Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-27
BY J. ED GRILLo.

! CHARLOTTESVILLE Va. March %.
Two of the Nationals rockies have
been farmed to the minors Parks. the
young inf1elder and natural batter. will
he with Jack Flynn's Springfield. Mass,
team the coming season, and Goodwin,
the pitcher. who came here from Cor
louisville the other day has been turned
over to the Richmond club of the In
ternationaI League. Bill Smith. who
manages that team, came here Sunday
morning and closed the deal. Goodwin
! is believed to have the making of a
great pitcher. He has lot of stuff
and needs only experience to make him
of major league caliber.
| In both instances Manager Griffith
will enter optional agreements. which
will mean that both Parks and Good
win can he returned to the Washington
! club next fall
For the first time since the Griffmen
have been in training here this month
| the athletes were given d solid days
! rest Yesterday Most of the players at
tended church in the morning and then
spent the rest of the day walking and
|
lis again to he ia ken up today.
! Il think vest erdays rest was of great
benefit to the players | could sec they
were about tagged out from overwork
and look for them to come pack
| strong today said Manager Griffith.
| When he learned yesterday morning
that Judge and Morgan had concluded
| to take run of several miles IN order
| to keep their weight down to the mimi
mum he called a halt on their plans
and advised them to take rest with
the balance of the players, so that they
could do SO much more today
There is no question but that the pa
F! irons of the game in Washington are
| to be agreeably surprised with the
| showing of the Nationals in the COM
| ing race. Their work in the exhibition
games to date, many of which have been
| played in unfavorable weather. Were
convincing that Griffith has quite a ball
team.
| This team will look a lot better
within the next two weeks. after it
has gone through the series of exhi-
bition games at home. The material
seems to be there to make better
showing than did the aggregation of
| 1915. and this probably will be con-
vincingly proved ere long.
1t would be hard to find better train
ing weather than has prevailed here
| for the past four or FIVE days. More
has been accomplished III these good.
warm days than during the entire spell
| of cool days that were encountered
prior to this time
Nothing is more beneficial to ball
players than warm weather. which al
lows them to work up sweats. and that
| is the sort of weather they have had
of late
But it may be that Manager Griffith
has been convinced that this is not the
place to bring a team to prepare it for
season of hard work. The weather
is much too uncertain, and when il is
cold il is colder here than any of the
other training camps farther south. AS
yet Griffith has not made known what
his plans are for next season, but sew
eral times during the cold spell he was
heard to say that this was too uncer-
tain climate to be relied upon, and
this was taken to mean that he prob
ably would make change next spring.
Whether the fact that the weather has
been warm and perfect for the past
few days will cause him to renew his
allegiance here is not known, but 1t is
not unlikely.
Charley Jameson is merely doing this
spring what Patsy Donovan, his mana
ger last year, predicted for him every
time the writer talked to him last win
ter al the various base ball meetings.
Donovan insisted all the time that
Jameson would in due time prove one
of the most valuable of Grifiith's new
men, and that is exactly what he seems
to have done. He played good ball last
fall. but he is showing much more this
spring, seemingly having learned a lot
of things about the major league sys-
TEN of playing ball during his few
weeks with the Griffmen last fall.
A few days Of warm weather makes
a wonderful difference in the throwing
arms of all the men. and by tomorrow
all the players will be able to let out
their arms II there is no change in the
weather Most Of them have been de-
cidedly careful about their throwing
UP to date. Rondeau and Jameson and
the other outfelders have relayed the
ball to the plate. They do not feel like
taking a chance of running their throw
ing arms before they are in perfect
working order and have been trained
to the strain. Players with weak arms
cannot hold their own in fast company
very long
If the train is on time the Washing
ton squad will be in Washington as
early as 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
1t is scheduled to leave here on 1880
train, which. however. is not always on
time. Griffith proposes to give his
| players a hard workout tomorrow
m orning before taking the train, and