runners
even If he doesn't make q base hit
Milan is sure to have a rival for base
running honors on his own team this sea-
son If. as is believed, Dan Moeller's shout
der is sound. It is questionable whether
Milan will have anything on Dan IL he
gets 80 that he can afford to take chance
not be bothered with his shoulder, and IL
he is right in this he Is sure to be one of
the stars Of the league this year, for he
has ability in abundance.
Shanks is the one outf1elder who, while
he appears to be bit faster on his feet
than he was. Is not in the same class
with his two teammates. But Shanks is
trying hard to imp rove himself in this re-
spect. and as soon as Pop Lanigan, Vir-
ginia's trainer. takes hold of him. which
will be within the next few days, he
should show much more speed.
Bob Groom took his turn on the rubber
yesterday and pitched to the batters for
about twenty minutes. Bob looks natural.
Long Iay-offs do not bother him, and, like
Mcbride, he is a player who seldom has
any complaint to make about his arm.
He apparently was just as fast yesterday
as in midseason. and, though it was the
first time that he has been asked to pitch
against hitters, he did not hesitate to
use his curves as well as his speed.
Groom, who was handed a handsome
bonus last fall for his good work. Is try
ing harder than ever this spring to get
himself in good condition, SO that Crit
fifth will have good reason for rewarding
him once more.