Evening star., 1922-01-29

OF the fourteen pitchers on the re-
serve list those. already bound for
service, in addition to Phillips, are
Walter Johnson, Joe Gleason, Harry
Courtney, ]. B. Brilliant and J. w.
Luther, the latter three being left
handlers. Unsigned as yet are Olaf
Erickson, Dan McGraw, Nat Turk
and Frank Woodward, and south
paws George MogridGe, Jezebel Zach
airy, Ray Francis and Ralph Miller.
Catchers Pat Charity and Freddy
Noone have accepted terms. with Val
Picinich and Ricardo Torres yet to be
heard. from. For the inner defense
Stanley Harris. Bob La Motto and
Ossie Bluege are in line, with How
ard Shanks, Joe Judge, Roger Peck
inpaugh and DOME Bush still to be
enlisted. Earl Smith of the quintet of
fiychasers alone remains to be dick
cred with, negotiations with Clyde
Milan for his Services in a dual ca
pacity, Sam Rice, Leon Goslin and
Frank Brewer having been completed.
1t develops that Phillips was in our
busy midst last week, having come
to the capital from his home at Phil
personally discuss terms with the
boss. This -strapping big finger, for
whom the Nationals had to give up
Deeby F'oss, AL Schacht and Molly
Craft, is in the best of health. ac-
cording to Griff. and is confident Of
his ability to prove a winner here,
as he was in the Southern Associa-
tion last year. Local fans who saw
him humble the White Sox, 3 to l..
with the doughty Red Faber as his
mound opponent. last fail, are in
clinea to string along with him in this
belief.
Dates Set for Trip With Braves.
rh. ri fnr H.
ward from Florida to be undertaken
by the Nationals and Boston Braves,
completed yesterday. shows several
changes from the tentative list an
nounced several weeks ago. Half a
dozen exhibitions divided equally be-
tween Tampa and st. Petersburg,
where the Beaneaters will do their
conditioning, will be disposed of in
the two weeks prior to the breaking
of camp, April 1. The first of the
contests arranged for the joint hike
northward will be played at Charles
ton. S. c., Monday, April 3. Citizens
of Columbia and Greenville, S. c., will
see the big leaSuers in action the fol-
lowing two days. April the barn
stormerS Will appear in Greensboro,
N. C.. and the next day they will stop
off at Lynchburg, Va, before landing
here for contests at the Georgia ave-
nue. grounds Saturday and Sunday,
April and 9. Manager Mitchell then
to await the opening of the cam
paign, while the Griffmen will appear
against the Elks, District sandlot
champions, Monday, April 10. the day
Manager Milan is to be feted by
Washington fans, before resting up
for the seasons inaugural the fol-
having Wednesday.
Richmond and Norfolk were nego-
tiating for April and Z, respective
ly, but jumped at the chance to sign
the New York Yankees instead. AS a
result Griff now is distinctly "off'' the
promoters of both of these thriving
municipalities.
Confronted with the prospect of
losing his chance to obtain big
league berth, Nathaniel Turk the
side-arm hurting teammate of Goose
Goslin at Columbia last year, has dis
covered that he may be able to report
to the Nationals early in March. Turk
wanted to wait until his classes at
Johns. Hopkins University ended in
June before joining the team, but
GEiff emphatically vetoed this. March
10 has been set as the limit of grace
for Turk, and he has informed the
boss he is trying to arrange his scho-
lastic schedule accordingly.