Evening star., 1919-03-26
GR|FFS MAYPLAY
GAME THIS WEEK
Printing So Rapidly Regs and
Colts Likely to Lineup
Friday or Saturday.
SHAW ARRIVES AT CAMP
DY DENMAN THOMPSON.

DY DENMAN THOMPSON.
! AUGUSTA. Ga. March 26.-Although
Manager Griffith has announced that
no practice games will be held before
next week. the progress being made
! by all the Washington players toward
attainment of physical condition is
so rapid he is likely to change his
mind and order a seven-inning exhi-
bition between his regulars and colts
Saturday. possibly by Friday.
/ With Charity covering first, Leon
ard second, Shanks short and Foster
third. the veterans put up snappy
! infield drill under the direction OF
the boss. All displayed lot of life,
and with Shanks urging them on
with his shriIl tenor the drill pre-
sented all the pepper of a midseason
workout None of the old boys has
experienced any trouble with his arm,
they having refrained from cutting
loose with the ball. and with no cases
of charley horse developing they will
be ready for an abbreviated contest
| within a couple Of days.
| Foster is showing wisdom worthy
of the old campaigner. He is taking
things easy in cavOrting around IN
the hot corner. and Shanks is keep
| ing a tight rein on his throwing arm
van, who last year crippled his wing
by throwing fast before the muscles
| were properly loosened up.
Joe Judge apparently is going to need
hard work to get in tip-top shape for
playing. He still is a little stiff in get
ting down to SCOOP the ball out of the
dirt, but is throwing from all positions
and displaying the same ease 81 motion
that stamps him as probably the most
graceful first baseman in the game to-
day, barring Hal Chase. Joe is hitting
the ball a mile, too. He and Leonard
yesterday afternoon and this morning
hit nearly two dozen balls over the left
field fence in batting practice, although
most of Leona rd's were foul.
The latter shows up we'll at second
base. Where he ultimately will be
placed is problematical. but that he
II Leonard's arms were not SO short he
would be as good an inheider as one
could wish for, but lack Of inches in his
arms handicaps him in getting down
for the ball and in getting it away from
him. Leonard physically is better en-
dowed for gardening than work in the
tnfield, and 1t Ia not unlikely he may
yet md his place in patrolling the outer
confines. He is q splendid waiter at the
plate, and as a Sticker has shown prom
Use OF developing enough to warrant him
holding an outneld berth. He has not
as yet been delegated to go out and
show his fycatching ability, but this
may be done before the training sea-
son ends.
In practice Joe Shannon, the gardener
purchased from the Orioles, rambles
over his beat in left field in accepta BILE
And takes a good cut at the bat Horace
Milan, another candidate for the job
Shotton has vacated, and which Mike
Menosky 10 coming back from France to
claim. looks better than at any time
Ence he first Joined the Grifmen three
years ago. His improvement is due
LARGELY to the loss of lot Of surplus
lesh. When with the team before young
Milan weighed about l73 pounds, but
service In the Navy has taken or about
ingly more speed. "Hoss'' says he never
realized until this spring what a handi-
cap he WAS working under before when
toting that excess weight. and that he
never VIII permit himself TO get that
heavy again. He shows much OF his
older brothers ability at getting under
flies and wallops the ball for keeps, par
ticularly left-handed pitching. His aver
age OF .2SS compiled in thiI ty -one games
for the Nationals in 1917 before entering
ability. His twenty -one hits in seventy
three times at bat were amassed for the
most part of southpaws Horace is but
twenty-four years old and feels conf
dent he will be able to stick around in
the big show this year.
Zeb Milan, Sam Rice and johnson
have been combining their endeavors
largely to batting practice. with some
road work to tune up their wind. But
| 80 .f&
preliminary. went to the mound and
pitched to the Yannigans for a full
fifteen minutes. The big fellow has
the same free, loose swing as of yore
and says his arm never felt better.
Walter is not attempting anything in
Kansan gets about as much on his
slow ball as some pitchers do with
their speedy deliveries, and young
sters like Brown, Ellerbe, Craft anA
Lynch were exceedingly wary when
taking their turns at bat.
After hitting the ball to both squads
Of infielders in fielding practice in the
morning Manager Griffith delegated
the joE TO George Mcbride in the
afternoon. Charity taking the cap
tain's place at first base. 1t is not
the intention of the boss to have
sack, as he intends to make much use
of him back of the bat this year to
take advantage of the wallop he car
ries in his bat. Charity already is
sufficiently experienced in frst base
play to sub for Judge in case anything
dian Of the initial station and it will
be Remembered that Joe Leonard
made a favorable impression there
| summer before last. when he was
drafted for duty following the injury
to Judges leg in Detroit.
Manager Griffith continues to alter
nate Davis and F'1erbe between Sec
ond and short. Davis appears to ad
| vantage in either position. but with
1t would be falling to take full advan-
| tage Of his ability to keep him on the
| midway hassock instead of in short
neld.
Ellerbe is altogether unlike Davis in
! his style of fielding. he being of the
| the poetry of motion. Ellerbe gets
| most everything that comes his way.
however, and meets the ball on the
| nose In batting practice.
fielding at third base. He tips the
beam at only 1sl. but has the ap-
pearance Of weighing fifteen or twen-
| ty pounds more. Like Leonard, he has
! rather short arms for an fnfelder and
is far from being impressive at the
| and for q sandlotter does very well.
With the experience he would get in
| Q couple OF years in the minors he
should develop rapidly.
James Aloysius Shaw. the erstwhile
holdout, arrived on scheduled time
yesterday afternoon and injected new
life into the piazza parley preceding
dinner. At table he displayed all Of
his old-time, well known prowess