The Washington herald., 1922-02-28
SQUAD OF ELEVEN
IN FIRST PRACTICE.
SESSION AT TAMPA
Recruits. Take Field for
Is Minutes-Goslin
Shows Form.
By RAY HELGEsEN.

uniform on Plant Field az the M
tionals' annual siege of spring train
ing got under way this morning.
Barring Nick from the rookie class,
eleven youngsters, mostly pitchers,
took part in the opening days
workout. Pitcher Miller, who. was
scheduled to arrive here last nysht,
failed to show up. Neither Martin
nor Grin have had word from him,
so II Is believed he was mereyl de-
layed temporarily and will check in
later tonight.
IN this mornings toll nor will he
on succeeding days until the arrival
of Milan next Sunday. Harris played
golf all morning and afternoon. In
all he checked OF 81 holes. Today's
practice session was one of the
shortest on record. The recruits
were on the field IS minutes and
were away from the hotel not more
than an hour.
Throwing the ball around and
fielding hunts composed the biggest
part OF the toll Leon Goose" Cos
lin was the only played to get any
hitting practice ar all while Harry
Courtney was the only hurler to get
action on the hill and then for only
few minutes. ,
Youngsters Take Chances,
Martin and President Grinith,
from the time practice started un-
{ ! IL ended, let loose a series of
vocal outhursts as one or the other
Of the youngsters forgot themselves
long enough to tahe chances with
their whips Some of the young
oh
outer garden once in awhile at
tempted to throw the ball in in
stead of relaying IL. GrIfr and Mar
tin let them know they didn't an
prove Of that and il wasn't long be-
fore it was stopped.
Pitchers Brillheart, Gleason, Phil
nps, woodward, ,Digges, Courtney,
Francis and McGrew, Catchers Ri
eardo Torres and Eddie Noone and
Gosiin and Nick were the only men
in uniform. Harris didn't even
show up at Plant Field.
After about five minutes of lin
oering up exercises, which included
throwing the ball around, Martin let
Courtney serve them up to Goslin
for few minutes while the rest of
the recruits were kept busy field
ing.
Courtney has been helping to
coach the Clearwater High School
team a few miles from Tampa, in
addition to playing golf, and there
fore is probably in better condi-
tion than any player on theOsquad
with the exception of Bucky Har-
ris.
GosIin Hits q Few.
With Goslin at the plate. Harry
just iobbed them over while the
candidate for that vacant right field
berth out at Georgia avenue took
| some terrible clashes at the pellet.
Some of his drives nearly cleared
the right field fence which s a lit
tie further from home plate than
is the corresponding fence in wash
ington. Courtney, of course. was
making no effort to fool Goslin, but
the youngster was meeting the ball
well for this early in the season,
which speaks well for his eye.
Eddie Noone. the Washington
yOungster, did most of the work be-
hind the bat. Torres, who is ang-
ling for Picinich's berth as second
string catcher, was stationed in
the outfield most of the time. Tor
res Is a little heavy around the belt
and Martin intends to give him
plenty of running to do before
Cuban will have to do most of the
early work. Unless Picinich changes
his mind in the near future 1t is
probable that Torres will have prac-
tfcally all of the preliminary work
dropped on his brOnzed shoulders.
Goslin was allowed to drive them
out for about ten minute before
Martin called the youngsters in and
set them to fielding hunts Torres
and Nick did the hitting.
After a haIf-hearted jog around
the half-miIe track which surrounds
the playing field. the youngsters
were allowed to call it a day.
Foss Takes n Look.
Deeby Foss, whom Griff carried
kIl last season for utility purposes
but who never got a real chance to
how his worth, and who was let
but, vas out watching the boys
work out today.
Foss' home is in Tampa He has
hot yet signed with the New Or
cans club. Apparently they won't
meet his terms. Deeply, however,
sn't worrying. He says they'll meet
his terms when the season rolls
round He also says that he'll be
Jack in the big show before the
nd of next season.
The Washington club has four OF
he taIlest pitchers in either big
eague on its roster now and one
{ the four is as tall as any man
yer In baseball
Starting from the top. there is
IcGrew, who stretches a tape meas
re to six feet six and one-half
hchos before he has been fully
hecked or After Slim comes
Handsome Harry Courtney. who is
* feet four and one-half inches
b the air. Then comes a pair OF
imperative pigmies. Digges and
hiiIips. both of whom hit six feet
bree II these four youngsters all
lex with the Mats this year. Mi
ms pitching STAFF will average the
Hest in the league.
Courtney I'm Good shape.
Handsome Harry Courtney is in as
oed shape right now. early as II
Undoubtedly Is. as he has ever been
then connected with the Washing
bn club. according to a statement
ade by Miguel Martin after see
z the lengthy fork handler work
lt this morning.
Mike saw enough to be convinced
,at Harry has seen the error OF
ways and has decided at las,
heed President Grifith's advice
rcording to Mike. Harry's action
Is morning was as loose as II ever
IS been. BY loose" Martin means
ee. Harry has evidently benefited
nsiderably from his work with
q high school kids and his toll
III - a.